Roland VXpanded VS-880 Owner's Manual page 7

Selecting the operation menu .............................................................................................................. 55
Selecting parameters ............................................................................................................................. 55
Modifying the value of settings ........................................................................................................... 55
Executing an operation ........................................................................................................................ 55
Switching the track status (Track Status) ........................................................................................... 55
Changing the current time .................................................................................................................... 56
Storing a time location, method 1 (Locate Point) ............................................................57
Storing a time location .......................................................................................................................... 57
Moving to a stored time location ......................................................................................................... 58
Modifying a stored time location ........................................................................................................ 58
Deleting a stored time location ............................................................................................................ 58
Storing a time location, method 2 (Mark Points) ............................................................ 59
Marking a time location ........................................................................................................................ 59
Moving to a marked time location ...................................................................................................... 59
Modifying a marked time location ...................................................................................................... 60
Clearing a mark ...................................................................................................................................... 60
Chapter 3 Basic operation (as a replacement for a tape MTR)
Before you begin ............................................................................................................ 61
When you turn the power on .............................................................................................................. 61
Listening to the demo song ............................................................................................ 61
Listening to the variations of the demo song .................................................................................... 61
Making a new recording ................................................................................................. 62
Specifying the recording mode (Song New) ...................................................................................... 62
Naming the song (Song Name) ............................................................................................................ 62
General procedure for multitrack recording .................................................................... 63
Connect the instruments ....................................................................................................................... 63
Record a performance onto a track ..................................................................................................... 63
Switching V-tracks ................................................................................................................................. 63
Recording additional tracks while listening to the performance (Overdubbing) ........................ 64
Re-recording only your mistakes (Punch-in/out) ............................................................................ 64
Specify beforehand the location for re-recording (Auto punch-in) ................................................ 65
Repeatedly recording over the same area (Loop recording) ........................................................... 66
Combining the performances of two or more tracks into another track (Track bouncing) ........ 67
Creating a master tape .......................................................................................................................... 67
Digital recording ............................................................................................................. 72
Concerning copyright ........................................................................................................................... 72
About SCMS ........................................................................................................................................... 72
Connecting digital devices ................................................................................................................... 72
Matching the sampling frequency ....................................................................................................... 72
Selecting digital input as the source .................................................................................................... 73
When digital recording is not possible ... ........................................................................................... 73
Before you finish operations ........................................................................................... 74
Saving the performance to disk (Song Store) ..................................................................................... 74
Preventing accidental erasure of your performance (Song Protect) ............................................... 74
Selecting a song (Song Select) .............................................................................................................. 75
Turning the power off (Shut Down) ................................................................................................... 75
Re-starting the VS-880 ................................................................................................... 75
Chapter 4 Editing a recorded performance (track editing)
What is editing? .............................................................................................................. 76
Finding a desired location (Preview) ...............................................................................76
Using [TO] and [FROM] ....................................................................................................................... 76
Scrub playback ([SCRUB]) .................................................................................................................... 76
Basic procedure ............................................................................................................. 77
Re-using part of the performance (Copy) ....................................................................... 78
Modifying the organization of the performance (Move) .................................................. 79
Erasing part of a performance (Erase) ........................................................................... 81
Exchanging performance data between tracks (Exchange) ........................................... 81
Inserting blank space into a performance (Insert) .......................................................... 82
Deleting a portion of a performance (Cut) ...................................................................... 83
Modifying the playback time of the performance (Time compression/expansion) .......... 84
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