Roland MV8800WS01 MV-8800 user manual

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MV-8800 Production Studio
Creating a New Project
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About the MV-8800 Workshop Series If you’re using a mouse: If you’re using the MV-8800’s buttons: Roland’s MV-8800 Production Studio is packed with features for making music. It’s a heavy-duty sampler that can do all sorts of things with sounds Left click Right click you sample or import. Its sequencer has 136 MIDI tracks for MIDI sequencing and playing back audio, and its set of editing tools is deep. It’s a great box for performing—using its pads or an attached MIDI keyboard—and, of course

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16 Songs The MV-8800 Project While we all know what a song is in the “real It’s important to understand what a project is because: Song 1 Song 9 world,” in the MV-8800, a song is a thing that • on the MV-8800, you’re always in a project, even if you haven’t done contains: Song 2 Song 10 anything to get there. • a set of up to 16 patches. • a project gives you a place for everything you use in a song or album. Song 3 Song 11 • the sequence and patterns that use them. You don’t have to remembe

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Patch Library How to Create a New Project Each project has its own collection, or “library,” of as many 1 Press PROJECT to display the PROJECT menu. as 128 patches that any song in the project can use. 2 Select Create New Project from the Project menu. The CREATE NEW PROJECT window appears. Effects Library The project effects library really consists of four separate effect libraries: an MFX library, a delay/chorus library, a reverb library, and a Mastering Toolkit library. You can store you

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Project and Song Settings A pattern always uses the patches of the song it belongs to. To make a Checkmark: To copy: copied pattern sound the same in a new project as it did originally, the song that plays it should use the same instrument setup as the song in Current Song Instruments the set of up to 16 patches used by the source project’s song—along with the the original project. You can do this by making sure the desired song is selected when you create your new project, and by checkmark

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2 Click OK—the SAVE AS NEW PROJECT window appears. The End We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other MV-8800 Workshop booklets, all available for downloading at www.RolandUS.com. For the latest MV-8800 updates and support tools, visit the Roland U.S. Web site at www.RolandUS.com. If you need personal assistance, call our amazing Product Support team at 323-890-3745. In this window, you can name your new project by: • typing the desired name in the onscreen keyboar