6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder

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The Advantage of Non-Destructive Editing

Non-destructive editing allows you to undo any edits you perform because all of your
original hard disk recordings—your takes—remain safe and sound on your hard disk
no matter how many edits you perform on the phrases that play them. It’s only their
pointers that have been edited.
This provides a tremendous amount of creative freedom since you can feel free to
explore any creative editing possibility without worrying that you won’t be able to get
back to where you started.

What Is a VS-2480 Track?

The VS-2480’s 24 tracks resemble the tracks of a traditional multitrack recorder, so its
basic operation feels familiar and comfortable to anyone who’s used a multitrack
recorder. In fact, VS-2480 tracks are something a bit different, something that provides
an incredible amount of recording power.
If...
• a recording is stored on your hard drive as a disk file called a “take,” and
• the sets of pointers that tell the VS-2480 how to play a take are called “phrases,” and
• a group of phrases strung together for playback is called a “V-Track”
...then what’s a track?
In the VS-2480, a track is a collection of 16 V-Tracks, any

one

of which can be selected at
any given time. When a V-Track is selected, you can record on it or play it back.
Each track’s 16 V-Tracks can contain anything you want. They can play the same take (or
takes) in different ways or they can each contain completely different things altogether.
You can select which of its 16 V-Tracks each track will play at any given time. We’ll
describe how to do this on Page 151.
If you’re sure you no longer need your discarded data, you can clear it from your hard
drive to gain disk space by performing a project optimization, described on Page 100.
When you record or play a V-Track, the settings of the corresponding track channel
determine what it sounds like. Track 1’s currently selected V-Track is heard through
Track Channel 1, Track 2’s V-Track through Track Channel 2, and so on. Track channels
are discussed in Chapters 10, 11 and 14.
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