Document Outline

• USING THE UNIT SAFELY
• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Contents
• Names of things and what they do
• Main features and uses
• Making connections
  • Turning the power on/off
    • Turning the power on
    • Turning the power off
• Using the MC-09 as a synthesizer
  • What is a pattern?
  • Playing
    • Playing a pattern
    • Selecting a pattern
    • Adjusting the tempo of a pattern
    • Playing the keyboard pads
    • Mixing in a performance from a device connected to the INPUT jacks
  • Modifying the sound
    • Using the knobs to edit the settings of the sound
    • Changing the sound of a pattern
    • Editing other sound settings
    • Adjusting the pan
    • Adjusting the pitch
  • Creating a phrase (Recording)
    • Preparations for recording
    • Creating a melody or backing phrase (Step Recording)
    • Creating a drum phrase (TR Recording)
    • Editing a phrase
  • Saving a pattern
• Creating and playing a loop
  • What is a loop?
  • The process of creating a loop
  • Recording (capturing)
    • Auditioning a loop (Preview)
  • Playback
    • Adjusting the volume balance of the parts
    • Muting or un-muting a part
    • Adjusting the pan
    • Applying effects
    • Changing the tempo
  • Changing the settings of part 1
  • Combining several parts into one (Loop Merge)
  • Erasing the contents of a part
  • Saving the steps by which you created a loop (Process Patch)
    • Saving a process patch
    • Playing back a process patch
• Applying an effect
  • Specifying the effect routing
  • Turning the effect on/off
    • Rapidly switching the effect on/off
  • Selecting an effect pattern
  • Using the knobs to adjust the effect settings
  • Changing the effect type
  • Creating consecutive changes in an effect (Effect Control)
    • Using effect control to perform
    • Making effect control settings
  • Saving your effect settings
• Changing the way in which a loop plays (Loop Control)
  • What is Loop Control?
    • Pitch
    • Trigger
    • Divide times 16
  • Using loop control for realtime performance
    • Realtime pitch performance
    • Realtime performance using Trigger
    • Realtime performance using Divide times 16
  • Playing back a loop with Loop Control
  • Making loop control settings
  • Saving your loop control settings
• About the tempo
  • Checking the standard tempo
  • Setting the tempo manually
  • Setting the tempo with the [TAP] button
• Using a memory card
  • Memory cards usable with the MC-09
  • Cautions when using a memory card
  • Formatting a memory card
  • Saving a loop to a memory card
  • Loading a loop
  • Deleting a saved loop from memory card
  • Saving all settings of the MC- 09 to a memory card
  • Loading MC-09 settings
  • Deleting saved MC-09 settings from a memory card
• Connecting external MIDI devices
  • MIDI signal flow
  • Setting the MIDI channel
  • Using the MC-09 as the master
    • Controlling an external MIDI device
    • Synchronizing an external MIDI sequencer
  • Using the MC-09 as the slave
    • Playing the MC-09 from an external MIDI device
    • Controlling the MC-09 from an external MIDI device
    • Synchronizing the MC-09 to an external MIDI sequencer
  • Using the MC-09 with your computer
  • Saving the MC-09 settings to an external sequencer (Bulk Dump)
    • Saving MC-09 data on an external MIDI sequencer
    • Restoring MC-09 data from an external MIDI sequencer
• How the MC-09 is organized
  • Audio signal flow
    • DSP synthesizer
    • Audio looper
    • Step sequencer
• What knobs do
• Parameter list
• Troubleshooting
• Error messages
• Specifications
• Sound List
• Memo
• Index
• Operation map
• Blank Chart