Creating A Song (Song Recording); Create A New Song - Roland MV-8000 Owner's Manual

Creating a song (Song Recording)

This chapter takes you through the various steps of creating a song.

Create a new song

1.
Press .
The SONG PARAMETER screen (p. 257) will
appear.
2. With the cursor located in the upper row of
icons, press
move the cursor to CREATE NEW SONG and
press .
The CREATE NEW SONG screen will appear.
3. Make settings for the song.
Parameter
Name
Comment
BPM
Time Signature
Track Layout
Copy From
Current Song
4.
Press (Execute).
The song will be created, and the SEQUENCE screen will appear.
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(Create New). Alternatively,
Explanation
The name of the song. To assign a name, press [F1 (Name)]
(maximum 12 characters).
You can assign a comment of up to 50 characters to the song.
Press [F2 (Comment)] to assign a comment.
Specifies the tempo, in units of quarter note Beats Per Minute.
Specifies the time signature. The default is 4/4. As desired,
you can select a time signature in the range of 1/16~32/2.
Specifies the track structure when creating the song. For the
various layouts you can choose, refer to the CREATE NEW
SONG screen (p. 260).
This lets you apply the Instruments and Effects settings of the
current song to the newly-created song. Add a check mark ✔
if you want these settings to be applied to the new song as
well.
A "song" contains event data
for playback along a time axis,
together with instrument
settings and effect settings. The
"sequence data" you record is
stored within the song.
Tempo is indicated in units of
BPM, which stands for Beats
Per Minute; the number of
quarter note beats that occur in
one minute.
If you use the Tempo track (p.
244), the tempo settings of the
Tempo track will take priority.