THE MPC SAMPLE Cheatsheet
By THE UNIVERSITY OF VOYAGERS — Free Download
The free MPC Sample cheat sheet for Akai MPC Sample beginners: every Shift + pad hotkey, pad color meanings, and the 5 fixes that unlock tuning, swing, and saving custom kits — plus the Rick Rubin arrangement checklist. A printable 7-page PDF from The University of Voyagers.
What's inside
- 22 Shift + Pad and button combos with plain-English how-to notes
- Pad colors and top screen bars decoded
- Five essential fixes (locked tuning, erasing one drum, real swing, baking reverb, saving custom kits to Micro SD)
- The Rick Rubin subtractive arrangement checklist (one 8-bar loop to a full song)
Free for musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and AI creators learning to make music on the MPC Sample.