Roland MV-8000 Owner's Manual page 34

Parts of the MV-8000 and what they do
1. LOCATOR button
Accesses the LOCATOR popup (p. 251) 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.
2.
STEP buttons / MARKER 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.
3.
JUMP button
[JUMP] + [STEP] moves the time location to the next or previous marker.
[JUMP] + [MEAS] moves the time location to the next or previous event.
[SHIFT] + [JUMP] displays the JUMP popup (p. 252), where you can directly input a
time location and jump to it.
4. 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.
5. 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. 244)
is not being used.
By pressing [SHIFT] + [BPM/TAP] you can store a marker in the sequence data.
6. 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.
7.
TOP button
Sets the current time to 0001-01-000 (measure 1 - beat 1 - tick 0); i.e., the beginning.
8. STOP button
Stops the sequencer.
9. PLAY button
Plays the sequencer. Pressing [PLAY] in REC standby mode (the REC indicator
blinking red) will start recording.
10. 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] to begin recording (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
(MIDI) screen (p. 254) or STEP REC (AUDIO) screen (p. 255).
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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.
For details on the difference
between Locators and Markers
(both of which can be used to
identify locations), refer to
Assigning markers (locate
points) within the song (p.
117).