MV-8800 enhancements/fixes

X is cannot be done
! is done

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X Support > 512M RAM
	7706 supports flat 29 bit physical address space, which is 512M in total
	Wave Ram is also separate from 128M of system RAM

X PCMCIA support
	Chip selects are not wired up

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From MC-909

	sample based synth
	transpose in mixer page
	saving patterns to disk
	Reclock the sequence half or double
	Extract Rhythm Instrument

	Sampler:
		sample combine, opposite of chop
		auto sync
		amp edit
		auto trigger
		auto trim
		mix sampling (input and main mix through mfx etc)
		solo, same as above but input doesn’t go through mfx
		Resampling mix in switch, mix in with line in, cool!
		more things can be automated via cc

	Other:
		chord memory
		FX routing view is better
		midi syncable delays
		d beams (HW mod)
		arpeggiator
		add the rec loop rest function on/off, adds a measure of silence before looping
		import the wave editing functions
		Varispeed pitch/bpm
		Smartcard
		Can take an incoming audio signal and autotune it in real time with the 16 velocity pads.

Hardware/Mapping:

	Crossfader (hw change) w/ A/B assign

	USB speed ups, chip supports 2.0
	https://m.facebook.com/groups/135127596536965/permalink/1393410204042025/

	Use the editor which allows to choose up to 4 different controller(knobs,
	faders,mini faders etc) to assign them 3 parameters to control, so for
	example:AMP release will control pitch+cutoff+lforate simultaneously (!!) so you
	have nasty weirdy fx with one knob/fader etc and you can automate them (and
	resample them)

	When holding shift on the MV for keyboard input, it should work

	PS/2 keyboard support - the schematics show it wired in and you just need a PS/2 splitter.

	My mouse scroll wheel direction is backwards

	Apart from physically opening up the MV & unsoldering it,  has anyone discovered
	a way to disable the constant flashing tempo light ? I don't see the point in
	it, other than adding wear & tear to the led.  It'd much rather it only flashed
	during playback or recording. Is there a setting in the service mode that can be
	tweaked?

	One thing that is much better on the akai (there may be things I'm missing with
	the roland, I searched the manual, but if anyone knows of something I don't
	please post to clear up any mis-information I may be spreading) is that you can
	adjust the sensitivity of each pad individually over all the banks (96 pads
	total) between 100 and 200%. The roland is a global adjustment of all pad
	sensitivity and it only has three choices (light, medium , heavy or whatever
	words they use). I don't like the way the roland makes you hit a bank button and
	then scroll through the 6 choices instead of hitting a single button like on the
	akai for each bank so you can switch banks live in a performance more easily.

	Enable using the faders to control the volume of individual audio phrases.

	C knobs:
		Assign multiple controls to c1, etc
		A way to bank C1-C3 for an additional 3 controls

	It would be nice if the "C" MIDI port data line was accessible somewhere inside
	the MV chassis so that the 3rd output could be added with a small mod. You'd
	still have to "trick" the MV into thinking the RBUS card is installed in order
	to get the "C" MIDI port to show up in the UI.

MIDI/Automation/Sequencer:

	More realtime controllers.

	Ability to transpose output notes of pads (for use with DAWs)

	Arpeggiator, per track

	Parameter locking or some sort of advanced parameter automation

	Pitch to MIDI

	Reverse MIDI

	Probability for MIDI notes

	Better sysex support (for controlling other synths/patches)

	Automation viewer other than events list

	MIDI effects like on pyramid, maybe use midi effects tracks, or shift-mfx to get to midi effects

	Transpose MIDI data of a certain track in real time

	Track Mute Menu: Track Mute, Track Mute Group, Pad Mute, Pad Mute Group; all can be automated

	Thinking to MC or MV series , does somebody know if I can transfer the 16 pad
	sounds to midi electronic drums or a midi keyboard or directly to cubase piano
	roll ?  I don't think you can do that with the MV. It's easy though to export any midi
	you do put down. Slave cubase to the mv, then record each track at a time.

	Allow MV to output MIDI so it can be used as a controller.

	That's why the MV and all other Roland sequencers like the MC line should have
	had the arranger that came with the Roland PMA-5. Any melody or chord
	progression you put into it can be automatically (correctly) transposed to any
	other key, regardless of key quality.

File dialogs:

	Remove the popup after mastering asking if you want to cut a CD.

	The Sample Edit screen could use a cursor that scrolls across the waveform.

	Streamline deleting samples
	Multi file select to delete in File Utility (see Mark On/Off in Sample Import)

	Directory travel with panel buttons

	Shift enter or up should go up a directory in a file chooser

	When scrolling through lists shift L and R arrows should page up/down

	Double clicking control goes back to default value

	Put the little number hints superscript on each button

	Some dialogs don't close except with mouse, like audio event parameters

	Remove this annoying "finished" pop up, after loading a patch, normalise a sample etc.

	My number one workflow complaint with the MV is the inability to cycle through
	active pop up windows without completely closing the ones on top. While you can
	unstack windows and move them around so you can see them all, one of the only
	pop ups I know of that you can change parameters on simultaneously is the pad
	bank window. Could be wrong but it seems that way. The use of the shift key and
	directional buttons would be a nice way to cycle.

Other UI:

	Sequencer-wise, I seem to end up pressing too many buttons on the MV to get
	things done. The [+ track] and [- track] simplicity of the MPC pretty much can't
	be improved on. You can set up the MV to work in almost the same way, though --
	to be fair, but why it isn't this way automatically is beyond me. (Maybe it's a
	plagiarism thing.) All in all, there are lots of tiny ways in which the MPC is more refined. A main
	one that comes to mind is that I can alter the active pad in [Program] mode
	without striking that pad. (To do this on the MV I'd have to use a mouse and
	monitor which completely defeats the purpose for me.) To be fair, the MV
	receives frequent software updates and many subtle refinements are always being
	made.  The MV has a [Hold] button. The way it's implemented is currently not very
	useful however -- it disengages if you switch Pad Banks or Instruments (aka "Parts" on the 4000).

	Zoomable Audio track to see the waves,not those white gum sticks we currently have..

	Part Meters

	In VGA mode, when hilighting a track, should be able to cursor over to toggle
	Mute, Solo, etc.  Currently that only works in LCD.  In VGA the cursor controls
	the current location.

	When using the VGA, still show the F1-F5 options so you can use the panel buttons

	When doing pad banks, allow auditioning with mouse click too

	Remember the directory when you save a patch, so when saving new patch it brings you directly in this directory

	Add Shift + Quick Set sets end of looping region

	Non mouse way to bring up the sequence menu or add midi/audio tracks

	There's an issue w/ direct recording, only 2 choices Mono/Stereo, but there are 3 "clicks" worth of choices.

	In the mixer show actual meters or VUs, have it be a 3rd tab after EQ

	A meter showing gain reduction in compressor MFX could be cool

	The ability to stop the piano roll from scrolling. The drum grid
	doesn't scroll but it's not as useful with pitched TR-Rec type input.

	The drum roll window should be zoomable.

	A way to set current red marker position with mouse click

	Shift loop brings up LOOP popup

	Easier way to set start and end of loop region

	Why can’t change the loop length in pattern mode?

	Single click in large bar in pre roll should select all notes in track, shift and that selects everything

	When pasting a pattern does it to a midi track

	Shift pattern should bring up pattern list

	Add ability to delete a track from the panel buttons

	Fader takeover use relative scaling

	Use colors in get multi effects for when effect turned on or not

	Where is pattern track in mixer?

	Record pattern play mode?

	I don’t even know if it makes sense but is there a way to turn on or off
	"follow cursor" just like in cubase or reason? A lot of times I just want to
	do edits (in MIDI) while the song is playing... and not necessarily right
	where the cursor is. That screen jumping back and forth drives me crazy...

Sampler:

	Chop based on velocity

	Variphrase

	More sample categories

	Cycle and Random sample zone play

	adjust/modulate the samples loop start and position in real time

	A way to level trigger samples and move to next pad

	Resample at lower freq

	Boomerang sample mode in addition to forward backward, goes back and forth

	Export multiple samples at once (eg add save function in sample manager when you are able to select samples for deleting)

	Ability to edit more than one partial in a patch at once, for example set a lowpass filter on all partials If not possible

	Assign C controls to partial edit params

	Cycle and Random sample zone play

	That Fast Sampling sounds kinda cool, you mean like to hit pad 1 to sample a
	portion of a record and as it plays, you hit pad 2 to sample another portion on
	the fly. No, the MV don't got that feature, but then again you can use the Chop
	to either Auto or manually chop up a large portion to different pads.

	Another thing where the MV's sampler falls short is ya can only use 16 internal
	patches per song. On the MPC4K, ya can have 128 parts active in one multi, a
	different program on each track. It's like havin' 128 internal MIDI channels!

	Implement mpc chop feature “release”

	A possibility to randomise the 4 samples in the SMT. Right now the samples can
	only be set to velocity lo/hi; it would be great if whatever incoming velocity
	the SMT would randomly choose one of the four samples, while the VCA takes care
	of the actual level of the sample. This would allow for some nice
	humanisation/human feel on drum kits. (e.g. on hi-hats, ride cymbals, snares etc

	It lacks some stuff at sample editing levels like the bit depth with masking
	options you'll find on S760, you have to think a bit differently.

	16 levels mode – velocity, filter, tune, decay, attack, layer

	Roland modular on each sample.

Effects/Filters/etc:

	Master EQ and Compressor, outside of mastering

	Improve effects routing

	The MV does not have a LOT of modulation options. If they would integrate a 64 point Modulation Matrix like the MPC 4000

	7 Filters options per pad (4 additional variations) – 2, 4, 6, 8 slope options with additional filters in the 4 x 2 buss effects processor

	More FX per part

	'Scatter' functionality, sorta like a stutter effect for audio

	Add a step sequencer for modulating synth/effects

	Add Filters. MPC 5K gives you 11 filter options with full ADSR and other additional parameters to adjust per sample. The MV gives you 3 filter options per sample with fewer paramaters
	I don't know if I agree about that....

	Sidechain/ducking for compresser
	I bet that if you could make some changes to the vocoder FX it could act as a
	decent sidechain Hangnef, since it has two inputs and envelope followers.

Other Functionality:

	Add the ability to "export" individual (or multiple simultaneous) tracks direct
	to disk. Using Remix to do this adds a small delay to the start of the track.

	Improve project loading/saving times

	Patched Phrase

	Direct note access

	Instant track mute for beat juggling

	Add a tuner

	Another feature to add: when step recording a phrase you have to press the
	destination pad. It would be great if this could be done using the mouse and/or
	a keyboard combination.

	More undo
	i.e. You can delete an MPC 5K track and use undo to bring it back. You can't do this with the MV.

	Route metronome to headphones only

	add support for crossfading loops
	https://www.mv-nation.com/index.php?topic=150.0

	Allow more than 1 pattern track

	1) Turn the input monitor off, so folks without op-1 can route through an effect
	an record direct back to the mv without feedback.

	Another one: allow to load a patch into a another patch, for example you have a
	drum kit on bank a, load another kit/patch into bank b

	Custom groove templates

	Sample gain change algorithm.

	16 mono from 8 stereo audio tracks

	960 ppqn support

	Increase max number of notes

	Show time sig not numbers for quantize

	A way to change the duration of the rolls on the fly like my padKontrol

	Flams

	Loop Start/End point: is it possible to tweak it while the sequencer is playing?
	You can tweak it for different tracks (not simultaneously)?

	Project/Song/Track text notes

	Add time stretching of instruments (changing pitch of sample without changing the length of playing sample)?

	Handle sample encodings other than 44khz 16bit
	NOTE: Not sure this is possible, the codec chips involved don't seem to support this

	Change patterns on the fly in MPC manner

	Ability to glue sections together

	Nudging

	Features from Fantom G

Synth/XV:

	I would like Roland to add a sine wave as a waveform option to the onboard synth.

	Random bass synth patch generation

Bugs:

	Audio phrase Reverse and BPM sync enabled when set to Drum Pad Play mode (not Gate or Trigger)

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9V3p_P01TQ

	In global settings, make this persist
	I remember for some reason , mine was set to -9db for many projects. I was
	unaware of it and it seems to work for both sampling and resampling.
	only annoying thing is that it always reverts to -12db on restart.

	https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=6074606&postcount=2

	Deleting of bars from pattern after changing loop times and rebooting
	https://www.mv-nation.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c6i0hk8199ursl92oe5mlrg65b&topic=431.msg1791#new

	Autochop a phrase and make it a patch. Then I'll add another sample to the
	patch. When I do, the sample is pitched down 2 semitones. It doesn't matter
	what note # I assign the sample to, it always has to be raised 2 cents to
	get it back into pitch.
	https://www.mv-nation.com/index.php?topic=224.msg1373;topicseen#msg1373