Chapter 13 Mastering; Mastering; Mixing Down To Mastering Tracks - Roland VS-1680 User Manual

Chapter 13 Mastering

Mastering

The VS-1680 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
L and R "mastering tracks." You can select the V-Tracks you
want to use—the factory settings use V-Track 16 of Tracks
15/16 (i.e., 15-16 and 16-16). For example, you can play back
V-Tracks 1-1, 2-1, 3-1...15-1, and 16-1 (a total of 16 tracks),
recording the mix onto the L and R mastering tracks.
VS-1680
Track 1--16
MIX
L R
MIX
TR1
Sw
MASTER
When Record Mode (p. 51) is set to "MAS," you can use a
total of eight tracks. If you are recording onto the L and R
mastering tracks (Track 7/8), you can play back Tracks 1-6. If
you are not recording onto the mastering tracks, you can
play back Tracks 1-8. Tracks 9–16 cannot be used.
When playing back mastering tracks, playback of all other
tracks is silenced.
Mixing Down to Mastering
Tracks
Here's how to perform a mixdown onto mastering tracks.
In some countries—such as the United States—the VS-1680 is
shipped with a hard drive already installed. If you need to
purchase an internal hard drive for your VS-1680, 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.
Digital Out
Select
Mastering
MASTER OUT
L R
Track
TR15-16
TR16-16
DIGITAL OUT
* In order to take full advantage of the VS-1680'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 [MASTER].
2. Press [PAGE] so that [F6] indicates "M.Tr," and then
press [F6 (M.Tr)].
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3. Press [ENTER (YES)].
4. Press [
], [ ], [
Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to specify the value for each
parameter.
Status
Specify the status of the mastering tracks. For this example,
select "Rec."
Rec : Play back Tracks 1–16 while recording them to the
mastering tracks.
Play : Play back the mastering tracks. The sound of
Tracks 1–16 will not be output from the MASTER jacks.
Off: Disables mixdown to the mastering tracks.
For details on signal flow—routing—refer to p. 27.
Trk L (left track)
Trk R (right track)
Select the two V-tracks (L and R) that will be assigned as
mastering tracks. When a new song is created, V-track 16
of tracks 15/16 (15-16, 16-16) will be assigned as the
mastering tracks.
], or [ ] to move the cursor.
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