Non-Destructive, Pointer-Based Editing; Pointer-Based Editing - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

Phrases
A set of pointers is called a "phrase." Every time you make a new recording, the
VS-2000 automatically creates a new phrase to play the new audio. Each phrase
appears in the Home screen's playlist (Page 126) as rectangle.
Phrases are also created in other ways:
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You can perform various editing operations on phrases, and edit regions of audio
within phrases, as we'll discuss later in this chapter, on Page 98.
Virtual Tracks, or "V-Tracks"
As you record audio, punch in and out and edit it, you create a string of phrases
positioned one after the other in the order in which they'll play back. This string of
phrases is called a "Virtual Track," or "V-Track" for short.
From here on in the VS-2000 Owner's Manual, we'll refer to a string of phrases by its
short name: "V-Track."
Of course, if you've made a recording but haven't done any punching or editing, the
V-Track that plays it will consist of just the one phrase that plays the entire take.

Non-Destructive, Pointer-Based Editing

Pointer-Based Editing

When you edit audio on the VS-2000, what you're actually doing is editing a phrase, the
set of pointers that instruct the VS-2000 how to play the audio. You're not actually
changing the take stored on your hard disk at all—you're only editing its pointers. This
type of editing is called "non-destructive editing" because it does no harm to the take
itself. It doesn't alter the take at all.
A few editing operations change audio by copying it and altering the copy—even so,
the original take remains unaffected, and the pointers simply point to the copied audio.
This illustration shows how erasing unwanted audio from a recording affects its
pointers. The dark portion of the take is the part that you hear during playback.
2. Start playback
Throat-clearing
0 minutes
1. Name of take Vocal 1
All you've really done is changed the positions of Pointers 1 and 2.
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Any time you re-record a portion of a track—typically by punching (Page 188)—the
new recording appears on the track as a phrase.
You can create a new phrase that plays a currently unused take.
Before editing:
Singing
1 minute 2 minutes 3 minutes
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3. Stop playback
Talking Throat-clearing
4 minutes 0 minutes
1. Name of take Vocal 1
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Each phrase is a rectangular box. This
illustration shows a string of three
phrases.
After editing:
2. Start playback 3. Stop playback
Singing
1 minute 2 minutes 3 minutes
Talking
4 minutes
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