Using Mute During Mixdown - Roland VXpanded VS-880 Application Manual

Using Mute During Mixdown

The channel [STATUS] buttons are very useful during mixdown.
MUTE
The normal playback mode during mixdown is that all channels are set to PLAY mode (STATUS LED is
green.) By pressing the status button of a channel during playback the LED goes off. This is the MUTE
function of the channel. Basically, you have turned the channel OFF and the audio will stop playing from
that channel. Let's assume that you have two tracks of recorded lead vocals, Tr. 1-1 and Tr. 2-1. Maybe you
want to use the first verse from Tr. 1-1 and the second verse from Track 2-1. As you are recording your
mixdown, you can use the [STATUS] buttons to MUTE track 1 when you want the vocal part from track 2,
and alternatively MUTE track 2 and return track 1 to play mode when you want to hear track 1.
ACTION: Using Mute During Mixdown
1. Press [PLAY].
2. Press the [STATUS] button for the Track that you want to mute until the LED turns off
(mute).
3. Press the [STATUS] button until the LED lights green to un-mute that track (return to Play
mode).
SOLO
The opposite of the MUTE function is the SOLO function. Pressing the [SHIFT] + [SOLO] buttons enters
the SOLO mode. The individual [STATUS] buttons become SOLO buttons. A SOLO button acts the way
you would expect. By pressing a channels [STATUS] button when the master SOLO mode is on, that
individual channel is the only one that will be heard. Essentially, all the other channels will MUTE.
This feature is very useful during a mixdown if you want to MUTE all the channels except for one or two
during a particular section of your music. For example, let's assume that your piano track is recorded on
Tr. 6-1 in one of your songs. During the middle of the song, the piano plays a short passage that you want
to be the only instrument playing. However, all the other tracks are still playing back, even though the
musicians might have stopped playing during that passage. But maybe there is noise from the
microphones, or buzz from a synthesizer on some of those tracks during the solo piano passage. By using
the SOLO function on the piano track, you can MUTE (turn OFF) all the other tracks during the solo piano
passage and then press the [STATUS] button on the piano track again at the end of the passage to return all
the tracks to PLAY mode.
ACTION: Using Solo During Mixdown
1. Hold [SHIFT] and press [SOLO] (EDIT).
2. Press the [STATUS] button of the track or tracks that you want to hear.
3. Press the [STATUS] button of that track or tracks again to return all tracks to play mode.
4. Hold [SHIFT] and press [SOLO] again to exit SOLO mode.
The SOLO function can be used on more that one channel (track) at a time.
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