drmnaga78 wrote:
Thanks. Excuse my ignorance but what do the midi tracks control, are they for controlling external devices or internal VSTs or do the midi tracks trigger samples?
They can control all of that. You can even trigger internal samples and at the same time trigger external devices using the same pads to create some interesting instant pad layering. Resample that if you have to and so on.
The midi outs can also be routed to a DAW, with sound from PC being routed into the MV through one of the inputs. You then have the choice of either bouncing a sequence to an audio track (so the DAW plug-in stuff is recorded within the MV at that point) or sample individual sounds to pads and use the MV sequencer instead or any combination really.
The MV is a truly powerful machine once you realise the work-flow it can have. I have to admit the hardware itself is a bit slow (old CPU, little RAM etc.), but it can still do some ridiculously good stuff.
"But in order to use MIDI tracks you have to sample sounds in as PATCH. "
In most cases true, unless you hook up an external audio device and run the audio from such an external audio module back into the MV. At that point you don't record sound, just the midi notes, which are played through midi from the external sound module. It's how I've been using the Roland Sonic Cell in combination with my MV for quite a while. Sampling the sounds or recording the sequence to an audio track on the MV is actually optional. Added bonus is that using the MV that way enables for some very very fast loading times, as project size remains small (until the point you actually bounce to the audio tracks).