Look familiar? Looks like your MV-8000? It is one!

Getting some caveats over with, this type of interface is nice to look at but is geenrally ineffecient because of large amounts of space unused and buttons we do not use. But, it is what it is and it's nice to look at.

The Main Screen is at the top of the screen. This includes the Zones and several important parameters. You can drop samples on each Zone and right-clicking and clicking each Zone exposes varies functions. Solo and Mute labels allow you to solo and mute specific Zones. Indicators are to the far left that show you when the Zone is played via the Pad or via MIDI.

The Function Buttons reside below this, allowing access to 5 common windows (Pad Contents, Keygroup/Program Editor, 2 Sound Database views, and Preferences) to appear.

8 Sliders appear below this. They do... nothing. But they slide and you can have fun with them on days when you have nothing else better to do. Maybe one day we'll hook them up to... something.

Below this to the left are the Pads, separated into 6 Pad Banks. You can switch the Pad Banks by selecting the proper button on the left.

Clicking on the Pads plays whatever is programmed into them. Right-clicking on a Pad exposes several pertinent functions.

To the right of the Pads is the Graphical Wave Viewer. This shows the current sample being played, or if none ar played, it just shows the screen contents as they exist on the MPC itself. Since it is understood that you can play several sampels at once in MPC-KC, this simply shows the last one in the chain that was played. If you are playing MPC-KC via MIDI, you might consider turning this viewer off in Preferences.