Roland VS-1824 owner manual Preparations, About the Package Contents, Main Features

Preparations

About the Package Contents

The following items are included with the VS-1824. Please check to make sure you have all the items.

❒VS-1824

❒AC cord

❒Demo disc

❒Blanc CD-R disc (VS-1824CD only)

❒User Guide

❒Owner’s Manual (this manual)

❒Appendices

❒Shortcut Seal

*This shows the list of shortcut commands.

❒Overlay Sheet

*If you change setting of buttons and faders of track mixer to “1880 mode.” It will be convenient to confirm function assignment with the overlay sheet. As the back side of this is adhesive, you can stick it to the top panel. See “Change settings of the Track Mixer Buttons and Faders (Fader Mode)” (p. 75) for detailed explanation of change setting.

Main Features

The Latest in Compact Home Studio Environments

The VS-1824 retains all of the features of Roland's VS-1880 Digital studio workstation, a revolution in the world of the home studio, with the disk recorder, digital mixer, and multi effects systematically integrated into a great sounding digital recorder. From when you start picking mics to when you actually record; from mixdown, to adding effects, and on to creating the master data for playing through a PA or mastering on a CD; you can easily control every aspect of the recording process with the VS-1824 in your home studio.

Disk Recorder Section

●The digital disk recorder section provides 18 playback tracks, and allows eight tracks to be recorded simultaneously. Each track features 16 virtual tracks (V- Tracks), providing a total of 288 tracks altogether. This means that you can record multiple takes, make temporary mixes when editing and create songs that require numerous tracks, all with room to spare.

●The VS-1824’s recording functions were designed for use with professional digital equipment—DAT recorders, digital mixers, digital effects, etc. You can record and edit with top-quality sound, losing none of that quality in the playback.

●You can instantly find the location of sections in a song you want to hear repeatedly (locator), or places that you wish to record over by placing marks at these points (marker). These markers are recalled by a simple procedure, and you will never have to wait for any rewinding or fast-forwarding.

●Sounds are organized in phrases. Copying, moving, and inserting these phrase units (using Phrase Edit), as well as many other editing processes, are possible with the VS- 1824. For example, you can create “break beats” by copying a four-measure drum pattern any number of times, or have the same chorus both at the beginning and end of a song.

●You to cancel and recover up to 999 previous recording and editing operations (Undo/Redo).

●The internal clock runs on battery power, so it continues to function even after the VS-1824’s power is turned off. This allows you to manage your songs by “time stamp,” the time and date of recording that is registered in the song data.

16