Document Outline

• COVER
• WARNING
• WARRANTY
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1-Introduction Chapter 1
  • Features
  • Panel Descriptions
    • Front Panel
    • Rear Panel
  • Handling Floppy Disks
    • The Disk Drive
    • Taking care of your Disks
    • CD-ROM care
• Chapter 2-The Basics
  • Hooking Up Your System
  • The Terms Used in MPC2000XL
    • Sequence
    • Track
    • Song
    • Sound
    • Drum Pads
    • Note Number
    • Program
  • Operating the Front Panel and Screen
    • The Cursor, Cursor Keys, Data Fields
    • The Numeric Keypad and DATA Wheel
    • The Function Keys
  • Basic Functions
  • Loading and Playing Programs
  • Playing the Drum Pads, the PAD BANK & FULL LEVEL Keys
  • Selecting Programs
  • The NOTE VARIATION Slider, ASSIGN and AFTER keys
    • The ASSIGN Key
    • The AFTER key
  • The 16 LEVELS key
• Chapter 3-Recording Sequences
  • How Sequences are Organized
    • Bar.Beat.Tick
  • Examples of Sequence Recordings
    • Example 1: Recording a Drum Pad Performance
    • Example 2: Recording a Loop
    • Example 3: Recording with External MIDI Equipment
  • The MAIN SCREEN
    • Selecting a Sequence
    • Setting the Tempo
    • Selecting a Tempo Source
    • Setting the Time Correct (Quantization)
    • Setting the Beat
    • Setting the Number of Bars
    • Looping a Sequence
    • Setting the Recording Count In / Metronome
    • Selecting a Track
    • Turning the Track ON or OFF
    • Deleting All the Tracks that You Have Turned Off
    • Setting the Track Type
    • Settings for MIDI Reception
    • MIDI Filter Function
    • Setting the Track’s MIDI Channel
    • Settings for MIDI output
    • Multiple Track Recording
    • Editing the Velocity
    • Setting the Program Change Transfer
    • Locating with the DATA Wheel
    • The Main Screen Function Keys
  • The Play/Record Keys and the Locate Keys
  • AUTO PUNCH IN / OUT
• Chapter 4-Editing Seaquences
  • Overview
  • Erasing Data with the ERASE Key
    • Erasing a Note in Real Time
    • Using the ERASE Window to Erase Data
  • Step Editing
    • Step Editing Screen
    • Step Recording
  • The Editing Screen
    • Copying an Event
    • Editing the Duration of a Note
    • Editing the Velocity of a Note
    • Transposing a Note
    • Copying by Bar
    • Rearranging the tracks
    • Sequence Preferences
    • Transposing a Track
• Chapter 5-Song Mode
  • Overview
  • Song Mode
    • Creating a Song
    • Renaming a Song
    • Selecting a Song
    • Deleting a Song
    • Copying a Song
    • Setting the Tempo
    • Setting the Loop
    • Selecting a Step and Changing the Sequence
    • Repeating a Sequence
    • Deleting a Step
    • Moving to a Specific Point in the Song
    • Converting a Song to a Sequence
• Chapter 6-Creating and Editing Sounds
  • Sampling a New Sound
  • Editing a Sound
    • Selecting a Sound
    • Converting a Sound
    • TRIM Mode
    • LOOP Mode
    • ZONE mode
    • EDIT Mode
    • BPM Match
    • Setting the Sound Parameters
      • Beat Loop Function
• Chapter 7-Creating and Editing Programs
  • What Are Programs?
    • Creating a program
  • Selecting a Program and Assigning a Sound
    • Selecting Programs
    • Assigning Notes to the Drum Pads
    • Assigning Sounds to Notes
    • Auto Chromatic Assignement
    • The Pad Assign / Initialize Pad Assign Modes
    • Deleting unused sounds from the memory
    • The Program Sound Generation Mode
  • Editing Note Parameters
    • Selecting Programs
    • Selecting Notes
    • Setting the Envelope
    • Setting the Filter
    • Setting the Pitch
    • Setting the Voice Overlap
    • The MIDI Settings of the Sampler
• Chapter 8-Mixer Functions
  • Stereo Output Mixer
    • Setting the Volume
    • Setting the Left/Right Pan
    • Linking the Volume/Pan Levels
  • Setting the Individual Outputs and Effect Send (Option)
    • Assigning the Sounds to Individual Outputs
    • Setting the Output Level
    • Linking the Individual Outputs/Output Levels
  • Sending Effects
    • Setting the Effect Send Level
  • Setting the Volume or Pan for Each Note
  • Setting Up the Mixer
• Chapter 9- Effects (optional)
  • Editing Effects
  • Turning Each Effect On or Off
  • Multi-effects
  • Setting the Effect Routing
  • Reverb Effects
  • Editing Each Effect
    • Distortion/Ring Modulator
    • 4 Band Filter
    • Modulation
    • Delay/Echo
    • Reverb
  • Copying an Effect
• Chapter 10-Disk Operation
  • Overview
    • The Device: Field
    • The Device Icons
    • Before Proceeding to Use a Floppy Disk
  • Formatting a Disk
    • Formatting a Floppy Disk
    • Formatting a SCSI Drive
  • Saving the Data
    • Saving Across Multiple Floppy Disks
  • Saving to Folders on a SCSI Device
    • Creating a New Folder
    • Making Folders Within Folders
    • Selecting Folders/Files
    • Deleting Folders
    • Renaming Folders
  • Loading Files
  • Deleting a File from the Disk
  • Loading an Updated Operating System
  • Loading Files Created on the AKAI MPC60/60II
• Chapter 11-Flash ROM (optional)
  • Flash ROM
    • Formatting the Flash ROM
    • Saving to Flash ROM
    • Loading from Flash ROM
    • Deleting Data from Flash ROM
    • Flash ROM Fragmentation
    • Editing a Sound within the Flash ROM
• Chapter 12-MIDI/SYNC Mode, OTHER Mode
  • MIDI/SYNC Mode
    • Synchronizing the MPC2000XL with Other Sequencers
    • Synchronizing Another Sequencer or MTR to the MPC2000XL
    • Synchronizing with the SMPTE Time Code
    • MIDI Sample Dump
    • MIDI Footswitch Assignment
  • OTHER MODE
    • OTHERS Screen
    • INIT Screen
    • VER. Screen
• Appendix
  • Notes on Using SCSI Drives
    • Connecting an External SCSI Drive
    • SCSI Cables
    • SCSI ID
    • Termination
    • Cable Length
  • Installing the Options—To Service Technicians
    • Locations of the MPC2000XL Option Boards
    • Installing Memory Expansion
  • Technical Specifications
  • The MIDI Implementation Charts