Roland VS-1680 Owner's Manual page 17

BANK/9:
Pressing this with the LOCATOR buttons (1–8)
selects the Locator bank.
SCENE/0:
This is pressed when storing, recalling, and delet-
ing Scenes.
CLEAR (Back Space):
This button deletes Locators, Markers, and Scenes.
NUMERICS/ASCII:
Press this when you want to use the STATUS and
LOCATOR buttons for 10-key entry of Western
numerals.
1–8:
These select the locator or Scene.
6. Transport Control Buttons
These buttons are used to operate the recorder.
ZERO: This returns the current time to
"00h00m00s00" (zero return).
REW: The current time is moved back only
while this button is held down. This cor-
responds to the rewind button on a tape
recorder.
While the button is held down, the cur-
FF:
rent time is moved forward. This corre-
sponds to the fast-forward button on a
tape recorder.
STOP: Stops recording or playback of the song.
PLAY: Starts recording or playback from the cur-
rent time.
REC: Press this button to record a song.
7. CONTRAST Knob
Use this to adjust the brightness of the display screen.
8. VARI PITCH button
Press this button when you wish to change the play-
back pitch (Vari Pitch function).
9. MIDI/DISK Indicator
This indicator lights green when MIDI messages are
being received, and red when data is being written or
read on the disk drive. If both of these are occurring,
the indicator lights orange.
10. EXT SYNC (External Sync) Button
Press this button to select the device, whether the VS-
1680 or an external MIDI device, to act as the master or
main controlling device. With the VS-1680 selected as
the master, the external MIDI device functions as the
slave unit; with the external MIDI device selected as
the master, the VS-1680 functions as the slave unit.
11. CURSOR Buttons
Normally (i.e. in Play Condition), this dial is used to
move the current time. When making settings (i.e. in
Edit Condition), this dial is used to modify parameter
values.
12. PLAY (DISPLAY) Button
Press this button to return to the screen that appears
when the VS-1680 is turned on (normal playback sta-
tus).
13. TIME/VALUE Dial
In normal (playback) status, this dial adjusts the time
of playback.
This is used to change the settings values for each
parameter when settings are changed.
14. LOOP Button
This button turns Loop Recording on and off. Pressed
with the LOCATOR button, it specifies the range to be
recorded in Loop Recording.
15. AUTO PUNCH Button
This button turns Auto Punch-In Recording on and
off. Pressed with the LOCATOR button, it specifies the
range to be recorded in Auto Punch-In Recording.
16. UNDO (REDO) Button
Press this button to cancel a recording or editing step
that you have made (Undo function). Pressed with
[SHIFT], this button cancels the last performed Undo
function (Redo function).
17. SHIFT Button
This button is pressed in conjunction with other but-
tons to access additional functions of those buttons.
18. ENTER/YES Button
This is pressed to execute the current operation or
select the current screen.
19. EXIT/NO Button
This is pressed to cancel the current operation or exit
the current screen.
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