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Roland MV-8800 Workshop Manual

Production studio sampling
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MV-8800
Production Studio
Sampling
© 2007 Roland Corporation U.S.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the
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MV8800WS03


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  • Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® MV-8800 Production Studio Sampling © 2007 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. MV8800WS03...

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following On the MV-8800, you can work on the built-in color LCD or on an optional symbols. VGA monitor. You can use the MV-8800’s front-panel controls, or a mouse on your VGA screen.
  • Page 3 • an instrumental performance. CD using the MV-8800’s built-in CD player. To learn how to do this, see the MV-8800 Workshop booklet called Importing a Sample from CD. What makes audio phrases interesting is that you record them on audio tracks that can keep them locked in time to the tempo of your pattern or song.
  • Page 4 About Expanding Sample RAM What’s a Patch? A patch puts a sampled note on each of the MV-8800 pads for playing. A pad The MV-8800 ships with 128 MB of sample RAM, and you can expand it up in a patch may trigger a sample of: to 512 MB, as described in the MV-8800 Owner’s Manual.
  • Page 5 Setting Your Analog Sampling/Input Level If you’ve installed an optional MV8-OP1 Audio I/O Expansion board in your MV-8800, you can connect a stereo digital device—such as a synth Press the MIXER button to display the MIXER (AUX/FX/ with digital outputs—to one of the MV8-OP1’s digital inputs.
  • Page 6 The meters and Reset • Pre Sample Time—The MV-8800 can add a little bit of time to the front Peak button here work of a sample to help ensure that the very beginning of its sound isn’t the same way as they did chopped off.
  • Page 7 Auto Divide provides a “quick-and-dirty” way to create multiple samples of related sounds. A better approach, though, is to make one big sample of all of the sounds and then use the MV-8800’s Auto Chop To resample the MV-8800’s output in stereo, set Sample Type to Stereo, feature to slice them up.
  • Page 8 Begin by setting the Start Point value exactly at the beginning of the • Pad—the MV-8800 waits for you to strike your sound’s pad. Once you sample’s sound. As you increase the value, the green Start Point flag hit it, sampling begins.
  • Page 9 If you have a sample containing multiple sounds, or want to slice up a Setting the BPM Base Note also lets the MV-8800 time-stretch or time- loop, you can click the Chop button to create a patch with each sound shrink a sample when it’s used as an audio phrase.
  • Page 10 Making an Audio Phrase If the audio phrase’s pad bank isn’t shown, press PAD BANKS to select the right bank. In the Quick Assign window shown on Page 9, click AsgnToAPhrs (for “Assign to Audio Phrase”)—the AUDIO PHRASE QUICK ASSIGN window appears. Setting Up How the Audio Phrase Behaves The currently Any pad that...
  • Page 11 Start-End—so the audio phrase plays all the way through over and • over. Stretch Type—This parameter selects the quality of the MV-8800’s time- stretching or -shrinking when BPM Sync is turned on. Higher values • Loop-End—so the audio phrase plays from the start, and then generally mean higher quality.

  • Page 12: Making A Patch

    Click Execute. The MV-8800 takes you back to the SAMPLING screen in case you want In the Quick Assign window shown on Page 9, click AsgnToPatch—the to create another sample.
  • Page 13 Output Assign—sets where the sample’s sound goes. You can select: • Mix—so the sample is sent directly into the main MV-8800 mix as is. • Aux1-4—so the sample is sent to the Aux bus feeding the MFX (for “Multi-Effects”) effect processor. This allows you to add MFX to the sample.

  • Page 14: Saving Your Work

    Saving Your Work Click Select to confirm your choice, and then OK to exit the naming window. Since the MV-8800 clears its RAM at power-down, you’ve got to save your work to avoid losing it when you turn off the MV-8800.
  • Page 15 When you’re done working on the MV-8800, shut it down properly by pressing SHUTDOWN, and be sure to save your project. If you haven’t saved it, your work will be lost when your turn off the MV-8800. The End We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other MV-8800 Workshop booklets, all available for downloading at www.RolandUS.com.