Roland VS-1824 Transport Control Buttons, Contrast Knob, CD-RW/MASTERING Button, TIME/VALUE Dial

BANK/9:

Pressing this with the LOCATOR buttons (1–8) selects the locator bank.

SCENE/0:

This is pressed when storing, recalling, and deleting Scenes.

CLEAR (Back Space):

This button deletes locators, markers, and Scenes.

NUMERICS/ASCII:

Press this when you want to use the STATUS and LOCATOR buttons for entry of alphabetical characters or numbers.

1–8:

These select a locator or Scene.

6. Transport Control Buttons

These buttons operate the recorder.

ZERO: This returns the current time to “00h00m00s00” (zero return).

REW: The current time is moved back only while this button is held down. This corresponds to the rewind button on a tape recorder.

FF:While the button is held down, the current time is moved forward. This corresponds to the fast- forward button on a tape recorder.

STOP: Stops recording or playback of the song.

PLAY: Starts recording or playback from the current time.

REC: Press this button to record a song.

7. CONTRAST Knob

Use this to adjust the brightness of the display screen.

8. CD-RW/MASTERING Button

Press this button to master a song, or to write it on a CD. It also accesses CD backup and restore functions.

9. MIDI/DISK Indicator

This indicator lights green when MIDI messages are being received, and red when data is being written or read on the disk drive. If both occur, the indicator lights orange.

10. EXT SYNC (External Sync) Button

Press this button to designate the VS-1824 or an external MIDI device as the master, or main, controlling synchronization device. With the VS-1824 selected as the master, the external MIDI device functions as the slave unit; with the external MIDI device is selected as the master, the VS-1824 functions as the slave unit.

Top and Rear Panels

11. CURSOR Buttons

Normally (i.e. in Play mode), these buttons are used to select the time resolution for changing location using the TIME/VALUE dial. When making settings (i.e. in Edit mode), use these buttons to select parameters.

12. PLAY (DISPLAY) Button

Press this button to return to the screen that appears when the VS-1824 is first turned on (normal playback status).

13. TIME/VALUE Dial

In normal (playback) mode, this dial adjusts the current time for playback. When making settings (i.e. when editing), use this dial to change parameter values.

14. LOOP Button

This button turns Loop Recording on and off. Pressed together with first 1 and then another Locator button, it specifies the range to be recorded in Loop Recording.

15. AUTO PUNCH Button

This button turns Auto Punch-In Recording on and off. Pressed together with first 1 and then another Locator button, it specifies the range to be recorded in Auto Punch-In Recording.

16. UNDO (REDO) Button

Press this button to cancel a recording or editing step that you have made (Undo function). Pressed with [SHIFT], this button cancels the last Undo operation (Redo function).

17. SHIFT Button

This button is pressed in conjunction with other buttons to access additional functions of those buttons.

18. ENTER/YES Button

This is pressed to execute the current operation or select the current screen.

19. EXIT/NO Button

This is pressed to cancel the current operation or exit the current screen.

Front & Rear Panels

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