Main Interface

Look familiar? Looks like your MV-8000? It is one!

Getting some caveats over with, this type of interface is nice to look at but is generally inefficient because of large amounts of space unused and buttons we do not use. But, it is what it is and it's nice to look at.

The Main Screen is at the top of the screen. This includes the Zones and several important parameters. You can drop samples on each Zone and right-clicking and clicking each Zone exposes varies functions. Solo and Mute labels allow you to solo and mute specific Zones. Indicators are to the far left that show you when the Zone is played via the Pad or via MIDI.

The Function Buttons reside below this, allowing access to five common windows (Pad Contents, Partial/Patch Editor, two Sound Database views, and Preferences) to appear.

Eight Sliders appear below this. They do... nothing. But they slide and you can have fun with them on days when you have nothing else better to do. Maybe one day we'll hook them up to... something.

Below this to the left are the Pads, separated into six Pad Banks. You can switch the Pad Banks by selecting the proper button on the left.

Clicking on the Pads plays whatever is programmed into them. Right-clicking on a Pad exposes several pertinent functions.

To the right of the Pads is the Graphical Wave Viewer. This shows the current sample being played, or if none are played, it just shows the screen contents as they exist on the MV-8000 itself. Since it is understood that you can play several samples at once in MV Kit Creator™, this simply shows the last one in the chain that was played. If you are playing MV Kit Creator™ via MIDI, you might consider turning this viewer off in Preferences.

The Load button above the Pads reloads the current state of all the PadBanks into the internal player. When importing individual samples MV Kit Creator may not update the player, so clicking Load is a “free” thing to do and always completely updates the player so it is playing accurately. Most of the time, when you load a .mvo file or a .mv8project, the player is updated.

There is also a MIDI Channel control and a Transpose control. You can change the reception MIDI Channel by clicking on the MIDI Channel number. For Transpose, lower it by a semitone by clicking on the <- button and raise it by clicking the -> button. Hold down SHIFT increments or decrements by an octave, and you can reset it to 0 by clicking on the Transpose amount number.

Lastly, there is a VIEWER button, which displays the MV Viewer dialog.