Roland MV-8800 Main features

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MV-8800 Owner’s Manual
Main features
The MV-8800 contains a sampler, sequencer, effect processor, mastering functionality, and music CD-burning
functionality, unifying the entire music production process; collecting materials ➔ creating your song ➔
completing a final master.
● Sampler section featuring high capacity, a broad range of file import capability,
and synthesis functionality
• High-capacity sampling
The sampler section at the heart of the MV-8800 features 64 voices of simultaneous polyphony. The unit is
shipped with 128 MB of sampling memory that allows a maximum of approximately 24 minutes of sampling
(monaural). You can add commercially-available DIMM memory to expand the memory (maximum 512 MB).
• Broad range of file import capability
You can acquire musical material not just by sampling/resampling, but also by importing files from the internal
CD-R/RW drive, from the USB. Numerous formats are supported, including Roland S-700 series, Akai
MPC2000(XL), Akai S1000/3000, WAV/AIFF, and music CD.
• Powerful synthesis functionality
Materials obtained by sampling/resampling/importing can be processed by a variety of powerful editing
functionality such as Chop, Time Stretch, and Normalize. The MV-8800 also provides sophisticated filtering,
envelope, and LFO sound parameters taken from Roland’s line of synthesizers.
● Newly developed sequencer that unifies MIDI and audio
• Newly-developed sequencer
The MV-8800 comes with a newly developed sequencer that seamlessly handles MIDI and audio, and also
lets you create songs by placing patterns in the desired order. A variety of editing functionality is also provided,
including piano-roll and drum-grid editing.
• Audio tracks with BPM Sync
The eight stereo audio tracks work in tandem with the sampler section, and allow you to directly record vocals
or acoustic instruments while the sequencer runs. BPM Sync functionality lets you synchronize the tempo
without affecting the pitch of the recorded phrases.
• MIDI tracks that can also control external MIDI devices
The 128 MIDI tracks provide a Play Quantize function that corrects the timing during playback without
modifying the data that you actually input. The performance data can be sent not only to the internal sampler
section, but also from two MIDI outputs.
You can also use piano roll, event list and drum grid editing in both the large LCD screen and external VGA
display.
• Pattern-based music production
You can easily create new songs by combining patterns of several measures.
• Large velocity pads
The sixteen large velocity pads respond to both velocity and aftertouch, giving you fingertip control over subtle
performance nuances. There’s a Roll function, and a Multi Level function that lets you assign a single sample
to the sixteen pads at sixteen different velocity levels.
Unifying the entire music production process
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