18-Editing Tracks; Editing Concepts And Overview; Phrases And Regions - Roland VS-2400CD Owner's Manual

18—Editing Tracks
This chapter provides an introduction to the editing of audio data on VS-2400CD tracks.
The first part of the chapter explains important editing concepts. The second part
explains how to use the various available editing methods.
Chapter 6 explains how audio data is recorded on the VS-2400CD, and provides
explanations for some important terms: take, phrase, V-Track and track. See Page 84.
Remember that when you're editing a track, what you're really editing is its currently
selected V-Track.

Editing Concepts and Overview

Phrases and Regions

In editing a track, you can work:
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To master the powerful editing features of the VS-2400CD, it's important to understand
exactly what a phrase is. See "What's Pointer-Based Playback?" on Page 84 if you
haven't already read it.
If you want to edit multiple phrases on a track at the same time, you can define a region
that includes the phrases.
Earlier V-Studios referred to regions as "tracks." Some of the VS-2400CD's editing
features also use this word instead of "region."
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pre-defined chunks of audio called "phrases." You can work with one phrase at a time
on each track, or you can work with phrases on multiple tracks at the same time.
Chapter 19 discusses the things you can do with phrases.
Each rectangle in the Home screen's playlist is a phrase
a specified time "region" in one or more tracks. Region editing operations are
described in detail in Chapter 20.
Edit region
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