Roland MV-8800 Owner's Manual page 22

Panel descriptions
LOCATOR button
Accesses the LOCATOR popup (Screen Guide; p. 59) will
appear. You can place locator marks at ten desired time
locations in the sequence data. The Locator function lets
you jump instantly to one of these stored locations.
STEP buttons
Pressing these buttons by themselves will move the
current time location in units of the Step Time. If you
continue holding down the button, the time will move
continuously.
If you hold down [JUMP] and press one of these buttons,
you will move to the next or previous marker in the
sequence data.
JUMP button
[JUMP] + STEP [ ] [
previous or next marker.
[JUMP] + MEAS [
the previous or next event.
[SHIFT] + [JUMP] displays the JUMP popup (Screen
Guide; p. 60), where you can directly input a time location
and jump to it.
MEAS buttons
Pressing these buttons by themselves will move the
current time in units of a measure. If you continue holding
down the button, the time will move continuously.
If you hold down [JUMP] and press one of these buttons,
you will move to the next or previous event in the
sequence data.
BPM/TAP button / MARKER SET button
Pressing this button once will display the BPM/TAP
popup, where you can specify the tempo of the sequencer
in units of BPM (quarter note Beats Per Minute). By
pressing [BPM/TAP] three or more times at the desired
tempo, you can set the sequencer to that tempo. In either
case, you are free to set the tempo whenever the Tempo
track (p. 138) is not being used.
By pressing [SHIFT] + [BPM/TAP] you can store a marker
in the sequence data.
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If you're using the tempo track, you can't use [BPM/TAP] to
change the tempo. If you want change the tempo in this way,
disable the tempo track.
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] [ ] moves the time location to
BEAT indicator (red/green)
Blinks (green) at each beat of the currently specified
tempo. When the sequencer is running, it will blink red on
the first beat (the downbeat) of each measure, and blink
green on other beats.
TOP ( ) button
Sets the current time to 0001-01-000 (measure 1 - beat 1
- tick 0); i.e., the beginning.
STOP ( ) button
Stops the sequencer.
PLAY ( ) button
Plays the sequencer. Pressing [PLAY (
standby mode (the REC indicator blinking red) will start
recording.
REC ( ) button
Use this when you want to record. Pressing this once will
enter REC standby mode (the indicator blinks red). In
REC standby mode, press [PLAY (
(the indicator will light red). During recording, press
[REC ( )] once to stop recording (punch-out; the
indicator blinks red). However, the sequencer will not
stop, but will continue playing back.
While the sequencer is stopped, you can press [SHIFT] +
[REC ( )] to show STEP REC screen (Screen Guide; p.
62), AUDIO PHRASE STEP REC screen (Screen Guide;
p. 63), or PATTERN STEP REC screen (Screen Guide; p.
110).
)] in REC
)] to begin recording