Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual page 49

15—R-BUS 1 and 2 DIGITAL 8ch I/O Jacks
Using Roland's R-BUS technology, you can bring digital audio into and out of the
VS-2480 by connecting it to any R-BUS-compliant external digital device. This includes
the following Roland products (purchased separately):
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To connect the VS-2480 to another R-BUS device, connect one
end of an R-BUS cable to the VS-2480's R-BUS 1 jack or R-BUS
2 jack, and the other to an R-BUS jack on the external device.
Be sure to use the shortest Roland-approved R-BUS cables
possible. Note that other cables—such as SCSI, RS-232C
or parallel cables—may have connectors that look like
R-BUS connectors, but they're not the same, and these
cables can't be used successfully with R-BUS jacks.
If you plan to use only one of the VS-2480's R-BUS jacks, use the R-BUS 1 jack, whose
eight channels of digital audio are always available. The full set of eight channels
associated with the R-BUS 2 jack is available only when you're not using the coaxial
and optical digital inputs, as described on Page 131.
Each R-BUS jack can both receive and send eight separate digital audio signals, so only
one connection is needed between two R-BUS devices. R-BUS connections can also
carry MIDI, MMC and MTC data in both directions.
MMC
See Page 377 to learn how to configure a connected R-BUS device. Page 131 describes
how to activate R-BUS 2, coaxial and optical inputs. See Page 288 to learn how to route
the desired signals to your R-BUS outputs.
R-BUS was formerly called "RMDB II "or "RMDB2" in earlier Roland products.
16—OPTICAL and COAXIAL Digital Audio Connectors
The VS-2480 can both receive and transmit S/P DIF-format digital audio via its optical
and coaxial digital IN and OUT connectors. Each connector carries a stereo digital
audio signal. See Page 132 to learn how to successfully handle incoming digital audio.
We'll explain how to route signals to either OUT connector starting on Page 288.
S/P DIF
You can configure the VS-2480 to record digital audio received from an external digital
device connected to these jacks—see Page 134.
The coaxial IN and OUT jacks carry only S/P DIF digital audio signals. The IN jack
won't accept standard analog audio signals, and the OUT jack doesn't produce them.
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The VM-3100Pro V-Mixing Station
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2—Getting Around
VS-2480
ANALOG MULTI OUTPUT +4dBu BALANCED / -2dBu UNBALANCED
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MONITOR AUX B AUX A MASTER
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OUT IN
WORD CLOCK IN DIGITAL 8ch I / O DIGITAL 8ch I / O OUT IN COAXIAL
OPTICAL
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