Roland MV-8000 Workshop Manual page 9

3. Set the BPM Base Note parameter to the number of beats
in your sample so the MV-8000 can automatically move
beat lines into place onscreen, and so it can calculate the
sample's tempo, or "BPM, " for "Beats Per Minute. "
Light gray beat lines moved into place
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-
shrink a sample when it's used as an audio phrase.
4. Click Name to display the EDIT SAMPLE NAME window,
where you can name the sample. Naming a sample's a
good idea—if you have a bunch of unnamed samples,
things can get confusing fast. When you're done naming
the sample, click OK to return to the RESULT window.
We sampled one extra beat
in this loop so that we' d
know exactly where to set
the red End Point flag—
right before the extra beat.
5. Checkmark the Truncate box so that when you leave this
window, the MV-8000 trims away everything before the
Start Point location and after the End Point. This way, you
won't use up sample RAM on stuff you don't need.
If you didn't normalize your sample back in the SAMPLING or RE-SAMPLING
screen—and would like to do it now—checkmark the Normalize box.
If you're not ready to assign your sample to an audio phrase or patch, you
can stash it away for now in the project's sample RAM by clicking OK. At
some later point, you can select the sample in the PROJECT menu's Sample
Manager and click Quick Assign to display the window shown below.
6. Click Quick Assign to display the Quick Assign window.
If you have a sample containing multiple sounds, or want to slice up a loop,
you can click the Chop button to create a patch with each sound on its own
pad. See the MV-8000 Workshop Auto Chop booklet for details.
In the next couple of sections, we'll explain how to set up a
sample as an audio phrase (click here) or get it into a patch
(click here).
We named
our sample
"Broke Beat."