Roland MV-8000 Workshop Manual page 11

• Loop Mode—If you'd like your audio phrase to loop, set
Loop Mode to something other than Off. You can choose:
• Start-End—so the audio phrase plays all the way
through over and over.
• Loop-End—so the audio phrase plays from the start,
and then repeats from the Loop Point setting to the
end of the sample over and over.
If you turned on looping back on the RESULTS screen, your audio phrase is
set to Start-End by default.
The Loop Point parameter becomes active when you set Loop Mode to
Loop-End.
• BPM Base Note, Start Point, End Point—These parameters
from the RESULTS screen appear again here for your
convenience, and act the same way.
• Loop Point—When Loop Mode is set to Loop-End, Loop
Point is the location in the sample where looping begins.
• Level—This sets the overall volume of the audio phrase.
• Velocity Control—Turn this on if you want the volume of
the audio phrase to be controlled by how hard you hit its
pad.
If you want all of your audio phrases to always be as loud as possible, hit
the FIXED VELOCITY button—located above the pads—so it lights. By
default, this'll make them all loud, all the time.
• Coarse Tune—Use Coarse Tune to shift the tuning of the
audio phrase up or down in keyboard (semitone) steps.
• Fine Tune—Use Fine Tune to shift the tuning of the audio
phrase up or down by 1/100ths of a semitone.
• Reverse—You can flip an audio phrase around by turning
Reverse on.
• BPM Sync—With BPM sync on, the tempo of the audio
phrase becomes automatically locked with the MV-8000's
sequencer. This parameter is the key to one of the best
reasons for using audio phrases.
• Stretch Type—This parameter selects the quality of the
MV-8000's time-stretching or -shrinking when BPM Sync is
turned on. Higher values generally mean higher quality. If
you're not sure how to set this, leave it set to Auto.
• Excl. Group—If you've got two or more audio phrases that
you never want to hear at the same time, assign them to
the same exclusive group. (There are 31 of them.) If an
audio phrase in an exclusive group is already playing when
you trigger another one, the first one is automatically
stopped—this is a handy way to make sure certain audio
phrases never overlap.
The AUDIO PHRASE EDIT Window Buttons
The buttons at the bottom of the window offer more options:
• Menu button—Click this button, or press MENU, to display
options that allow you to re-name the audio phrase, or
export it for use in another project or to your computer.
• SampleList—You can display the project's sample list by
clicking this. If you want to, you can replace the audio
phrase's sample from the sample list.
• Sample Edit—Clicking this takes you to the audio phrase's
sample-editing screen.
• LengthLock—Click this to lock the length of the audio
phrase's loop. You can then adjust the place where it
starts.
• Chop—You can send your audio phrase's sample to the
Chop window by clicking this.