Playback; Basic Playback Procedure; Moving Through A Project; Using Jump - Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder

Playback

Basic Playback Procedure

Playing Back Recorded Tracks

1. Press TR 1-16 and TR 17-24 and make sure that the TRACK STATUS button for any
Here's a shortcut for setting a TRACK STATUS button to green for playback. Hold
down STOP and press the desired TRACK STATUS button.
2. Bring up the track channel faders for any track you want to hear to the desired
3. Set your listening level as described on Page 75.
4. Press ZERO to return to the very beginning of the project, or hold down SHIFT and
5. Press PLAY to begin playback.
6. Press STOP to halt playback.
You can begin playback from anywhere in the project by placing the timeline at the
desired location and hitting PLAY.

Moving Through a Project

You can place the timeline in a variety of ways, including:
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Using Jump

The VS-2480's Jump feature allows you to quickly move the timeline to any
location in the project:
1. Press JUMP—a dialog appears showing you the location to which you can jump.
2. You can select a new desired location in any of few ways. You can:
3. Press ENTER/YES to move the timeline to the selected location.
If you need to enter a long string of numbers as a Jump destination using the keypad,
select the right-most part of the number on the display first—each digit you enter from
the keypad pushes the other numbers leftward by default. You can change this behavior
by resetting the UTILITY menu's NUMERICS TYPE parameter. See Page 364.
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track you want to play back is lit green.
position—or to 0, if you're not sure—and make sure the MASTER fader is set to 0.
press PREVIEW TO to go to the beginning of the project's recorded audio.
using the current time location display (Page 126)
the SHUTTLE ring (Page 178)
locators (Page 185)
markers (Page 188)
the position bar (Page 122) found on many of the VS-2480 screens
the Jump feature—see below.
• use the cursor buttons and the TIME/VALUE dial to select anew destination.
• press NUMERICS (Page 74) and enter the desired location on the keypad.
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