Chapter 13 Cd-Rw And Mastering; Create Master Data (Mastering); Mastering Room; Mixing Down To The Mastering Tracks - Roland VS-1824 Owner's Manual

Chapter 13 CD-RW and Mastering

Now try making an original audio CD
using the internal CD-RW drive.
You can connect an optional CD-R/RW
drive to the VS-1824's SCSI connector. Adding the CD-R/RW
drive allows you to create original audio CDs. Please refer to
the CD-R/RW drive Owner's Manual for more information.
For more detailed information about SCSI, refer to "About
SCSI" (Appendices p. 4).

Create Master Data (Mastering)

Mastering Room

The VS-1824's Mastering Room contains everything you
need to turn your song into a final master that can be burned
onto your own original audio CD.
The process involves mixing up to 16 of your tracks down to
the L and R "mastering tracks" (Tracks 17 and 18). You can
select the V-Track you want to use—with the factory settings,
V-Track 16 of Tracks 17 and 18 (i.e., 17-16 and 18-16) are
selected. For example, you can play back V-Tracks 1-1, 2-1, 3-
1...15-1, and 16-1 (a total of 16 tracks), and record the result
onto the L and R mastering tracks.
VS-1824
Track 1–16
MIX
L R
MIX
TR1
Sw
MASTER
When the Recording mode (p. 51) is set to "MAS" or "CDR,"
you can use a total of eight tracks. If you are recording onto
the L and R mastering tracks (Tracks 7 and 8), you can play
back Tracks 1-6. If you are not recording onto the mastering
tracks, you can play back Tracks 1-8. Tracks 9–18 cannot be
used.
When playing back mastering tracks, playback of all other
tracks is silenced.
Digital Out
Select
Mastering
MASTER OUT
L R
Track
TR17-16
TR18-16
DIGITAL OUT
Mixing Down to the Mastering
Tracks
Here's how to select the mastering tracks and perform a
mixdown.
In some countries—such as the United States—the VS-1824 is
shipped with a hard drive already installed. If you need to
purchase an internal hard drive for your VS-1824, be sure to
purchase an appropriate drive. The successful playing back
of 16 tracks while you mix down to the mastering tracks is
significantly affected by the speed of the hard disk. For this
reason, depending on the structure of the song data—
sampling rate and recording mode, or if punch-in/out is
used frequently, etc.—or depending on the drive that you
use, the display may show "Drive Busy," and the operation
may not take place correctly.
* In order to take full advantage of the VS-1824's potential—the
number of tracks that can be recorded/played simultaneously
and recording capacity—we recommend that you use a hard
disk that is 2.1 GB in size or greater.
1. Press [CD-RW/MASTERING].
2. Press [F1 (MastRm)].
The Mastering Room screen will appear.
fig.2-03
3. Press [
], [ ], [
cursor. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to specify the value
for each parameter.
], and [ ] to move the
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