Busses In The Vs-2400Cd; What's A Bus - Roland VS-2400CD Owner's Manual

you want to work on as needed. You can also copy data between projects. Project
operations are discussed in Chapter 7 on Page 89. That's where we'll describe how to
create and name a new project.
If the intended final destination for your project is an audio CD, be sure to select a
44.1kHz sampling rate for your project when you create it—see Page 331.
About Events
The smallest chunk of project data that the VS-2400CD works with is called an "event,"
a piece of information that the VS-2400CD needs to do its job. For example, each
recording you make uses up at least two events: one that tells the VS-2400CD where on
the hard drive the recording's file starts, and one that tells it where it ends. Each project
can contain roughly 30,000 events—when all of its events have been used up, the
project is full, even if you have disk space left. You can trim the number of events in a
project by "optimizing" it, as discussed in Chapter 7.

Busses in the VS-2400CD

In order to get signals from one place to another within the VS-2400CD—and to provide
a way to get them out of the VS-2400CD—the VS-2400CD uses a set of "busses." While
we'll describe the use of the VS-2400CD's busses in various places throughout the
VS-2400CD Owner's Manual, it's important to first understand what a bus is.

What's a Bus?

A bus is a pathway down which one or more
signals can travel to a common destination.
In older analog mixers, a bus was literally a single wire into which signals were fed—
the wire was then connected to the desired destination's input.
This simple mechanism is more significant than it may seem since it lets you send a
group of signals to a track, into a mix, to an effect, to specific outputs and more. Much
of the VS-2400CD's bussing occurs behind the scenes—so you won't always be dealing
directly with it—but some of its busses play an important, visible role in its operations.
Although every bus is essentially the same thing—a pathway—busses are named for
the type of signal they typically carry. The VS-2400CD provides the following busses.
Type of bus:
RECORD
MASTER
MONITOR
AUX
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What it does:
Each of these 24 busses carries signals to one of the hard disk
recorder's tracks.
This stereo left/right pair of busses carries the VS-2400CD's main
stereo mix to any number of possible destinations.
This stereo left/right pair of busses carries signals to your
listening device: monitor speakers or headphones
"AUX" is short for "Auxiliary Send." The eight AUX busses carry
signals to the VS-2400CD's internal effects. They can also carry
signals to outputs connected to external devices such as effect
boxes or headphone amplifiers for your performers.
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