Roland VS-2480 , Playing the Factory Demos

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations

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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.

Playing the Factory Demos

As shipped from the factory, your VS-2480 has two demonstration songs—”demos”—

stored as projects on its internal hard drive. When you power up the VS-2480, the “What

You Don’t Know” project is loaded into the VS-2480, all of its settings are restored, and

its track channel faders move to their last-saved positions.

This section presumes you’ve just powered up your VS-2480 and the factory demo

project “What You Don’t Know” is loaded. If this isn’t the case, load “What You Don’t

Know” —see “Loading a Project” on Page 95 to learn how to load a project. (For demo

details, see the track sheets included in the VS-2480 box.)

To make sure the demo isn’t too loud, bring the MASTER fader all the way down before

you play the demo.

The MASTER fader controls the level of the MASTER mix bus that’s routed to the

MONITOR bus (see “What’s a Bus?” on Page 57). Since the MONITOR bus is supplying

audio to the MONITOR and PHONES jacks—and to the digital output you’re using for

your DS-90Aor DS-50A Digital Reference Monitors—moving the MASTER fader has

the effect of adjusting your listening level.

1. Press PLAY to begin playback.

2. Slowly bring up the MASTER fader to set the MASTER mix to a comfortable

listening level.

If you’ve connected a speaker system directly to the VS-2480 and would like separate

control of your speakers and headphones, route the MASTER outputs to the desired

PHONES jack on the EZ ROUTING OUTPUT ASSIGN screen (see Steps 1-3 in “If

You’re Using DS-90A or DS-50A Monitors” on Page 75). The MONITOR knob will

control only the speakers, and each PHONES knob will control the associated jack.

In the factory demos, the MASTER bus is routed to the PHONES jacks, so each

PHONES knob independently controls the level produced by its headphone jack.

If you’d like to make changes to a demo project and save your changes, make a copy of

the project (Page 101) to work with. The copies loaded onto your hard drive at the

factory are write-protected (Page 99) and are therefore not editable.

If the demo ﬁnishes playing before you’re done reading the following sections, press

ZERO to restart it.

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