Editing Tips - Roland VS-880 Supplemental Notes

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Using Shift While Editing
There are two additional shift functions that will be useful when you are doing a Copy, Move, or Cut. While you're
editing the Track Select parameter in any of these modes, if you hold shift and press Play/Display you will see a
display of all of your tracks and virtual tracks. The track(s) selected for editing will blink — a convenient way to
s ee which tracks are being addressed.
If you go to any other parameters within these editing modes and hold shift and press Play/Display, you will see
the Waveform window. Of course you will also see this window if you press the Scrub button while editing.
Remember that the track that is being displayed in the Waveform area is selected by pressing a Channel Edit
button.
This is true for the Scrub function as well as the shift + Play/Display method.
Other Button Features
A few more button functions:
PRESS AND HOLD....
REC transport control
Stop transport control
Preview To
Locator
II. Editing Tips
If you want to do some editing with the VS-880, it helps to develop a consistent method. Then you can really fly,
whether you are copying, moving, or cutting material. Here are some tips on ways to make editing fast and easy.
Dedicate Locator Buttons
Although you can play, rewind, and scrub audio while you are in an editing mode, it's often faster and easier to
use Locators to define edit areas in advance, and then plug the values in when you are editing.
One way that works very well is to use Locator #1 for the Start Time, #2 for the From location, #3 for the End, and
#4 for the To. Reserve one bank of Locators for this function only. When you are in the editing mode, all you have
to do is use the Parameter buttons to step through the edit parameters and press the appropriate Locator to enter
the correct location. Adopting this system can really speed up and simplify your work.
Using the "Cancel" Cursor
The VS-880 remembers all of the tracks selected during your last edit. This can be useful if you are tweaking the
same edit over and over, but you need to be sure to remove old track selections if you are working on new tracks.
Get in the habit of pressing the No or Cancel cursor button when you are in the Track Selection parameter until you
see "?-?=?-?." This will guarantee that you don't accidentally copy or move tracks left over from a previous edit.
Copying a Whole Song
One of the advantages of any hard disk recording system with non-destructive editing, including the VS-880, is
that, when you are doing edits such as Copy or Erase, you are just editing "pointers" to the original material, not
the material itself, which is safely stored on the hard drive. This makes your edits virtually instantaneous, and
allows you to try lots of variations that would be either impossible or extremely time-consuming with a destructive
editing system.
© 1997 Miller Freeman, Inc.
ALONG WITH.... TO......
Track status button record-enable the track
Track status button play-enable button
Preview From Preview Thru (this plays an area on both sides
of your edit
Locators 1-4 change Locator banks (there are now 32
Locators in four banks of eight)
VS-880 Hot Tips Keyboard Magazine Article
VS-880 Supplemental Notes
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