Using the Swing Feature on an Akai MPC Drum Machine

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This is D.J. Braxbee here for Expert Village. We are going over the MPC and one of the most famous features of the AKAI MPC is its swing function, which affects primarily your drums. If you go to timing and select that field, hit open window, it is going to give you your timing and you can correct it and change it. Here is what we are quantizing at 16th note, swing goes from 50-75. Usually use about light swing is 54-55, the heavier may be high 50s, 60s and if you want to get really crazy you can go high. What this does is it’s more of a feel. It puts a little bit of swing as if like a drummer was playing it. You are not exactly on time; it is just giving a little bit of push before or after and you can actually go to shift your timing. Your notes will hit either earlier by a few fractions or you can change that to later. It just gives a different feel to your drums and makes everything swing a little bit different than normal. You really just have to experiment with it but that’s how you use the function.

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