Roland Vs-880 important safety instructions Basic operation as a replacement for a tape MTR

	Contents
Selecting the operation menu	55
Selecting parameters	55
Modifying the value of settings	55
Executing an operation	55
Switching the track status (Track Status)	55
Changing the current time	56
Storing a time location, method 1 (Locate Point)	57
Storing a time location	57
Moving to a stored time location	58
Modifying a stored time location	58
Deleting a stored time location	58
Storing a time location, method 2 (Mark Points)	59
Marking a time location	59
Moving to a marked time location	59
Modifying a marked time location	60
Clearing a mark	60
Chapter 3 Basic operation (as a replacement for a tape MTR)
Before you begin	61
When you turn the power on	61
Listening to the demo song	61
Listening to the variations of the demo song	61
Making a new recording	62
Specifying the recording mode (Song New)	62
Naming the song (Song Name)	62
General procedure for multitrack recording	63
Connect the instruments	63
Record a performance onto a track	63
Switching V-tracks	63
Recording additional tracks while listening to the performance (Overdubbing)	64
Re-recording only your mistakes (Punch-in/out)	64
Specify beforehand the location for re-recording (Auto punch-in)	65
Repeatedly recording over the same area (Loop recording)	66
Combining the performances of two or more tracks into another track (Track bouncing)	67
Creating a master tape	67
Digital recording	72
Concerning copyright	72
About SCMS	72
Connecting digital devices	72
Matching the sampling frequency	72
Selecting digital input as the source	73
When digital recording is not possible	73
Before you finish operations	74
Saving the performance to disk (Song Store)	74
Preventing accidental erasure of your performance (Song Protect)	74
Selecting a song (Song Select)	75
Turning the power off (Shut Down)	75
Re-starting the VS-880	75
Chapter 4 Editing a recorded performance (track editing)
What is editing?	76
Finding a desired location (Preview)	76
Using [TO] and [FROM]	76
Scrub playback ([SCRUB])	76
Basic procedure	77
Re-using part of the performance (Copy)	78
Modifying the organization of the performance (Move)	79
Erasing part of a performance (Erase)	81
Exchanging performance data between tracks (Exchange)	81
Inserting blank space into a performance (Insert)	82
Deleting a portion of a performance (Cut)	83
Modifying the playback time of the performance (Time compression/expansion)	84

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