Copy & Variation Functions on an Akai MPC Drum Machine

Video Transcript

" This is D.J. Brasby here for Expert Village. We are going to go over making beats with the MPC. We made a simple beat. Now we are going to learn how to copy the beat and put it on a new sequence to make some variations and some changes to it just to give it some more variety. You highlight the sequence field and hit open window. It will give you the option to copy it that’s F5 or delete it that’s F2. We are going to choose copy. It will ask you where you want to copy it. We hit F5 again do it. Now we have essentially the same sequence in number one and number two. Now that we have it copied, we can do a number of things to change it. We are going to hit F2 edit and then F2 again bars and allow us to double the beat. It will ask us the first bar we want to copy and the last bar, we are going to do 1 and 2 and over here it’s going to place it before the first bar. Hit "do it" F6. Now we have four bars instead of two. We are going to lay in a new kick. So we hit record play start, four counts. So now sequence 2 has a new kick. Maybe we want to silence the last two notes so we are going to go up here to timing. Hit two four for the bar, slide this all the way to the right for the last bar. Hit "do it" and then open backup and change it to back to four, four essentially truncates it and raises the last two beats and now there is nothing there. We will play the last bar."