Specifying A Fixed Loudness When You Strike The Pads; Using The Pads To Play Accurate Velocity Levels; Holding The Pressed State Of A Velocity Pad; Playing A Roll - Roland MV-8000 Owner's Manual

Editing a sampled sound
3. Adjust the Level and/or Pan parameters.
To adjust the level or pan of an audio phrase, press [F4 (AUX/Phrs/In)], and set the A.Phrase
parameters Level or Pan.
Specifying a fixed loudness when you strike the
pads
Here's how you can disable the velocity sensitivity of the pads.
1.
Press
The indicator will light orange, and the FIXED VELOCITY function will be turned on.
In this state, the pads will produce a fixed velocity (default value = 127) regardless of
how strongly you strike them.

Using the pads to play accurate velocity levels

You can use the pads to play a single partial or audio phrase over sixteen steps of
velocity.
1. Strike the
velocity levels.
The sound you play will be selected.
2. Press
The indicator will light orange, and the MULTILEVEL function will be turned on. In
this state, pad 1 plays a low velocity and pad 16 plays the maximum velocity.
The pad you strike determines which of the sixteen velocity levels are produced.
Pad Velocity
1 7
2 15
3 23
4 31

Holding the pressed state of a velocity pad

Here's how you can "hold down" a velocity pad without having to actually keep your
finger on it.
1. Press and hold the pad you want to "hold."
The sample of the pad will continue playing.
2.
While continuing to press the
The HOLD indicator (red) will light, and the HOLD function will be turned on. Now
that pad will continue sounding even after you take your finger off of it.

Playing a roll

Here's how you can play a roll (rapidly repeated strikes).
1. Press and hold
A roll will be played on the pad as long as you continue pressing [ROLL].
74
.
whose sound you want to play over sixteen pre-determined
.
Pad Velocity Pad
5 39 9
6 47 10
7 55 11
8 63 12
, press
, and strike the
Velocity Pad Velocity
71 13 103
79 14 111
87 15 119
95 16 127
.
that you want to roll.
Use the top panel sliders 1~8
to adjust the Level.
You can set the velocity value
as desired. Refer to Fixed
Velocity level (p. 321).
To turn off the FIXED
VELOCITY function, press
[FIXED VELOCITY] once
again to make the indicator go
dark.
Your actual playing strength is
ignored while MULTILEVEL
is on.
To turn off the MULTILEVEL
function, press
[MULTILEVEL] once again to
make the indicator go dark.
To defeat HOLD, press
[HOLD] once again to make
the indicator go dark.
You can change the interval
(spacing) of the roll. Refer to
Pad Roll Interval (p. 321).