24BIT/24TRACK DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION OWNER'S MANUAL VS-2480

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To resize thickness, move all items on the front cover to left or right WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. For EU Countries CAUTION The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.
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VS2480OMUS.book 3 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 USING THE UNIT SAFELY The symbol alerts the user to important instructions or warnings.The specific meaning of the symbol is determined by the design contained within the triangle. In the case of the symbol at left, it is used for general cautions, warnings, or alerts to danger. Used for instructions intended to alert the user to the risk of death or severe injury should the unit be used improperly.
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VS2480OMUS.book 4 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 012a 023 • Immediately turn the power off, remove the power cord from the outlet, and request servicing by your retailer, the nearest Roland Service Center, or an authorized Roland distributor, as listed on the “Information” page when: • DO NOT play a CD-ROM disc on a conventional audio CD player. The resulting sound may be of a level that could cause permanent hearing loss. Damage to speakers or other system components may result. ..........................
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VS2480OMUS.book 5 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 101a 118c • The unit should be located so that its location or position does not interfere with its proper ventilation. .......................................................................................................... • Keep any optical connector caps or screws you may remove and the included optical connector caps or screws in a safe place out of children’s reach, so there is no chance of them being swallowed accidentally. .........................
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VS2480OMUS.book 6 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Important Notes 291b 355b In addition to the items listed under “IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS” and “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” on pages (p. 2) and (p. 3), please read and observe the following: • When moved from one location to another where the temperature and/or humidity is very different, water droplets (condensation) may form inside the unit. Damage or malfunction may result if you attempt to use the unit in this condition.
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VS2480OMUS.book 7 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Important Notes Additional Precautions • Do not subject Zip disks to temperature extremes (e.g., direct sunlight in an enclosed vehicle). Recommended temperature range: -22 to 51˚C (-7.6 to 123.8˚F). 551 • Please be aware that the contents of memory can be irretrievably lost as a result of a malfunction, or the improper operation of the unit.
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VS2480OMUS.book 8 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Important Notes • Do not leave the unit in any environment subject to temperature extremes; for example, in a closed automobile in summer or outdoors during winter. • Do not use the unit in conditions of high temperature and humidity or in any location subject to rapid temperature changes. • Do not unplug the power cord or switch off any circuit breakers in the circuit to which the unit is connected while the power is turned on.
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VS2480OMUS.book 9 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents Table of Contents Step-by-Step Instruction Finder 1—Welcome 20 27 About this Manual .......................................................................................................................................................... How the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual is Organized ................................................................................................. Names ........................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 10 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents Power ......................................................................................................................................................................... 61 A Way to Listen to the VS-2480 .............................................................................................................................. 61 Getting Ready ...........................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 11 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents Random Access ........................................................................................................................................................ What’s Pointer-Based Playback? ........................................................................................................................... Non-Destructive, Pointer-Based Editing ....................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 12 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents 9—Working with Input Signals 129 Analog Input Signals .................................................................................................................................................... 129 Making Analog Connections ................................................................................................................................ 129 Phantom Power ...............................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 13 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents The CH EDIT ASSIGN Screen ............................................................................................................................. Parameter View ...................................................................................................................................................... Assorted CH EDIT Tools ........................................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 14 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents 14—Working with Track Channels 195 Bouncing ......................................................................................................................................................................... 195 The Mechanics of Bouncing .................................................................................................................................. 196 Mono and Stereo Bouncing .......................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 15 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents 17—Working with FX Return Channels 227 The FX Return Channel Fader ..................................................................................................................................... FX Return CH EDIT Tools ........................................................................................................................................... The Main FX Return CH EDIT Screen ............................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 16 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents What a Phrase Pad Plays ....................................................................................................................................... 274 Phrase Pad Setup .................................................................................................................................................... 274 Activating Phrase Pad Mode ....................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 17 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents Working with a Sync Track .................................................................................................................................. Working with a Tempo Map ................................................................................................................................ Syncing an External Device to the VS-2480 ............................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 18 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents DRIVE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 361 VGA .......................................................................................................................................................................... 361 PS/2 MOUSE ..............................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 19 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Table of Contents Using the VE-7000 .................................................................................................................................................. Roland MB-24 Notes ..................................................................................................................................................... Factory EZ Routing Templates ..................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 20 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Step-by-Step Instruction Finder Activating R-BUS 2, Coaxial or Optical Digital Inputs ................................................................................ 131 Activating Vari Pitch ................................................................................................................................................. 183 Attaching an MB-24 Level Meter .........................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 21 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder To Reset a Channel’s Fader and Pan ....................................................................................................................138 Turning KNOB/FADER ASSIGN On and Off ...................................................................................................141 Connecting a CD-R/RW Drive to the VS-2480 ..............................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 22 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Editing an Effect Patch .......................................................................................................................................... 224 External Insert-Like Effects ................................................................................................................................... 208 Inserting Effects on an Input or Track Channel ....................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 23 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Activating Looped Playback .................................................................................................................................182 Editing Loop FROM and TO Points Manually ...................................................................................................182 Setting Loop Points Using Locators ............................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 24 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Assigning KNOB/FADER ASSIGN Switch to Knobs ...................................................................................... 140 Controlling a Parameter of Your Choice ............................................................................................................ 141 Turning KNOB/FADER ASSIGN On and Off ..................................................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 25 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Effects to Tracks with EZ Routing ........................................................................................................................233 Effects to Tracks with Quick Routing ..................................................................................................................232 Input Channel Signals to Tracks with EZ Routing ......................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 26 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Using Jump ................................................................................................................................................................... 180 Using Microphone Modeling .................................................................................................................................. 226 Using Speaker Modeling ....................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 27 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 1—Welcome Congratulations on the purchase of your Roland VS-2480 Digital Studio Workstation. The VS-2480 will allow you to take your music—or any other kind of sound—from the first spark of inspiration to completed recording. Although the VS-2480 is designed to be simple to operate, the sheer number of tools it provides do require some introduction and explanation. That’s what the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual is for.
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VS2480OMUS.book 28 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 1—Welcome To make it easy for you to find the manual’s numerous step-by-step procedures, we’ve assembled a “Step-by-Step Instruction Finder” that starts on Page 20. There’s also a standard Table of Contents at the front of the book and an Index at the back. Additional information can be found in the “Supplemental Information” chapter starting on Page 387.
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VS2480OMUS.book 29 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 1—Welcome Other Documents in the VS-2480 Box The VS-2480 User’s Guide provides a quick look at the VS-2480’s major features. It’ll take you through the steps for a variety of basic operations. The VS-2480 Appendices provide additional detailed information not included in the Owner’s Manual.
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VS2480OMUS.book 30 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 1—Welcome 30 www.rolandus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 31 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around The Top Panel of the VS-2480 Analog Input Jacks COAXIAL OPTICAL 1 2 L MASTER R L AUX A R L MONITOR R 1 3 7 2 L AUX B R 4 5 6 ANALOG MULTI OUTPUT 8 WORD CLOCK IN PHONES 1 PHONES 2 FOOT SWITCH VGA OUT IN SCSI MOUSE KEYBOARD PS / 2 OUT / THRU MIDI SMPTE IN 4 ANALOG INPUT SEE OPERATION MANUAL FOR CORRECT MICROPHONE CABLE AND MICROPHONE CONNECTION.
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VS2480OMUS.book 32 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 3—GUITAR HI-Z If you’d like to plug an electric guitar or bass directly into the VS-2480, connect it to the GUITAR HI-Z (for “high impedance”) 1/4” phone-type jack for a loud, clean signal with a minimum of noise. High impedance You can use either the GUITAR HI-Z input jack or TRS Input 16, but not both at the same time. The setting of the GUITAR HI-Z ON switch determines which of these jacks is turned on.
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VS2480OMUS.book 34 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 2—CH EDIT/SELECT/PHRASE SEQ STATUS/AUTOMIX STATUS Buttons 1-16 When working with input, track and FX (“effect”) return channels, press this button to view a channel’s CH EDIT settings—the button lights to show that the input, track or FX return channel is selected. When working in Phrase Sequence or Automix modes, the color of each of these buttons shows the current status of its sequence or Automix track, respectively.
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VS2480OMUS.book 35 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 8—PHRASE PAD PLAY•PHRASE SEQ Button This button activates and de-activates the playing of phrases and the recording of phrase sequences using the TRACK STATUS/PHRASE PAD buttons. When the PHRASE PAD PLAY•PHRASE SEQ button is: • • • • Unlit—Phrase Pad and Phrase Sequence modes are turned off. Green—Phrase Pad mode is activated. Red—Phrase Sequence mode is activated. Flashing red—the phrase sequencer is recording.
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VS2480OMUS.book 36 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around Display Area 1 DISPLAY PAGE F1 F2 3 F3 F4 2 F5 F6 HOME 4 The LCD display and its buttons are central to everything you do on the VS-2480. The F buttons discussed in Chapter 4, on Page 66. 1—LCD Display The LCD display is your window to all of the VS-2480’s operations. In addition to providing you vital information, the display is central to every VS-2480 activity.
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VS2480OMUS.book 37 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around TRACK EDIT Area 1 2 3 4 ROUTING PATCH BAY AUTOMIX 5 6 7 8 SPLIT NEW PHRASE REGION AUTOMIX UNDO TRACK EDIT EZ COPY MOVE TRIM IN TRIM OUT DELETE COPY MOVE INSERT CUT ERASE COMP / EXP. IMPORT GRADATION A.
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VS2480OMUS.book 38 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 6—SPLIT•COMP/EXP Button • • When editing phrases, press this button to split the selected phrase at the timeline. When editing regions, press this button to perform time compression or expansion on the currently selected track region, or scaling of automated parameter values. Timeline 7—NEW•IMPORT•GRADATION Button • • • When editing phrases, press this button to create a new phrase from a recorded take on your hard drive.
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VS2480OMUS.book 39 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 14—LOOP Button Press this button to turn looping on (lit) or off (unlit). See Page 181. 15—WAVE DISPLAY Button Press WAVE DISPLAY to view the currently selected track’s audio as waveform data (lit) or as a simple rectangle (unlit).
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VS2480OMUS.book 40 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 3—CD-RW•MASTERING Button Press this button to view the CD-RW/MASTERING menu. From there you can enter the VS-2480’s Mastering Room—where you can complete the master mix of a project and create an audio CD—play audio CDs on a connected Roland CD-R/RW drive or import and export .WAV files. See Chapter 27, starting on Page 339.
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VS2480OMUS.book 41 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around General Controls SPLIT LOOP NEW NE PHRASE PHR ASE GRADATION GR ADATION REGION AUTOMIX WAVE DISP UNDO REDO 1 8 MIDI / DISK + ZOOM TIME / VALUE SHUTTLE + 7 6 SHIFT 2 5 ENTER / YES EXIT / NO 3 4 This area contains frequently used controls that are part of many VS-2480 operations. 1—MIDI/DISK Indicator The MIDI/DISK indicator lights: • • Green—whenever the VS-2480 receives MIDI data from an external device.
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VS2480OMUS.book 42 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 5—TIME/VALUE Dial The TIME/VALUE dial—located inside the SHUTTLE ring—performs two important jobs: • • During project playback, you can turn the dial to move forward or backward in time. See Page 126 for more information. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to adjust settings. 6—SHUTTLE Ring Turn the SHUTTLE ring—the wheel that surrounds the TIME/VALUE dial—to move quickly back (counter-clockwise) or forward (clockwise) through a project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 43 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 2—PREVIEW TO•PROJECT TOP Button Press PREVIEW TO to listen to the last few moments leading up to the current location of the timeline—you can set how much you want to hear. Hold SHIFT and press PREVIEW TO to jump to the start, or “top,” of the audio recorded in the project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 44 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 9—REC•AUTOMIX REC Button Hold down REC•AUTOMIX REC and press PLAY to record audio onto a track (see Page 179). When the AUTOMIX button (Page 39) is lit, hold down REC•AUTOMIX and press PLAY to record mixer settings as Automix data—see Chapter 26 (Page 325) to learn about automated mixing on the VS-2480.
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VS2480OMUS.book 45 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 4—NUMERICS Button Press NUMERICS so that it lights to enter numeric values for various settings using the VS-2480’s keypad or a connected ASCII keyboard. When NUMERICS is lit, the area into which you can type becomes selected on the display. See Page 74. 5—PREVIOUS Button Press PREVIOUS to move the timeline to the beginning of the currently selected track phrase or to the end of the phrase immediately before it.
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VS2480OMUS.book 46 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 11—Numeric keypad•AUX 1-8, USER The numeric keypad serves two general purposes: • • You can type the desired number or numbers on it when storing and recalling locators, scenes and markers, or when entering values when NUMERICS is lit.
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VS2480OMUS.book 47 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 4 THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS: (1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRED OPERATION.
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VS2480OMUS.book 48 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 9—PHONES 1 and 2 Jacks Connect standard stereo headphones (purchased separately) to either or both of these jacks for listening to the VS-2480. Each jack has its own volume control (Page 75). You can select the signals to be sent to the PHONES jacks, as described in Chapter 22. 10—ANALOG MULTI OUTPUT Jacks 1-8 These are the VS-2480’s line-level analog output jacks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 49 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 15—R-BUS 1 and 2 DIGITAL 8ch I/O Jacks Using Roland’s R-BUS technology, you can bring digital audio into and out of the VS-2480 by connecting it to any R-BUS-compliant external digital device.
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VS2480OMUS.book 50 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 2—Getting Around 50 www.rolandus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 51 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 To master the VS-2480, it’s important to understand the components that make up this self-contained 24-track recording studio. That’s what we’ll do here. More specific descriptions of how to use these components can be found in later chapters as noted. While advanced V-2480 users may already understand much of what’s discussed here, everyone should make sure to read “Projects” on Page 56.
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VS2480OMUS.book 52 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 The Mixing Console The VS-2480 contains a digital 64-channel mixing console. What’s a Digital Mixing Console? First, let’s make sure we understand what a mixing console, or “mixer,” is. A mixer is a device that lets you manipulate audio, and lets you combine multiple audio signals into a single sound, or a “mix.”That mix can be in mono, stereo or Surround.
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VS2480OMUS.book 53 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 The Main Roles of the VS-2480 Mixer Two of the most important jobs the mixer performs in the VS-2480 are this: It helps you make an input signal sound the way you want it to on its way to a track. It helps you get the track to sound the way you want, both during recording and while it’s being played back when you’re mixing or bouncing.
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VS2480OMUS.book 54 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 The Internal Effects What Are the Internal Effects? The VS-2480 contains a set of individual internal effects processors. As shipped from the factory, there are two internal stereo effect processors onboard. You can install up to three additional VS8F-2 Effect Expansion Boards (purchased separately) for a total of eight internal stereo effect processors.
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VS2480OMUS.book 55 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 The Hard Disk Recorder The VS-2480’s hard disk recorder is the simplest of its three major components to explain and understand—it’s an audio recorder, acting a lot like a cassette recorder, VCR or any other traditional kind of recorder. Its basic controls will be familiar to you. Instead of recording on a cassette or VHS tape, however, the hard disk recorder records audio onto a computer hard disk drive (Page 85).
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VS2480OMUS.book 56 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 The VS-2480 provides analog output jacks and digital connectors for all of these situations. We’ll discuss them in detail in Chapter 22, starting on Page 287. Burn Signal Flow Here’s an illustration that shows, in general terms, how signals typically flow in the VS-2480.
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VS2480OMUS.book 57 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 • • • playback speed settings. all information relating to tempo and synchronization. all project-related UTILITY menu settings. The VS-2480 always has a project loaded, even if you’ve never created one yourself. A projects 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.
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VS2480OMUS.book 58 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Although every bus is essentially the same thing—a pathway—busses are named for the type of signal they typically carry. The VS-2480 provides the following busses. Type of bus: What it does: RECORD Each of these 24 busses carries signals to one of the hard disk recorder’s tracks. MASTER This stereo left/right pair of busses carries the VS-2480’s main stereo mix to any number of possible destinations.
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VS2480OMUS.book 59 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Take Care During Recording When it comes to establishing great levels, the most critical stage is during the original recording process. The most difficult recording situations involve the recording of musicians whose levels fluctuate between one performance and another, or even within the same performance—it can be hard to capture a strong level if you can’t be sure how loud the performance is going to get.
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VS2480OMUS.book 60 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 3—Introduction to the VS-2480 It’s vitally important, therefore, that you do what every computer user must do: regularly back up your data to an external storage device. If an unexpected problem does occur, you can always re-load your backed-up data and carry on. We strongly recommend that you purchase a Roland-approved CD-R/RW drive such as the Roland VS-CDRII or CD-RACK.
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VS2480OMUS.book 61 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Things You’ll Need Power You’ll need a standard AC power socket that supplies grounded AC power. If you’re going to listen to the VS-2480 through speakers, you’ll also need power for them and for their amplifier if it’s a separate component. A Way to Listen to the VS-2480 You can listen to—or “monitor”—the VS-2480 through speakers or by connecting standard stereo headphones to either or both of the VS-2480’s PHONES jacks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 62 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Connect a PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 ASCII Keyboard A mouse and ASCII keyboard can make the operation of the VS-2480 even easier. The VS-2480 supports the use of a PS/2-type mouse and PS/2 keyboard. A PS/2 mouse is included with your VS-2480. A PS/2 keyboard must be purchased separately. Many of the VS-2480’s operations can be performed using a mouse instead of the VS-2480’s top-panel controls, as described on Page 68.
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VS2480OMUS.book 63 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Making Power Connections Connect one end of the supplied AC power cable to a grounded AC outlet, and the other to the VS-2480’s AC IN jack—use only the supplied AC cable. Connect all other devices’ power cables as recommended in their documentation.
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VS2480OMUS.book 64 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Configuring the VS-2480 Setting Up the VGA Monitor, Mouse and Keyboard You’ll want to make sure your mouse, keyboard and VGA monitor are properly set up. All of the settings for these devices are found on the same UTILITY menu pages. To get there: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Press UTILITY. Press PAGE—if necessary—until “SYSTEM” appears above F1. Press F1 (SYSTEM). Press F2 (Param2).
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VS2480OMUS.book 65 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Setting the VS-2480’s Clock The VS-2480 time-stamps your recordings to make it easier for you to keep track of your work. In order to allow the VS-2480 to do this, you’ll need to set its system clock. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Press UTILITY. Press PAGE repeatedly—if necessary—until “DATE” appears above F5. Press F5 (DATE). The DATE/TIME screen appears.
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VS2480OMUS.book 66 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Switches Some settings in the VS-2480 are presented as switches. They’re typically shown in either of two ways: • • As a box—when a switch is on, it’s darkened. When it’s off, it’s not. As checked items—when a value is checked, it’s on. If it’s not, it’s off. On Off In this illustration, the -6 dB value is turned on.
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VS2480OMUS.book 67 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations • • • • act as on/off switches. change the value of the associated parameter. move the selection cursor to a location on the display. exit the current screen. Sometimes the boxes at the bottom of the screen are large and contain icons. When this is the case, you can press the corresponding F button to begin an operation or view a menu of related parameters. In all cases, the F button label tells you what the button does.
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VS2480OMUS.book 68 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations The ENTER/YES button also blinks to indicate that you can press it to view additional options. EXIT/NO flashes at times to show you can press it to exit the current screen. If you prefer, you can always use the Enter key on your keyboard instead of ENTER/ YES, or the Esc key instead of EXIT/NO.
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VS2480OMUS.book 69 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Pop-Up Menus When a pop-up menu is available, you can select an item in the menu by dragging the mouse to it—so the item’s highlighted— and then click the left mouse button to select it. The following two pop-up menus are available from a number of screens. Drag to the desired menu item and click.
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VS2480OMUS.book 70 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations And the keyboard’s: Acts as the VS-2480’s: F1-F6 F1-F6 buttons Tab the PAGE button Enter the ENTER/YES button or left mouse button Esc the EXIT/NO button F9 the PROJECT MENU button F10 the TRACK MENU button F11 the EFFECT MENU button F12 the UTILITY MENU button Using the VGA Info Display Most of the VS-2480 Info Display’s screens are divided into four areas.
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VS2480OMUS.book 71 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 8. LOOP indicator—shows when looping is turned on. 9. AUTOMIX indicator—shows when Automix is turned on. 10. REMAIN—shows how much disk space you have left. (You can set the unit of measurement with the REMAIN DISPLAY TYPE parameter in the UTILITY menu.) 11. SCENE—shows the number and name of the current scene.
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VS2480OMUS.book 72 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 3. You can press F1 through F5 to view the following screens: • ID PL (Info Display Playlist screen) —shows the track playlist in the lower area on the display. • ID IN (Info Display Input Channels) —shows all 24 input channels in the lower area on the display. • ID TR (Info Display Track Channels)— shows all 24 track channels in the lower area on the display.
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VS2480OMUS.book 73 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations If a project contains data required for undoing actions you’re sure you’ll never need to undo, you can perform a project optimization to discard the unwanted data and reduce the size of the project and the space it takes up on your hard disk. See Page 100. Undoing a Track Recording or Editing Operation 1. 2. 3. 4. Press UNDO•REDO. Locate the desired action in the Undo list.
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VS2480OMUS.book 74 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Entering a New Name Using the VS-2480 Controls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Press to select the first character in the naming box if it isn’t already selected. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired first character—a box appears around the currently selected character in the area below the naming box. Press to select the next character. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the second character in the new name.
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VS2480OMUS.book 75 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations If You’re Using DS-90A or DS-50A Monitors If you’re using Roland DS-90A or DS-50A Digital Reference Monitors, you’ll need to route the MONITOR bus to the digital output to which you’re connecting the monitors. (In the factory demo songs, this has already been taken care of. When you create a new project, however, the MASTER stereo mix, not the stereo MONITOR bus, is routed to the OPTICAL and COAXIAL OUT connectors.
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VS2480OMUS.book 76 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations If you’re using headphones, the setting of the MONITOR knob establishes the basic monitoring level, so set it to its 0dB position. To adjust your headphones’ volume, use the PHONES 1 or 2 knob that corresponds to the jack into which you’ve plugged your headphones. Start with the knob turned all the way counter-clockwise, and slowly turn it clockwise to reach the desired listening level.
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VS2480OMUS.book 77 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations A Quick Look at What’s on the Display 1. 2. Press HOME•DISPLAY. Press PAGE until “INPUT” appears on the display above F1. The display should look something like this: Time counters Meters Playlist 3. Timeline If it doesn’t, hold down SHIFT and press HOME•DISPLAY repeatedly until it does. You can also change the magnification of the playlist by holding down SHIFT and pressing , , and/or .
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VS2480OMUS.book 79 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Press 1 on the numeric keypad to jump to Locator 01 at the start of the first turnaround. The first four faders—the bass drum, snare, hi-hat and floor tom— move downward since the drums don’t play in this part of the project. Press PLAY to begin playback. Watch how the drum faders move up in time for the drums’ entry in the chorus. Press ZERO and then hit PLAY to watch Automix at work.
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VS2480OMUS.book 80 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 5. 6. 7. Press SCENE again, and then 2 on the keypad to recall Scene 02—AcIntro Dflt. The display changes to show that this scene uses different V-Tracks than Scene 01. Press ZERO and then PLAY to hear what’s been added to the project’s introduction. Try out the other scenes in “What You Don’t Know.” To learn about storing scenes, recalling them and more, see “Scenes” on Page 144.
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VS2480OMUS.book 81 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 5—Understanding Effects Harnessing the VS-2480’s Effects The VS-2480 provides a range of creative possibilities when it comes to effects. How and where you apply them will have a big impact on the sound you achieve. This chapter discusses important effect-related ideas, including: • • • • effect routings—How you get your signals in and out of an effect has a lot to do with the way they’ll sound. master effects—You can add effects to your entire mix.
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VS2480OMUS.book 82 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 5—Understanding Effects Insert Effects Dry signal An insert effect detours a signal as it makes its way through the VS-2480. The signal is diverted into the effect, processed, and the effect’s output—the wet version of the signal—takes the original signal’s place and resumes its journey. The name “insert effect” refers to the idea that you’ve inserted the effect in the signal’s path.
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VS2480OMUS.book 83 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 5—Understanding Effects Pre-Fader and Post-Fader Sends The VS-2480 allows you to send a signal to an Aux bus from either of two places as the signal makes its way through a channel. You can send it: • • pre-fader—to send the signal to the Aux bus before the signal reaches its channel fader. The Aux send level isn’t affected by changes you make to the fader’s position—it stays the same even if the level of the signal itself changes.
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VS2480OMUS.book 84 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 5—Understanding Effects We’ll describe this procedure in more detail on Page 215. Even though an external effect is always a loop effect, you can simulate an insert effect by using only the external processor’s return, and none of the original dry signal.
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VS2480OMUS.book 85 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder This chapter describes the fundamentals of hard disk recording in the VS-2480. If you’re new to hard disk recording, you’ll find all the basics here. We’ll explain: • • • • • • • • • • what a hard disk drive is. how a VS-2480 hard drive organizes data. how a hard drive must be prepared for use by the VS-2480. how the VS-2480 records audio on a hard drive. how the VS-2480 plays back audio recorded on a hard drive.
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VS2480OMUS.book 86 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder How a VS-2480 Hard Drive Organizes Data A VS-2480 hard drive divides up its total disk space into sections called “partitions.” Partitions help keep project data together on the hard drive. Each partition acts like a separate virtual drive—it even looks that way on the VS-2480’s screens. Your 30GB VS-2480 internal hard drive was divided into three approximately 10 GB partitions at the factory.
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VS2480OMUS.book 87 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder How Recordings Are Played Back Random Access When your VS-2480 plays back your music from a hard drive, it uses something called “random access” playback. The phrase “random access” has its roots in computer programming, but what it means to you is this: The recorder can instantly play any audio in a project located anywhere on its hard disk.
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VS2480OMUS.book 88 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder Non-Destructive, Pointer-Based Editing Pointer-Based Editing When you edit audio on the VS-2480, what you’re actually doing is editing a phrase, the set of pointers that instruct the VS-2480 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.
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VS2480OMUS.book 89 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder The Advantage of Non-Destructive Editing Non-destructive editing allows you to undo any edits you perform because all of your original hard disk recordings—your takes—remain safe and sound on your hard disk no matter how many edits you perform on the phrases that play them. It’s only their pointers that have been edited.
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VS2480OMUS.book 90 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder The Power of V-Tracks Although the VS-2480 is a 24-track studio, in a very real sense it’s way more than that. Since each of its 24 tracks can play any of 16 V-Tracks, a project can actually hold as many as 384 recordings from which you can choose 24 for playback at any given time. V.T1 V.T2 V.T3 V.T4 V.T5 V.T6 V.T7 V.T8 V.T9 V.T10 V.T11 V.T12 V.T13 V.T14 V.T15 V.T16 V.T1 V.T2 V.T3 V.T4 V.T5 V.T6 V.T7 V.T8 V.T9 V.
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VS2480OMUS.book 91 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder About Editing Regions A region is a selected time range within a track. You define the region you want to edit by placing two “edit points”: • • IN—The position of the IN marker determines the beginning of the section you want to edit. This location is called the “IN point.” OUT—The position of the OUT marker determines the end of the section you want to edit.This location is called the “OUT point.
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VS2480OMUS.book 93 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations This chapter describes the various project- and hard drive-related activities you can perform from the VS-2480’s PROJECT menu screens. Most everything that has to do with an entire project can be found on this menu. You can quickly save the latest changes you’ve made to the currently loaded project by holding down SHIFT and pressing ZERO•STORE. We recommend you do this often. Navigating the PROJECT Menu Screens 1.
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VS2480OMUS.book 94 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations To learn how to connect a CD-R/RW drive or a Zip drive to the VS-2480, see Page 381. If you encounter error messages when working with a CD-R/RW drive or a Zip drive, check Page 353 or the VS-2480 Appendices to learn what the messages mean. In the project list, you can also see all of the projects on the currently selected drive. The VS-2480 provides information about each project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 95 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Project Operations About F6 (MARK) Before you can perform some of the project operations, you have to target the project on which you want to perform the operation. You do this by marking the project. PROJECT menu F6 (MARK) Marking a Project 1. 2. Press or or turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the project. Press F6 (MARK) to place a checkmark to the left of the project’s name, thus targeting it.
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VS2480OMUS.book 96 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations NEW When you create a new project, you make two important choices that determine both the nature of the project and what you can do with its audio. While these choices are a product of the VS-2480’s great flexibility, they can’t be changed once the project’s been created, and so they must be made carefully.
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VS2480OMUS.book 97 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Recording Mode The VS-2480 provides eight “recording modes” from which to choose. A project’s recording mode configures the VS-2480’s hard disk recorder at the desired balance between a project’s audio quality, how many tracks the project contains, and the amount of disk space its audio consumes. Unless you have a reason to do otherwise, use the 24-track, 24-bit MTP recording mode.
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VS2480OMUS.book 98 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Amount of Recording Time with Each Recording Mode This chart shows the number of minutes you’d get when recording a single track in a single 10G partition. The available time depends on the selected sample rate. Mode: 96k 88.2k 64k 48k 44.
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VS2480OMUS.book 99 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 8. Press F5 (OK). The VS-2480 displays: 9. To proceed, press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel the operation. The VS-2480 asks if you want to store the current project before creating and loading the new one. 10. Press ENTER/YES to save any changes you’ve made to the currently loaded project, or press EXIT/NO to create and load the new project without saving the old one. NAME You can re-name the currently loaded project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 100 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Locking and Un-Locking a Project on Your Hard Drive 1. 2. 3. 4. Press PROJECT. If “PROTEC” isn’t visible above F4, press PAGE until it is. Select the desired project. Press F4 (PROTEC). Depending on whether the project is currently locked or not, the VS-2480 asks if you’re sure you want to: ...lock the project... 5. or These symbols tell you if a project’s: Locked Unlocked ...unlock the project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 101 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 7. If you’re sure you want to proceed, press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel optimization of the displayed project. Since you’re about to permanently delete audio data, the VS-2480 asks again: 8. Press ENTER/YES to optimize the current project, or EXIT/NO to cancel.
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VS2480OMUS.book 102 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 6. Press F1 (COPY)—the PROJECT COPY screen appears. List of projects you’ve marked Currently selected drive info 7. 8. Drive to which data will be copied Press F2 to scroll down through the list of projects if it extends out of view, or F1 to scroll up the list. You can wipe the destination drive clean before copying your data to it.
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VS2480OMUS.book 103 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 5. 6. If you’re sure you want to delete the marked project(s) from your hard drive, press ENTER/YES. If not, press EXIT/NO. Since ERASE is irreversible, the VS-2480 asks again: 7. To erase the marked project(s), press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel. SPLIT SPLIT creates a new project from selected V-Tracks, copying them from the currently loaded project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 104 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 5. To select a V-Track, cursor to it and press F4 (MARK) to check its checkbox; to unselect it, press F4 (MARK) again. You can select and unselect all of the V-Tracks in the map at once by repeatedly pressing F3 (ALL). To quickly select or unselect one track’s entire set of V-Tracks, cursor all the way to the left so that the track’s name is highlighted and press F4 (MARK). 6. 7.
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VS2480OMUS.book 105 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Load the project you want to use as the basis for the final project. Press PROJECT. Select the project you want to add to the end of the loaded project. If “COMBIN” isn’t visible above F4, press PAGE until it is. Press F4 (COMBIN)—the VS-2480 asks: 6. Press ENTER/YES to proceed with the combining of the two projects, or press EXIT/NO to cancel the operation.
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VS2480OMUS.book 106 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Backing Up a Project 1. 2. Connect your Roland-approved CD-R/RW drive or Zip drive to the VS-2480. Insert the required media—a CD-R/RW or Zip disk—into the drive. The BACKUP operation re-formats the destination media for backup use. The media, therefore, doesn’t need to be formatted ahead of time. 3. 4. 5. 6. Press PROJECT. Mark the project(s) you want to back up. If “BACKUP” isn’t visible above F1, press PAGE until it is.
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VS2480OMUS.book 107 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations RECOVER To re-load VS-2480 project backup data, use the RECOVER operation. When you recover a project, the project is restored to your internal hard drive in its original state. RECOVER is available only when the selected drive contains project backup data.
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VS2480OMUS.book 108 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 10. Set Erase all Projects to: • Off—if you want to add the project(s) you’re recovering to the list of projects already on the destination drive. • On—if you want to clear the drive so it contains only your recovered projects. 11. If you’re recovering data from a CD, set the desired CD drive speed. Try MAX. If you experience problems recovering the data, try a lower speed. 12. Press F5 (OK).
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VS2480OMUS.book 109 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 8. Select the drive to which you want to import the song. 9. If “IMPORT” isn’t visible above F3, press PAGE until it is. 10. Press F3 (IMPORT)—the PROJECT IMPORT screen appears. Drive to which data will be imported List of song data you’ve marked Press F2 to scroll down through the list of songs if it extends out of view, or F1 (Scrol) to scroll up through the list. Drive containing song data 11.
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VS2480OMUS.book 110 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Exporting to a VS-890 or VSR-880 • • • • Eight project tracks are exported. You can select Tracks 1-8, 9-16 or 17-24. V-Tracks 1-8 are exported to Bank A, and V-Tracks 9-16 to Bank B. Projects that use the M24 and LV2 recording modes can’t be exported as VS-890 or VSR-880 songs. MTP-recorded project data is converted to VSR mode during export—this process can take a while.
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VS2480OMUS.book 111 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations It’s not always easy to tell if a project will fit on a Zip disk when it’s exported from the VS-2480. You can get a very rough idea by dividing the project’s total number of tracks by the number of tracks you’re exporting, and then dividing the project’s total size by that number. If you’re not absolutely sure the project will fit on the disk, export it as a song archive to be safe—if you guess wrong, the export will fail. 8.
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VS2480OMUS.book 112 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Fragmentation What Is Fragmentation? When a hard drive has first been set up and has lots of free space, your VS-2480 can write each file’s data in one single area of the hard drive. When the file is played back, the VS-2480 only has to look in one place to find all the necessary data. When a hard drive has been in use for a while, however, the empty spaces for writing new data become smaller and smaller.
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VS2480OMUS.book 113 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations What Can Be Done About a Fragmented Hard Drive? You can de-fragment—or “defrag”—your hard drive using the same three steps we listed in “How Can I Prevent Fragmentation?” If you have trouble backing up a project, it may be because it’s just too fragmented. Perform the following actions, in order: 1. 2. 3. Optimize the project (Page 100).
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VS2480OMUS.book 114 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Formatting a Hard Drive Back up all data on the hard drive before formatting. Formatting erases all of the data on the hard drive, and the data cannot be recovered using Undo or any other method. If you accidentally delete data, that data cannot be restored to its previous state. Roland Corporation assumes no liability concerning such loss of data. The Format Drive operation is available only when a drive is selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 115 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations Selected drive 10. Press ENTER/YES to proceed with formatting, or EXIT/NO to cancel the operation. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2480 asks if you want to save any recent changes to the currently loaded project. 11. Press ENTER/YES to save the project, or EXIT/NO to proceed without doing so.
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VS2480OMUS.book 116 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations 7. Press ENTER/YES to clear the drive, or EXIT/NO to cancel. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2480 double-checks to make sure you want to proceed, since you’re about to wipe everything on the selected drive/partition. 8. If you want to proceed, press ENTER/YES. To cancel the operation, press EXIT/NO. 9. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2480 asks if you want to save any recent changes to the currently loaded project. 10.
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VS2480OMUS.book 117 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 7—Project and Drive Operations About Drive Check’s Repair Capabilities If Disk Check finds a problem it can attempt to fix it for you by deleting the data that’s causing the trouble you’re experiencing. Often—once the damaged data is removed— the problems that led you to Drive Check disappear.
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VS2480OMUS.book 119 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen The Home screen is central to VS-2480 operations. It’s one screen every VS-2480 user needs to master: • • • It’s the first screen you see when you power up the VS-2480. It provides you a comprehensive overview of the current project. It serves as your home base, no matter what you’re doing on the VS-2480. We call it the “Home” screen because it provides a great place to return to if you get confused navigating the VS-2480’s many displays.
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VS2480OMUS.book 120 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen Current Channel Display or... or... The current channel display shows you the name of the input, track or FX return channel that’s most recently been selected for editing (“Selecting a Channel for Editing” on Page 138). There’s always an input, track, Aux master or FX return channel selected in the VS-2480, even if you’ve just powered up and haven’t manually selected one. After power-up, Track Channel 1 is selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 121 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen How the VS-2480 Meters Show Signals Levels are shown on the VS-2480’s display in a row of vertically oriented meters. Each meter’s signal is shown as a thick black bar that grows taller as its signal gets louder. The 48, 12, 4 and 0 markings to the left of the meters show you how loud the signal is in dBs— -48 dB, -12 dB, -4 dB and 0 dB—as the black bar varies in height.
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VS2480OMUS.book 122 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen Position Bar Handle The position bar has a handle you can grab with your mouse and drag: • • rightward to move to a later time in the project. leftward to move to an earlier time . The position bar’s handle shows where you are in the project. The black area to either side of the handle shows the portion of the project currently displayed in the playlist.
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VS2480OMUS.book 124 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen Expanded Playlist Views You can hold down SHIFT and press HOME•DISPLAY to more radically change the way the playlist is displayed. Each time you press HOME•DISPLAY, the screen cycles through two additional playlist views and back to its original appearance: Wide • • Wide and tall Wide view—the tracks fill the entire width of the Home screen. Wide and tall view—the tracks expand in height as well, reaching up to the position bar.
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VS2480OMUS.book 126 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen Current Time Location Display Hours Minutes Seconds ABS/REL indicator Frames Subframes Measures Beats Markers Ticks At the top of many of the VS-2480’s screens is the current time location display, which consists of three project time counters.
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VS2480OMUS.book 127 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 8—The Home Screen You can replace the calendar and clock with a readout that shows you how much free space remains on the selected drive. See “DATE/REMAIN Sw” on Page 365. Using the Fader/Pan Display You can replace the meters display (Page 120) on the Home screen with the fader/pan display if you wish. The fader/pan display presents a small channel strip representing each channel of the type selected with the F/P Switches.
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VS2480OMUS.book 129 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals This chapter describes how to get signals into the VS-2480’s analog and digital input jacks and connectors. You’ll learn how to set analog input levels and how to configure the VS-2480’s digital inputs for the external digital devices you want to use. Finally, we’ll describe how to get your input signals to the desired input channels.
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VS2480OMUS.book 130 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals Phantom Power Each of the VS-2480’s eight XLR jacks can supply +48 V phantom power to a connected condenser microphone that doesn’t have its own internal power source. To Turn an XLR Input Jack’s Phantom Power On or Off If you’ve already routed the input jack to an input channel, bring the input channel’s fader all the way down before turning the jack’s phantom power on or off. 1.
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VS2480OMUS.book 131 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals Digital Input Signals Digital Connections The VS-2480 can accept digital audio from an external digital device through the VS-2480’s S/P DIF stereo coaxial and optical inputs or via its two R-BUS connectors. To learn about connecting devices to these jacks, see Page 49. Selecting the Desired Digital Inputs The VS-2480 can receive up to 16 digital audio signals at a time (in addition to 16 analog input signals).
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VS2480OMUS.book 132 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals Digital Considerations This section discusses a couple of issues you should consider to help ensure that your digital audio is successfully captured by the VS-2480. Sample Rates The VS-2480 operates at the sampling rate of the currently loaded project. As a result, it will successfully receive only external digital audio that uses the project’s sample rate.
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VS2480OMUS.book 134 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals 5. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired master word clock source. When you select: The master clock comes from: INT the VS-2480. R-BUS1 the device connected to the VS-2480’s R-BUS 1 jack. R-BUS2 the device connected to the VS-2480’s R-BUS 2 jack. COAXIAL IN the device connected to the VS-2480’s COAXIAL IN jack. OPTICAL IN the device connected to the VS-2480’s OPTICAL IN jack.
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VS2480OMUS.book 135 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals Routing Input Signals to Input Channels Much of the internal “wiring” through which a signal travels from one place to another in the VS-2480 is virtual—the signal path is determined by your current settings, not by permanently placed physical wires. This means that you can route signals from your 16 analog input jacks—or your 16 active digital input connectors (Page 131)—to the input channels you want.
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VS2480OMUS.book 136 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 9—Working with Input Signals How Input Connections Work Input Channel Perspective Input routing is done from the input channels’ point of view. You begin by selecting the desired input channels, and then choose the signals you want to route to them.
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VS2480OMUS.book 137 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer In this chapter, we’ll discuss how to perform basic operations on the mixer. For an introduction to the VS-2480’s built-in digital mixer, see Chapter 3. Changing Channels As described on Page 52, all of the VS-2480’s 64 mixer channels are active and available at all times.
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VS2480OMUS.book 138 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Channel Selection When you want to adjust a channel’s parameters, you must first select the channel. Selecting a Channel for Editing Using the CH EDIT Buttons 1. 2. CH EDIT button Press the FADER button that selects the set of channels containing the channel you want to work with (Page 137). Press the desired input, track or FX return channel’s CH EDIT button.
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VS2480OMUS.book 139 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Using the PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knobs When the channel strips are controlling input, track and FX return channels, the PAN/ AUX SEND 1-8 knobs at the top of the strips can do a variety of things. They can: • • adjust the stereo positioning of the selected channels’ signals. adjust the dynamics and EQ CH EDIT parameters for a single channel.
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VS2480OMUS.book 140 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Activating Knob Control of Dynamics and EQ Parameters 1. 2. 3. 4. If the AUX SEND•PRM EDIT button is: • lit red—the PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 knobs are set to control the selected channel’s dynamics and EQ parameters • not lit—press the button repeatedly until it’s lit red. • lit green—press the flashing KNOB/FDR ASSIGN•AUX 1-8 button in the LOCATOR/MARKER/SCENE area of the VS-2480’s top panel.
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VS2480OMUS.book 141 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer To Turn the KNOB/FADER ASSIGN Feature On and Off 1. 2. Press KNOB/FDR ASSIGN so that it’s flashing to turn the feature on. Press KNOB/FDR ASSIGN again—so its indicator light goes out—to turn the feature off. Activating Knob or Fader Control of Aux Send Levels Before you can control a channel’s Aux send level with its PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 knob, you have to turn on the channel’s CH EDIT Send Status parameter.
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VS2480OMUS.book 142 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer The MASTER Fader MASTER The MASTER fader—located at the far right of the channel strip area— controls the overall level of the main stereo MASTER mix. (dB) 6 R 4 0 4 While Recording 8 12 18 During recording, you’ll typically listen to this mix, so moving the MASTER fader affects how loud the overall mix is.
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VS2480OMUS.book 143 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Mute Mode Mute mode lets you mute or un-mute multiple input, track and FX return channels quickly and easily. After muting the desired channels, you can leave Mute mode with the channels remaining muted. You can return to Mute mode at any time to un-mute the silenced channels, or you can turn off their CH EDIT MUTE switches. Automix can record and play back the muting and un-muting of channels. Muting Channels in Mute Mode 1.
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VS2480OMUS.book 144 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Scenes The VS-2480 allows you to save a wide range of current mixer settings as a “scene.” Each project can contain up to 100 scenes. A scene contains all of your current: • • channel fader positions MASTER level settings • • channel parameter settings signal routings • effect settings When you save your settings as a scene, you “store” the scene. When you re-install its settings, you “recall” the scene.
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VS2480OMUS.book 145 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer Recalling a Scene Click noise come out occasionally when switching scene. This is not because of system problem. 1. 2. Press SCENE•BANK if it’s not already lit. If the current scene bank contains the scene you want, press the scene’s lit button on the keypad. To recall a scene from a different bank, follow the instructions in “Changing Scene Banks” and then press the scene’s button in the desired bank. Changing Scene Banks 1. 2.
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VS2480OMUS.book 146 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer 3. Press or or turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired scene. You can: • Press F1 (NAME) to rename (Page 73) the selected scene. • Press F2 (CLEAR) to delete the selected scene. • Press F3 (STORE) to store your current settings as the selected scene. You can store a new scene by selecting a blank scene location in the list and pressing F3 (STORE). 4. • Press F4 (RECALL) to recall the selected scene.
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VS2480OMUS.book 147 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 10—Using the Digital Mixer 4. Press ENTER/YES to recall the selected scene and close the window, or just press EXIT/NO twice to leave the window without recalling a scene. Storing a Scene in Safe Mode 1. 2. 3. 4. Press SCENE—the SCENE window appears. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to scroll through the list until the desired unused scene memory location is visible.
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VS2480OMUS.book 149 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools Input channel and track channels offer almost exactly the same parameters with which you can shape their signals. This chapter describes these “CH EDIT” parameters, named for the button you press to view them. They have their own chapter since they’re the main tools you use to make your input signals and tracks sound the way you want. Input channel CH EDIT settings affect how a signal will be recorded.
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VS2480OMUS.book 150 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The Top of the CH EDIT Screens The top of each CH EDIT screen contains elements also found on the Home screen: 6. 5. 1. 7. 8. 9. 2. 3. 4. This illustration shows the top section of an input channel. In a track channel, the input peak indicators are replaced by the selected track’s name. 1. Display Pop-Up Menu button 2. Current channel display 3. PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knob display 4. Position bar 5. View label 6. Clock 7.
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VS2480OMUS.book 151 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools You can hold down SHIFT as you turn the TIME/VALUE dial to move through parameter values in fine increments on the CH EDIT VIEW screen. 1. STATUS (track channel only) The STATUS parameter mirrors the behavior of the TRACK STATUS buttons (Page 178). Changing a track’s recording or playback status in either place changes it in both.
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VS2480OMUS.book 152 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools 5. ChLink When CHLink (“Channel Link”) is turned on, the current channel becomes linked to the channel next to it. If the current channel is: • • odd-numbered—it’s linked to the even-numbered channel to its right. even-numbered—it’s linked to the odd-numbered channel to its left. When channels are linked, you can change a CH EDIT parameter’s value in both channels at once by changing it in either of the linked channels.
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VS2480OMUS.book 153 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools About Aux Send Configuration In the VS-2480, each Aux bus can accept pre-fader signals from all input and track channels or post-fader signals from the input and track channels—not a mix of both. An Aux bus can also be linked with its odd/even partner to form a single stereo send. You can configure an Aux bus on the MASTER EDIT VIEW screen (Page 207) or from the CH EDIT VIEW screen as described on Page 207.
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VS2480OMUS.book 154 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools 10. Channel Output Meter 11. Channel Output Meter Pre/Post Switch The channel output meter shows the level of the channel’s signal as it leaves the channel. With an input channel, this is particularly important since it shows the level at which the signal is being sent to a track and recorded—in essence, it’s the recording level (see Page 179).
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VS2480OMUS.book 155 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools frequently in situations with multiple mics placed close together, as when a drum kit is being recorded. To fix this, change the PHASE switch value from Nrm (“Normal”) to Inv (for “Invert”) to reverse the timing, or “phase,” of one or more of the signals until their sound waves agree and the problem is resolved. 15.
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VS2480OMUS.book 156 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools 17. FX INS The FX INS display shows the number of any effect that’s been inserted into the channel’s signal flow(Page 82), or “Off” if there are no effects inserted in the channel. Press ENTER/YES to jump to the FX Ins screen to insert an effect on the channel, or to remove an insert effect. See Page 217. 18.
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VS2480OMUS.book 157 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The DYN Screen 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 2. Currently selected type of dynamics processor 9. To learn about the CH EDIT DYN screen’s RESET button, see Page 169. 10. 11. Each VS-2480 input and track channel has its own dynamics processor that can act as a compressor, expander or a combination expander/compressor for the channel’s signal.
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VS2480OMUS.book 158 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools What’s an Expander? The DYN screen expander is a downward-type expander that exaggerates the differences between a signal’s loudest parts and its softest parts—it widens, or “expands,” the signal’s dynamic range. You can use an expander to make unwanted background noise quieter. An expander can also make a signal’s original dynamic changes more exciting by making them more pronounced.
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VS2480OMUS.book 159 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools You can set Ratio anywhere from 1.00:1 to ∞:1. The Ratio setting tells you how much a signal’s level is to be changed by describing how much gain control the processor would apply to keep a signal 1 dB from the threshold. With a 4.00:1 compressor ratio, for example, every time a signal exceeds the threshold by 4 db, the compressor reduces the signal level so that it’s only 1 dB above the threshold. An 8.
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VS2480OMUS.book 160 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools 5. AutoGain AutoGain automatically boosts signals whose levels have been lowered by dynamics processing so that they peak at -6 dB below 0 dB. AutoGain sets the signal to a maximum of -6 dB in order to leave a bit of headroom for fast transient volume peaks that occur before the dynamics processor has a chance to respond. 6. Attack The Attack parameter—which can be set from 0.0 ms (milliseconds) to 800.
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VS2480OMUS.book 161 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The KeyIn feature can be helpful when the current channel’s signal level fluctuations aren’t making the dynamics processor react the way you want. If there’s another signal with stronger dynamic changes that match the timing of those in the channel’s signal, you can use that other signal to drive the channel’s dynamics processor.
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VS2480OMUS.book 162 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The EQ Screen 1. 2. 4. 3. To learn about the CH EDIT EQ screen’s RESET button, see Page 169. 9. 5. Knob labels 6. 7. 8. What Is EQ? A sound wave is a repeating change in air pressure that your ear perceives as a sound. The sound wave changes over and over between its least amount of air pressure and its greatest very quickly—many, many times per second.
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VS2480OMUS.book 163 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The Basic Mechanics of an Equalizer All EQs use the same basic devices to do what they do. They all contain a: • • frequency selector—that allows you to select the desired frequency range by selecting the frequency at its center, sometimes called the “center frequency.” gain control—that lets you turn the selected frequencies up or down in volume. “Parametric” EQs also offer a Q, or bandwidth, control.
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VS2480OMUS.book 164 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools 1. EQ Sw The EQ Sw (“EQ Switch”) parameter turns the CH EDIT EQ on and off. 2. ATT The EQ screen provides easy access to the ATT parameter that also appears on the CH EDIT VIEW screen. See Page 153. 3. EQ Meters There are two meters on the EQ screen: • • The IN meter shows you the level of the signal as it enters the EQ screen. The OUT meter shows you the signal’s level as it leaves the EQ screen. 4.
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VS2480OMUS.book 165 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The filter frequency selector can be set anywhere from 20 Hz to 20.0kHz. The Q setting can be set to any value from 0.36 to 16.0. Higher Q values result in a steeper filter slope—in the low and high pass configurations—and a narrower bandwidth in the band pass and band eliminate configurations. You can actually use the filter to raise the level of the selected frequencies by setting its Q to a 0.90 or higher value. 6.
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VS2480OMUS.book 166 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The FX Ins Screen The FX Ins (“Effect Insert”) screen is discussed in Chapter 16—see Page 217. The Surrnd Screen The Surrnd (“Surround”) screen is described in Chapter 25, on Page 322. The CH EDIT P.BAY Screen You can assign an input signal to the current input channel on its CH EDIT P.BAY screen. This screen operates similarly to the EZ ROUTING P.BAY screen (Page 136), though without the virtual “wires.
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VS2480OMUS.book 167 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools The CH EDIT ASSIGN Screen The 24 input channels Tracks The eight FX returns The eight Direct Busses The eight Aux Busses On a track channel’s ASSIGN screen, you can route input channel, FX return, Aux bus and Direct bus signals, or other tracks, to the current channel’s track for recording. The screen acts like the EZ ROUTING VIEW screen (Page 292), but without virtual “wires.
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VS2480OMUS.book 168 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools To return to the normal CH EDIT display, press F6 (CH.V). At the bottom of the Parameter View screen is a set of four tabbed layers that contain an F button for each of the viewable parameters or parameter groups for the current channel. Press the desired F button. To reveal an F button that’s currently hidden, tap PAGE until the tabbed layer it’s on appears.
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VS2480OMUS.book 169 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 11—Input and Track Channel Tools Assorted CH EDIT Tools The CH EDIT VIEW CpyPRM Button You can copy another input or track channel’s parameter values to the current channel from the current channel’s CH EDIT VEW screen. To do this: 1. Press F5 (CpyPRM)—the COPY MIXER PARAMETER dialog opens. 2. Set the SOURCE Ch parameter to the channel whose parameters you’d like to copy. You can select any input or track channel.
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VS2480OMUS.book 171 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 12—Working with Input Channels Introduction to Input Channel Routing This chapter discusses what to do with an input channel’s signal once you’ve got it sounding the way you want. If you’d like to learn about: • • • routing an analog input jack or digital connector to an input channel, see Chapter 9. using the VS-2480’s digital mixer, see Chapter 10. shaping each input channel’s signal, see Chapter 11.
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VS2480OMUS.book 172 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 12—Working with Input Channels Routing an Input Channel Signal to a Track When you’ve routed a signal to a track for recording, the signal can be recorded on the track’s currently selected V-Track. To learn more about V-Tracks, see Page 87. You can route an input signal to a track in any of three ways in the VS-2480: • • • You can use the fast and easy Quick Routing mode, described below.
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VS2480OMUS.book 177 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder This chapter discusses the mechanics of using the VS-2480’s hard disk recorder— basically, it’s all about recording and playing back a project. We’ll describe the recorder’s set of helpful tools for navigating a project and for playing it back in a variety of ways. If you’re not clear on what the hard disk recorder is and what it does, see “The Hard Disk Recorder” on Page 55.
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VS2480OMUS.book 178 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder The SHUTTLE Ring TIME / VALUE SHUTTLE The outer ring around the TIME VALUE dial is the SHUTTLE ring. You can use the ring to move quickly: • • back through the project—by turning the ring counterclockwise. forward through the project —by turning the ring clockwise. When you let go of the SHUTTLE ring, it jumps back to its center position. The farther you turn the SHUTTLE ring, the faster you travel through the project.
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VS2480OMUS.book 180 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Playback Basic Playback Procedure Playing Back Recorded Tracks 1. Press TR 1-16 and TR 17-24 and make sure that the TRACK STATUS button for any track you want to play back is lit green. Here’s a shortcut for setting a TRACK STATUS button to green for playback. Hold down STOP and press the desired TRACK STATUS button. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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VS2480OMUS.book 181 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Looped Playback LOOP You can loop a section of a project so that it plays over and over. This can be handy when a section needs rehearsal, or when you’re punching a section over and over as a performance is perfected (see Page 192.
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VS2480OMUS.book 182 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Editing Loop FROM and TO Points Manually You can edit, clear and place Loop Punch FROM and TO points on the AUTO PUNCH/ LOOP screen in the UTILITY MENU. 1. Hold down SHIFT and press LOOP—the AUTO PUNCH/LOOP screen appears. Loop IN time Loop OUT time 2.
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VS2480OMUS.book 183 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Activating Vari Pitch 1. 2. 3. Press UTILITY. If you don’t see “PlyRec” above F4, press PAGE until you do. Press F4 (PlyRec). Vari Pitch parameters 4. 5. 6. Turn VARI PITCH Sw on to activate the Vari Pitch feature—the VS-2480 takes a few moments to switch to Vari Speed operation. VARI PITCH sets the project’s playing speed—its default value is the project’s sample rate.
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VS2480OMUS.book 184 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Pinpointing an Event with the PREVIEW Buttons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Position the timeline in the general area of the event you want to pinpoint, noting its position in the current time location display. Press PREVIEW TO to see if the preview reaches the event or plays right through it. If PREVIEW TO doesn’t reach the event, move the timeline forward in time slightly.
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VS2480OMUS.book 185 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Finding an Event with Microscopic Precision Using Scrub If you’re looking for an event in a single track, you may find it useful to switch to the wave display’s microscopic view (Page 238) when you’re searching for exact locations using the Scrub feature, as described below. It’ll let you see what you’re hearing. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Press HOME•DISPLAY.
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VS2480OMUS.book 186 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Basic Locator Operations LOCATOR / MARKER / SCENE The following operations take place when the LOCATOR indicator is lit to signify you’re in Locator mode.
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VS2480OMUS.book 187 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 4. Press or or turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired locator. You can: • press F1 (NAME) to rename (Page 73) the selected locator. • press F2 (CLEAR) to delete the selected locator. • press F3 (GetNow) to reset the locator to the timeline’s current position. You can store a new locator at the timeline’s current position by scrolling to an unused locator line and pressing F3 (GetNow). 5.
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VS2480OMUS.book 188 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Storing a Locator in Safe Mode 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Position the timeline at the desired location on the project. Press LOCATOR—the LOCATOR window appears. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to scroll through the list until the desired unused locator slot is visible. Enter the slot’s two-digit number on the numeric keypad—an arrow appears to the left of the slot in the list and “Regist Locator?” appears in the window.
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VS2480OMUS.book 189 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Placing a Marker You can place a marker when the project is stopped or when it’s playing. There must be at least 0.1 seconds of time between any two markers. To Place a Marker 1. Press TAP to place a marker at the timeline’s current location. The marker appears as a downward-pointing arrow above the home screen’s playlist in the location at which you hit TAP.
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VS2480OMUS.book 190 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Clearing Markers In addition to the two methods listed here, you can clear a marker in the UTILITY menu’s Marker screen, described in “Editing Markers” below. Clearing a Marker Using PREVIOUS and NEXT 1. 2. Move to the marker you want to clear using PREVIOUS or NEXT (see Page 189). Hold down CLEAR and press TAP. Clearing a Marker in the Clear Marker Window 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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VS2480OMUS.book 191 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Punching You can re-record any section of an already recorded track using a process called “punching.”The process actually has three stages, each with its own name: • • • When you start the re-recording, you “punch in.” The re-recording act itself is called the “punch.” When you end the re-recording, you’re “punching out.
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VS2480OMUS.book 192 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Punching In and Out Manually If you want to punch something quickly without stopping to set up an auto-punch— and you’ve got a hand free—you can punch in and out using the transport buttons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hold down REC and press the track’s TRACK STATUS button so that it’s flashing red to arm the track for recording.
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VS2480OMUS.book 193 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Setting Auto Punch Points While a Project Is Playing 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Start playback shortly before the location at which you want the punch to begin. Hold down A.PUNCH. Without releasing A.PUNCH, press TAP at the desired punch-in point. Continue holding A.PUNCH and press TAP at the desired punch-out location. Release A.PUNCH. Setting Auto Punch Points Using Locators You can learn about locators on Page 185.
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VS2480OMUS.book 194 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Performing an Auto Punch 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 194 Set your Auto Punch IN and OUT points as described above. Press A.PUNCH so it’s lit. Move to a convenient location in the project before the location you want to punch. Press the track’s TRACK STATUS button so it flashes red. Press REC so it flashes red. Press PLAY.
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VS2480OMUS.book 195 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels The VS-2480’s track channels control the sound of its hard disk recorder’s tracks. When you’re recording a track, you listen to its source signal through the corresponding track channel to ensure you’re hearing what the hard disk recorder is capturing. When you play back a track, you play it through its track channel. To learn how to: • • • select a V-Track for playback, see Page 123 and Page 151.
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VS2480OMUS.book 196 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels The Mechanics of Bouncing For most of the things you do with tracks in the VS-2480, you can think of a track in the hard disk recorder and its corresponding track channel as pretty much the same thing—the track plays through its track channel, which provides the parameters that determine how the track will play and sound.
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VS2480OMUS.book 197 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels Link the Destination Tracks For a Stereo Bounce To link the adjacent odd/even tracks on which you’ll be recording a stereo bounce: 1. 2. 3. Press the FADER button that selects the group of track channels containing those that correspond to the desired destination tracks. Press either destination track channel’s CH EDIT button. Turn ChLink on.
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VS2480OMUS.book 198 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels To clear all of the current connections to a destination track, hold down its TRACK STATUS button and press CLEAR. To quickly clear all of the QUICK ROUTING screen’s connections, press F4 (AllClr). 3. 4. Press the FADER button for the set of track channels that contains a source track channel. Press the source track channel’s SELECT button—a virtual wire appears on the screen to show the connection you’ve made.
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VS2480OMUS.book 199 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels 3. 4. 5. Use , , and/or to select a source track channel’s output along the upper edge of the TRACK MIXER block. We’ve selected Track Channel 1’s output in the illustration on the previous page. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial clockwise—as you turn it, a wire appears that connects the track channel to one track after another in the RECORDING TRACKS block. Turn the dial in either direction to select the desired destination track.
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VS2480OMUS.book 200 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels Listening as You Bounce When you bounce tracks, it’s important to know what you’re hearing: • • You don’t want to listen directly to the source track channels. You only want to listen to your destination track channel(s). By listening only to the destination track channel(s), you can be confident that what you hear is what you’ll get in the final recorded bounce.
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VS2480OMUS.book 201 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels Rehearse the bounce by playing the project a few times, blending together the track channels you’re bouncing. Use each source track channel’s CH EDIT screens to make any desired changes to its sound. Adjust its EQ or dynamics processing values as needed. If you’re bouncing in stereo, pan the source tracks as you want them to be placed in the final mix.
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VS2480OMUS.book 202 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels You can punch in and out during bouncing just as you can during any other recording. Punching’s described on Page 191. Don’t erase you’re original source tracks—that way, you’ll be able to redo the bounce at a later time if you need to.
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VS2480OMUS.book 203 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 14—Working with Track Channels To create the final mix, send all project elements to the stereo MASTER bus. • • • Recorded tracks—are sent to the MASTER mix from their track channels. If you’ve inserted effects on any track channels, they go along for the ride as well. Loop effects—are sent to the MASTER mix from the FX return channels. Live input signals—are sent to the main mix from the input channels.
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VS2480OMUS.book 205 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses The VS-2480 has two types of multi-purpose busses: Aux busses and Direct busses. • • An Aux bus is a traditional bus. It carries multiple signals to a common destination. A Direct bus carries just one signal at a time—it’s not a bus in the classic sense. The eight Aux busses and the eight Direct busses share a chapter in the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual because they serve similar purposes.
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VS2480OMUS.book 206 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses Sending a Signal to an Aux Bus You can send an input, track or FX return channel’s signal to an Aux bus in two ways: • • Each input, track and FX return channel has a set of CH EDIT AUX send controls that let you send a copy of the channel’s signal to any of the eight Aux busses. These controls, and how to use them, are described on Page 206.
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VS2480OMUS.book 207 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses Adjusting an Aux Bus’s Master Level 1. Press IN 17-24/AUX MST button so that the channel strips control Input Channels 17-24 and the Aux master levels. The eight right-most channel strips—labeled “AUX MST 1-8”—control the master levels of the eight Aux busses. Move the AUX MST 1-8 fader to set the master level of the desired Aux bus. You can also adjust an Aux bus’s master level on its MASTER EDIT screen—see below.
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VS2480OMUS.book 208 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses 3. Press ENTER/YES—the following dialog box appears. 4. 5. Select Pre or Pst for the POSITION parameter, as desired. Turn BUS LINK on or off as desired. When Aux busses are linked, their controls on the CH EDIT screen change—see Page 152 for details. Direct Busses Here’s what the eight Direct busses can do: • • • • They can carry a single signal.
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VS2480OMUS.book 209 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses Sending a Signal to a Direct Bus Send an input or track channel’s signal to a Direct bus from the channel’s CH EDIT VIEW screen—see Page 156. Page 229 describes sending an effect to a Direct bus. When you send an FX return channel’s stereo signal to a Direct bus, its left and right sides are mixed together in the mono Direct bus. When you send a channel’s signal to a Direct bus, it’s done using a simple on/off switch.
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VS2480OMUS.book 210 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses Aux Bus/Direct Bus Strategy Sending Signals to Internal Effects As shipped from the factory, Aux Busses 1-8 are routed to the VS-2480’s internal effects so that you can send multiple input, track or FX return channel signals to any internal effect. However, if you just want to send one signal to an effect—thus freeing up an Aux bus—you can send it to the effect on a Direct bus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 211 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 15—The Aux and Direct Busses Creating a Headphone Mix Using an Aux Bus Probably the second most common use of an Aux bus—aside from using it to carry signals to an internal effect—is to use the bus to carry input and/or track channel signals to performers’ headphones so they can hear what’s going on during recording. You can send performers’ live input signals along with already recorded tracks to any headphone mix you create.
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VS2480OMUS.book 213 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects In this chapter, we’ll describe how to use the VS-2480’s effect processing power. We’ll detail how to: • • • • • • set up a loop effect. insert an effect on an input or track channel, or the MASTER bus. add effects to a headphone mix. select effects. edit effects. save effects. For the basics on the VS-2480’s effects and why they’re useful, see Chapters 3 and 5.
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VS2480OMUS.book 214 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects The Mechanics of a Loop Effect There are six steps to setting up an internal loop effect: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Choose one of the internal effect processors as the one you’ll use. Route an Aux or Direct bus to the selected effect. Configure the Aux or Direct bus as desired. Send signals to the Aux bus or Direct bus, and, as a result, to the effect. Return the output of the effect to the desired destination.
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VS2480OMUS.book 215 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects To send a channel’s signal to an effect, adjust the Aux send controls for the Aux bus you’re using: 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the desired channel and press its CH EDIT button to display its CH EDIT VIEW screen. Send Status Turn on the Aux send control’s send status switch by setting Send Level it to the available Pre or Pst value. Set its send level as desired—use 0.0 dB as a starting value.
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VS2480OMUS.book 216 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Inserting an Effect About Insert Effects Dry signal Where They’re Used Insert effects can be inserted on individual input and track channels. They can also be inserted on the MASTER bus when you want to run your entire mix through an effect, such as when you’re mastering a project’s final mix.
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VS2480OMUS.book 217 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Inserting Effects on an Input or Track Channel 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the group of channels that contains the desired input or track channel by pressing its FADER button. Press the desired channel’s CH EDIT button. Select the FX INS parameter—the ENTER/YES button begins to flash. Press ENTER/YES, or press PAGE and then F1 (FX Ins), to display the EFFECT INSERT screen.
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VS2480OMUS.book 218 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects 6. 7. You can adjust the level of the signal going into the insert effect using the effect’s Snd control. You can also adjust the Rtn level of the signal as it leaves the effect. With a single insert effect, you’ll typically adjust these settings only if there’s a problem with the sound of the effect. If you’re constructing an insert effect chain, repeat Steps 5 and 6 for each desired insert effect.
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VS2480OMUS.book 219 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects MASTER Bus Insert Effects Where Effects are Inserted MASTER bus insert effects are inserted onto the MASTER bus just before its final level control—the MASTER fader. Use an insert effect on the MASTER bus if an entire mix needs a particular type of processing.
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VS2480OMUS.book 220 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Selecting, Editing and Saving Effect Patches You’ll find the screens on which you select, edit and save effect patches in the EFFECT menu. To view the EFFECT menu, press the EFFECT button. MENU PROJECT TRACK EFFECT UTILITY The EFFECT VIEW Screen When you press the EFFECT MENU button, the EFFECT VIEW screen appears.
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VS2480OMUS.book 221 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects When a processor’s Bypass feature is turned on, any signals sent to the processor go around it instead of through it, so the signals are not processed. In essence, the effect is turned off. Therefore, if BYPASS is: • Off—the effect processor is on. • On—the effect processor is off. When a processor is bypassed, it remains that way until you reset its BYPASS switch.
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VS2480OMUS.book 222 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Preset and User Effect Patches The VS-2480’s memory contains 250 “preset” patches designed to meet a wide range of effect-processing needs. The preset patches can’t be erased or modified—though you can use them as the basis for your own patches—so they’re always there for you to use. You can also store 200 of your own “user” patches in the VS-2480’s memory.
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VS2480OMUS.book 223 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Match the Patch to the Project When a project’s sampling rate is 64 kHz or higher—see Page 96—patches based on the following algorithms become grayed out and can’t be used: • • • Reverb • Voice Transformer • Mastering Tool Kit Gate Reverb Mic Modeling • • Vocoder2 (19) Speaker Modeling Selecting an Effect Patch To navigate to an effect’s PATCH SELECT screen if you’re not already there: 1. 2. 3. 4. Press EFFECT.
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VS2480OMUS.book 224 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects It’s not uncommon for a patch to have more parameters than will fit on one screen. When this is the case, you can navigate between the patch’s screens by pressing F2 (NEXT) to move to the next editing screen, or F1 (PREV) to move back. All changes you make to a patch can be heard as soon as the next signal is sent into the effect processor.
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VS2480OMUS.book 225 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Until you begin saving your own patches, all of the user effect patches are merely copies of the first 200 preset patches, so feel free to replace any of them—you won’t be losing anything you don’t already have as a preset patch. Saving an Effect Patch 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Press EFFECT. If the F button for the desired effect processor isn’t visible, press PAGE. Press the processor’s F button to display its Algorithm View screen.
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VS2480OMUS.book 226 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 16—Using Effects Microphone Modeling Microphone modeling can make audio captured by an inexpensive mic sound like it’s been captured by one of the world’s best studio mics. In order to create a realistic microphone model, the VS-2480 needs to know the sonic characteristics of the mic you’re really using.
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VS2480OMUS.book 227 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Return Channels When you press TR 17-24/FX RTN•V-FADER, the eight right-most channel strips— labeled “FX RTN 1-8”—are FX return channels that control the stereo outputs of Effects 1-8, respectively, when they’re set up as loop effects.
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VS2480OMUS.book 228 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels The Main FX Return CH EDIT Screen 1. 2. Press TR 17-24/FX RTN•V-FADER to activate channel strip control of FX Return Channels 1-8. Press the desired FX return channel’s CH EDIT button—its main CH EDIT VIEW screen appears. 9. 1. 3. 4. 10. 2. 5. 11. 6. 7. 8. 12. 13. 1. ASSIGN The ASSIGN selector designates the Aux bus that carries signals to the FX return channel’s effect processor.
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VS2480OMUS.book 229 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels 5. DIR 1-8 Using the DIR 1-8 parameters, you can route the effect to an output after sending in to any of the eight Direct busses (Page 208). You can use a pre- or post-fader Direct bus, as explained on Page 209. Chapter 22 describes working with the VS-2480 outputs. DIR Bus 1 is selected and highlighted here. To send an effect to a Direct bus from its FX return channel: 1. 2. Select the desired DIR parameter box.
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VS2480OMUS.book 230 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels 11. MIX When MIX is turned on, the effect is sent to the MASTER bus. When it’s off, it’s not. To add the effect to a mix, make sure MIX is turned on. Listen to an effect as you record a track—without recording the effect—by sending the track channel’s signal to the effect, setting MIX to On and making sure the effect isn’t routed to the track (Page 231). You’ll hear the effect in the MASTER mix as you record. 12.
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VS2480OMUS.book 231 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels The FX Return Parameter View Screen Selected channel and parameter The FX return channels’ Parameter View feature lets you view, and adjust the value of, the currently selected parameter for all of the FX return channels at once. To activate Parameter View, press F6 (PRM.V) from an FX return channel’s main CH EDIT screen. F6 (PRM.V) is available only when the currently selected parameter can be displayed in Parameter View.
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VS2480OMUS.book 232 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels Quick Routing an FX Return Channel 1. 2. Press TR 1-16 or TR 17-24/FX RTN to select the group of channels that contains the track channels for the linked pair of tracks to which you want to send the effect. Hold down either destination track channel’s TRACK STATUS button for a second or so until the QUICK ROUTING screen appears. Hard Disk Recorder Tracks 1-24 We pressed the TRACK STATUS button for linked Track 17.
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VS2480OMUS.book 233 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels FX Return Routing on the EZ Routing VIEW Screen 1. Press EZ ROUTING. The gray arrows at the left edge of the screen show the direction in which signal flows. When you’re recording effects onto tracks, signal flows up from the FX return channels to the hard disk recorder tracks. Hard Disk Recorder Tracks 1-24 FX Return Channels 1-8 2. 3. 4. 5.
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VS2480OMUS.book 234 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 17—Working with FX Channels Adding Effects to a Headphone Mix When you’ve created a headphone mix using an Aux bus, it’s easy to add an effect to any of its signals. Send each channel’s signal to the effect as desired. The following steps describe how to route the effect to the Aux bus: 1. 2. 3. Press TR-17-24•FX RTN to select the group of channels that includes the eight FX returns channels.
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VS2480OMUS.book 235 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks This chapter provides an introduction to the editing of audio data on VS-2480 tracks. The first part of the chapter explains important editing concepts. The second part explains how to use the various available editing methods. Chapter 6 explains how audio data is recorded on the VS-2480, and provides explanations for some important terms: take, phrase, V-Track and track. See Page 86.
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VS2480OMUS.book 236 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Edit Points The VS-2480 provides a set of special markers just for editing—these markers are called “edit points.”The IN and OUT edit points define regions of data. The FROM and TO edit points help you accurately position phrases and regions you’re moving or copying. Use the VS-2480’s Scrub feature for the most precise positioning of the timeline when you’re placing edit points. Scrub is described on Page 184.
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VS2480OMUS.book 237 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Therefore, as a convenience: • • when you select a phrase, the VS-2480 automatically places the FROM point at the beginning of the phrase. If you select multiple phrases, FROM is placed at the front of the first phrase you select. when you place an IN point to define the beginning of a region, the VS-2480 automatically sets FROM to the same location.
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VS2480OMUS.book 238 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks When a phrase or region is selected, it’s outline becomes dotted. Selected phrases Selected regions When audio is selected, it has a dotted outline. If its track is also selected, it’s white. If not, it’s black. If you select audio on one of a pair of linked tracks, the audio on the other linked track is also selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 239 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks The track that’s currently selected for editing remains selected as you scroll through— and view—different tracks in the wave display. You can see the name of the currently selected track in the top left corner of the display, a portion of the Home screen that’s still visible. The wave display itself tells you which track you’re viewing there.
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VS2480OMUS.book 240 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks What Each Editing Method Offers Your Mouse Mouse editing provides an enjoyably tactile editing experience. When you edit with a mouse, you can select phrases or regions by clicking and dragging. You can move them by simply dragging them to the desired locations, and even copy them as you drag—a set of placement cursors help you position moved or copied phrases and regions where you wish them to go.
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VS2480OMUS.book 241 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Editing with a Mouse The Edit Pop-Up Menu The mouse works in conjunction with the Edit Pop-Up menu during phrase and region editing. You can set edit points from the menu—see Page 242—and perform quite a few other editing-related actions as described below. In this illustration, the IN point is selected. To view and use the Edit Pop-Up menu: 1. 2. 3.
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VS2480OMUS.book 242 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks To: Right-click and: Perform seven of the most common phrase or region editing operations (Page 246) select the desired operation from the menu. You can select only those operations for which the required edit points have been set.
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VS2480OMUS.book 243 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Selecting Phrases By Clicking or Dragging Your Mouse When PHRASE•REGION•AUTOMIX is lit green, you can select a phrase using the mouse by clicking on the desired phrase or dragging across it. In addition, you can drag vertically or diagonally across multiple tracks to select one phrase on each, or you can hold down SHIFT and click the phrase on each track you’d like to select.
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VS2480OMUS.book 244 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks You can also drag from right to left, setting the OUT and then the IN and FROM points. As you drag, any data that you drag across is also selected. To unselect any of this data, cursor to its track and press ENTER/YES. The FROM point is placed at the start of the earliest data you select. You can move the FROM position manually using any method described late in this chapter.
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VS2480OMUS.book 245 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Copying Data by Dragging with Your Mouse 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Set the PHRASE•REGION•AUTOMIX button as desired. Select the desired phrase(s) or region(s). The FROM point is automatically placed at the front of the earliest data you select. Reset the FROM point to another location if you want to. Move your mouse cursor over the desired data. The cursor changes to an opened hand to show that you can grab the data.
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VS2480OMUS.book 246 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Position Cursors As you drag phrases or regions in the playlist to move or copy them, watch the closedhand cursor. It changes to help you place the moved or copied data precisely by showing you when the moving TO point (Page 236) is touching certain key locations: When the closed hand turns to: The TO point is precisely placed at: the original position of the front edge of the selected data if you haven’t dragged up or down.
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VS2480OMUS.book 247 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Editing with the TRACK EDIT Buttons This section describes how to perform seven of the most common track phrase and region edits using the TRACK EDIT buttons, the cursor buttons, SHIFT and the TIME/VALUE dial. TRACK EDIT COPY COPY MOVE TRIM IN TRIM OUT SPLIT NEW PHRASE COMP / EXP.
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VS2480OMUS.book 248 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks If you select a phrase or region on one of a pair of linked tracks, the phrase—if it’s touching the timeline—or region on the other linked track is also selected. You can use the steps above to select or unselect phrases or regions on different tracks, one at a time. Moving or Copying Data Using the TRACK EDIT Buttons When you copy or move data, you can use the VS-2480’s buttons to select the desired destination track, or tracks: 1. 2. 3.
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VS2480OMUS.book 249 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Editing from the TRACK Menu MENU PROJECT TRACK EFFECT UTILITY You can perform any phrase or region editing operation from the TRACK menu. The parameters unique to each phrase or region editing operation are described in Chapters 19 and 20, respectively.
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VS2480OMUS.book 250 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks Performing an Edit Operation from the TRACK Menu 1. 2. 3. Press the TRACK menu button. If the desired edit menu isn’t displayed: • press F6 (Ph→Reg) to switch to the TRACK REGION EDIT MENU screen. • press F6 (Reg→Ph) to switch to the TRACK PHRASE EDIT MENU screen. Begin the desired edit operation by: • clicking its F button—Each menu’s available operations are arranged on a set of tabbed layers.
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VS2480OMUS.book 251 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks When you select and begin an editing operation that requires the selection of phrases or regions, the TRACK STATUS buttons—and sometimes the SELECT buttons—start to flash. You use these buttons to quick-select the tracks that contain the desired phrases or regions. When you select the track: • • any phrase on the track that’s touching the timeline is selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 252 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks The V-Track map on the display shows you which V-Tracks are currently selected for editing. Any V-Track with a flashing, wide white box is selected for editing. After you’ve selected the desired phrase(s) or regions(s), set up the rest of the edit operation on the display.
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VS2480OMUS.book 253 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 18—Editing Tracks 4. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the desired destination V-Track. Be careful not to select the same V-Track as a destination for more than one source. You can use the onscreen tools together with the Quick Selection feature to jump from one track’s currently selected V-Track to another track’s currently selected V-Track without having to turn the TIME/VALUE dial to get there.
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VS2480OMUS.book 255 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations This chapter describes the phrase-based editing operations you can perform in the VS-2480. Most of the operations can be performed using a mouse, the TRACK EDIT buttons or the edit commands presented in the TRACK menu. Some can be performed only from the TRACK menu. We’ll list the way(s) each operation can be performed. Chapter 18, “Editing Tracks,” explains: • • • • • important editing concepts you need to know—see Page 235.
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VS2480OMUS.book 256 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations Times This sets the number of copies to be pasted, one after another, at the TO point. Quantize When Times is set to a number other than 1, Quantize lets you paste the copied phrases precisely on the first beat of the tempo map’s measures. You can set Quantize to: • • Off—so that copies are pasted according to the Overlap setting described below.
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VS2480OMUS.book 257 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations MOVE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Phrase MOVE lets you place a selected phrase in a new location. You can move a phrase to a new time location and/or to another track. You can move it to a currently selected V-Track, or to a V-Track that isn’t currently selected. TRACK menu F2 (MOVE) The TRACK menu’s phrase MOVE operation lets you move phrases to V-Tracks that aren’t currently selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 258 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations TRIM OUT Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu TRIM OUT allows you to adjust the location at which a selected phrase ends without changing the timing of its audio content. TRACK menu F4 (TrmOut) Why You’d Use Phrase TRIM OUT Use TRIM OUT to remove unwanted audio from the end of a phrase. You can also use TRIM OUT to get rid of unwanted studio noise and conversation after the audio you want to keep.
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VS2480OMUS.book 259 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations Edit Points TO—sets the point at which a selected phrase is split. Here’s an easy way to set the SPLIT TO point: move the timeline to the desired location and press F2 (GetNow). NEW Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu You can create a new phrase from any of the project’s takes stored on your hard drive—to learn about takes, see Page 86.
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VS2480OMUS.book 260 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations Track Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select any V-Track in the project as the V-Track on which the new phrase is to be created. You can quick-select any currently active V-Track as a destination for the new phrase by selecting its track—press the track’s TRACK STATUS button so it lights solidly. NORMALIZE Use: TRACK menu Normalization raises the level of a phrase to its optimal volume.
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VS2480OMUS.book 261 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations Why You’d Use Phrase DIVIDE Phrase DIVIDE breaks up a longer phrase into smaller phrases so that you can more easily work with the elements of a recording on an individual basis. It seeks to achieve the same result as phrase SPLIT (Page 258), but it does so automatically, and by working with an entire phrase in a single editing operation. IN Threshold The IN Threshold sets the level at which a new phrase begins.
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VS2480OMUS.book 262 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 19—Phrase Editing Operations Take Mngr Use: TRACK menu The Take Mngr (“Take Manager”) shows you all of the project’s takes currently on your hard drive. A black box to the left of a take means that it’s used by a phrase in the project. TRACK menu F1 (TAKE) The numbers and letters to the right of a take’s name are its hexadecimal file identification. If you’re not sure what a take is, see Page 86.
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VS2480OMUS.book 263 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations This chapter explains the editing operations you can perform on regions in the VS-2480. Since region editing operations work on a chunk of time within a track, you can think of them as track editing operations—some of them do, in fact, affect an entire track. You can perform most region operations using a mouse, the TRACK EDIT buttons or the edit commands presented in the TRACK menu. Some are available only in the TRACK menu.
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VS2480OMUS.book 264 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations You can also easily loop rhythm patterns using the VS-2480’s phrase sequencer, which is described in Chapter 21. Edit Points • • • • IN—sets the beginning of the audio region to be copied. OUT—sets the end of the audio region to be copied. FROM—sets the location of the region’s time anchor. TO—sets the time location at which you want to paste the time anchor.
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VS2480OMUS.book 265 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations MOVE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu The region MOVE edit operation moves the selected audio to a new location. You can move a region to a new time location and/or to another track. You can move it to a currently selected V-Track, or to a V-Track that isn’t currently selected. TRACK menu F2 (MOVE) The TRACK menu’s region MOVE operation lets you move phrases to V-Tracks that aren’t currently selected.
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VS2480OMUS.book 266 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations Why You’d Use Region INSERT You’d use region INSERT if you wanted to shift audio to a later time in the project, leaving empty sonic space before it. You can use INSERT to add a pause between sections of a musical piece by inserting the same amount of blank time into all of the project’s tracks. Edit Points • • IN—sets beginning of the blank space you’re inserting. OUT—sets the end of the blank space you’re inserting.
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VS2480OMUS.book 267 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations AllVTr Turn AllVTr on if you want to remove the chunk of time from all of the V-Tracks belonging to a selected track. ERASE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Erase removes a specified region from a selected track, leaving all of its other audio where it is.
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VS2480OMUS.book 268 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations Once you’ve defined the desired region, the location of the TO point determines whether the region’s audio will be stretched out or shrunk. If the TO point is: • • before the OUT point—the region’s audio is made shorter in duration. after the OUT point—the region is made longer in duration. Compression IN Expansion TO OUT IN OUT TO Why You’d Want to Use Region COMP/EXP. You can use COMP/EXP.
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VS2480OMUS.book 269 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations IMPORT Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu You can import a track from another project recorded using the same sampling rate and recording mode as the current project. TRACK menu F2 (IMPORT) You can import CDR-mode disk-image audio (Page 340) into any project, regardless of its sampling rate or recording mode. If the project uses the CDR mode, you can import the image to any V-Tracks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 270 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations EXCHANGE Use: TRACK menu Region EXCHANGE allows you to swap audio regions between source and destination tracks. TRACK menu F3 (Exchng) Why You’d Use Region EXCHANGE Region EXCHANGE lets you re-organize a project’s tracks to make them easier to work with. Also, you can use EXCHANGE to re-order tracks to facilitate channel linking.
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VS2480OMUS.book 271 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations Creating a New Playlist On the region ARRANGE main screen: 1. 2. Press F1 (CREATE) to create the first segment of the new playlist. Cursor to the segment’s Start marker number. Start marker number 3. 4. 5. 6. End marker number Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the marker at the start of the desired section. Cursor to the segment’s End marker number. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the marker at the end of the section.
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VS2480OMUS.book 272 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 20—Region Editing Operations The TO location is the place in the project where the playlist is to start. If you select a TO location that’s before or somewhere in the middle of the project’s currently active playlist, the new playlist is placed on top of the older one, taking the place of the older playlist wherever they overlap.
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VS2480OMUS.book 273 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads When the VS-2480’s Phrase Pad feature is activated, you can use each of the VS-2480’s 24 TRACK STATUS/PHRASE PAD buttons as a performance device that lets you play a phrase from its corresponding track.
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VS2480OMUS.book 274 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Understanding the Phrase Pads What a Phrase Pad Plays Beginning of the project Each phrase pad plays the first phrase that’s on its corresponding hard disk recorder track. If you want a phrase pad to play a phrase from somewhere in the middle of a track, you can: • • Copy the desired phrase to one of the track’s unused V-Tracks, and then select that V-Track (Page 151) when you’re using the phrase pads.
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VS2480OMUS.book 275 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Activating Phrase Pad Mode 1. 2. Press PHRASE PAD PLAY•PHRASE SEQ, and: • the button lights solid green to show that the phrase pads are now turned on. • the PHRASE PAD buttons turn amber for each track channel whose PhrPAD parameter is turned on. To turn off Phrase Pad mode, repeat Step 1.
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VS2480OMUS.book 276 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads You can record, or “sequence,” your phrase pad performance into the VS-2480’s phrase sequencer using either of two approaches. You can sequence: • • in realtime—by performing on the phrase pad buttons as your hard disk recorder tracks play. This method offers the most “musical” sequencing experience.
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VS2480OMUS.book 277 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads What the Appearance of Sequenced Data Means Each sequencer track in the playlist on the PHRASE SEQUENCE screen and the Home screen shows its recorded phrase pad performance. You can see where you struck the pad, and you can see the shape of the phrase playback produced by each strike. The recorded phrase data produced by each phrase pad strike is shown as a black box with a bar at either end.
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VS2480OMUS.book 278 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads The phrase sequencer’s Undo feature is completely separate from the hard disk recorder’s. Sequencing actions don’t appear in the standard Undo list, and the UNDO•REDO indicator doesn’t light when a phrase sequencer redo is available. The phrase sequencer Undo feature is available on the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen. To use it, navigate to a PHRASE SEQUENCE screen and: 1. 2. 3.
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VS2480OMUS.book 279 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Step Entry In step entry phrase sequencing, the VS-2480 doesn’t play through the project as it normally does—you control when and how the sequencer moves forward in time. With the sequencer stopped, you enter phrase pad strikes where you want them. During step entry, you won’t hear your hard disk recorder tracks as you enter phrase pad strikes. You can hear them when the sequence is played back.
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VS2480OMUS.book 280 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads 11. Press ZERO, or return the timeline to the location you started at in Step 10. 12. Press PLAY to hear the sequence. 13. If you want to try again, repeat Steps 6-12. You can edit your sequenced track to perfect it, as described on Page 281. Phrase Sequencing Using Step Entry without AutoLoc 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Navigate to a PHRASE SEQUENCE screen (Page 276). If”AutoLoc” isn’t visible above F1, press PAGE.
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VS2480OMUS.book 281 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Editing a Phrase Sequence Edit your sequenced data using the PHRASE SEQUENCE screens. You can perform many standard phrase and region editing operations on phrase sequencer data using the mouse and TRACK EDIT buttons—TRACK menu commands apply only to hard disk recorder tracks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 282 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Quantizing Phrase Sequence Data On the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, you’ll see F1 (Qtize) (“Quantize”). Quantizing moves the start of any selected phrase—or phrase within a selected group of phrases—to the nearest 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 note to correct performance timing errors. You can select one or more phrases you want to quantize the same way you’d select them in track editing: as phrases or as regions.
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VS2480OMUS.book 283 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Micro-Editing Sequencer Data On the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, press F4 (MICRO) to view the MICRO EDIT screen. On this screen, you can manually change the start time and the length of each sequenced phrase. You can also delete phrases on this screen. To view the desired track’s sequenced data, press F1 (Tr Inc) or F2 (Tr Dec) to move higher or lower, respectively, through the phrase sequencer’s list of sequence tracks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 284 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Using Tie, Rest and BackStep On the second PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, the Tie and Backstep features use the position of the timeline to change the duration of the closest phrase on the selected track within a specified time window to the left of the timeline. Rest moves the timeline by the selected amount. The arrow to the left of the playlist selects the sequence track whose phrase is affected by Tie or BackStep.
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VS2480OMUS.book 285 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads If the timeline backsteps beyond the start of a phrase it’s touching, the entire phrase is deleted. The amount of time by which the timeline moves and the time window are determined by F2’s setting. When: • • • F2 (Length)—the timeline moves forward or back by an amount of time equal to the shortest phrase it’s touching.
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VS2480OMUS.book 286 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 21—Using the Phrase Pads Bouncing Phrase Sequence Tracks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 286 If you’re not in Phrase Sequence mode, hold down SHIFT and press PHRASE PAD PLAY•PHRASE SEQ so that it lights solid red to indicate that the phrase sequencer is ready to play back its data. Make sure that the PHRASE SEQ STATUS button for any sequence track you want to bounce is green.
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VS2480OMUS.book 287 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 22—Working with the VS-2480 Outputs The VS-2480 offers a wide range of analog output jacks and digital connectors from which you can send its audio signals to external devices. This chapter discusses how to route signals to them and how they can be used. The VS-2480 Outputs Output Pairs The VS-2480’s analog and digital outputs are managed as left/right or odd/even output pairs when you’re routing signals to them. These pairs are fixed, and can’t be altered.
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VS2480OMUS.book 288 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs R-BUS Connectors The VS-2480’s two R-BUS connectors each provide eight input and eight output channels of digital audio. (During routing we refer to each channel as a “connector.”) You can send signals out of the VS-2480 digitally to any R-BUS device. You can find setup instructions for R-BUS devices in the “Supplemental Information” chapter at the back of the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual.
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VS2480OMUS.book 289 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs If the TRACK DIRECT OUT parameter is turned on, turn it off to activate bus routing. When you do this, routings between tracks and outputs are de-activated, though their connections remain in place. The output jack and connector pairs run along the top of the screen, and the bus pairs run up and down its left edge. 4. Use or to select the desired pair of output jacks or digital connectors. 5.
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VS2480OMUS.book 290 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs Track direct outs are a great way to transfer tracks to a TASCAM DA series recorder or ADAT multitrack recorder connected via R-BUS and DIF-AT to the VS-2480. You can also route a track to an R-BUS output to digitally transfer the track’s audio to a computer with an RPC-1 PCI card for editing or effect processing. Routing a Pair of Tracks to a Pair of Outputs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Press EZ ROUTING.
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VS2480OMUS.book 291 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing The EZ ROUTING screens are where you go to set up the connections that allow signals to travel within the VS-2480. This chapter provides an overview of the EZ ROUTING screens we’ve been discussing all along, and describes the VS-2480’s helpful EZ Routing tools.
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VS2480OMUS.book 292 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing EZ ROUTING VIEW Screen The EZ ROUTING VIEW screen shows—and allows you to interconnect—all of your: • • • • input jacks and connectors Aux busses hard disk recorder tracks FX return channels • • • input channels Direct busses track channels The gray arrows at the left edge of the screen show the direction in which signal is flowing.
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VS2480OMUS.book 293 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing On the PATCH BAY screen, you can route the following jacks and connectors to input channels: • • • • the 16 analog input jacks (XLR and 1/4”) The R-BUS 1 and R-BUS 2 connectors’ total of 16 digital channels the stereo coaxial S/P DIF digital connector the stereo optical S/P DIF digital connector The gray arrows at the left edge of the screen show the direction in which signal is flowing.
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VS2480OMUS.book 294 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing On this screen, you can also configure the track direct outputs so that they’re pre-fader or post fader (Page 290), and adjust the overall hard disk recorder track recording level using the REC ATT parameter (Page 201). Making Connections on the EZ ROUTING OUTPUT ASSIGN Screen For the purposes of routing, busses are treated as odd/even pairs that can include two mono busses or one stereo bus. Tracks are also routed in pairs.
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VS2480OMUS.book 295 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing EZ Routing Tools The EZ Routing tools that appear at the bottom of the EZ ROUTING VIEW, PATCH BAY, OUTPUT and EFFECT screens allow you to clear and initialize connections between inputs and input channels—patch bay connections—and the routing of any signals to the hard disk recorder tracks. When the patch bay connections are: • initialized—analog input jacks 1-16 and R-BUS 1 connectors 1-8 are connected to input channels 1-24.
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VS2480OMUS.book 296 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing Saving and Loading EZ Routing Templates As you use your VS-2480, you’ll spend lots of time creating routing setups for the various situations in which you’ll be recording and mixing. You can save a routing setup—along with a host of other parameters—as an EZ Routing template that you can use in any project. When you recall a template, all of the routings and parameter values it contains are instantly restored, saving you lots of setup time.
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VS2480OMUS.book 297 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 23—EZ Routing Loading an EZ Routing Template Before loading an EZ Routing template, it’s a good idea to turn your listening level down all the way in case the template’s new connections and settings cause feedback, result in unwanted noises or cause other problems. 1. 2. 3. Press EZ ROUTING. If “LOAD” isn’t visible above F5, press PAGE until it is. Press F5 (LOAD)—the EZ ROUTING TEMPLATE LOAD screen appears. 4. 5.
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VS2480OMUS.book 299 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization This chapter discusses the VS-2480’s MIDI capabilities. The VS-2480 can: • • • act as a MIDI control surface that lets you manipulate parameters in an external MIDI device. be operated remotely from an external MIDI device. transmit its internal settings via MIDI to an external MIDI storage device.
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VS2480OMUS.book 300 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization MIDI OUT or THRU? The VS-2480’s MIDI OUT/THRU parameter sets the behavior of the MIDI OUT/THRU jack on the VS-2480’s rear panel. It can be set to: • • Out—so that MIDI data produced by the VS-2480 is transmitted to connected external MIDI devices. This is the typical setting. Thru—so that MIDI data received by the VS-2480 passes through and exits the VS-2480 unchanged.
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VS2480OMUS.book 301 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Using the VS-2480 as a MIDI Control Surface 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI OUT/THRU jack to the MIDI IN of the device you want to control from the VS-2480. Navigate to the MIDI parameter screen (Page 299). Set MIDI OUT/THRU to Out. Press F6 (EXIT). Press PAGE once. Press F6 (V.FDR)—the first V.FADER/USER screen appears. On the three V.
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VS2480OMUS.book 302 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Remote Control of the VS-2480 with SysEx Messages You can control the VS-2480 using SysEx messages in either of two ways. Create SysEx Messages Manually You can manually program the SysEx messages in an external MIDI device for transmission to the VS-2480. This method requires an in-depth understanding of MIDI programming—see the VS-2480 Appendices for details.
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VS2480OMUS.book 303 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Changing Effect Patches via MIDI You can remotely select effect patches by sending the VS-2480 the appropriate Bank Select and Program Change messages on the effect’s MIDI channel. Effects 1-8 respond to messages received on MIDI Channels 1-8, respectively. Bank MSB (C.C. 0): Bank LSB (C.C.
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VS2480OMUS.book 304 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization To enable Control Change reception on the VS-2480: 1. 2. 3. 4. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI IN jack to the external device’s MIDI OUT jack. Navigate to the MIDI parameter screen (Page 299). Set MIXER CONTROL TYPE to C.C. (“Control Change”). If you want to edit effects using NRPNs, turn on the EFFECT C.C. Rx Sw (“EFFECT Control Change Receive Switch”) parameter.
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VS2480OMUS.book 305 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization 7. 8. 9. If you want to include EZ Routing user template data in the dump, turn on the EZR Usr Tmplt section’s BULK Tx Sw and select a single EZ Routing template or ALL templates for its BULK Tx TARGET parameter. To include one or all of your user effect patches, turn on the Usr FX section’s BULK Tx Sw parameter and set its BULK Tx TARGET to ALL or a selected user effect patch.
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VS2480OMUS.book 306 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Setting Up a MIDI Metronome Prepare the external MIDI device that’ll be producing your metronome sounds by configuring it to receive data on a MIDI channel of your choice, and by selecting a rhythm kit-type sound that plays a different percussion sound on each note. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI OUT/THRU jack to the MIDI IN jack of the device whose sounds you want to use as a metronome.
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VS2480OMUS.book 307 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Synchronization Why Sync the VS-2480? The ability to synchronize the VS-2480—specifically, its hard disk recorder—with other devices can be useful in a variety of situations. Working with a MIDI Sequencer You can sync the VS-2480 to any kind of sequencer—a standalone hardware sequencer, a computer sequencing program or the sequencer in a beat box.
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VS2480OMUS.book 308 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization SMPTE/MTC The film and video industries use a steady stream of timing data called “SMPTE time code” to keep devices tightly synchronized with each other as they play. A form of SMPTE called “MIDI Time Code,” or “MTC” can be transmitted and received through MIDI cables along with other MIDI data. Both SMPTE and MTC provide very accurate synchronization.
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VS2480OMUS.book 309 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization numbers per second. It can either show 29 per second or 30, but there’s no way to display only a fraction of a counter number—a number’s either shown or it isn’t. A technique called the “drop frame” was devised by the video industry to deal with this. With a frame rate called “29.97 drop,” the first two frames in every minute are discarded except for the first minute and every tenth minute.
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VS2480OMUS.book 310 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization • data can then be sent back to the sequencer, slaving it to the VS-2480. You can also construct a sync track for a new or already recorded project using markers. In addition, the VS-2480 can use information you provide about an already recorded project to create a new sync track. See Page 311 for details on using a sync track. tempo map—an editable stream of MIDI clock/SPP synchronization data.
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VS2480OMUS.book 311 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Working with a Sync Track Recording a Sync Track from an External Device Prepare the external device that’s supplying the sync track data by setting it to transmit MIDI clocks. 1. 2. 3. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI IN jack to the MIDI OUT of the device from which you want to transmit the MIDI clocks. Navigate to the SYNC screen (Page 310).
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VS2480OMUS.book 312 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Hold down SHIFT and press TAP—the TEMPO MAP screen appears. Press F1 (TM Cnv) to display the TEMPO MAP CONVERT window. Set to CONVERT TYPE to Time → SyncTrk. Set the START TIME parameter to the time at which the project’s audio starts. Set the END TIME parameter underneath it to the time at which the project ends. Enter the number of measures and the project’s time signature.
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VS2480OMUS.book 313 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization The Elements of a Tempo Map A map In a tempo map, each tempo or time signature change in a project is represented by a group of parameters collectively called a “map.”The maps are numbered starting with “1” in the order in which they occur in the project. A map contains the following parameters: • • • Meas (“Measure”)—the measure at which the map’s settings take effect.
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VS2480OMUS.book 314 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Hold down SHIFT as you turn the TIME/VALUE dial to move through BPM values in whole-BPM-number steps. A project’s audio rarely starts at Time 00h00m00s00f00, and when the tempo map starts, so will a sequencer slaved to the VS-2480. You can use the SYNC OFFSET TIME parameter on the SYNC PARAMETER screen (Page 310) to delay the start of the tempo map.
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VS2480OMUS.book 315 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization Setting Up the VS-2480 as the Sync Master 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Navigate to the MIDI PARAMETER screen (Page 299). If the VS-2480 is connected to the slave device with a MIDI cable, set MIDI OUT/ THRU to Out. If you’re using an R-BUS connection, skip this step. If the device you’re syncing to the VS-2480 supports MMC (Page 309), turn on the SysEx. Tx Sw parameter and set MMC MODE to MASTER.
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VS2480OMUS.book 316 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization 5. Set SYNC MODE to EXT, for “External” so that the VS-2480 uses the master device’s timing to operate. If you prefer, you can wait until you’re ready to begin synchronized playback and press the EXT SYNC button to activate the VS-2480’s use of external sync. 6. 7. 8. The SYNC with GAP parameter determines how the VS-2480 responds to small gaps, or “dropouts,” that often occur in time code for a variety of reasons.
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VS2480OMUS.book 317 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 24—MIDI and Synchronization You can shift, or “offset,” the project’s start time to solve this problem so that whenever the master starts over, your project begins at the top. To offset the project start time: 1. 2. 3. Press UTILITY. If “Proj” isn’t visible above F3, press PAGE until it is. Press F3 (Proj). The DISPLAY OFFSET TIME parameter shifts the project’s start time.
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VS2480OMUS.book 319 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 25—Surround The VS-2480 can generate Surround mixes in three popular Surround formats, allowing you to place input, track or FX return channel signals anywhere in Surround’s threedimensional space. This chapter describes how to set up for Surround mixing on the VS-2480, and how to deliver output signals for Surround encoding.
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VS2480OMUS.book 320 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 25—Surround How the VS-2480 Delivers Surround When its Surround mode is active, the VS-2480 assigns an Aux bus to each of the Surround speakers, or “stems,” in the currently selected Surround format. Signals panned to a stem are automatically sent to its Aux bus. The Aux busses are routed by default to the VS-2480’s analog output jacks and digital connectors.
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VS2480OMUS.book 321 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 25—Surround Turning on Surround Mode To create a Surround mix, you must be in Surround mode. 1. 2. 3. Press UTILITY. If “Surrnd” isn’t visible above F3, press PAGE until it is. Press F3 (Surrnd) to view the SURROUND screen. 4. 5. Set SURROUND MIX MODE to the desired Surround format. Turn the SURROUND MIX Sw parameter on. The VS-2480 reminds you that it’s about to re-configure your Aux busses, and asks if you’re sure you want to switch to Surround mode.
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VS2480OMUS.book 322 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 25—Surround Certain parameter values change when you turn on Surround mode. Parameter type: What Happens: Input and track channel CH EDIT parameters • • FX return channel CH EDIT parameters • MASTER EDIT parameters • ChLink is turned off for any linked channels. Surround placement controls replace the Aux bus send controls for any Aux busses used by the selected Surround format.
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VS2480OMUS.book 323 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 25—Surround Position ball This illustration shows the CH EDIT SURROUND screen for 3+2+1 Surround. The channel’s output level. This is the same as moving the channel’s fader or adjusting its CH EDIT FADER parameter. The amount of signal sent from the channel to the Surround Aux busses. 5. The position ball shows the current Surround placement of the channel’s signal.
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VS2480OMUS.book 325 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix This chapter describes how to perform automated mixing on the VS-2480 using its Automix feature. Automix allows you to create and perfect automated mixes. The Benefits of Automix Automated Mixdown Mixing is a challenging art, a delicate balance of attention to detail and artistic vision. It’s both a creative and clerical activity in which your project is turned into a final work that can be heard by other people.
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VS2480OMUS.book 326 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix How Do Automix Tracks Work? For every input, track, Aux bus and FX return channel there’s a dedicated Automix track. When Automix mode is active, a channel’s Automix track can capture or play back changes you make to its parameters. There are also Automix tracks for the MASTER bus, the Direct busses and for Effects 1-8.
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VS2480OMUS.book 327 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix The AUTOMIX STATUS Area The Automix track is set to: In the AUTOMIX STATUS area, select each Automix track and turn the TIME/VALUE dial to set it as desired. The appearance of each Automix track’s box shows you its current status. Write An Automix track can be set to: • • • Manual Read Manual—so the corresponding input, track, Aux master or FX return channel, MASTER fader or Direct bus doesn’t use Automix. Its parameters are set manually.
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VS2480OMUS.book 328 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Recording Automix Data You can record Automix data two ways: • • Realtime Automix—Realtime Automix records changes you make to mix settings as the project plays. This method captures every subtle change you make, and is the best method to use when you’re making constant adjustments to your parameter values over the course of a project. You can also punch in new parameter value changes in realtime.
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VS2480OMUS.book 329 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Realtime Punching of Automix Data You can re-record sections of your automated mix by punching in new Automix data on any Automix tracks that are set to Write mode. If you want to redo a section of automation at the very beginning of the project, use the recording procedure described on Page 328 and press STOP where you want the newly recorded automation to end.
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VS2480OMUS.book 330 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix 5. Hold down AUTOMIX, and at the location you want the punch to begin, press the desired Automix track’s AUTOMIX STATUS button—its indicator turns red to show that you’ve punched in and are now recording Automix data. 6. Perform the new parameter changes you want to automate. 7. To punch out, hold down AUTOMIX and press the Automix track’s AUTOMIX STATUS button again—its indicator turns green to show you’ve punched out. 8.
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VS2480OMUS.book 331 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Taking a Snapshot 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Move the timeline to the location at which you want to take a snapshot. If Automix isn’t already turned on, press AUTOMIX so that it lights solid amber. Hold down AUTOMIX and press the AUTOMIX STATUS button for any Automix track whose settings you want to capture so that the button turns red to signify that the Automix track is in Write mode.
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VS2480OMUS.book 332 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Targeting Automix Data Automix can record and play back more data than can possibly fit onscreen at once. Targeting allows you to select the Automix data and tracks you want to see and edit. 1. On the AUTOMIX EDIT screen, press F1 (TARGET)— the TARGET SELECT window appears. 2. Turn the TIME VALUE dial to highlight the desired target data.
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VS2480OMUS.book 333 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Automix Editing Methods You can perform any Automix editing operation using your mouse or the TRACK EDIT buttons. Both operate much the same as they do in track and phrase sequencer editing. Before editing Automix data, you must target the desired Automix tracks and the type of Automix data with which you want to work, as described on Page 332. Automix Editing with the Mouse Select and edit Automix data using the usual region editing methods.
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VS2480OMUS.book 334 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Automix Editing Operations Since all Automix edit operations affect regions of Automix data, they all use the IN and OUT edit points. We’ll note how FROM and TO are used where applicable. About Moving and Deleting Automix Data When you move or delete Automix data, the location from which you move or delete the data no longer contains its changes.
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VS2480OMUS.book 335 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix IN OUT TO IN OUT TO FROM is set to the same location as IN. Before After Edit point: What it does: FROM sets the location of the Automix data region’s time anchor TO sets the destination location for the time anchor When you move Automix data to a new location, it replaces any Automix data already present in the destination location.
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VS2480OMUS.book 336 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix COMP/EXP. The Automix COMP/EXP. (“COMPRESS/EXPAND) edit operations allow you to lower or raise parameter values in the selected region. COMP/EXP. actually contains three separate operations: • Compression and Expansion —change parameter values according to their distance from a specified threshold value (“T” stands for “Threshold” in the illustrations below).
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VS2480OMUS.book 337 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix Shift Shift allows you to raise or lower all parameter values in the selected region by a percentage of the parameter’s entire range of values. You can set Shift anywhere from -50—which reduces the parameters’ values by 50% of the parameter’s entire range—to 50, which increases them by 50%. You can shift a value only within its parameter’s stated range.
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VS2480OMUS.book 338 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 26—Automix On the AUTOMIX MICRO EDIT screen, you can individually edit the location and value of any Automix event. You can also delete any events you no longer want, and create new ones if you so choose. To leave the AUTOMIX MICRO EDIT screen, press F6 (EXIT). Micro-Editing Automix Data 1. 2. To view the desired Automix track’s data, press F1 (Tr Inc) or F2 (Tr Dec) to move higher or lower, respectively, through the currently targeted Automix tracks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 339 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Mastering Mastering is the process of turning your mix into a final, polished stereo recording, suitable for writing, or “burning,” onto an audio CD for your private use or for massduplication. The VS-2480’s Mastering Room and Mastering Tool Kit provide all the mastering tools you need.
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VS2480OMUS.book 340 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations CD audio is recorded at bit depth of a 16 bits. If you’ve recorded a project at 24 bits, the VS-2480 dithers its audio down internally to the required 16 bits during mastering—if you’re using the CDR recording mode (Page 340)—or during CD burning. Dither What’s Recorded on an Audio CD It’s important to understand that an audio CD contains just that: audio.
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VS2480OMUS.book 341 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations hard drive. It’s this stereo file that actually gets written onto the CD. A disk image file can be as large as 700MB depending on how much audio you’re packing onto a CD. The disk image file can be stored only on the VS-2480’s internal hard drive. A VS-2480 without an internal hard drive, therefore, can’t burn an audio CD.
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VS2480OMUS.book 342 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Using Project COMBINE You can also use the Project COMBINE operation (Page 104) to combine all of the projects into a single compilation project. If you’re doing a full-length CD, this project will be very large, and require lots of disk space. As with the first approach, you can edit each selection into position on the same pair of tracks—with 24 tracks to move, this can be a lot of work.
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VS2480OMUS.book 343 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Working in the VS-2480 Mastering Room Navigating to the Mastering Room 1. While holding down SHIFT, press CD-RW/MASTERING. The MASTERING ROOM screen appears. CD-RW SHIFT MASTERING + Mastering room parameters Project playlist Navigation buttons Turning On the Mastering Room To turn on the Mastering Room: 1. 2. Set the MASTERING ROOM on/off switch to On. To de-activate the Mastering Room, set its switch to Off.
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VS2480OMUS.book 344 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Selecting the Mastering V-Tracks Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the V-Tracks on which you want to record your mastering tracks. You can select any samenumbered pair of tracks belonging to Track 23 and 24, (Page 340). The currently selected mastering tracks appear as diamonds in the V-Track map shown in the Mastering Room and elsewhere.
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VS2480OMUS.book 345 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Use Auto Marker only if you’re sure your mastering tracks will require no editing after they’ve been recorded—otherwise, you’ll have to delete and re-place the CD track markers after moving your audio. To make your CD track markers line up numerically with your selections, place two standard markers as dummy markers in the first selection, as described on Page 348.
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VS2480OMUS.book 346 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 7. 8. 9. To hear your mastering tracks, set STATUS to Play. Press PLAY. If you’d like to re-do the mastering tracks, Repeat Steps 2-8 Stretching Effects If you’re using all of your effects in your mix, you won’t have any processing power left over for an MTK effect. Solve this dilemma by using the Mastering Room twice: • • The first time, you’ll create mastering tracks of your mix with the desired effects.
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VS2480OMUS.book 347 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 4. Use phrase editing to trim any extra space from the very beginning of the mastering track. During the actual burning of your audio CD, the VS-2480 places the first CD track marker at the beginning of the mastering track—trimming its front ensures that the CD track marker lines up with the first audio you want to hear, not silence, a countoff or other unwanted sounds.
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VS2480OMUS.book 348 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations You’ll find the process of placing CD track markers much simpler if the numbers of the CD track markers you place correspond to the numbering of the CD’s audio selections. There are a couple of things you can do to make this happen. Delete all of the project’s other markers When you do this, your marker numbering starts with a clean slate.
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VS2480OMUS.book 349 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations CD-R/RW Operations CD operations on the VS-2480 require a connected Roland-approved CD-R/RW drive. If you’re creating CDs, you’ll also need blank CD-R or CD-RW discs. All CD-R/RW operations described in the following sections start on the CD-RW MASTERING MENU screen. To get there: 1. Press CD-RW—the CD-RW MASTERING MENU screen appears. To learn how to connect a Roland-approved CD-R/RW drive to your VS-2480, see Page 381.
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VS2480OMUS.book 350 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Making Sure You Have Enough Space Before burning an audio CD, you’ll want to make sure your audio is going to fit on the blank CD-R or CD-RW. In addition, if your mastering tracks were created using any recording mode other than CDR mode, the VS-2480 will need the same amount of free space on your hard drive to create the necessary disk image file (Page 340) during the CD-burning process.
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VS2480OMUS.book 351 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 3. 4. 5. Press CD-RW/MASTERING. Press F2 (CDWrit)—”Store Current?” appears on the display. Press ENTER/YES to store the most recent changes to your project—including any mastering tracks you’ve just created—or F2 (CDWrit) press EXIT/NO to proceed without re-saving your project. After your press the desired button, the VS-2480 performs a few setup operations—this takes a few moments.
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VS2480OMUS.book 352 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 11. Select the desired WRITING METHOD: Track at Once or Disk at Once (see Page 349). If you select Track at Once, make sure to use a CD-R disk. You can’t write a Track at Once CD-RW disk. 12. Set Finalize (Page 349) as desired. You can set it to: • Off—Use this setting when you’re burning audio on a Track at Once CD, and you’ll to be adding more audio later.
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VS2480OMUS.book 353 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations If You Encounter Error Messages During CD Burning The two error messages you’re most likely to see during CD burning are the following: • • Please Insert CD-R Disc! —If you see this message, there’s no CD-R or CD-RW disk in the burner, the burner’s tray isn’t closed, or the burner’s not ready for use. Not 44.1kHz Project!—If you see this, the tracks you’re trying to burn to the CD are not recorded at the required 44.
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VS2480OMUS.book 354 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations .WAV File Importing The VS-2480’s WAV Import feature allows you to load .WAV audio files from a data CD. There are many recordings and samples that use Microsoft’s .WAV format available on commercial CDs and on the Internet. When you import a .WAV file, you can place it on any track in the current project. The VS-2480 imports linear format (PCM) .WAV files. Both Windows and Mac OS computers can read .WAV files.
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VS2480OMUS.book 355 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Each file directory on the CD appears in the displayed list as a folder. To open a folder, select it and press F5 (ChgDir) for “Change Directory.” When you’re inside a folder, an upward arrow points you back to the folder’s parent directory. To move up and back out of the folder, highlight “<>” and press F5 (ChgDir) again. The list provides information about each of its .WAV files.
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VS2480OMUS.book 356 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations There’s nothing to prevent you from importing a .WAV file onto a track—and at a time location—where there’s already data. Be sure to select your destination V-Tracks and time location carefully—the imported data will replace whatever’s there. 8. Select the desired type of file conversion, as described in “Converting .WAV Files” on Page 354. 9. Press F5 (OK) to import the .
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VS2480OMUS.book 357 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 3. To select a V-Track for export on the Select Track screen, turn the TIME/VALUE dial to highlight the V-Track and press F4 (MARK) to place a checkmark next it. You can toggle on or off the selection status of all V-Tracks that contain data by pressing F3 (ALL)—this can be handy if you want to export all of your tracks as .WAV files. Turning the TIME/VALUE dial takes you through each of the project’s V-Tracks.
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VS2480OMUS.book 358 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Repeatedly press F4 (INFO) to display any of three types of information about the displayed phrases: their names, dates of creation, and sizes. 3. Select a phrase for export by cursoring to it using (MARK) to checkmark it. and and pressing F3 You can repeatedly press F2 (ALL) to select or unselect all of the currently available phrases at once. 4. When you’ve selected all of the phrases you want to export as .
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VS2480OMUS.book 359 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—Utility Menu Parameters The UTILITY MENU contains a wide array of parameters. Some of its screens present parameters that set the general behavior of the VS-2480—or its behavior when a particular project is loaded—while others offer detailed control of specific VS-2480 features. This chapter describes what you’ll find in the UTILITY menu.
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VS2480OMUS.book 360 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters SYSTEM UTILITY menu F1 (SYSTEM) PHANTOM SW The VS-2480 provides phantom power for its eight XLR inputs, as described on Page 130. Each input’s phantom power on/off switch is available in two places, on the EZ ROUTING PATCH BAY screen—described on Page 130—and on the SYSTEM Param1 screen. Setting an input’s ANALOG INPUT switch on the SYSTEM Param1 screen is the same as setting its PATCH BAY screen PHANTOM POWER on/off switch.
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VS2480OMUS.book 361 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters METER POSITION This parameter sets whether metered input, track, Aux master and FX return channel signals are shown before or after their faders on the MB-24. TIME DISPLAY TIME DISPLAY determines the time shown by the MB-24’s time counter. It can show: • • • MEASURE/BEAT—using the current time location display’s (Page 126) measure and beats counter. TIME CODE—using the current time location display’s time code counter.
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VS2480OMUS.book 362 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters H.POSITION Adjust the H.POSITION (“Horizontal Position”) parameter if you’d like to shift the image on your VGA monitor to the left (negative values) or to the right (positive values). You can move as far as -5 to the left or +5 to the right. V.POSITION Adjust the V.POSITION parameter if you’d like to shift the image on your VGA monitor downward (negative values) or upward (positive values) by as much as -11 down or +11 up.
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VS2480OMUS.book 363 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters • • • • TapMarker—so the foot switch acts like the TAP button: A press of the foot switch places a marker at the timeline’s current position. Next—so the foot switch acts like the NEXT button, moving the timeline to the next phrase or marker, according to the setting of the PREVIOUS/NEXT Sw parameter (see below).
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VS2480OMUS.book 364 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters LOCATOR/SCENE TYPE The LOCATOR/SCENE TYPE parameters activates or de-activates the Safe mode for selecting locators and scenes, as described on Page 187 and Page 146, respectively. NUMERICS TYPE With NUMERICS TYPE set to: • • Up—numbers are entered from the numeric keypad or a keyboard from right to left, like a calculator. Down—numbers are entered from left to right.
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VS2480OMUS.book 365 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters PRM KNOB AUTODisp When the PAN-AUX SEND 1-8 knobs are controlling the dynamics and EQ parameters of a selected channel (Page 140), the VS-2480 can automatically jump to a screen that displays those values when you turn one of the knobs. Set PRM KNOB AUTODisp to: • • Off—so that turning a PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 knob to adjust a channel’s dynamics or EQ doesn’t cause the display to change.
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VS2480OMUS.book 366 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters PROJECT UTILITY menu F3 (Proj) DIGITAL I/0 MASTER CLOCK To learn about setting the MASTER CLOCK parameter, see “Designating the Master Clock for Digital Audio Input” on Page 133. DITHER If you’re sending audio to a connected external digital recorder that records at a lower bit depth than the VS-2480 (Page 132), you can dither the VS-2480’s output signal so that it sounds its best at the bit depth the external device is using.
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VS2480OMUS.book 367 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters DISPLAY DISPLAY OFFSET TIME This parameter is explained in “Shifting the Project Start Time” on Page 316. TIME DISPLAY FORMAT This parameter is explained in “Shifting the Project Start Time” on Page 316. PEAK HOLD Sw You can set the VS-2480’s level meters so that their peak lines “stick” at their highest positions, remaining there until you press HOME•DISPLAY to release them.
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VS2480OMUS.book 368 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters FADE LENGTH You can set the length of the crossfade described in FADE CURVE on the previous page. You can select 2ms, 10ms, 20ms, 30ms, 40ms or 50ms. The default setting is 10ms. VARI PITCH VARI PITCH Sw and VARI PITCH The two VARI PITCH parameters are explained in “Vari Pitch Playback” on Page 182.
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VS2480OMUS.book 369 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters SYNC UTILITY menu F6 (SYNC) Synchronization parameters and operations are described starting on Page 307. See the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual index for page numbers of specific parameter references. TEMPO “Synchronization with Tempo Changes” on Page 309 introduces the project tempo map. “Working with a Tempo Map” on Page 312 explains how to use it.
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VS2480OMUS.book 370 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters METRONOME OUT METRONOME OUT turns on the metronome and configures it for internal use or for MIDI use. You can set the parameter to Off, INT (“Internal”) or MIDI. INT LEVEL When the metronome is being used internally, this parameter sets its volume, from -∞ to 6.0dB. the default setting is 0.0dB. METRONOME MODE You can set when the metronome plays.
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VS2480OMUS.book 371 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Each instrument has its own horizontal line of quarter notes. To make an instrument sound one of its quarter notes, cursor to the quarter note and turn the TIME/VALUE dial clockwise so that a black ball appears. To silence the note, turn the TIME/VALUE dial the other way to remove the black ball. For the hi-hat, dial in the black ball for a closed hi-hat sound, or an empty circle for an open hi-hat sound.
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VS2480OMUS.book 372 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters V.FDR At the top of the V.FADER/USER screen is the USER KNOB/FDR ASSIGN to parameter, described in “Controlling a Parameter of Your Choice” on Page 141. UTILITY menu F6 (V.FDR) “V.Fader—The VS-2480 MIDI Control Surface” on Page 300 describes how to use the V.Fader feature that turns the VS-2480 into a MIDI control surface. SCENE To learn how to use the SCENE screen, see “Editing Scenes” on Page 145.
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VS2480OMUS.book 373 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters When using the generator, start by choosing the desired test signal. Select the SOURCE parameter and turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select: • • • • Pink Noise—a static-like noise comprised of the frequencies at each octave of the frequency spectrum sounding together at equal volume. Useful for testing speakers in conjunction with the VS-2480 spectrum analyzer. See Page 375.
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VS2480OMUS.book 374 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters • F4 (OUTPUT)—to view the stereo analog Aux A and B outs, R-BUS 1 and 2 outs, and the coaxial and optical outs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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VS2480OMUS.book 375 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Setting Up the Spectrum Analysis Display Select the SOURCE parameter and turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the signal you want to analyze.
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VS2480OMUS.book 376 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Correcting Problems You can correct most problems by inserting a stereo graphic EQ—such as Effect Patch P031—on the VS-2480’s MASTER bus. You can adjust the sound of the speakers using the graphic EQ’s settings, returning frequently to the analyzer to check your work. If you’re having trouble correcting a problem, try analyzing the sound of each monitor by pointing the mic straight at it.
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VS2480OMUS.book 377 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Phrase Sequencer The phrase sequencer and phrase pads are described in Chapter 21. See Page 276 to learn about the PHRASE SEQUENCE screens. UTILITY menu F1 (PhrSeq) R-BUS UTILITY menu F2 (R-BUS) On this screen, you can activate remote control of an R-BUS device connected to R-BUS Jacks 1 and/or 2 (Page 49). You can also set the device’s configuration parameters.
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VS2480OMUS.book 379 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 Installing a VS8F-2 Effect Expansion Board The VS-2480 ships from the factory with one VS8F-2 effect expansion board—this board produces stereo Effects 1 and 2. You can install an additional three VS8F-2s—sold separately—for a total of eight stereo effects, or 16 mono effects.
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VS2480OMUS.book 380 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 Installation Procedure 1. 2. Before installing the VS8F-2, turn off the power of the VS-2480 (Page 80) and all connected devices, and disconnect all cables from the VS-2480. Turn the VS-2480 over onto its back, and remove only the screws shown in the following diagram. EFFECT B EFFECT D EFFECT C When turning the unit upside-down, handle with care to avoid dropping it, or allowing it to fall or tip over. EFFECT A 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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VS2480OMUS.book 381 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 Connecting a CD-R/RW Drive to the VS-2480 Before connecting a CD-R/RW drive to the VS-2480, turn off power to all of your devices—including your speakers—to prevent damage to your equipment. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Double-check to make sure that both the CD-R/RW drive and the VS-2480 are turned off. If there are any other SCSI devices connected to the VS-2480, make sure they’re powered down as well.
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VS2480OMUS.book 382 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 Attaching an MB-24 Level Meter For instructions on attaching the MB-24 meter bridge to the VS-2480 using VS-24MBA brackets, see the instruction sheet included with the brackets. Connect the MB-24’s AC IN jack to a grounded AC outlet. Connecting the MB-24 to the VS-2480 1. 2. 3. With the power to the VS-2480 and the MB24 turned off, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI OUT to the MB-24’s MIDI IN using a MIDI cable.
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VS2480OMUS.book 383 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 3. Turn the VS-2480 over onto its back, and remove only the screws shown in the following illustrations. 4. The battery should now be visible, as shown here. CR2032 5. 6. Remove the VS8F-2 for Effect A. Replace the old battery with a new one. The VS-2480 uses a lithium CR2032 battery that you can purchase at most electronics stores. Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 384 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 7. Reinstall the effect expansion board (VS8F-2) removed in Step 5. Insert the plastic pins into the VS8F-2’s holes, making sure the board is securely fastened in place. 8. Use the screws that you removed in Step 3 to re-fasten the VS-2480’s bottom cover. This completes the process of exchanging the lithium battery. 9. Connect the cables that you disconnected earlier. 10. Turn on the power, as described in “Powering Up” on Page 63.
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VS2480OMUS.book 385 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 3. With the warning label on the hard disk caddy facing upward, slide it gently into the installation bay as far as it will go. Fit the indentation on the drive caddy over the ridge on the chassis of the VS-2480. 4. After you install the hard disk, lock it in place. Fit a coin into the lock’s slot and turn it clockwise until the lock clicks and it the drive caddy is secured. LO CK Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 386 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 29—Expanding the VS-2480 386 5. Reattach the front panel cover. 6. 7. Turn on the VS-2480’s power (Page 63) to verify that it powers up correctly. If the display shows “Not Found any Drives,” the new internal hard drive is not being recognized by the VS-2480. Power down the VS-2480 (Page 80) and re-install the hard drive. www.rolandus.
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VS2480OMUS.book 387 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information R-BUS Remote Control You can remotely control a variety of connected R-BUS devices right from the VS-2480. To learn how to activate remote control of an R-BUS device, see Page 377. The following sections describe the parameters in each device that you can set from the VS-2480. To leave any of the remote control screens described in these sections—and return to the VS-2480’s R-BUS CONFIG screen—press F6 (EXIT).
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VS2480OMUS.book 388 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Using a Roland DIF-AT With an ADAT With a Roland DIF-AT, audio can be digitally exchanged between the VS-2480 and an ADAT recorder, controlling the ADAT from the VS-2480. 1. With the power to all devices turned off, connect the ADAT to the DIF-AT, and the DIF-AT to the VS-2480. Connect the ADAT’s SYNC IN connector to the SYNC connector on the DIF-AT.
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VS2480OMUS.book 389 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Press the F button for the DIF-AT’s R-BUS jack to display the DIF-AT’s settings. Set INPUT SELECT to TDIF. Press UTILITY. Press PAGE until “Proj” appears above F3. Press F3 (Proj)—the PROJECT PARAMETER screen appears. Set MASTER CLOCK to the R-BUS jack to which the DIF-AT is connected. Press UTILITY. Press F5 (MIDI) to display the MIDI PARAMETER screen. Set MMC MODE to MASTER.
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VS2480OMUS.book 390 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information CLOCK SOURCE CLOCK SOURCE selects the master clock timing reference for the ADA-7000. This parameter interacts with the VS-2480’s MASTER CLOCK parameter (Page 132). • • When the VS-2480’s MASTER CLOCK parameter’s value is the R-BUS jack to which the ADA-7000 is connected, the ADA-7000’s CLOCK SOURCE should be set to INTERNAL or WORD CLOCK.
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VS2480OMUS.book 391 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information INPUT STATUS A-D The INPUT STATUS display provides information about input signals received by the AE-7000’s A/D input converters. There are four kinds of information displayed regarding each of the four inputs, A, B, C and D. The displayed information is explained in the following sections. TYPE Shows the format of the received digital audio: • • • TYPE1—is AES/EBU-format digital audio. TYPE2—is S/P DIF-format digital audio.
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VS2480OMUS.book 392 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information If the AE-7000’s CLOCK SOURCE is: This means that the AE-7000: Set the VS-2480’s MASTER CLOCK to: R-BUS derives master clock from the VS-2480. a clock source other than the AE-7000’s R-BUS jack. WORD CLOCK derives its clocking from the word clock device connected to its rear-panel WORD CLOCK jack. the AE-7000’s R-BUS jack. INPUT A uses the master clock received by its INPUT A jack. the AE-7000’s R-BUS jack.
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VS2480OMUS.book 393 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Using the VS-2480 with a VM-7000 Mixing System You can transfer audio between a VS-2480 and an R-BUs equipped Roland VM-7000 mixing system. To add R-BUS connectivity to a VM mixing system, install a VM-24E I/O expansion board—purchased separately—in your master processor for 24 channels of digital I/O. 1. 2. With all devices turned off, use an R-BUS cable to connect a VM-7000 R-BUS connector to a VS-2480 R-BUS connector.
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VS2480OMUS.book 394 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Using a Roland VE-7000 The optional Roland VE-7000 Channel Edit Controller provides physical knobs and buttons with which you can quickly edit any input, track or FX return channel’s CH EDIT parameters. These parameters are explained in detail in Chapters 11 and 17. Connecting the VE-7000 1. 2. With the power to all devices turned off, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI IN to the VE-7000’s MIDI OUT using a MIDI cable.
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VS2480OMUS.book 395 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information FLEX BUS Area 10 11 12 VE-7000 knob or button: Same as CH EDIT parameter or F button: 10. 1-8 Knobs Corresponding AUX Send Levels 1-8 11. 1-8 ON/OFF Corresponding AUX Send Status 12. EDIT (Set ALL to 0dB) Displays CH EDIT VIEW screen, Aux send selected Hold SHIFT and press 1-8 ON/OFF to set the corresponding Send Level to 0 dB. Hold SHIFT and press Set ALL to 0dB (EDIT) to set all Aux Send Levels to 0 dB.
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VS2480OMUS.book 396 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information SURROUND, CH VIEW, MAIN CUE Areas 20 21 22 23 Hold down SHIFT as you turn a VE-7000 knob to activate its TURBO EDIT feature. When TURBO EDIT is turned on, a knob scrolls through values in smaller or larger increments, depending on the parameter. 24 26 25 SURROUND Area VE-7000 knob or button: Acts as CH EDIT parameter or F button: 20. Joystick Surround pan and depth 21.
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VS2480OMUS.book 397 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Factory EZ Routing Templates The VS-2480 ships with seven EZ Routing templates—see Page 296 for information on EZ Routing templates. The settings contained in the factory templates are as follows. Recording Template ANALOG INPUT 1-16 1 2 3 . . . 14 15 16 Input Patch Bay INPUT MIXER 1-16 ... TRACK ASSIGN RECORDING TRACK V.Track 1-1 ... TRACK MIXER 1-16 ...
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VS2480OMUS.book 398 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Bouncing Template INPUT MIXER 1-24 TRACK MIXER 1-22 FX 1-8 Return Mixer V.
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VS2480OMUS.book 399 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information *Bounce destination tracks are: • • • • TR 23/24—MTP, MT1, MT2, LIV or LV2, and a sample rate of 48k or lower TR 15/16—M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 48k or lower TR 11/12—MTP, MT1, MT2, LIV or LV2, and a sample rate of 64k or higher TR 7/8—M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 64k or higher Mixdown Template Playback TRACK V.Track 1-1 AUX 1-8 ... TRACK MIXER 1-16 ...
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VS2480OMUS.book 409 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information V-Fader Control Messages The V-Fader feature—Page 300—allows you to send the following Control Change messages from the VS-2480’s faders and PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 knobs.
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VS2480OMUS.book 410 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Automix Parameter List The VS-2480’s Automix feature can record and playback changes to the values of the following parameters.
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VS2480OMUS.book 412 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information V-Studio Song/VS-2480 Project Compatibility Recording Mode Tables A project using the following recording modes can be converted into a VS-2480 project using the project IMPORT operation.
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VS2480OMUS.book 413 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Supplemental Information Busses When importing earlier V-Studio songs into the VS-2480, busses are re-assigned as follows.
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VS2480OMUS.book 415 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary Throughout the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual , we’ve noted terms that may be unfamiliar to beginners, using the symbol to the left. This glossary provides basic definitions for these terms. You’ll find a second glossary in the VS-2480 Appendices with definitions for additional terms with which you may not be familiar. 24-bit The VS-2480 captures and plays audio digitally as 24-bit data.
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VS2480OMUS.book 416 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary Balanced Balanced cables and connectors produce low-noise signals by using all three of the cable’s wires. In a balanced connection, two copies of the signal travel through the cable—one copy is 180 degrees out of phase. If the two signals have picked up any noise along the way, the noise is eliminated due to phase cancellation when the out-phase-signal is flipped back into phase at the destination connector. The third wire is the ground.
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VS2480OMUS.book 417 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary Dither Dither is a process that deliberately adds a tiny amount of noise to a signal in order to mask unwanted sounds that can be introduced when the signal’s original bit depth is reduced. Dithering is recommended when transferring audio to an external device that uses a lower bit depth. See “Bit depth.” Dry A signal to which no effect processing has been applied.
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VS2480OMUS.book 418 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary IDE Short for “Integrated Device and Electronics.” A set of data transmission standards employed by high-speed disk drives. The VS-2480 has an internal IDE hard drive. Limiter A limiter is a compressor with a ratio setting of 10:1 or greater. This has the effect of preventing all but the fastest signals from exceeding the threshold volume, forcing them into the desired level range.
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VS2480OMUS.book 419 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary MIDI For “Musical Instrument Digital Interface,” the wiring and message protocol that allows the VS-2480 and other MIDI devices to communicate by exchanging instructions called “MIDI messages.” MIDI control surface A hardware device that transmits MIDI messages, and whose purpose is the control of a second MIDI device. MIDI Control Change messages A type of MIDI message that’s permanently assigned to a particular parameter.
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VS2480OMUS.book 420 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary Playlist A list of all of the data to be played in a project, arranged along a horizontal, left-to-right axis. On the Home screen and phrase sequencer screens, a playlist presents the project’s phrases. On the AUTOMIX EDIT screen, Automix data is listed. Project All of the audio and settings for a recorded work in the VS-2480, stored as a project disk file on the VS-2480’s hard drive.
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VS2480OMUS.book 421 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary Scene A scene is an object that stores all of the mixer’s current settings. Each project can hold 100 scenes. You can instantly recall a scene to restore the settings it contains. SCSI, SCSI Bus Short for “Small Computer System Interface.” SCSI is a set of cabling and data standards for the passing of data between storage devices. The SCSI cabling that connects a series of SCSI devices. Slave One device controls the timing of synchronized devices.
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VS2480OMUS.book 422 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Glossary TRS Short for “Tip/Ring/Sleeve.” A type of 1/4” audio cable connector that uses three wires for carrying audio signals and for grounding. The wires are attached to the connector’s tip, ring and a second ring called a “sleeve.” Track In the VS-2480’s hard disk recorder, a track is a collection of 16 V-Tracks, any one of which can be active at a time. In the phrase sequencer, a track is a set of phrases played on a phrase pad and recorded.
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VS2480OMUS.book 423 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Symbols +Insert ................................................................. 264–265 .WAV files exporting overview ............................................................. 356 phrases ............................................................... 357 tracks .................................................................. 356 importing converting files ................................................... 354 ISO 9960 CDs .....................
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VS2480OMUS.book 424 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index benefits of ............................................................... 325 editing about moving, deleting data .............................. 334 appearance of Automix data ............................. 332 AUTOMIX EDIT screen .................................... 331 methods ............................................................. 333 mouse ............................................................ 333 TRACK EDIT buttons ...................
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VS2480OMUS.book 425 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index overview.................................................................. 195 performing the bounce ........................................... 201 phrase sequencer tracks ......................................... 285 preparation ............................................................. 196 routing .................................................................... 197 EZ Routing ..........................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 426 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Hi-Mid EQ band ................................................ 165 interactive EQ display ....................................... 164 KeyIn .................................................................. 160 Level ................................................................... 160 Lo EQ band ........................................................ 165 Lo-Mid EQ band ................................................ 165 meters ...................
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VS2480OMUS.book 427 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index a new phrase ........................................................... 259 a new project............................................................. 96 Current Channel display ............................................ 120 CURRENT TEMPO MAP ........................................... 371 Current time location display explained ................................................................ 126 navigating project using ............................
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VS2480OMUS.book 428 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Drive Check ........................................................... 116 fragmentation......................................................... 112 introduction ............................................................. 86 maintenance ........................................................... 111 selecting a destination drive .................................. 101 Drop frame .................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 429 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index EFFECT button...................................................... 40, 220 Effect patches Algorithm View screen ........................................... 221 and scenes............................................................... 224 changing via MIDI .................................................. 303 choosing an effect processor .................................. 221 editing ....................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 430 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index METER SCALE ...................................................... 361 TIME DISPLAY ...................................................... 361 EXT SYNC button ........................................ 43, 315–316 External effects insert-like effects .................................................... 208 loop effects ............................................................. 215 Extracting tracks. See Splitting a project EZ ROUTING .................
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VS2480OMUS.book 431 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Gap. See Synchronization Gate ............................................................................. 274 GENERATOR/OSCILLATOR screen ......................... 372 GetNow editing tracks .......................................................... 250 locator ..................................................................... 187 marker..................................................................... 190 punch point............................
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VS2480OMUS.book 432 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index songs ...................................................................... 108 track ........................................................................ 269 Importing .WAV files .............................................................. 354 tracks ...................................................................... 269 V-Studio songs compatible recording modes ............................. 412 parameter translation ........................
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VS2480OMUS.book 433 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Listening level ............................................................... 75 LIV recording mode ...................................................... 97 LOCATOR/SCENE TYPE ........................................... 146 LOCATOR•BANK button ............................................ 44 Locators and Auto Punch ...................................................... 193 and looping .............................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 434 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Mastering Room ................................................ mastering tracks ................................................ multi-project CDs .............................................. Mastering Room selecting operating mode .................................. turning on .......................................................... working in .......................................................... mastering tracks editing .....................
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VS2480OMUS.book 435 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index bulk storage of data ............................................ 304 remote control of VS-2480 .................................. 301 V.Fader described ............................................................ 300 using ................................................................... 301 MIDI beat clock described ................................................................ 308 See also Synchronization MIDI clock.
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VS2480OMUS.book 436 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Non-destructive editing ......................................... 88–89 Non-drop frame ......................................................... 308 NORMAL NOTE ........................................................ 306 NORMALIZE ............................................................. 260 Not 44.1kHz Project! ................................................... 353 Now line. See Timeline Numbering CD track markers ...............................
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VS2480OMUS.book 437 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index overview.................................................................. 292 routing inputs to input channels ............................ 135 Patches. See Effect patches PEAK HOLD Sw ......................................................... 367 Peak lines .................................................................... 121 Pedal. See FOOT SWITCH ASSIGN Phantom power ................................................... 130, 360 PHANTOM Sw ........
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VS2480OMUS.book 438 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index looping ................................................................... 181 Preview ................................................................... 183 Scrub ...................................................................... 184 Vari Pitch ................................................................ 182 Playlist creating new ........................................................... 271 edit point flags ................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 439 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index loading a project ....................................................... 95 mastering ........................................................ 339–348 naming ...................................................................... 99 navigating ............................................................... 180 optimizing ............................................................... 100 playlist.........................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 440 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index copying with mouse ...................................... 245 Edit Pop-Up menu ................................ 241, 246 editing from TRACK menu ........................... 250 moving with mouse ....................................... 244 SELECT TRACK Pop-Up menu .................... 244 selecting tracks from TRACK menu ............. 250 selecting with buttons ................................... 247 selecting with mouse ................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 441 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index selecting target channels ........................................ 146 storing ..................................................................... 144 SCMS .......................................................................... 366 Scrub overview.................................................................. 184 pinpointing an event .............................................. 185 setting Scrub times ..........................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 442 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index Stereo Aux busses ...................................................... 206 Stereo bouncing ......................................................... 196 Stereo channels .......................................................... 152 Stereo effects .............................................................. 228 Stereo faders............................................................... 155 Stereo panning. See Panning STOP...........................
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VS2480OMUS.book 443 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index sending tracks to ..................................................... 290 Tempo map and metronome ...................................................... 369 building manually .................................................. 313 converting from sync track ..................................... 314 creating from markers ............................................ 314 described ................................................................
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VS2480OMUS.book 444 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index directly to outputs.............................................. 289 FX return channels to ........................................ 231 input channels to ....................................... 167, 172 to outputs via Direct busses .............................. 208 track channels to ................................................ 197 tracks to .............................................................. 197 time-stretching ........................
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VS2480OMUS.book 445 ページ２００６年２月７日火曜日午後４時１６分 Index TIME DISPLAY .............................................. PHANTOM Sw ................................................... VGA .................................................................... H.POSITION .................................................. REFRESH RATE ............................................. V.POSITION .................................................. VGA OUT ....................................................... TEMPO .......
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To resize thickness, move all items on the front cover to left or right WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. For EU Countries CAUTION The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.
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