To Get The Most From Version Two; Vga Terminology: The Mixers And The Master Block - Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual Addendum

1—Welcome to Version Two

To Get the Most From Version Two

Connect an optional color VGA display to the VS-2480 to take full advantage of Version
Two's capabilities. With Version Two, the VS-2480 offers the power and convenience of a
computer-based DAW ("digital audio workstation") and dedicated control surface with
none of the setup, configuration or maintenance difficulties.
To learn about connecting, setting up and configuring a VGA display and/or ASCII
keyboard, see Pages 62 and 64 of the VS-2480 Owner's Manual .
If you'd prefer to use your VS-2480 without a VGA display, make sure that the UTILITY
menu's OPERATION TARGET parameter is set to LCD. See "Setting the Operation
Target" on Page 19.

VGA Terminology: The Mixers and the Master Block

The VS-2480 contains a powerful 64-channel mixer that has dedicated input, track, Aux
send and FX return channels—all of these channels are always active and available. See
Page 52 of the VS-2480 Owner's Manual for a description of what these channels do.
To help navigate its menus and screens, the VGA display treats the various channel
types as if they belong to separate mixers. These are the:
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In addition, the eight Aux master channels are grouped together with the MASTER
EDIT Aux and Direct bus configuration settings as the "Master Block."
While we use these terms to make getting around onscreen easier, it's important to
remember that they're not really separate mixers. They're all just sections of the
VS-2480's single massive 64-channel mixer. Therefore, viewing one of these "mixers"
doesn't de-activate any of the others—it just makes the selected mixer visible.
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Input Mixer—which contains all 24 of the VS-2480's input channels.
Track Mixer —which contains all 24 of the VS-2480's track channels.
FX Return Mixer —which contains all eight of the stereo FX return channels.
Roland VS-2480 Owner's Manual, Version Two Addendum