Roland MV8800WS04 User Manual

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MV-8800 Production Studio

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Workshop

Auto Chop

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MV8800WS04

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About the MV-8800 Workshop Series

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
you sample or import. Its sequencer has 136 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,
it can even burn a CD of your final master mix.

Each MV-8800 Workshop Series booklet focuses on one MV-8800 topic, and
is intended as a companion to your MV-8800 Owner’s Manuals.

About This Booklet

Auto Chop carves up a sample containing multiple sounds
to help you quickly make a new patch with each sound on
its own pad. It’s great for throwing together a drum kit patch
from a bunch of sounds in a single sample, or for slicing up a
sampled loop. This booklet explains how to use Auto Chop.

If you’re using a mouse: If you’re using the MV-8800’s buttons:

Left click Right click

Scroll

wheel

You select parameters and objects with

a left click. You change the selected

parameter’s value by turning the scroll

wheel. You can display an object’s menu by

right-clicking the object.

You select parameters and objects with

the 3, 4, 5, and 6 CURSOR buttons.

Change a selected parameter’s value by

turning the VALUE dial or by pressing DEC

and INC.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

The Buttons, the LCD, or a VGA?

On the MV-8800, you can work on the built-in LCD or on an optional color
VGA monitor. You can use the MV-8800’s front-panel controls, or a mouse on
your VGA screen. No matter how you like to work, there’s an easy way to get
things done.

Probably the best idea is to work primarily with a mouse
on a VGA, using the MV-8800’s buttons to quickly get in and out of
MV-8800 screens. The procedures in this booklet typically assume you’ll be
working this way.

If you’re not, don’t worry, because the VGA windows and LCD screens are
essentially the same. There are clickable VGA icons for all of the MV-8800’s
buttons. You can also press an onscreen button by clicking your mouse or
by pressing an F button on the MV-8800. The main difference has to do with
how you deal with settings—or “parameters”—and how you select objects.

Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves
special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following
symbols.

A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.

A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.

Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

Hot Links

Each Workshop booklet is meant to be read in order from
beginning to end. However, if we mention an upcoming
section—and you see this arrow—you can click the arrow to
jump there immediately.

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Auto Chop

How Auto Chop Works

You can Auto Chop a new sample, an already-existing audio phrase, or an
unused sample from the project SAMPLE folder.

Auto Chop analyzes a sample, looking for places it can slice its sounds into
separate samples, placing a “chop point” marker at each of these locations.
If you like the chop points Auto Chop finds, it slices up the sample for you. If
you don’t, you can change your Auto Chop settings and have it try again.

For the pictures in this booklet, we’re working in a new, blank
project—things may look a little different in your project.

Using Auto Chop

To Auto Chop a New Sample

To learn how to sample, see the MV-8800 Sampling Workshop booklet.
Once you’ve set the Start and End Point parameters in the RESULT
window—and checkmarked Truncate—you’re ready to use Auto Chop.

In the RESULT window, click Quick Assign.

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Skip ahead to “Chop Shop” on Page 4.

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To Auto Chop an Existing Audio Phrase

Press AUDIO PHRASES to show the AUDIO

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PHRASES (PAD) window, and play your audio
phrase.

Press QUICK EDIT, and then click Chop.

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When you strike a
pad, its E.Grp value
highlights in blue. We
hit Pad 1 here.

In the Select Quick Assign window, click Chop.

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