Roland MV-8000/8800 Tutorial

ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRIMER
Components of a typical studio
What is a Sequencer?
What's inside my MV-8000?

SAMPLING
3 ways to sample
...Audio Phrase
...Patch
...Sample
Autotriggering the sample start
Re-Sampling
Importing samples from a CD
Auto-dividing samples
Quick Edit

PLAYING THE PADS
Types of tracks (Audio or MIDI)
Touch sensitivity
Pad Banks
Transposing melodic instruments
Editing level and pan
Using the ClipBoard
Deleting Pads
Roll function
Hold function
Fixed Velocity

WORKING WITH INSTRUMENTS
16 Instrument Parts
Loading an Instrument from Disk
Patch Library
"Project" defined
Editing Patches

AUDIO PHRASES
Pad Banks
Types of Pad Play
Locking Tempos together
Chop function

RECORDING YOUR FIRST SONG
Creating a new song
Types of Tracks
Looping a section
Recording our 1st track
Erasing on the fly
Adding a MIDI track
Recording our 2nd track
Quantizing
Step recording
Punching in
Recording our 3rd track (Audio Phrase)
Recording our 4th track (Direct Audio)

EDITING YOUR SONG
Selecting what you want to edit
Our 1st edit
Listing of Edit commands
Event list
Piano roll

PLAYING YOUR SONGS
Mute and Solo
Track parameters
Using the Aux sends
Using the Locators
Adjusting the song's tempo
Using the mixer
Using the effects

MIXDOWN/CD BURNING
Mixing down your song
Mastering your song
Burning your song to CD

MISC SCREENS/FUNCTIONS
Project screens
Disk/USB options
Sync options
System screens

GRADUATION