Making A New Version Of Your Song - Roland VXpanded VS-880 Application Manual

Making A New Version of Your Song

Once you have recorded some material into the VS-880, moving, erasing or copying is not really affecting
the original recordings, it is just changing the "pointers" to that original material. This makes it very fast
and easy to try different versions of your songs. You can experiment with doubling a chorus, rearranging
the order of your verses, shortening a bridge, or just about anything you want to try. And all of this can be
done without losing the original order of your first recording.
One approach is to copy your whole song to another location in the VS-880 time line. You would do this
using the Copy function and using the Song Top as the Copy Start and Copy From points, the Song End as
the Copy End and some marker that is after the song end as your Copy To location.
After making a copy of the whole song, you can then easily Cut out a section of the song or even Insert
some space and add more material or copy a chorus to double its length, etc. The following action steps
explain a method of using the Copy function to completely re-arrange your song, section by section.
You will need to do each step that follows for each section of the song that you want to copy to your new
version location.
ACTION: Making A New Version of Your Song
1. First, set [LOC 4] Point #4 to the starting location of your new version, (somewhere after the
end of your original song). You can do this easily by pressing Song End and then holding
the FF button for a second or two.
2. Then set [LOC 1] to the START of the section that you want to copy first, and set [LOC 3] to
the END of the end of that section.
3. Press [TRACK] until the display indicated "COPY?".
4. Press [YES].
5. Press the [<CURSOR] button until you see "?-?>?-?".
6. Press the [CH EDIT] button for the first track you want to copy.
7. Press the [CURSOR>] button.
8. Press the [CH EDIT] button for the destination for this track (it probably will be the same
track).
9. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the destination virtual track (again, probably the same
one).
10. If you want to copy more than one track: Press the [CURSOR>] button for the next selection
screen that displays "?-?>?-?".
11. Enter the Source track by pressing the [CH EDIT] button for that track.
12. Press the [CURSOR>] button.
13. Enter the Destination track by pressing the [CH EDIT] button for that track.
14. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to enter the Virtual track for the destination.
15. Continue using the [CURSOR>] button to access the Source Track and Destination track
selection screens until you have entered all of the tracks you want to copy
16. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button to move the next parameter: "COPY START".
17. Press [LOC 1] for the copy start location.
18. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button to display "TRK FROM".
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