Roland MV-8800 manual

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    1 MV -8800 Production Studio © 2007 Roland Corpora tion U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be r eproduced in any f orm without the written permission of Roland Corpor ation U .S. MV8800WS01 Creating a New Project ®ÂØÒňΠ® W or k sho p[...]

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    2 About the MV -8800 Workshop Series Roland’ s MV-8800 Pr oduction Studio is packed with featur es for making music. I t’ s a heavy- duty sampler that can do all sor ts of things with sounds you sample or import. Its sequencer has 136 MIDI tracks f or MIDI sequencing and playing back audio, and its set of editing tools is deep. It ’ s a great[...]

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    3 The MV -8800 Project It ’ s impor tant to understand what a project is because: on the MV-8800, you ’ re always in a project, even if you haven ’t done • anything to get there. a projec t gives you a place for everything you use in a song or album. • Y ou don’ t have to remember where things are stored because the project does. when y[...]

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    4 P atch Libr ary Each project has its own collection, or “library , ” of as many as 128 patches that any song in the project can use. Effects Libr ary The project effects librar y really consists of four separate effect libraries: an MFX librar y , a delay/chorus library , a r everb library , and a Mastering T oolkit library. Y ou can store yo[...]

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    5 Project and Song Settings Checkmark: T o copy: Current Song Instruments the set of up to 16 patches used by the source project’ s song—along with the samples they play—into the first song of the newly created project. Current Song Effects the MFX, chorus, and reverb effect settings from the source project’ s song into the first song of th[...]

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    6 Click OK—the SA VE AS NEW PROJEC T window appears. 2 In this window , you can name your new project by : typing the desired name in the onscreen keyboard with your • mouse. using the CURSOR buttons and V ALUE dial to select the desired • name. typing the desired name on the MV-8800’ s numeric keypad. Each • key has letters printed above[...]