Projects; Busses In The Vs-2000; What's A Bus - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

3—Introduction to the VS-2000

Projects

Everything you do in the VS-2000 takes place inside something called a "project." As its
name suggests, a project is a hard disk file that contains all of the information for a
particular work or performance you're creating. That work could be a song, a
soundtrack, a broadcast, a jingle or anything else. It could even be the music for an
entire CD, containing multiple songs, or a set of songs recorded live.
In some other V-Studios—such as the VS-1880, VS-1680, VS-890 and VSR-880—projects
are called "songs."
Projects provide an easy way to keep all the materials for a particular piece in one
place, ready to go when you need them, including:
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The VS-2000 always has a project loaded, even if you've never created one yourself.
A project can be as large as space allows, as long as it doesn't exceed the maximum
number of allowable events (see below.) You can save up to 200 projects on your hard
drive, space permitting. You can change from project to project by loading the project
you want to work on as needed. You can also copy data between projects. Project
operations are discussed in Chapter 7 on Page 99.
About Events
The smallest chunk of project data that the VS-2000 works with is called an "event," a
piece of information that the VS-2000 needs to do its job. For example, each recording
you make uses up at least two events: one that tells the VS-2000 where on the hard drive
the recording's file starts, and one that tells it where it ends. Each project can contain
roughly 30,000 events—when all of its events have been used up, the project is full, even
if you have disk space left. You can trim the number of events in a project by
"optimizing" it, as discussed in Chapter 7.

Busses in the VS-2000

In order to get signals from one place to another within the VS-2000—and to provide a
way to get them out of the VS-2000—the VS-2000 uses a set of "busses." While we'll
describe the use of the VS-2000's busses in various places throughout the
VS-2000 Owner's Manual, it's important to first understand what a bus is.

What's a Bus?

A bus is a pathway down which one or more
signals can travel to a common destination.
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everything you've recorded.
your most recent mixer settings, as well as any alternate mixer setups you've saved.
your effect settings.
all locations you've saved for use in navigation, punching and looping.
all Automix data.
playback speed settings.
all information relating to tempo and synchronization.
project Rhythm Track data
all project-related UTILITY menu settings.
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