ROLAND MV-8800
Manual de Usuario

About Patch Loading How Many Patches at a Time?
Whenever you�ve got the MV-8800 turned on, you�re in one of the songs in the currently loaded project�you may even be in a pattern inside a song. For each song in a project, you can load and use up to 16 patches at a time.
To learn more about what a project is, see the MV-8800 Creating a New Project Workshop booklet.

Depending on how many samples a project has, and how long they are, it�s possible to be out of room when you attempt to load a patch. If you�re just getting into your MV-8800, though, it�s not likely to happen very soon. The MV-8800 ships from the factory with generous 128 MB of RAM. If you need more, you can expand it up to 512 MB, as explained in the MV-8800 Owner�s Manual.
RAM is cleared whenever you power off the MV-8800, so it�s always important to save your project before you turn off the MV-8800.

Each patch is played by one of the song�s 16 �parts.� You can think of each part as a separate instrument� in fact, to display the song�s parts and their patches, you press the INSTRUMENTS button.

Where a Loaded Patch Goes
You can load patches:

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To try out any of these patches, select its part, and then play the pads or a connected MIDI keyboard.

from the current project�s library�into the currently selected part. from the MV-8800 PATCHES folder or another project�into any part and/ or add it to the current project�s library. Load a patch into a part, and/or load it into the project library.

A Patch Needs a Part to Play It
When you save a project, each song�s patches�and the samples they play�are automatically saved with the project. When you want to load a patch from the current project�s library, you start by selecting the part that�ll play it�once you�ve done this, you can then load the patch into the part. If you�re loading a patch from the PATCHES folder or another project, you select the part to be used as you load the patch. We�ll explain how to do both of these things later.

All the Patches That Fit
Before you play or work on a project, the project is loaded into the MV-8800�s RAM (for �Random Access Memory�). RAM also holds all of a project�s samples, patches, and songs.