1
QUICKSTART MANUAL (ENGLISH)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Basic Information..................................................................................................................................2
Cursor, Cursor buttons................................................................................................................................................................2
Field, DATA wheel.....................................................................................................................................................................2
[SEQUENCE] button..................................................................................................................................................................2
[TRACK] button......................................................................................................................................................................... 2
[PARAMS] button...................................................................................................................................................................... 2
MODE button..............................................................................................................................................................................2
Tutorial of the MPC500.........................................................................................................................2
Playing Back a Demo Song..................................................................................................................3
Playing a Preset Program.....................................................................................................................3
Recording a Performance with the Pads............................................................................................4
Pla ing Back Several Sequences in a Series.....................................................................................4 y
Selecting the sequences in real time........................................................................................................................................... 4
Playing back the sequences in the selected order....................................................................................................................... 5
Recording a Sound...............................................................................................................................5
Preparing the recording...............................................................................................................................................................5
Starting the recording..................................................................................................................................................................6
Assigning the recorded sound to the pad....................................................................................................................................6
Loop Playback of the Phrase Sample.................................................................................................7
Adjusting the start/end points of the sample.............................................................................................................................. 7
Recording to a sequence............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Setting the same number of the bars for the sample and the sequence...................................................................................... 8
Saving the Data.....................................................................................................................................9
Turning Off the Autoload Function.....................................................................................................9
Other Useful Functions........................................................................................................................9
Q-Link slider...............................................................................................................................................................................9