Akai MPC 2500 User's Manual
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1. 3 Select WRITE AUDIO CD in the DO field When a disk is inserted into the CD drive you will see EMPTY DISC in the DISK STATUS field as well as R or RW indicating whether the disk is a recordable R or rewritable RW type CD 4 Select the location of the audio file you wish to write to the CD You can select RAM Hard disk or Memory card as the source in the FROM field as well as which folder it resides Select the name of the file in the FILE field You also can preview the file selected by pressing F5 PLAY 5 Press F6 DO IT to write the file to the disk The WRITE CD R RW window will be displayed Write CD R FW Pressina DO IT will write data to CD R RW This mag take a while 6 Press F5 DO IT The MPC2500 will begin writing the audio file to the CD MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 Each audio file will be its own individual track You may repeat the above process until the disk is full or you ve added all the tracks you wish to have on your CD Once you are satisfied with the content of your CD the CD will need to be closed This will finish the CD and allow it to be played on any compact disk player 2 Close Session To access the CLOSE SESSION function 1 From the LOAD or SAVE page press F3 UTILIT The UTILITY page will be displayed 2 Select CLOSE SESSION in the DO field Da CL SE SESSION Disc status HOT CLOSED Fressins DO IT will make it readable bs CD PLAYER LOAD 3 Press2. Note when a pad is pressed while holding SHIFT key the track mute status of only the pressed pad is changed and mute group settings are ignored MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 I mprovements to USB connectivity Now the MPC 2500 does not have to be disconnected a computer before leaving the USB page However due to the differences between Macintosh and Windows computers it is necessary to eject the disk mounted on the Macintosh before leaving the USB page Access to MEMORY CARD For Mac 05 Please eject the mounted disk on your Mac before you leave this rase LORD MOUNT To change the device your computer will have access to via USB do the following 1 From the USB page select the ACCESS TO field 2 In the ACCESS TO field select the desired device The CHANGE DISK page will appear Change Disk Access to MEMORY CARD Do Safly Remove Hardware on our PC before DO IT ee DO IT For Windows users it is recommended that you perform a Safely Remove Hardware before pressing DO IT 3 Press F5 DO IT to change devices In most cases your computer will detect the new drive automatically but if for some reason the drive is not detected press F6 MOUNT from the USB page MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 MUTE STOP Function The behavior of one shot samples is now selectable To choose whether or not one shot samples play after stop is pressed or the track is muted do the following 1 From the
3. F6 DO IT The CLOSE SESSION page will be displayed Close Session HO FURTHER WRITING DISC AFTER THIS OPERATION CANCEL DO IT 4 Press F5 DO IT to close the CD session MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 3 Erase CD RW The major advantage CD RW s have over standard CD R s is the ability to erase and rewrite data to the disk before it is closed Once a CD RW is closed a CD RW like a regular CD R will be able to be played in most compact disk players but unlike a CD R a CD RW can be erased and used again To access the ERASE CD RW function 1 From the LOAD or SAVE page Press F3 UTILIT The UTILITY page will be displayed 2 Select ERASE CD RW in the DO field Disc status CLOSED CRW Free Pressins DO IT will erase CD R data Do IT 3 Press F6 DO IT to erase the CD RW The ERASE CD RW page will be displayed Erase CD R THIS OPERATION WILL TOTALLY WIFE THIS DISC 4 Press F5 DO IT to erase the CD RW MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 Track Mute Improvements 1 Record Track Mutes The MPC 2500 now has the ability to record track mute events Track mute recording is off by default To turn on track mute recording do the following 1 From the MAIN page select the MUTE field 2 Press the WINDOW key The TRACK MUTE EVENT page will open Track Mute Event Use track mute events OFF EDIT Jna 3 select the USE TRACK MUTE EVENTS field and change it to ON Also note a con
4. OTHER page press F2 MISC to select the MISC page Sustain Pedal to duration ES Truncate duration UP TO SEQUENCE LENGTH Tar averaging 4 Contenuous sample track OFF Mute stor of one shot sample THROUGH GLOBAL MISC E 2 Select the MUTE STOP OF ONE SHOT SAMPLES field and select the desired behavior THROUGH One shot samples are always played until sample end IMMEDI ATE One shot samples are stopped immediately when pressing stop or muting the pad MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 I mproved compatibility with MPC 2000XL 1 Support for ALL and APS files Compatibility with the MPC 2000XL was greatly improved adding ability to load ALL and APS files Note Due to the differences between MPC 2500 and MPC 2000XL program organization to load APS amp ALL SEQ files correctly You must load APS files first then load ALL SEQ file For best results if APS amp ALL SEQ files are saved in the same folder load the entire folder Support for 2000XL long file names Added the ability to read 16 character names of samples from the MPC 2000XL NOTE due to a limitation in the MPC 2000XL file format 16 character MPC 2000XL names are only supported from CF cards made using MPC2000XL MCD MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 Other Improvements 1 DISCARD and EXTRACT functions use selection from the page the function is initiated from DISCARD and EXTRACT functions initiated in the TRIM page will app
5. MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 a MUSIC PRODUCTION CENTER he AK AI ee t t s u 9 ese Operator s Manual Addendum v1 1 MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 About this Addendum The MPC 2500 s operating system is upgradeable and allows us to add features and make changes to existing features after it has left the factory floor Because we re continuously striving to make your MPC better the Reference Manual and Quick Start Guides may not be completely up to date with the latest features All changes affecting the user interface i e anything the user will see are listed in this addendum Internal optimizations bug fixes and other changes that are transparent to the user are not included in this document since internal changes are mostly geeky technical and don t affect the user in any way This addendum covers all changes that have been made since the publishing of the Reference Manual and covers all changes up to Version 1 1 MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 Audio CD writing The ability to write stereo and mono audio files to an audio CD has been added The disk created will be playable in any audio compact disk player 1 Write Audio CD To access the WRITE AUDIO CD function 1 Go to LOAD by pressing the MODE key and pressing PAD 2 2 Press F3 UTILIT The UTILITY page will be displayed Disc status EMPTY DISCcCREl Free From HARDDISK M EANPAKE File BA SAI SHONOKYOKU Size
6. ly edits to the area between trim start and end points when F1 TRIM is selected DISCARD and EXTRACT functions initiated in the LOOP page will apply edits to the area between loop start and end points when F2 LOOP is selected 2 Added ability to route assignable mix outs in mono 3 Step recording now follows TC SWING setting 4 Copied event data is kept between STEP EDIT and GRID EDIT mode When copying events in STEP EDIT mode the copied data will remain in memory when switching to GRID EDIT mode 5 When a Q Link knob or fader is moved in SLIDER mode the page is automatically changed to the moved Q Link s page 6 Inthe L OUT page of MIXER mode each individual OUT is now available as a single mono output or as a stereo pair 7 Folder load function loads sequence files when no ALL file is found 10
7. venient shortcut to the SEQ EDIT page has been added here Press F2 EDIT to access the SEQ EDIT page As further convenience the VIEW field in SEQ EDIT is set to TRACK MUTE automatically when SEQ EDIT is accessed in this way Once USE TRACK MUTE EVENTS has been set to ON pressing PLAY and REC or OVERDUB in the TRACK MUTE window will allow track mute events to be recorded Track mute events are only recorded when in the TRACK MUTE page TIMING CORRECT settings will affect the recording of track mute events Also please note TRACK MUTE is now an available event to be selected in the SEQ EDIT and STEP EDIT pages 2 Track Mute Groups Pads can now be grouped together so hitting one pad will affect the other pads in the same group MUTE GROUP is accessed by pressing F2 GROUP from the TRACK MUTE page How amp 801 01 08 Sa 81 5eauencedi Tr OFF OFF H1 16 OFF OFF S OFF OFF Aa DAN OFF EI GROUP SOLO MPC 2500 Manual Addendum v1 1 To add a pad to a group do the following 1 Press a pad For an example press PAD 1 The mute group selection for PAD 1 is selected 2 Change the selection from OFF to 1 3 Press another pad For example press PAD 2 The mute group selection for PAD 2 is selected 4 Change the selection from OFF to 1 Now press F1 MUTE to return to the MUTE page Play PAD 1 and notice that now PAD 2 mutes along with PAD 1 Up to 16 different mute groups can be created
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