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VS-890
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Roland VS-890 Owner's Manual
24-bit digital music workstation
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Important Safety Instructions
Grounding Instructions
Using the Unit Safely
Contents
Power Supply
Placement
Maintenance
Additional Precautions
Handling the Internal Hard Disk Drive
Preparations
About the Package Contents
Main Features
Disk Recorder Section
Effects Section
Simple Operation
Connectivity
Substantial Options
Front and Rear Panels
Mixer Section
Recorder Section
Display Section
Rear Panel
Before You Start
Saving and Managing Data
Managing Disk Contents
The Location Where a Performance Is Recorded (Song)
Regarding Hard Disk Partition Size
Demo Songs
Sources, Tracks and Channels
About Events
Signal Flow (Buses)
Input Mixer
Track Mixer
Effect Return Mixer
Switching the Fader Functions
Master Block
Differences with a Tape-Type MTR
Track Minutes and Recording Time
Auxiliary Tracks for each Track
Insert
Send/Return
Basic Operation
Before You Begin
Turning on the Power
Adjusting the Display Contrast
Before You Finish Operations
Resetting Mixer and System Settings to Their Original State
Saving the Performance to Disk (Song Store)
If "STORE Current?" Is Displayed
Turning off the Power
Restarting
Basic Operations on the VS-890
Display each of the Condition Menus
Selecting Pages Contained in Functions and Settings
When System Condition Is Selected
Switching Track Conditions
Select the Setting You Want to Change
Change the Settings Values
Execute the Operation
Changing the Current Time
Moving the Frame Units
Moving in Measure/Beat Units
Moving to the Beginning or End of the Performance
Storing a Time Location
Recalling a Specific Location (Jump)
Using the Locator
Storing Locators
Moving to a Stored Time Location
Changing the Locator Bank
Making Fine Adjustments to Stored Locators
Deleting a Stored Time Location
Marking a Time Location
Moving the Location of Markers 1
Moving the Location of Markers 2
Making Fine Adjustments to Marked Locations
Deleting a Marked Location
To Delete All Markers Simultaneously
Previewing Techniques
Finding the Location Where the Sound Begins
Adjusting the Preview Length
Using Scrub
Recording the Current Condition of the Mixer (Scene)
Adjusting the Scrub Length
Storing a Scene
Recalling a Scene
Recalling a Scene Without Affecting the Current Fader Values
Deleting a Scene
Multi-Track Recording
Creating a New Song (Song New)
About Recording Time
If "Drive Busy!" Is Displayed
Song Numbers
General Course of the Recording Process
Selecting a Song (Song Select)
Connecting Instruments
Recording to the Tracks
Source for Recording to Tracks
When You Are Recording in Stereo
Saving a Recorded Performance (Song Store)
Recording over a Portion of a Performance (Punch-In/Punch-Out)
Using the Foot Switch
Specifying Beforehand the Location for Rerecording (Auto Punch-In)
Using Locators
Using Markers
Specifying the Points While the Song Plays Back
Repeatedly Recording over the same Area (Loop Recording)
Making Fine Adjustments to the Loop
Recording Procedure
Recording to Other Tracks (Overdubbing)
Recording on V-Track 2
Switching V-Tracks
Switching V-Track Bank
Using Effects
Applying Effects to the Playback
Specify the Tracks for Playback
Applying Effects While Recording (Send/Return)
Specify the Input to Which the Effect Is to be Applied
Select Source and Effect to be Recorded to the Track
Applying Effects While Recording (Insert)
Using External Effects Devices
Outputting Track 1 to an External Effect
Recording Digital Signals
Inputting the Return from an External Effect to the VS-890
Items Necessary for Digital Recording
Make the Digital Connections
Match the Sample Rates
In Order to Make a Digital Connection with Your CD Player
To Prevent Digital Connections with CD Players
Select the Master Clock
Select an Input Source
If "Digital in Lock" Is Displayed
If "Digital in Unlock" Is Displayed
Adjusting the Tone (Equalizer)
Using the 3-Band Equalizer
Adjusting the Equalizer
Combining the Contents of Tracks (Track Bouncing)
Specify the Tracks for Playback and Recording
Adjusting the Pan for each Track
Applying Reverb While Track Bouncing
Undoing Recordings and Edits (Undo)
Canceling the Last-Performed Undo (Redo)
Canceling Only the very Last-Performed Operation
Protecting Songs (Song Protect)
Protecting Performances
To Remove Song Protect
Editing a Recorded Performance (Track Editing)
About Editing Operations
Track Edit Range
About the Bar Display
Repeating Performance Data (Track Copy)
Using "Frm" Effectively
Moving Performance Data (Track Move)
Exchanging Performance Data between Tracks
Inserting a Blank Space into Performance Data (Track Insert)
Deleting Performance Data
Erasing Performance Data (Track Erase)
Calling up Stored Connections
Recalling a Setup (Template)
Recalling Recording Settings
Recalling Track Bouncing Settings
Recalling Mixdown Settings
Recalling Mastering Settings
Modifying Internal Connections in Logical Sequence (Step Edit)
Storing Track Bouncing Settings
Storing Mixdown Settings
Storing Mastering Settings
Saving the Current Routing (User Routing)
Recalling User Routing
Deleting User Routings
Recording Mixer Settings (Auto MIX)
Auto MIX Status of each Channel
Recording the Mixer Settings
Recording Fader Operations (Realtime)
If You Don't Want to Record Fader Settings (Mask Fader)
Playing Back the Auto MIX
Disabling Auto MIX on All Channels
Using the Internal Effects
Composition of the Effects
Connecting the Effects
Changing the Source Sound Itself
Inserting with Input and Track Channels
Inserting an Effect into the Master Block
Selecting Effects (Patch)
Creating New Effects Sounds
Saving to a User Patch
Saving to a Scene
Creating a Master Tape (Cassette, MD or DAT)
Prepare for Mixdown
To Record to a Cassette Tape (Analog Connection)
Recording with DAT or MD Recorders (Digital Connection)
To Prohibit Digital Copying
Song and Disk Management (Song or Disk Drive)
Changing the Name of Performance Data (Song Name)
When the Disk Has Little Remaining Space
Deleting Only Unneeded Performance Data (Song Optimize)
Deleting One Song of Performance Data (Song Erase)
Duplicating the Performance Data (Song Copy)
Before Using Zip Disks
Connecting the Zip Drive
Initializing a Zip Disk
Song Copy Procedure
Saving a Song to a Single Disk (Playable)
To Load Data from Zip Disks
When You Cannot Save a Song to a Single Disk (Archives)
Loading Data from Disks (Extract)
Confirming that a Drive Is Not Damaged (Drive Check)
To Erase the Disk Error
Clusters
Cross Link
Loose Areas
Change Partitions (Drive Select)
Initializing the Disk (Drive Initialize)
Checking Disk Reliability (Surface Scan)
Creating an Original Audio CD (CD-R Write)
Create Master Data (Mastering)
About Mastering Tracks
Mixdown to Mastering Tracks (Mastering Room)
Masteringsw (Mastering Switch)
Recording to Mastering Tracks
Playing Back the Mastering Tracks
Joining more than One Set of Master Data
Adding Track Number Markers
Before Using CD-R/RW Drives
To Delete Track Number Markers
Assigning Track Numbers
Creating an Audio CD
Connecting the CD-RW Drive
Auditioning (Test Listening) Song Written to Cds (CD Player Function)
Saving Songs to CD-RW Discs (CD-R Backup)
Writing Additional Songs to the Disc
Backup the Song to CD-R Discs
Loading Songs from CD-R Discs
How to Erase the Data in the CD-RW Disc
Compatibility
Use with MIDI Devices
Synchronizing with MIDI Sequences
Master and Slave
Using MTC
Synchronization with the VS-890 as the Reference (Master)
MIDI Thr (MIDI through Switch)
Synchronization with the MIDI Sequencer as the Reference (Slave)
Synchronizing with an External MIDI Device
Using the Sync Track (Master)
What Is the Sync Track?
Recording MIDI Clock Messages
Synchronized Operation
Using the Tempo Map (Master)
What Is a Tempo Map?
Creating a Tempo Map
Various Operations Related to Synchronized Operation
Setting Markers Along with the Tempo
Creating a Sync Track from the Marker
Creating a Tempo Map from a Sync Track
Creating a Sync Track Automatically
Use with a MIDI Controller
Delaying Sync Track and Tempo Map Start Times
Switching Track Status
Switching Scenes
Switching Effects
Adjusting Effects
Other Convenient Functions
Listening Only to a Specific Channel (Solo/Mute)
Simultaneously Adjusting a Stereo Source (Channel Link)
Adjusting the Faders
Adjusting the Pan
Linking Only the Faders (Fader Link)
Mixing in a Stereo Source (Stereo In)
Changing the Pitch During Playback (Vari-Pitch)
Directly Inputting Numeric Characters
Selecting the Method for Numeric Input
Sounding the Metronome
Using an External MIDI Sound Source to Play the Metronome
Adjusting the Levels for each Track
To Invert the Phase of Audio Signal
Determining Output
MASTER Jacks
AUX Jacks
Digital out Connectors
Direct out
Making Global Settings and Checking Conditions
Switching the Display Content
Checking the Size of a Recorded Performance
Pre Level
Overall System Settings
Stopping Automatically
Constantly Monitoring the Input Source
If Noise between Segments Is Obtrusive
Checking the Remaining Disk Space
Displaying Measures and Beats
Holding the Function of Shift (Shift Lock)
Having the Volume Change as Soon as the Faders Are Moved
Holding Level Meter Peaks
Creating a Song Which Maintains the Current System Settings
Adjusting the Button Sensitivity
Changing at the Level at Which the Peak Indicator Lights
MIDI Settings (MIDI)
Removing Direct Current Offset from the MIX Bus
Switching the Model ID
Disk Settings (DISK)
When There Is no Hard Disk Installed
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