Roland VS-2400CD Owner's Manual page 208

16—Using Effects
The Mechanics of a Loop Effect
There are six steps to setting up an internal loop effect:
1. Choose one of the internal effect processors as the one you'll use.
2. Route an Aux or Direct path to the selected effect.
3. Configure the Aux or Direct path as desired.
4. Send signals to the Aux bus or Direct path, and, as a result, to the effect.
5. Return the output of the effect to the desired destination.
6. Select and edit—if necessary—the desired effect patch.
Select the desired patch—and edit it, if necessary—as a last step since you won't be
able to hear it, and what you're doing, until the previous steps have been performed.
Choose an Effect Processor
As shipped from the factory, the VS-2400CD has two stereo effect processors, Effect 1
and Effect 2. With an optional VS8F-2 installed, Effects 3 and 4 become available. Some
algorithms work only with certain processors—see Page 216 for more information.
Route an Aux or Direct Path to the Selected Effect
By default, the VS-2400CD's Aux Busses 1-4 are routed to Effects 1-4, respectively. If you
have no particular reason to change this arrangement, you can skip this step.
You can route any Aux bus or Direct path to any effect—Page 204 in Chapter 15
describes how to do this.
Configure the Aux or Direct Path
You'll need to decide whether you want to send signals from your input, track or FX
return channels to the Aux or Direct path before or after the channel faders. Unless
you're planning an unusual effect whose level stays constant as the dry signal level
changes, configure the bus so that it's set to Pre.
You can link odd/even Aux busses to create a stereo send into an effect. Check out the
algorithm diagram in the VS-2400CD Appendices for the effect you want to use to see if
accepts stereo input signals. If it doesn't, use a single unlinked Aux bus. Most
VS-2400CD produce stereo effects from a mono input signal.
Page 201 describes how to configure an Aux bus. To learn how configure a Direct path,
see Page 203.
Send Signals to the Effect
You can send an input, track or FX return channel's signal to an Aux bus using its fader,
as described on Page 136—or by using its CH EDIT Aux send controls.
Each input, track and FX return channel provides eight sets of CH EDIT Aux send
controls with which you can send the channel's signal to any of the Aux busses. The first
four of those Aux control modules send the channel's signal to Aux Busses 1-4, and
therefore, to Effects 1-4, respectively.
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