Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual page 214

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 bus to the selected effect.
3. Configure the Aux or Direct bus as desired.
4. Send signals to the Aux bus or Direct bus, 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-2480 has two stereo effect processors, Effect 1 and
Effect 2. With three optional VS8F-2s installed, Effects 3-8 become available. Some
algorithms work only with certain processors—see Page 222 for more information.
Route an Aux or Direct Bus to the Selected Effect
By default, the VS-2480's Aux Busses 1-8 are routed to Effects 1-8, respectively. If you
have no particular reason to change this arrangement, you can skip this step.
You can route any Aux bus or Direct bus to any effect—Page 210 in Chapter 15
describes how to do this.
Configure the Aux or Direct Bus
You'll need to decide whether you want to send signals from your input, track or FX
return channels to the Aux or Direct bus 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-2480 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-2480
produce stereo effects from a mono input signal.
Page 207 describes how to configure an Aux bus. To learn how configure a Direct bus,
see Page 209.
Send Signals to the Effect
You can send an input, track or FX return channel's signal to an Aux bus using its PAN/
AUX SEND 1-8 knob, described on Page 139—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. Each of
the eight modules sends the channel's signals to the corresponding Aux bus, and
therefore, to the corresponding effect.
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