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MV-8000
Workshop
Sampling
© 2005, 2006 Roland Corporation U.S.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in
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  • Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ™ MV-8000 Workshop Sampling © 2005, 2006 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. MVWS03...
  • Page 2 Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with On the MV-8000, you can work on the built-in LCD or on an one of the following symbols. optional color VGA monitor. You can use the MV-8000’s front- panel controls, or a mouse on your VGA screen.
  • Page 3 You can also simply record on the MV-8000 just as you would with any A new sample stays in sample RAM until you shut off the MV-8000 or load a digital multitrack recorder. This is sampling, too, in a way. To learn more, different project.
  • Page 4 About Expanding Sample RAM What’s a Patch? A patch puts a sampled note on each of the MV-8000 pads for The MV-8000 ships with 128 MB of sample RAM, and you can playing. A pad in a patch may trigger a sample of: expand it up to 512 MB, as described in the MV-8000 Owner’s...
  • Page 5 Setting Your Analog Sampling/Input Level If you’ve installed an optional MV8-OP1 Audio I/O Expansion board in your MV-8000, you can connect a stereo digital device—such as a synth with 1. Press the MIXER button to display the MIXER digital outputs—to one of the MV8-OP1’s digital inputs.
  • Page 6 The meters and Reset Peak button here work • Pre Sample Time—The MV-8000 can add a little bit of the same way as they time to the front of a sample to help ensure that the very did in the GLOBAL beginning of its sound isn’t chopped off.
  • Page 7 A better approach, though, is to make one big sample of all of the sounds and then use the MV-8000’s Auto Chop feature to slice them To resample the MV-8000’s output in stereo, set Sample Type to Stereo, as up.
  • Page 8 Start Trigger level, sampling begins. beginning of the sample’s sound. As you increase the • Pad—the MV-8000 waits for you to strike your sound’s pad. value, the green Start Point flag moves to the right toward Once you hit it, sampling begins.
  • Page 9 MV-8000 figures out BPM Number of beats in the sample Setting the BPM Base Note also lets the MV-8000 time-stretch or time- If you have a sample containing multiple sounds, or want to slice up a loop, 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 Setting Up How the Audio Phrase Behaves ASSIGN window appears.
  • Page 11 Stretch Type—This parameter selects the quality of the • Loop-End—so the audio phrase plays from the start, MV-8000’s time-stretching or -shrinking when BPM Sync is and then repeats from the Loop Point setting to the turned on. Higher values generally mean higher quality. If end of the sample over and over.

  • Page 12: Making A Patch

    Page 58 of the MV-8000 Owner’s Manual. drum—you’ll record by itself on a sequencer track. Or maybe To learn how to play samples across a range of pads, at different pitches, you want to add a new sample to an already-existing patch.
  • 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-8000 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 6. Press 3 repeatedly until the SELECT CATEGORY window Since the MV-8000 clears its RAM at power-down, you’ve got opens, and then assign the patch to a category to make it to save your work to avoid losing it when you turn off the even easier to find.
  • Page 15 3. Press Write Here, and then Yes to finish the operation. When you’re done working on the MV-8000, shut it down properly by pressing SHUTDOWN, and be sure to save your project. If you don’t, all your work will be lost when your turn off the MV-8000.