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Chapter 13 Making Global Settings and Checking Conditions

Changing at the Level at Which the

Peak Indicator Lights

You can designate the level at which the peak indica- tor lights for sounds input via the INPUT jacks (1–6).

1.Press [SYSTEM] several times until “SYS System PRM ?” appears in the display.

2.Press [YES].

3.Press PARAMETER [ ] several times until “Peak Level=” appears in the display.

4.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial.

Peak Level

This sets the volume level at which the peak indicator lights.

CLIP: The indicator lights when the sound distorts.

-3dB:The indicator lights 3 dB before the sound dis- torts.

-6dB:The indicator lights 6 dB before the sound dis- torts.

5.Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)]. Return to Play condition.

Overall Settings for Playback and Recording

These are settings related to the overall workings of the Play and Record functions.

Constantly Monitoring the Input

Source

On channels for which Track Status is set to REC, playing back the song in record ready mode (REC indicator blinking) will allow you to monitor the per- formance that is recorded in the track, and during recording (REC indicator lit) you will be able to moni- tor the input source. At this time, pressing [STATUS] will let you switch between monitoring the track and monitoring the input source.

It is also possible to make settings so that the input source is always monitored.

1.Press [SYSTEM] several times until “SYS System PRM ?” appears in the display.

2.Press [YES].

3.Press PARAMETER [ ] several times until “SYS Record Mon=” appears in the display.

4.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial.

Record Mon (Record Monitor)

This switches between track and source monitoring.

AUTO: This switches monitoring between track and source.

SOURCE: This sets the VS-880EX to monitor the source at all times.

	While	During	During
	stopped	playback	recording
AUTO	SOURCE	TRACK/SOURCE	SOURCE
SOURCE	SOURCE	SOURCE	SOURCE

5.Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)]. Return to Play condition.

Stopping Automatically

You can cause song playback to stop automatically at a marker.

1.Press [SYSTEM] several times until “SYS System PRM ?” appears in the display.

2.Press [YES].

3.Press PARAMETER [ ] several times until “SYS Marker Stop=” appears in the display.

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