Roland VS-880EX Application Manual page 15

Song Erase
A command to erase a song and all its' associated
recordings from your hard disk.
Song Optimize
A command to erase all unused recordings from a
song to recover the disk space for additional
recording.
Song End
The location of the end of your song.
Song Top
The beginning of your song.
Source
A mode of each channel allowing you to listen
directly to the incoming source for your recording
(e.g., microphone, guitar, synthesizer, etc.).
Status
A mode selection to choose the monitoring and
recording condition of each VS-880EX channel. e.g.
Record Ready, Source, Play, Mute.
Stop
Stop playback of the recorder section.
S t o r e
This command instructs the VS-880EX to
permanently store all the edits you have made to
hard disk. (Similar to the SAVE command of your
word processor). This command is important. If you
lose power to your VS-880EX during your editing or
recording session, you will loose everything you
have done since the last time you executed the
STORE command.
System
A section of the VS-880EX that refers to the overall
settings related to your song such as sample rate,
sync source, etc.
Time Compression/Expansion
The ability to compress or expand the playback time
of a section of your song with or without affecting
the pitch.
Time/Value Dial
A rotary dial used to move forward and backwards
in time as well as change the value of parameter
settings.
Track Copy
A command to copy all or part of a recorded track to
some other location in your song.
Track Move
A command to move all or part of a recorded track to
some other location in your song.
Track Xchg
A command to exchange the audio from one virtual
track with the audio on some other virtual track.
Track Insert
A command to insert blank time in your song at any
location and of any length.
Track Cut
The command to eliminate all or part of a recorded
track. The remaining audio past the cut portion, will
move backward in time to fill the gap left by the cut
command.
Track Erase
The command to erase or eliminate all or part of a
recorded track. The remaining audio past the erased
portion, will not be affected and will remain in its
original time location.
Undo
A command to eliminate a previous action,
command, or recording. e.g. Pressing the UNDO
button will return the VS-880EX to the condition
immediately previous to your last action or last
many actions.
V a r i P i t c h
The ability to play back your song at a pitch different
from the original recording. The playback time will
also be affected by the change in pitch.
V i r t u a l T r a c k s ( V T r a c k )
8 layers of recording capability on each primary
recording track.
Vocoder
The primary use of a Vocoder is to analyze a spoken
or sung human voice, then use the information to
shape the harmonic content and envelope of a second
musical signal (usually an electronic instrument),
giving that instrument the ability to simulate singing.
Zero
A command to instruct the VS-880EX to return to
ZERO time location.
Chapter 1: Important Information
15