Pointer Based Editing - Roland VXpanded VS-880 Application Manual

TRUE RANDOM ACCESS DISK RECORDING: Total time per track is variable
Track 1: 60 minutes
Total track minutes used here: 97 minutes
No track minutes (disk space) used for:
Looping, Copying or using the same material more than once.

Pointer Based Editing

When you record sounds into the VS-880, they are stored on the hard drive. Once on the drive, the original
recording is never changed. All of the editing, copying and moving of the sound is actually just moving
and copying "pointers" to the original sound. These pointers indicate when to start and stop playing all or
part of the original recording. The advantage to this way of working is that copying or moving or erasing
part of a track is only changing these pointers. Pointers take up virtually no disk space, and the VS-880 can
write or change pointers instantly. That allows you to copy all 8 tracks of a song instantly to another
location without using additional disk space. The original audio is never changed.
TAPE: Total time per each track = 30 minutes
Track 2: 10 minutes
Track 3: 15 Minutes
Chapter 1: Important Information
Track 4: 12 Minutes
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