The Heart of Your MIDI Studio
If you have other MIDI instruments—hardware
synths, samplers, or soft synths running on a
computer—you can play their sounds from
your MV-8800, using them alongside MV-8800
patches and audio phrases in your MV-8800
patterns and songs.
While this booklet explains making MIDI connections and the MV-8800’s
MIDI settings, it assumes you have a basic understanding of MIDI. To
learn about MIDI, you can download InFocus: An Introduction to MIDI
from the Support Documents section of the Roland US website.
Throughout this booklet, we’ll refer to all external MIDI devices as
simply “MIDI instruments” to make things easier to read.
To learn how to operate an external MIDI instrument or a computer/
soft synth setup, see its documentation.
Listening to Your MIDI Instruments
You’ll need a way to hear both the MV-8800 and your MIDI instruments when
you want to use them together. There are basically two ways to do this. You
can:
listen through a mixer—by connecting the MV-8800 and the MIDI
instruments to the mixer and listening to the mixer’s output. (To learn
how to set up a mixer, see its documentation.)
listen through the MV-8800—if you’re using the MV-8800 with a single
MIDI instrument, or if you’ve connected multiple MIDI instruments to
a mixer. We’ll explain this option in detail in “Listening Through the
MV-8800,” next.
To find out how to get the best sound from a MIDI instrument, see its
documentation.
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Listening Through the MV-8800
Making a Direct Audio Connection
You can listen to a MIDI instrument—or a mixer—in stereo through the
MV-8800 by connecting its:
analog stereo outputs—to the MV-8800’s L and R MIC/LINE jacks.
When you’re not using
the PHONO jacks, keep
the included shorting
pin inserted in them.
digital output—to a digital input on an optional MV8-OP1 Audio I/O
Expansion board (purchased separately) installed in your MV-8800.
In addition to simplicity, there’s another advantage to listening directly
through the MV-8800: If you decide to sample your MIDI instrument(s),
you’re already set up to do so.
Selecting the MV-8800 Input(s) You’re Using
Press the MV-8800’s SYSTEM button.
Select Global from the SYSTEM menu to display the
GLOBAL window.
Whenever you want to select a numbered menu item—such as the
Global menu item—you can select it by pressing its number on the
MV-8800’s numeric keypad and hitting ENTER.
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