Roland VS-1824 owner manual 167, Setting Scrub Length, General Guidelines for Using Scrub

Setting Scrub Length

Before you try using Scrub for the first time, you may want to adjust the Scrub Length, as this setting affects how Scrub sounds.

1.To adjust the Scrub length, hold [SHIFT] and press [SCRUB].

2.The Scrub length is displayed. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to adjust the time. When you are first getting familiar with the Scrub function, you may want to try a longer length, such as 70 or 80ms.

Scrub Length

This sets the length (25ms to 100msec) of audio that is looped when the SCRUB button is pressed.

3.After you have finished adjusting the Scrub Length, press [PLAY (DISPLAY)] or [EXIT] to return to the Playlist display.

General Guidelines for Using Scrub

Before using Scrub, you should do two things:

•Set the TIME/VALUE dial to adjust frame increments.

•Set the Scrub Direction using Preview To and Preview From.

Set the TIME/VALUE Dial to Adjust Frame Increments

1.Cursor up [ ] to access the top section of the VS-1824 display screen.

2.Press [ ] to move the cursor to the last pair of numbers just after the small “f” in the time display.

These are Sub Frames.

Hour Minute Second Frame		Measure	Beat
	Sub Frame		Marker Number

Cursor

There are 100 Sub Frames in each frame. With the cursor at this position, each click of the TIME/VALUE dial advances the play position by 11 hundredths (11/100th) of a frame.

Hold [SHIFT] and slowly turn the TIME/VALUE dial. Now each click moves the edit line by exactly one hundredth of a frame. One hundredth (1/100th) of a frame is equivalent to one three thousandths (1/3,000th) of a second.

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For scrubbing, start with the cursor under the Frame value. Then later, as you need a finer editing resolution, press

[ ] to move the cursor over to Sub Frames. As you try scrubbing, turn the TIME/VALUE slowly and smoothly for the best results.

Setting Scrub Direction

When using the Scrub function in the VS-1824, it is possible to scrub both forward and backward. That is, you can turn the TIME/VALUE dial either clockwise or counter-clockwise to find an edit point. If you are trying to find the beginning of a note or a kick drum, you will most likely start by turning the TIME/VALUE dial clockwise.

If you are editing dialog and need to find the end of a spoken word, you would likely locate just past the word and scrub backwards by turning the TIME/VALUE dial counter- clockwise until you begin to hear the sound that signifies the end of the word. When editing dialog, radio or TV spots, you will probably use the counter-clockwise method of scrubbing more frequently than when editing music tracks.

Whenever you use Scrub, program the scrub direction for either clockwise scrubbing or counter-clockwise scrubbing.

Clockwise Scrubbing:

Press [PREVIEW TO] once before pressing [SCRUB]

Counter-clockwise Scrubbing:

Press [PREVIEW FROM] once before pressing [SCRUB]

Scrub Length (FROM)

Scrub Length (TO)

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