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Summary: Control external midi devices with your Akai MPC 2000XL drum machine when making hip-hop beats; learn how with tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ music video lesson.
Amir Tauheed has been working in music production for over 7 years. He has extensive knowledge of the MPC and its operations. He is currently co-owner of Precision Audio Productions,...read more
"Hi, I’m Amir from Precision Audio Productions and on behalf of Expert Village this segment will be on triggering external midi devices with a MPC. What we have here and what we have to do first is set the MPC so that we have the midi setup. You go down to where it says drum and turn it to where it says midi, you assign the midi channel and we already have our midi device setup. So you just you can trigger either with the pads or you could trigger it with a midi controller or a keyboard. That is triggering external midi devices with a MPC XL, thank you very much. "
eHow Article: Using External Midi Devices With the Akai MPC 2000XL