The Location Where A Performance Is Recorded (Song); Sources, Tracks, And Channels - Roland VS-880EX Owner's Manual

Chapter 1 Before You Start (VS-880EX Terminology)
Specify the Disk Which will be Used
for Recording/Playback (Drive Select)
1. Press [SYSTEM] several times until "SYS Drive
Select" appears in the display.
2. Press [YES].
3. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired
disk drive. The internal hard disk is shown as
"IDE:*" and external disk drives are shown as
"SC0:*–SC7:*" (the number is the SCSI ID number).
The number following each disk drive name is the
partition number. For example if you wish to select
internal hard disk partition 1, you would select
"IDE:1."
4. Press [YES].
A confirmation message appears on the screen.
5. Press [YES].
"STORE Current?" (Store the current song?) appears
in the display.
6. If you wish to save the current song, press [YES]; if
not, then press [NO]. If you have selected a demo
song, then press [NO].
7. After you have switched the current drive, return
to Play condition.
* If you wish to use hard disks or song data on both the VS-
880EX and the VS-880/840/1680, because of factors such
as differing partition sizes and numbers of tracks, there
will be limitations as to what you can do. For more
detailed information, please see "Compatibility" (p. 136).
* The VS-880EX accepts installation of Internal hard disks
(desinated by Roland). For simultaneous recording or
playback of a number of tracks, for getting more out of the
available hard disk space, and in order to get the fullest
performance in general from the VS-880EX, we recom-
mend using the 2.1 GB or larger Internal Hard
Disk.
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The Location Where a Performance is
Recorded (Song)
The location where a performance data is recorded is
refered to as the song. For example on a cassette MTR,
this would correspond to cassette tape. Up to 200
songs can be created in each partition. Normally, you
should set the partition size at 1000 MB. When dealing
with large numbers of songs at the same time, setting
the partition size to 500 MB is recommended. The song
currently being recorded, played back, or edited is
referred to as the current song. Following data are
included in a song.
• All data recorded on V-tracks
• MIDI clocks of the sync track
• Points specified within songs (locator, marker,
punch-in/out points, loop-in/out points) (p. 36)
• Scenes (mixer settings)
• Vari Pitch settings (p. 152)
• System settings (system, MIDI, disk, sync, Scene)
(p. 164)
• Effect settings
• Auto Mix Data

Sources, Tracks, and Channels

On the VS-880EX, the recorder section and mixer sec-
tion use term sources, tracks, and channels. These
terms may appear similar to each other, and will be
confusing unless their differences are clarified.
Source: A signal which is input to the mixer sec-
tion or recorded in the recorder section.
On the VS-880EX, this term refers in par-
ticular to the signals of the analog input
jacks (1–6) and the digital in connector.
Track: A signal that is being input to or output
from the recorder section. It also refers to
the location of a signal that is being
recorded onto or played back from the
hard disk.
Channel: A signal that is being input to or output
from the mixer section. This term refers in
particular to the faders and buttons of the
mixer section on the top panel.