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Creating a song (Song Recording)

Creating a song (Song Recording) Editing a song Playing your songs Using effects Adjusting the balance of your song and
mastering it

Step recording

Step Recording is a method by which you can record individual notes and rests one by
one, just as if you were writing music notation onto a sheet of staff paper.

Inputting notes and rests

1.

Make preparations for recording as described in

CREATE NEW SONG
screen

(p. 260) and

Adding tracks for recording data

(p. 77).

2.

Use (up/down) to select the track that you want to record.

Recording will take place on the current track.

3.

Use

/

(MEAS) to move the current time to the point at which you
want to begin input.

4.

Press + .

The [REC] indicator will light, and the

STEP REC
(MIDI) screen

(p. 254) or

STEP REC (AUDIO)
screen
(p. 255) will appear. The STEP REC screen
that appears will depend on whether the current
track is a MIDI track or an audio track.
5.

Specify the length of the notes you want to
input, in terms of the note value.

The note value is specified by the Step Time
parameter.
• Duration
This specifies the proportion of the note length that the note will actually sound. Lower
values will make the note play “staccato,” and higher values will make the note play
“tenuity” or “slurred.” Normally you will use a setting of about 80%.
• Velocity
This specifies the force with which you struck the pad. If you want the force with which
If you want to record on an
existing song, recall the
desired song (p. 262). You can
move the current time to
specify the measure at which
recording will begin. The
recording-start measure is
shown in the Now Time area
in the upper part of the
SEQUENCE screen.

Note length (Step Time) and the number of ticks

The MV-8000's sequencer divides each quarter note into 480 “ticks.” The following
table shows the number of ticks in each note value.
The length that a recorded note will actually continue sounding will be the number of ticks in the note
value multiplied by the Duration parameter. For example if the Duration parameter is “80%”, a quarter
note will actually sound for a length of 480 x 0.80 = 384 ticks.
Note Number
of ticks
Note Number
of ticks
(64th note) 30 (quarter note triplet) 320
(32nd note triplet) 40 (quarter note) 480
(32nd note) 60 (half-note triplet) 640
(16th note triplet) 80 (half-note) 960
(16th note) 120 (whole note) 1920
(8th note triplet) 160 (double whole note) 3840
(8th note) 240
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