21-Working With The Vs-2000 Outputs; The Vs-2000 Outputs; Output Pairs; Analog Output Jacks - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

21—Working with the VS-2000 Outputs
The VS-2000 offers a range of analog output jacks and digital connectors from which
you can send its audio signals to external devices. This chapter discusses how to route
signals to them and how they can be used.

The VS-2000 Outputs

Output Pairs

The VS-2000's analog and digital outputs are managed as left/right or odd/even output
pairs when you're routing signals to them. These pairs can't be altered.

Analog Output Jacks

The VS-2000 has six analog output jacks that you can connect to external devices when
you want to send audio signals out of the VS-2000. You can use the jacks for the jobs
suggested by their names or for any other purpose in which you need to get a VS-2000
audio signal to an external device that has analog inputs.
When you're routing signals to them, the six mono analog output jacks are divided into
three sets of stereo jack pairs:
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By default, the MONITOR bus' signal is routed to the stereo 1/4" PHONES jack.
We've just described the default behavior of these jacks. You can actually route a variety
of signals to them if you wish, as described on Page 274.

Digital Output Connectors

The VS-2000 has a coaxial digital output (Page 48).
If you execute a project- or drive-related operation (e.g., switch the project or drive) on
the VS-2000 while the VS-2000 is digitally connected to another digital audio device,
noise may be heard from the audio output of the connected digital audio device.
Please turn down the volume of your digital audio device before executing a project- or
drive-related operation.
If you've connected a VS-2000 digital output to a device that's using a lower bit rate, you
can dither the VS-2000's output down to that bit depth—see Page 382.
You can activate digital copy-protection to prevent the making of digital copies of audio
you've recorded on a connected external DAT or MiniDisc recorder—see Page 382.
For a detailed discussion of master clock considerations when sending digital audio
from device to device, see Page 135.
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MASTER L/R—By default, these 1/4" outputs send the VS-2000's stereo MASTER
bus signal to an external device such as a two-track recording device.
AUX L/R—These RCA-type outputs typically send the VS-2000's Aux 1 and 2 busses
bus signal to external devices such as a headphone amps or external effects with
analog inputs.
MONITOR L/R—These RCA-type outputs can send the VS-2000's stereo MONITOR
bus signal to external devices such as powered speakers or to a stereo speaker amplifier.
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