Working With Projects

In MV Kit Creator™, you are always working with a Project.

An MV Kit Creator™ Project is made up of three distinguishable elements:

• A Name, such as "My MV Kit Creator™ Project". Names can be of any length and character set. HOWEVER, what gets written into a .mv0 is limited to 12 characters and the limited ASCii set.
• A set of Patch Parameters that apply to all Pads
• A set of 96 Pads divided into 6 Pad Banks, just like the MV-8000. Each Pad has it's own Partial Parameter Set and can access up to 4 samples. These can be WAVE files, AIFF files, or a sample taht exists inside a .mv0 file.

Projects can be saved anywhere as .mv8project files for later work. .mv8project files are small since they do not contain samples, like .mv0 files, they only reference other files.

Since the MV-8000 is marketed as being a "groove box", we assume that people use the Roland MV-8000 to playback drums, percussion, and loop elements. That's probably true, but the MV-8000 is capable of much more then that; it can be used to program full-featured Chromatic instruments such as a piano, lead trumpet, solo violin, or other multisampled chromatic sources. In fact, the MV-8000 resembles very closely the old Roland S-7x sampler, which was used on countless movies, commercials, and TV shows throughout the 1990's.

Still, MV Kit Creator™ is setup more to encourage a drum/perc/loop paradigm. But that shouldn't stop you from making Chromatic instrument using MV Kit Creator™. Future versions will encourage this use more.

With that in mind, lets go over the last two elements of the three elements that make up a Project. We will NOT try to repeat what is in the MV-8000 manual about specific parameters.

Patch Parameters
These parameters affect all Pads, and all Zones with those pads. These include the Modulation Matrix and overall tuning, level, and panning parameters. Please remember that there are tuning, panning, and tuning parameters for every level - Patch, Partial, and Zone. These are summed up to affect the original sample being played. Please note that the Key-Follow (KF) in the Zones turns off the effect the keyboard (or Pad placement) has on the tuning of the sample being played, and the Offsets on the Patch level affect every corresponding parameter below it.

Partial Parameters
Each Pad has a set of Partial Parameters. Each Zone in the Pad shares these parameters, which include level, panning, tuning, filtering, one LFO, and two Envelopes, one for the filter and one for the amplifier section. Each Partial contains 4 Zones, which are specifically addressed in the SMT (Sample Mix Table). Each Zone has level, tuning, panning, and other parameters that only apply to the sample it references.

You can edit these parameters in the Partial/Patch Editor. Please remember that except for tuning, panning, and looping, these parameters will not be reflected when playing the pads via MIDI or by clicking on the Pads. The streaming playback engine is has not been developed to that point yet, although we are working toward it.