Roland MV8000
 

i got me a new sequencer for christmas, finally !

the Roland MV is on my wishlist since i sold my MP2KXL one and a half year ago. I was fucked up by the boring and unflexible way to program the Akai machines. I've been waitong for a good deal for a long time - and now that the MVs are awfully cheap these days it was like a piece of cake to get one.

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=180311117557







there's a little crack on the left side-panel, but i got a replacement for the panel from a friend who changed his side-panels against the new black MV8800 panels he ordered from Roland. So everyone is lucky (maybe besides the seller) and christmas is saved ... cause i know, the package is since last thursday on the long way from Hollywood to Düsseldorf by UPS international. :)

great - an MV from Hollywood and the MV8-VGA ..... frooooom :D









btw. the shipping to germany is ...free

replaced the damaged sidepanel, installed the VGA-out and ntegrated it into the MIDI chain :)

Looks nice!
Can you tell me: what are the advantages over cubase or logic?

I've been quite tempted to sell my akai s6000 and get one of those or the 8800.

do they have the sound modulation features to replace a rack sampler ?

@thomas: there is NO LATENCY ... with a good hardware sequencer, you never have to change buffer settings or worry about cpu lags that you have to care about while using a desktop pc or laptop. And it will NEVER crash, i had a Akai MPC 2KXL and now the MV8000 and have played dozens of live giks, they never let me down ;)

in fact of course even a hardware sequencer has latency and it can crash, too. Think of it like when a pc has a chance of 15-60% (depending on the hardware, the os, pc or mac ...aso) to crash or to have really bad latency lags a well done hardware seuquencer has not even 1%.

@IamEvil: like Nike said: just do it :D

it will give you more than you can expect ... the MVs are amazing machines the samplimg engine is genious even if it hasent's Rolands VariPhrase tech ! Needless to say the MVs are the only hardware sequencers with VGA option and mouse-editing in real time on the whole planet ;)

google for some reviews or get yourself a pdf manual an look for the pictures and describtions of the sample editing and modulation features, i think it will do more than fulfill your needs !

So you can make multi-layered sampled instruments on it similar to a rompler , not just chop snippets and loops ?

Now that right there is the definition of awesome!

yeah I was thinking that myself.

How wide is it ? can you rack it ?

sorry but i can't tell you if it supports multi-layered sampled instruments, i'm not so deep into sampling - when i use samples the sounds are more abstract and wired ... things that i can't do with my analog gear (Reaktor-loops for example).

it should be possible to rack it, it has exactly the same width the the Mackie 1604 VLZ is (and maybe only one rack unit more in the height). I'n never seen a rackmount-kit in stores - but this should'nt be the problem, you could easily make the rackmount kit yourself. Just use a small L-profile bar an drill wholes into where you need them - the MV has screws to hold the sidepanels that would fit to "rack-ears". i've done this with my old Mackie before i got a rackmount-kit for free with the new one.