Roland MV-8000 User Manual download pdf (Page 3)

Automation Basics

What Is Automation?

When you mix a song or pattern, there are a lot of things to get

right. You’ve got to figure out:

• where to turn tracks off or on as the music plays

• your mixer settings for the whole song or pattern, whether

they stay the same or change as the music plays

• any changes you want to make to the sound of your

patches as the music plays

• your effects.

All of this can add up to a quite a bit of stuff to remember and

do. With automation, though, the MV-8000 remembers and

does everything for you so that:

• changes that occur as the music plays happen perfectly

every time, automatically.

• as you work on a mix, you can automate things bit-by-bit,

slowly building up the perfect mix at your own pace.

• if you need to take a break, everything is right there when

you come back, days, months, or even years later.

Automating Track Mutes

Here’s how to automate the way you want tracks to turn off or

on as a song or pattern plays:

1. On the SEQUENCE or PATTERN

screen, hold down SHIFT, and

then press the PAD BANKS

button to display the TRACK

MUTE window.

Mute bank

icons

Each track in your song or pattern is assigned to a pad in

the TRACK MUTE window.

If your song or pattern has more than 16 tracks, the track

you want may be assigned to a pad in another mute bank.

To display a different mute bank:

• set the Track Bank value as desired, or

• click the mute bank icon for the bank you want.

If there are enough pads for all of your tracks in a single mute bank—as

shown above—the Track Bank value becomes unchangeable, and the

other banks’ icons are grayed-out, as they are here.

You can change mute banks as you record mute automation if you need

to.

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