Roland MV-8000 Workshop Manual page 7

Other Sampling Options
The checkboxes at the bottom of the screen turn some
sampling options on or off:
• Auto Divide—When you turn Auto Divide on, the MV-8000
creates a new sample each time there's silence that lasts
as long as the Gap Time setting. (The Gap Time parameter
becomes active when you switch on Auto Divide.) This
feature can be handy when you're sampling a few things
in a row, and don't want to stop in-between.
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-8000's Auto Chop feature to slice them
up. After Auto Chop, each sample starts precisely at the beginning of its
sound—it's ready to by played right away, with no further editing. To learn
more about Auto Chop, see the MV-8000 Auto Chop Workshop booklet.
• Auto Emphasis—If you've got a sound you'd like to
brighten up during sampling, turn on Auto Emphasis,
which increases the treble content in the sound.
• Auto Normalize—Auto Normalize boosts the volume of
your sample to its loudest, and therefore best, level. It's
generally a good idea to turn Auto Normalize on.
Resampling
The MV-8000 allows you to sample the MV-8000 itself—or
more specifically, its main stereo outputs—using a process
called "resampling. " You might resample the MV-8000 to:
• capture an entire mix as a stereo sample—that you can burn
onto an audio CD.
• create insanely complex sounds—by sampling a sound over
and over, tweaking it or adding more effects each time.
To get to the RESAMPLING window, click the Re-Sampling tab
at the top of the SAMPLING window.
To resample the MV-8000's output in stereo, set Sample Type to Stereo, as
shown here. To squash it down to mono, set Sample type to Mono.
The parameters for resampling are the same as for sampling,
though, for resampling, you'll want to set Start Trigger to:
• Pad—to begin sampling when you strike a pad. Use the
Pad setting when you're resampling an MV-8000 audio
phrase. When you hit a pad that plays the audio phrase,
resampling automatically begins, too.
• Play—to begin sampling when you hit the sequencer
PLAY button. When you're capturing a whole mix as a new
sample, use this setting. Hit PLAY to play the mix, and
resampling automatically begins.
To resample an MV-8000 patch, sequence the note(s) you want to resample
and use the Play Start Trigger setting.
The Sampling Session
Once you've set all the parameters in the SAMPLING—or
RESAMPLING—window as desired, you're ready to sample.
Here's how.