Roland VS-1824 owner manual Master Block, Differences from a Tape-Type MTR

Chapter 1 Before You Start (VS-1824 Terminology)

Master Block	Recorder Section
This selects the jacks or connectors—which are connected to
external equipment—to which the output of each mixer is	Differences from a Tape-Type MTR
sent.
	Unlike DAT recorders, which use tape, digital disk recorders
	record performances (that is, sounds) on a disk, as do MD
	recorders. Music that is recorded on disk can be recalled and
	played back immediately, no matter where it is located on
	the disk. This is obvious from the difference in speed with
	which you can move to the beginning of a song on the VS-
	1824 as opposed to a DAT recorder.
	The ability to freely move to data regardless of the time or
	sequence at which it was recorded is known as “random
	access.” By contrast, having to move to data in the order of
	the time or sequence at which it was recorded is known as
	“sequential access.”
	● random access

● sequential access

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