Roland VS-880EX Application Manual page 74

Making A New Version of Your Song
Once you have recorded some material into the VS-880EX, 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-880EX 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 "COPY?" is displayed.
4. Press [YES].
5. Press the [CH SELECT] button for the first track you wish to copy.
6. Press the corresponding [STATUS] button so it is flashing red. This indicates that the
original track will be copied to the same track.
7. Repeat steps 5-6 for any addtional tracks as desired. If you are copying all eight tracks, the
[STATUS] buttons for Tracks 1-8 should all be flashing red.
8. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button so that "TRK St" is displayed.
9. Press [LOC 1] to enter the copy start location.
10. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button so that "TRK Frm" is displayed.
11. Press [LOC 1] to enter the copy from location.
12. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button so that "TRK End" is displayed.
13. Press [LOC 3] to enter the copy end location.
14. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button so that "TRK To" is displayed.
15. Press [LOC 4] to enter the copy to location.
16. Press [PARAMETER>>] to display "Copy time" and leave it set to 1.
17. Press the [PARAMETER>>] button. "Track Copy OK?" will be displayed.
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