Roland VS-2480 , Track Editing Basics

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder

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The Power of V-Tracks

Although the VS-2480 is a 24-track studio, in a very real sense it’s way more than that.

Since each of its 24 tracks can play any of 16 V-Tracks, a project can actually hold as

many as

384 recordings from which you can choose 24 for playback at any given time.

As you can see, this gives you with a

huge

sonic palette to work with. You can even

construct totally different versions of a project from its massive collection of V-Tracks.

Track Editing Basics

The following sections provide just a brief introduction to the editing of tracks in the

VS-2480. We’ll discuss it in detail beginning in Chapter 18, which starts on Page 235.

There are two basic ways you can edit the contents of a track:

• You can work with phrases (Page 87).

• You can work on a speciﬁc time “region” within a track.

About Editing Phrases

Phrase editing is the quickest way to work with a track’s audio, since it works with pre-

deﬁned chunks of the track. You can perform a range of operations on a phrase—these

are detailed in Chapter 19.

You may also ﬁnd it handy to manually divide the phrases on a V-Track into new

convenient, easy-to-work-with chunks. Though this can take a little time, it can save

you a

lot

of time later on in the editing process:

• If you’re working on a song, and think you’ll be moving a track’s sections around,

you can turn each section into a phrase. This’ll let you simply grab the desired

phrase when it’s time to assemble the track.

• If you’re using sound effects, you can turn each one into a separate phrase, making

the positioning of your elements quick and easy.

During editing operations, the word “track” serves as a shorthand for the currently

selected V-Track. When we say we’re editing a track, what we literally mean is that

we’re editing the audio on the track’s currently selected V-Track.

The phrase DIVIDE operation can automatically separate your audio into separate

phrases, as described on Page 260.

On the VS-2480, you can also play phrases using the TRACK STATUS/PHRASE PAD

buttons.

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