Akai MPC 2000xl - Manual (Page 103)

Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Sounds
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• Assign to note:
This assigns a sampled sound to a drum pad. When sampling is complete, it is possible to
play the sound which has just been recorded with the selected pad. Select this field with the
CURSOR DOWN key and select the note number of the drum pad with the DATA wheel or
by hitting one of the drum pads. The note number of the pad will appear. When you do not
want to assign a sound to a pad, select
--/OFF with the DATA wheel.
When KEEP [F5] is pressed, the sample will be stored into the memory and the display will return
to the original display.
To listen to the sample, press MAIN SCREEN to return to the main screen and press the drum pad
that you assigned the sample to.
By pressing OPEN WINDOW while the sample mode screen is displayed, the Sound memory
window will appear regardless of the cursor position.
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Sound memory Sound memory
Free memory(time): 20.0sec
2Megabytes installed 2Megabytes installed
The available sampling time and the total memory capacity are displayed.
Before saving a sampled sound, first set the following fields:
• Name for new sound:
Enter a name for the sampled sound here.
Tap a drum pad or rotate the DATA wheel to display the Name window.
Enter a name and press ENTER [F5] to confirm.
Note: If you do not press ENTER and move to another page, the name and the sound
will not be saved.
Note: The RECORD IN jacks on the rear panel are balanced inputs having a hot,
cold and ground connection using a standard stereo phone jack:
Ground Cold Hot
Standard mono phone plugs can also be used for sampling. The cold connec-
tion will simply connect to ground.