Filter
Top Products
3—Introduction to the VS-2480
Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 55
The Hard Disk Recorder
The VS-2480’s hard disk recorder is the simplest of its three major components to
explain and understand—it’s an audio recorder, acting a lot like a cassette recorder,
VCR or any other traditional kind of recorder. Its basic controls will be familiar to you.
Instead of recording on a cassette or VHS tape, however, the hard disk recorder records
audio onto a computer hard disk drive (Page 85). This provides some important
advantages over other kinds of recorders:
• Its sound quality is excellent.
• You can instantly jump to any location in a recording with no waiting while the
machine fast-forwards or rewinds.
• You can easily manipulate recorded audio, copying it, pasting it, moving it, time-
stretching it and much more.
• You can edit audio “non-destructively,” with the ability to undo any edit you make.
• The VS-2480 can memorize multiple locations within a recording so that you can
jump back and forth between sections in a heartbeat.
How Many Tracks Can It Record?
The hard disk recorder can record up to 16 tracks at once, and play back up to 24 tracks
at a time. That’s really only the beginning of the story, though, since each project on the
VS-2480 can actually contain
384
“Virtual Tracks” from which you can pick and choose.
We’ll discuss how to use the hard disk recorder in Chapter 13, starting on Page 177.
The Phrase Pads
The audio recorded on a particular track can be divided up into phrases (Chapter 6).
Normally, these phrases play back when you press the hard disk recorder’s PLAY
button. However, you can also play a phrase on a track by striking the corresponding
track channel’s TRACK STATUS/PHRASE PAD button. You can also record your strikes
as a performance captured by the VS-2480’s phrase sequencer. See Chapter 21 on
Page 273 to learn more about the phrase pads and phrase sequencer.
Output Jacks and Connectors
If you’ve got a Roland VS-CDRII or CD-RACK (purchased separately) connected to
your VS-2480’s SCSI jack, you can burn your own audio CDs directly from the VS-2480.
However, there are lots of reasons you might want to get audio out of the VS-2480. You
may want to:
• send your MASTER mix to a pair of monitors so you can hear what you’re doing.
• send input signals or tracks to an external effect processor.
• send tracks to a computer for further editing or other purposes.
• send signals to a headphone amplifier to give your performers a way to hear what’s
being recorded during a recording session.
• send signals to a stage monitors to let your performers hear what they’re playing or
singing when using the VS-2480 for live recording.
The words “track” and “Virtual Track” have special meanings in the VS-2480. We’ll
discuss them in Chapter 6.
The number of tracks you can record and play at once is determined by the selected
recording mode, as you’ll learn in Chapter 7.
VS2480OMUS.book 55 ページ ２００６年２月７日 火曜日 午後４時１６分