Using The Mastering Tool Kit To Finish Your Song (Mastering); Using The Mastering Tool Kit - Roland MV-8000 Owner's Manual

Using the Mastering Tool Kit to finish
your song (Mastering)
Here's how you can apply a final mastering effect (the Mastering Tool Kit) to your
mixdown, in order to produce a finished song. The Mastering Tool Kit is an effect that
separately processes the high, mid, and low-frequency regions to make the volume
more consistent. This will make the entire song sound louder and more "finished," so
that it can be made into a CD at an optimal volume level.

Using the Mastering Tool Kit

Let's use "P01 Mixdown" from the preset library to master your song.
1.
Press .
The MASTERING MENU screen (p. 338) will
appear.
2. Press (Mastering). Alternatively, select
the MASTERING icon and press
The SELECT MASTERING SOURCE / SELECT
AUDIO FILE popup (p. 340) will appear. The list
will show the files saved in the MASTERTR folder.
3. Move the cursor to the mixdown file (or other
file) that you want to master, and press
(Execute).
The MASTERING screen (p. 342) will appear.
4. Press (MTK Library).
The MASTERING TOOL KIT LIBRARY popup (p.
344) will appear, allowing you to select a mastering
tool kit.
5. Move the cursor to "P01 Mixdown," and press
(Use This).
"Mixdown" will be selected as the mastering tool kit.
6. Press .
The current time location will move to the first measure.
7.
Press .
The REC indicator will blink, and the MV-8000 will be in mastering-standby mode.
Adjusting the balance of your song and mastering it
.
The mastering tool kit is a deep
and somewhat complex effect.
In order to use it to its fullest
potential, you'll need to build
up experience by
experimenting with various
settings depending on the
character of your song and on
the result you want to get.
In SELECT MASTERING
SOURCE, you can choose any
WAV file (two-channel / 44.1
kHz / 16-bit / PCM audio /
no longer than 79 minutes 59
seconds), not just files that
were mixed-down on the
MV-8000.
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