AKAI MPC Fly User Guide

USER GUIDE

ENGLISH ( 3 – 5 )

GUÍA DEL USUARIO

ESPAÑOL ( 6 – 8 )

GUIDE D'UTILISATION

FRANÇAIS ( 9 – 11 )

GUIDA PER L'USO

ITALIANO ( 12 – 14 )

BENUTZERHANDBUCH

DEUTSCH ( 15 – 17 )

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User Guide (English)

Introduction

MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing. Its multifunctional, double-hinged design gives you the flexibility to produce tracks anywhere, while also acting as a protective case between sessions and giving you total access to your iPad for normal uses.

Box Contents

• MPC Fly

• Power Adapter

• User Guide

• Safety & Warranty Manual

Quick Setup / Connection Diagram

Note: MPC Fly is compatible with the following iOS devices (not included):

• iPad (3rd generation)

• iPad 2

1. Purchase and install iMPC

from the App Store.

2. Place MPC Fly on a flat, stable surface. Insert your iPad – with its Home Button on the right – into MPC Fly's case.

3. Optional: Connect MPC Fly to a power source using the included power adapter. This connection will power and charge the batteries of both MPC Fly and your iPad.

4. Optional: Connect 1/8" stereo headphones to the headphone jack of your iPad.

5. Gently connect MPC Fly's attached dock connector cable to the dock connector port of your iPad, and power on MPC Fly.

6. Open iMPC and start making beats! Remember to power off MPC Fly and lock your iPad when not in use.

Note: If iMPC does not respond to MPC Fly, double-click the Home Button of your iPad, touch and hold your finger over the app icon until it shakes, tap the minus symbol, and click the Home Button again. Make sure your iPad is properly connected to the dock connector. Then, reopen iMPC.

Headphones and iPad not included.

iPad and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries.

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1. DOCK CONNECTOR CABLE – Gently connect this attached cable to the dock connector port of your iPad.

2. POWER INPUT – Use the included power adapter to connect the unit to a power outlet. This connection will power and charge the batteries of both MPC Fly and your iPad.

3. POWER BUTTON – Turns MPC Fly's power on/off. You can also use it to determine how much power MPC Fly's battery has:

The button will light up different colors to indicate approximately how much power is remaining:

• Green means it has 30-100% remaining.

• Amber means it has approximately 10-30% remaining.

• Red means it has 10% or less remaining.

You can press and hold the button for 2 seconds to view a more precise indication, represented by the leftmost column of 4 pads. Each pad represents a "battery cell."

• A green pad means that "cell" is fully charged.

• An amber pad means that "cell" is partially charged.

• An unlit pad means that "cell" has no charge.

With a full battery, all 4 pads will be green. With a nearly empty battery, the top 3 pads will be unlit, and the bottom pad will be red.

Release the button to return to normal operation. The button will flash when:

• MPC Fly starts charging

• MPC Fly is about to enter Sleep Mode (if it has not been used in 15

minutes)

After MPC Fly has not been used for 30 minutes, it will automatically turn off.

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4. MAIN – Press this button to view the Main screen in the display and software.

5. PLAY – Press this button to play the Sequence from the audio pointer's current position.

6. PLAY START – Press this button to play the Sequence from its start point.

7. STOP – Press this button to stop playback.

8. REC – To start recording a Sequence, press this button and simultaneously press PLAY or PLAY START. Recording in this way (rather than using OVERDUB) erases the events of the current Sequence. After the Sequence plays through once while recording, Overdub will be enabled.

9. OVERDUB – Press this button and simultaneously press PLAY or PLAY START to enable Overdub. This allows you to record note events in a Sequence without overwriting any previously recorded note events. You can enable Overdub either before or during recording.

10. UNDO – Press this button to undo your last action.

11. ERASE – As a Sequence is playing, hold this button down and press a pad to delete the note event for that pad at the current playback position. This is a quick way to delete note events from your Sequence without having to stop playback.

12. PADS – Use these pads to trigger drum hits or other samples in your software. The pads are velocity-sensitive and pressure-sensitive, which makes them very responsive and intuitive to play. The pads will light up different colors, depending on how hard you play them (ranging from yellow at a low velocity to red at the highest velocity).

13. FULL LEVEL – Press this button to activate/deactivate Full Level. When activated, the pads always play back at a maximum velocity (127), no matter how hard or soft you hit them.

14. 16 LEVEL – Press this button to activate/deactivate 16 Level. When activated, the last pad that was hit will be temporarily copied to all 16 pads. The pads will now output the same note number as the initial pad, but a selectable parameter will be fixed at the values shown in the diagram on the right, regardless of how hard you hit them. The available parameters are velocity, tuning, filter, layer, attack or decay.

15. NOTE REPEAT – Hold this button down and press a pad to retrigger that pad's sample at a rate based on the current Tempo and Time Correct settings. Vary the pressure on the pad to increase or decrease the velocity of the notes being played.

16. TIMING CORRECT – Press this button to switch through the available Timing Correct (quantization) settings.

17. TRACK UP / DOWN – Use these buttons to move to move to the next or previous track.

18. MUTE TRACK –

19. SOLO TRACK – Press this button to solo the current track.

Press this button to mute the current track.

Guía del usuario (Español)

Introducción

El MPC Fly combina la inigualable tecnología de Akai Professional con la potencia de su iPad, dando vida a las capacidades legendarias que hicieron del MPC una norma de la industria, como los pads MPC reales, el MPC Note Repeat y el MPC Swing. Su diseño multifuncional con bisagra doble le brinda la flexibilidad de producir pistas en cualquier lugar, funcionando al mismo tiempo como estuche protector entre sesiones y proporcionándole acceso total a su iPad para los usos normales.

Contenido de la caja

• MPC Fly

• Adaptador de alimentación

• Guía del usuario

• Manual sobre la seguridad y garantía

Diagrama de instalación y conexión rápida

Nota: El MPC Fly es compatible con los siguientes dispositivos iOS (no incluidos):

• iPad (3ra generación)

• iPad 2

1. Adquiera e instale iMPC desde la App Store.

2. Coloque el MPC Fly sobre una superficie plana y estable. Introduzca su iPad –con el botón Home a la derecha– en el estuche del MPC Fly.

3. Opcional: Conecte el MPC Fly a la alimentación eléctrica usando el adaptador de alimentación incluido. Con esta conexión se alimenta y se cargan las baterías tanto del MPC Fly como de su iPad.

4. Opcional: Conecte auriculares estéreo de 1/8 pulg. al conector hembra para auriculares de su iPad.

5. Conecte con cuidado el cable del conector de acoplamiento fijado al MPC Fly al puerto del conector de acoplamiento de su iPad y encienda el MPC Fly.

6. Abra iMPC y ¡comience a producir beats! Recuerde apagar el MPC Fly y bloquear su iPad cuando no los use.

Nota: Si el iMPC no responde al MPC Fly, haga doble clic en el botón Home (Inicio) de su iPad, toque y mantenga su dedo sobre el icono de la aplicación hasta que se sacuda, toque el símbolo del menos y haga clic en el botón Home otra vez. Asegúrese de que el iPad esté conectado correctamente al conector de la estación de acoplamiento. Entonces, vuelva a abrir iMPC.

Auriculares y iPad no incluidos.

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