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Chapter 8 Use with a CD-RW Drive

1.Turn on the power of the CD-RW drive.

2.Turn on the power of the VS-880EX.

3.Turn on the power of connected audio equipment.

4.Raise the volume of the audio devices to appro- priate levels.

*For details on connecting a CD-RW drive and on the required settings, refer to “About SCSI” (appendices p.5).

Creating an Audio CD

You can create your own audio CD by writing sound data that from two specified tracks on the VS-880EX to a CD-R disc.

The VS-880EX first creates a CD-R image data file on its internal IDE hard disk, then writes that image data to the CD-R disc. Thus, an internal IDE hard disk is necessary for this procedure. Furthermore, internal IDE hard disk must has a enough free space on the hard disk for the creation of the image data file.

*Regardless of partition settings, all free space on the inter- nal hard disk may be accessed by the image data file. After writing of the image data file to the CD-R disc is complet- ed, it is automatically deleted.

*With the CD-RW disc, you can record the audio data and create audio CDs. But it is impossible to play back this audio data recorded in the CD-RW disc, with the common CD players, even if the disc is finalized. (Please use CD-R disc to play back with the common CD players. Audio data in the CD-RW disc can be played back with “CD Player Function” on VS series.) You can overwrite the audio data in the CD-RW disc repeatedly. So it is conve- nient for making a trial copy before you create final audio CDs with the multiple CD-R discs.

Items Necessary for Creating an

Audio CD

•VS-880EX (1)

•CD-RW drive (designated by Roland) (1)

•Internal IDE hard disk (1)

•Blank CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) disc

•Audio equipment to be connected to the MASTER jacks, or stereo headphones

Creating a Master Data

What is written to the CD-R disc is performance data of the current song in two tracks (stereo tracks). This is not the performance data that can be heard from the output from the MASTER jacks or PHONES jack. Song data that can be written to CD-R discs for the creation of original audio CDs must satisfy the following con- ditions. Check the disc you plan to use.

Sample rate and recording mode

Only songs with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz can be written to CD-R discs. Songs with sample rates other than this cannot be written to CD-R discs. While any recording mode may be used, for the higher-quality original CDs, either MTP (Multi-Track Pro), MAS (Mastering), or MT1 (Multi-Track 1) is recommended (p. 40).

Mixing

The content of adjustments made to mixer settings during playback are not recorded to the CD-R disc.

For example, in a normal performance, even if you control fade-ins and fade-outs with the master fader, this is not reflected in what is written to CD-R disc; rather, it ends up sounding as if the song is cutting in and out. Adjust equalizer, level, pan, and other set- tings during track bouncing.

Setting up Auto Mix beforehand can make the track bouncing operation simpler (p. 142).

Effects

Effects that are operating during playback are not recorded on CD-R discs. For example, in a normal per- formance, even if you have reverb or delay applied to the output of each track, this is not reflected in what is written to CD-R disc; rather, it ends up sounding as if no effect has been applied. Add effects during track bouncing. (p. 61)

Track bouncing

Two V-tracks, one as the left track and one as the right, can be written to a CD-R disc. Bounce the tracks of song data that has not been mixed down to two-chan- nel stereo tracks (p. 60). Designate these tracks as the master tracks (V-track write sources) to be written to the CD-R disc when writing is to be carried out.

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