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Roland DS-50A Owner's Manual (448 pages)


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Table of contents

Important Notes

2

8—The Home Screen 119

7

Glossary 415

15

Index 423

15

Table of Contents

16

1—Welcome

25

Getting More Help

27

2—Getting Around

29

Monitor/Display Controls

30

Channel Strips

31

Display Area

34

TRACK EDIT Area

35

14—LOOP Button

37

15—WAVE DISPLAY Button

37

1—EZ ROUTING Button

37

2—AUTOMIX Button

37

3—CD-RW•MASTERING Button

38

4—PROJECT Button

38

5—TRACK Button

38

6—EFFECT Button

38

7—UTILITY Button

38

General Controls

39

"#$%

40

LOCATOR/MARKER/SCENE Area

42

The Rear Panel of the VS-2480

44

4—SMPTE IN Jack

45

6—MIDI OUT/THRU Jack

45

7—MIDI IN Jack

45

8—FOOT SWITCH Jack

45

VM-7000 Series + VM-24E

47

3—Introduction to the VS-2480

49

The Mixing Console

50

MIDI Control Surface

51

The Internal Effects

52

The Hard Disk Recorder

53

Output Jacks and Connectors

53

Signal Flow

54

Projects

54

Busses in the VS-2480

55

Achieving Perfect Levels

56

The Importance of Backing Up

57

Things You’ll Need

59

Getting Ready

59

Connect a VGA Monitor

60

Connect All Other Devices

60

Powering Up

61

Configuring the VS-2480

62

A Few Fundamental Concepts

63

Tools You’ll Use All the Time

64

The TIME/VALUE Dial

65

The SHIFT Button

66

Using a Mouse

66

Using an ASCII Keyboard

67

Using the VGA Info Display

68

PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knob Strip

69

Meters Strip

69

Bottom Pane

69

UNDO and REDO

70

Undo level

71

Naming Tools

72

PHONES 2

73

PHONES 1

73

Playing the Factory Demos

74

Time counters

75

Adjusting Track Levels

76

Watching Automix in Action

76

Playing the Phrase Pads

77

Recalling Scenes

77

Turning Off the VS-2480

78

5—Understanding Effects

79

Insert Effects

80

Loop Effects

80

Master Effects

81

External Effects

81

VS-2480 Hard Disk Drives

83

Using Other V-Studio Drives

84

Random Access

85

Pointer-Based Editing

86

What Is a VS-2480 Track?

87

Track Editing Basics

88

About Editing Regions

89

Working with the PROJECT LIST

91

Project Operations

93

Sample Rate

94

Recording Mode

95

Creating a New Project

96

Re-Naming a Project

97

Entering a Project Comment

97

OPTIMIZE

98

Destination Drive Selection

99

Erasing a Project

100

Splitting a Project

101

How COMBINE Works

102

Combining Two Projects

102

PROJECT menu

103

F4 (COMBIN)

103

Backing Up a Project

104

Recovering Backup Data

105

F3 (IMPORT)

106

New drive’s

106

How Export Works

107

Exporting a VS-2480 Project

108

Drive Operations

109

Fragmentation

110

Format Drive

111

Formatting a Hard Drive

112

Clear Partition

113

Drive Check

114

Running Drive Check

115

8—The Home Screen

117

Current Channel Display

118

PAN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knob Display

118

Meters Display

118

How Loud Is Too Loud?

119

Position Bar

120

The Playlist

120

V-Track Map

121

Meter Switches

122

Input Peak Indicators

123

Current Time Location Display

124

Clock, Calendar

124

Using the Fader/Pan Display

125

About The ID Buttons

125

9—Working with Input Signals

127

Phantom Power

128

Digital Input Signals

129

Digital Considerations

130

The Master Clock

130

If you don’t see the

132

How Input Connections Work

134

Patching Input Connections

134

10—Using the Digital Mixer

135

Using the CH EDIT Buttons

136

Adjusting Stereo Positioning

137

While Recording

140

While Mixing

140

Mute Mode

141

Solo Mode

141

Basic Scene Operations

142

Editing Scenes

143

Scenes in Safe Mode

144

Resetting Mixer Parameters

145

Viewing a CH EDIT Screen

147

The CH EDIT Screens

148

2. V.Trk (track channel only)

149

5. ChLink

150

6. AUX Send Controls 1-8

150

8. DYNAMICS

151

10. Channel Output Meter

152

13. FADER

152

14. PHASE

152

15. GROUP

153

16. F.LINK

153

17. FX INS

154

18. DIR 1-8

154

19. SOLO

154

20. MUTE

154

The DYN Screen

155

What’s an Expander?

156

1. Dynamics Sw

156

2. DYN Type

156

3. Ratio

156

4. Threshold

157

5. AutoGain

158

6. Attack

158

7. Release

158

8. Level

158

9. KeyIn

158

10. Graphic Dynamics Display

159

11. IN/OUT/GR Meters

159

The EQ Screen

160

1. EQ Sw

162

3. EQ Meters

162

4. Interactive EQ Display

162

5. Filter

162

7. Lo-Mid Band EQ

163

8. Hi-Mid Band EQ

163

9. High Band EQ

163

6. Low Band EQ

163

The FX Ins Screen

164

The Surrnd Screen

164

The CH EDIT P.BAY Screen

164

The CH EDIT ASSIGN Screen

165

Parameter View

165

Assorted CH EDIT Tools

167

The Transport Buttons

175

The TRACK STATUS Buttons

176

Recording

177

Playback

178

Looped Playback

179

Vari Pitch Playback

180

Timeline

181

Scrub length Scrub length

182

Scrub Scrub

182

Locators

183

Storing a Locator

184

Recalling a Locator

184

Changing Locator Banks

184

Clearing a Locator

184

Editing Locators

184

Locators in Safe Mode

185

Placing a Marker

187

Clearing Markers

188

Editing Markers

188

Punching

189

Punching In and Out Manually

190

Auto-Punching

190

Auto Punch IN time

191

Auto Punch OUT time

191

Performing an Auto Punch

192

Bouncing

193

The Mechanics of Bouncing

194

Mono and Stereo Bouncing

194

First Things First

194

Routing Tracks for a Bounce

195

V. FADER

196

Listening as You Bounce

198

Mixing the Bounce

198

Performing the Bounce

199

The Mechanics of Mixing

200

15—The Aux and Direct Busses

203

Stereo Aux Busses

204

Aux Bus Levels

204

Configuring an Aux Bus

205

Direct Busses

206

Direct Bus Levels

207

Configuring a Direct Bus

207

Aux Bus/Direct Bus Strategy

208

16—Using Effects

211

Choose an Effect Processor

212

Send Signals to the Effect

212

Send Status

213

Send Level

213

Send Level Send Pan

213

Inserting an Effect

214

Insert Routing Tips

216

MASTER Bus Insert Effects

217

The EFFECT VIEW Screen

218

PROJECT TRACK EFFECT UTILITY

218

The Algorithm View Screen

219

Selecting Effect Patches

219

Starting from Scratch

220

Editing Effect Patches

221

Saving Effect Patches

222

Speaker Modeling

223

Microphone Modeling

224

The FX Return Channel Fader

225

FX Return CH EDIT Tools

225

1. ASSIGN

226

2. EFFECT Algorithm Display

226

3. MONO Sw

226

4. GROUP

226

DIR Bus 1 is

227

12. FADER

228

13. AUX Send Controls

228

Routing Effects to Tracks

229

18—Editing Tracks

233

Edit Points

234

Performing Edits

235

Where Editing Takes Place

236

Editing Methods

237

Edit Messages

238

Editing with a Mouse

239

Position line

240

Snapping to Grid

243

Position Cursors

244

TRACK EDIT

245

Editing from the TRACK Menu

247

19—Phrase Editing Operations

253

Quantize

254

TRACK menu

255

F2 (MOVE)

255

F3 (TrmIn)

255

TRIM OUT

256

Why You’d Use Phrase NEW

257

NORMALIZE

258

F5 (NAME)

259

Take Mngr

260

20—Region Editing Operations

261

Why You’d Use Region MOVE

263

COMP/EXP

265

Why You’d Use Region IMPORT

267

DESTINATION

267

EXCHANGE

268

Creating a New Playlist

269

Use: TRACK menu

270

Why You’d Use Region NAME

270

21—Using the Phrase Pads

271

Understanding the Phrase Pads

272

Activating Phrase Pad Mode

273

The PHRASE SEQ STATUS Buttons

273

The PHRASE SEQUENCE Screens

274

The Phrase Sequencer Grid

275

Phrase Sequencer Undo

275

Realtime Phrase Sequencing

276

Step Entry

277

Phrase Pad Button Summary

278

Editing a Phrase Sequence

279

When a sequence track—

280

Micro-Editing Sequencer Data

281

Using Tie, Rest and BackStep

282

Phrase Sequence Bouncing

283

The VS-2480 Outputs

285

Output Signal Routing

286

Track Direct Outs

287

23—EZ Routing

289

EZ ROUTING VIEW Screen

290

EZ Routing Tools

293

Saving an EZ Routing Template

294

24—MIDI and Synchronization

297

MIDI OUT or THRU?

298

A Note About SysEx ID Numbers

298

Changing Scenes via MIDI

300

Sending SysEx Bulk Dump Data

302

MIDI Metronome

303

Setting Up a MIDI Metronome

304

Synchronization

305

About MTC/SMPTE Frame Rates

306

The SYNC PARAMETER Screen

308

EXT SYNC

308

Working with a Sync Track

309

Working with a Tempo Map

310

The Elements of a Tempo Map

311

Shaping a Tempo Map By Hand

311

When the VS-2480 is the Slave

315

25—Surround

317

Turning on Surround Mode

319

26—Automix

323

The AUTOMIX Screen

324

Activating Automix Mode

325

The AUTOMIX STATUS Buttons

325

Recording Automix Data

326

Punch with Return

327

Punch with Keep

327

AUTOMIX Button Punching

328

Playing Back Automix Data

329

Editing Automix Data

329

Targeting Automix Data

330

What Automix Data Looks Like

330

F2 (ALL) and F3 (MARK)

330

Automix Undo

330

Automix Editing Methods

331

Automix Editing Operations

332

OUT TOIN OUT TOIN

333

OUTIN OUTIN

333

Micro-Editing Automix Data

335

Deleting an Automix Event

336

Creating a New Automix Event

336

Undoing an Automix Micro-Edit

336

Mastering

337

What is the Mastering Room?

338

About Mastering Tracks

338

CD Disk Images

338

Multi-Project Compilation CDs

339

MASTERING

341

Mastering room

341

Project playlist

341

Navigation buttons

341

00h00m00s00f00

342

Using the Mastering Tool Kit

343

Recording Mastering Tracks

343

Editing Mastering Tracks

344

Placing CD Track Markers

345

CD-R/RW Operations

347

Burning an Audio CD

348

Erasing a CD-RW Disk

350

The CD Player Feature

351

.WAV File Importing

352

Importing a .WAV File

353

F5 (TrkExp)

354

V-Tracks

354

Read-only

354

F6 (PhrExp)

355

Playlist

355

↑) or F2 (Scrol↓)

356

28—Utility Menu Parameters

357

PHANTOM SW

358

EXT LEVEL METER (MB-24)

358

PS/2 MOUSE

360

PS/2 KEYBOARD

360

CD DIGITAL REC

361

SHIFT LOCK

361

SWITCHING TIME

361

KNOB/FDR ASSIGN SW

361

PREVIOUS/NEXT SW

361

OPERATION DISPLAY

363

DIGITAL I/0

364

UTILITY menu

365

F4 (PlyRec)

365

VARI PITCH

366

SOLO/MUTE

366

Metronome

367

METRONOME OUT

368

INT LEVEL

368

METRONOME MODE

368

TONE TYPE

368

AUTO PUNCH/LOOP

369

SURROUND

370

Oscillator/ANALYZER

370

1. Aux Busses 1-8

371

2. Direct Busses 1-8

371

3. Stereo MONITOR bus

371

4. Stereo MASTER bus

371

1. 3. 4.2

371

Analyzer

372

DATE/TIME

374

Parameter Initialization

374

Phrase Sequencer

375

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters

376

29—Expanding the VS-2480

377

Installation Procedure

378

INOUT /THRU

379

Installation Precautions

382

Supplemental Information

385

Using a Roland DIF-AT

386

ADA-7000 Settings

387

AE-7000 Settings

388

INPUT STATUS A-D

389

CLOCK SOURCE

389

VSR-880 Settings

390

Setting Up the VS-2480

391

Using a Roland VE-7000

392

FLEX BUS Area

393

Roland MB-24 Notes

394

Factory EZ Routing Templates

395

Bouncing Template

396

Mixdown Template

397

Mastering Template

398

Surround 2+2 Template

399

TR21 TR23

399

Surround 3+1 Template

400

TR22 TR24

400

*Recording tracks are:

401

Surround 3+2+1 Template

402

TR19 TR21

402

TR20 TR22

402

VS-2480 Tick Resolution Table

403

V-Fader Control Messages

407

Automix Parameter List

408

Recording Mode Tables

410

Parameter Translations

410

Effect Patches

411

Attenuator

411

Glossary

413

Numerics

421

Information

448





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