6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder

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How a VS-2480 Hard Drive Organizes Data

A VS-2480 hard drive divides up its total disk space into sections called “partitions.”
Partitions help keep project data together on the hard drive. Each partition acts like a
separate virtual drive—it even looks that way on the VS-2480’s screens.
Your 30GB VS-2480 internal hard drive was divided into three approximately 10 GB
partitions at the factory. These partitions are labeled IDE:0, IDE:1 and IDE:2.

Preparing a Hard Drive for Use

Before you can use a new internal hard drive with the VS-2480, it must be prepared for
use with the VS-2480. The hard drive must be erased, formatted and divided into
partitions using the FmtDrv (for “Format Drive”) command described on Page 113.

Using Other V-Studio Drives

Hard drives formatted for other V-Studios are not compatible with the VS-2480, and a
hard drive set up for the VS-2480 can’t be used with other V-Studios.

How Audio Is Recorded on a VS-2480 Hard Drive

Each time you record audio in the VS-2480, the audio is stored as a disk file comprised
of digital data. This file is called a “take.” It includes your audio and a time-stamp of the
date and time at which the recording took place. Until you perform a project
optimization (Page 100), the VS-2480 holds on to all of the takes you’ve recorded in a
project.
Even when you re-record a performance—”recording over” your first attempt—the
original take actually remains on your hard drive and is still available to you should you
want it. And when you edit a recording on the VS-2480, you don’t actually edit the take
itself, thanks to non-destructive, pointer-based editing, which we’ll discuss shortly.
When we refer to a “drive” in the rest of the VS-2480, we’ll be referring to a partition.
This reflects that way the VS-2480’s software views partitions, and will make disk- and
drive-related operations easier to explain and understand. When we need to refer to an
entire hard disk mechanism, we’ll call the mechanism a “hard drive.”
The internal hard drive that came with your VS-2480 was formatted and partitioned
before the demo songs were installed at the factory. It’s ready to be used as is.
Internal hard drive
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