Sending A Track Channel's Signal To A Direct Bus; Routing A Track To A Direct Bus; Mixing; The Mechanics Of Mixing - Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual

14—Working with Track Channels
You can punch in and out during bouncing just as you can during any other recording.
Punching's described on Page 191.
Don't erase you're original source tracks—that way, you'll be able to redo the bounce at
a later time if you need to.

Sending a Track Channel's Signal to a Direct Bus

While you can send a track channel's signal directly to an output using the track direct
outs (Page 289), doing so requires the disabling of all bus connections to your output
jacks. If you need to send Aux bus signals to outputs—perhaps for headphone mixes—
at the same time as you send your track channel signals there, send each track to an
output using a Direct bus. To learn more about Direct busses, see Chapter 15.

Routing a Track to a Direct Bus

1. Press the desired TR 1-16 or TR 17-24/FX RTN button.
2. Press the desired track channel's CH EDIT button.
3. Turn on the desired Direct bus's on/off switch (Page 156).
To learn about routing a Direct bus to a VS-2480 output, see Chapter 15.

Mixing

The most important place to send a track channel's signal is, of course, to the MASTER
mix bus when you create your final mix. While a complete discussion of how to mix is
far beyond the scope of the VS-2480 Owner's Manual, here's a very brief overview of the
process to get you started, since track channel signals—the sound of your recorded
tracks—are the main ingredient of most VS-2480 mixes.
Any discussion of mixing has to mention a mix's other elements: effects and any live
input signals you're using. Discussions of these topics can be found in other chapters.

The Mechanics of Mixing

A final mix is nothing more—or less—than the combining of all of the project's audio
into a single stereo audio signal. That includes your recorded tracks, effects you add to
those recordings and any live input signals (such as MIDI instruments) required to
complete the project's sound.
If you've connected your VS-2480 to a pair of Roland DS-90A or DS-50A Digital
Reference Monitors, you can try out your mix on a variety of different virtual speakers
to make sure your project sounds great wherever it's played—see "Speaker Modeling"
on Page 225.
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TR 1-16
TR 17-24
FX RTN
MASTER V.FADER
EDIT