Roland VS-2480 manual

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 3 USING THE UNIT SAFELY 001 • Before using this unit, make sure to read the instructions below, and the Owner’s Manual. .......................................................................................................... 001-50 • Connect mains plug of this model to a mains socket outlet w[...]

4 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 012a • Immediately turn the power off, remove the power cord from the outlet, and request servicing by your retailer, the nearest Roland Service Center, or an authorized Roland distributor, as listed on the “Information” page when: • The power-supply cord, or the plug has been damaged; or ?[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 5 101a • The unit should be located so that its location or position does not interfere with its proper venti- lation. .......................................................................................................... 102b • Always grasp only the plug on the power-supply cord when pluggin[...]

6 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Important Notes 291b In addition to the items listed under “IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS” and “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” on pages (p. 2) and (p. 3), please read and observe the following: Power Supply 301 • Do not connect this unit to same electrical outlet that is being used by an electric[...]

Important Notes Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 7 Additional Precautions 551 • Please be aware that the contents of memory can be irretrievably lost as a result of a malfunction, or the improper operation of the unit. To protect yourself against the risk of loosing important data, we recommend that you periodically save a backup [...]

Important Notes 8 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual • Do not leave the unit in any environment subject to temperature extremes; for example, in a closed automobile in summer or outdoors during winter. • Do not use the unit in conditions of high temperature and humidity or in any location subject to rapid temperature changes. • [...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 9 T able of Contents Step-by-Step Instruction Finder 20 1—Welcome 27 About this Manual .......................................................................................................................................................... 27 How the VS-2480 Owner’s Manual is [...]

Table of Contents 10 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Power ......................................................................................................................... ................................................ 61 A Way to Listen to the VS-2480 .....................................................................[...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 11 Random Access ........................................................................................................................................................ 87 What’s Pointer-Based Playback? .............................................................................[...]

Table of Contents 12 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 9—Working with Input Signals 129 Analog Input Signals .................................................................................................................................................... 129 Making Analog Connections .............................................[...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 13 The CH EDIT ASSIGN Screen ............................................................................................................................. 167 Parameter View .............................................................................................................[...]

Table of Contents 14 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 14—Working with Track Channels 195 Bouncing ...................................................................................................................... ................................................... 195 The Mechanics of Bouncing .................................[...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 15 17—Working with FX Return Channels 227 The FX Return Channel Fader ..................................................................................................................................... 227 FX Return CH EDIT Tools .................................................[...]

Table of Contents 16 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual What a Phrase Pad Plays ....................................................................................................................................... 274 Phrase Pad Setup ...................................................................................................[...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 17 Working with a Sync Track .................................................................................................................................. 311 Working with a Tempo Map ..............................................................................................[...]

Table of Contents 18 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual DRIVE ......................................................................................................................... ............................................. 361 VGA ..................................................................................................[...]

Table of Contents Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 19 Using the VE-7000 .................................................................................................................................................. 394 Roland MB-24 Notes ............................................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder 20 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Step-by-Step Instruction Finder Activating R-BUS 2, Coaxial or Optical Digital Inputs ................................................................................ 131 Activating Vari Pitch .........................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 21 To Reset a Channel’s Fader and Pan .................................................................................................................... 138 Turning KNOB/FADER ASSIGN On and Off .......................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder 22 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Editing an Effect Patch .......................................................................................................................................... 224 External Insert-Like Effects ......................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 23 Activating Looped Playback ................................................................................................................................. 182 Editing Loop FROM and TO Points Manually ................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder 24 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Assigning KNOB/FADER ASSIGN Switch to Knobs ...................................................................................... 140 Controlling a Parameter of Your Choice ............................................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 25 Effects to Tracks with EZ Routing ........................................................................................................................ 233 Effects to Tracks with Quick Routing ......................................................................[...]

Step-By-Step Instruction Finder 26 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using Jump ................................................................................................................................................................... 180 Using Microphone Modeling .............................................................[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 27 1—W elcome Congratulations on the purchase of y our Roland VS-2480 Digital Studio W orkstation. T he VS-2480 will allow you to tak e your music—or an y other kind of sound—from the first spark of inspiration to completed recording. Although the VS-2480 is designed to be simple to operate, t[...]

1—Welcome 28 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T o make it easy for you to find the manual’ s numerous step-by-step procedures, we’ ve assembled a “Step-b y-Step Instruction Finder” that starts on P age 20. T here’ s also a standard T able of Contents at the front of the book and an Index at the back. Additional informat[...]

1—Welcome Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 29 Other Documents in the VS-2480 Box T he VS-2480 User’ s Guide provides a quick look at the VS-2480’ s major features. It’ll tak e you through the steps for a v ariety of basic operations. T he VS-2480 Appendices provide additional detailed information not included in the Owner’[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 31 2—Getting Ar ound The T op Panel of the VS-2480 Analog Input Jacks T he analog input jacks allow y ou to bring analog audio into the VS-2480’ s 24-bit analog- to-digital (A/D) conv erters using balanced XLR connectors and balanced or unbalanced 1/4” connectors . T he VS-2480 also provides -2[...]

2—Getting Around 32 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3—GUITAR HI-Z If you’ d like to plug an electric guitar or bass directly into the VS-2480, connect it to the GUIT AR HI-Z (for “high impedance”) 1/4” phone-type jack for a loud, clean signal with a minimum of noise. 4—GUITAR HI-Z ON Switch Press the GUIT AR HI-Z ON s[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 33 Channel Strips Each of the first sixteen c hannel strips contains—reading from the bottom up—a fader , a TRA CK ST A TUS/PHRASE P AD button, a CH EDIT/SELECT/PHRASE SEQ ST A TUS/ A UTOMIX ST A TUS button and a P AN/A UX SEND 1-8 knob. Channel strips are described in detail [...]

2—Getting Around 34 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 2—CH EDIT/SELECT/PHRASE SEQ STATUS/AUTOMIX STATUS Buttons 1-16 When w orking with input, track and FX (“effect”) return channels, press this button to view a channel’ s CH EDIT settings—the button lights to show that the input, track or FX return channel is selected. W[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 35 8—PHRASE PAD PLAY•PHRASE SEQ Button T his button activ ates and de-activates the pla ying of phrases and the recording of phrase sequences using the TRA CK ST A TUS/PHRASE P AD buttons. When the PHRASE P AD PLA Y•PHRASE SEQ button is: • Unlit —Phrase P ad and Phrase Se[...]

2—Getting Around 36 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Display Ar ea T he LCD display and its buttons are central to e verything y ou do on the VS-2480. The F buttons discussed in Chapter 4, on P age 66. 1—LCD Display T he LCD display is y our window to all of the VS-2480’s operations. In addition to providing y ou vital informa[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 37 TRACK EDIT Ar ea Y ou’ll use the top row of buttons in this area as shortcuts when editing the regions and phrases of recorded trac ks—the TRA CK EDIT buttons are described on P age 247. T o learn about tracks, phrases and regions , see Chapter 6, starting on P age 85. T o l[...]

2—Getting Around 38 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 6—SPLIT•COMP/EXP Button • When editing phrases, press this button to split the selected phrase at the timeline. • When editing regions, press this button to perform time compression or expansion on the currently selected track region, or scaling of automated parameter va[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 39 14—LOOP Button Press this button to turn looping on (lit) or off (unlit). See P age 181. 15—WAVE DISPLAY Button Press W A VE DISPLA Y to view the currently selected track’ s audio as wa veform data (lit) or as a simple rectangle (unlit). EZ ROUTING, AUTOMIX, CD-R W/MASTERI[...]

2—Getting Around 40 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3—CD-RW•MASTERING Button Press this button to view the CD-R W/MASTERING menu. From there y ou can enter the VS-2480’ s Mastering Room—where you can complete the master mix of a project and create an audio CD—pla y audio CDs on a connected Roland CD-R/R W drive or impor[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 41 General Contr ols T his area contains frequently used controls that are part of man y VS-2480 operations . 1—MIDI/DISK Indicator T he MIDI/DISK indicator lights: • Green —whenev er the VS-2480 receives MIDI data from an external de vice. • Red —whenev er the internal I[...]

2—Getting Around 42 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5—TIME/VALUE Dial T he TIME/V ALUE dial—located inside the SHUTTLE ring—performs two important jobs: • During project pla yback, you can turn the dial to move forw ard or bac kward in time. See P age 126 for more information. • T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to adjust sett[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 43 2—PREVIEW TO•PROJECT TOP Button Press PREVIEW TO to listen to the last few moments leading up to the current location of the timeline—you can set ho w much y ou want to hear . Hold SHIFT and press PREVIEW TO to jump to the start, or “top, ” of the audio recorded in the[...]

2—Getting Around 44 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 9—REC•AUTOMIX REC Button Hold down REC•A UTOMIX REC and press PLA Y to record audio onto a track (see P age 179). When the A UTOMIX button (P age 39) is lit, hold down REC•A UTOMIX and press PLA Y to record mixer settings as A utomix data—see Chapter 26 (P age 325) to [...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 45 4—NUMERICS Button Press NUMERICS so that it lights to enter numeric values for v arious settings using the VS-2480’ s ke ypad or a connected ASCII ke yboard. W hen NUMERICS is lit, the area into which y ou can type becomes selected on the displa y . See P age 74. 5—PREVIOU[...]

2—Getting Around 46 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 11—Numeric keypad•AUX 1-8, USER T he numeric ke ypad serves two general purposes: • Y ou can type the desired number or numbers on it when storing and recalling locators, scenes and mark ers , or when entering v alues when NUMERICS is lit. • When KNOB/FDR ASSIGN•A UX S[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 47 4—SMPTE IN Jack When sync hronizing the VS-2480 as a sla ve to an external SMPTE-generating device, connect the external device’ s SMPTE output to the VS-2480’s SMPTE IN jac k. Synchronization is discussed in Chapter 24, starting on P age 307. 5—PS/2 KEYBOARD and MOUSE J[...]

2—Getting Around 48 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 9—PHONES 1 and 2 Jacks Connect standard stereo headphones (purc hased separately) to either or both of these jacks for listening to the VS-2480. Eac h jack has its o wn volume control (P age 75). Y ou can select the signals to be sent to the PHONES jacks, as described in Chapt[...]

2—Getting Around Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 49 15—R-BUS 1 and 2 DIGITAL 8ch I/O Jacks Using Roland’ s R-BUS technolog y , y ou can bring digital audio into and out of the VS-2480 b y connecting it to any R-BUS-compliant external digital de vice. T his includes the following Roland products (purc hased separately): • AD[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 51 3—Intr oduction to the VS-2480 T o master the VS-2480, it’ s important to understand the components that make up this self-contained 24-track recor ding studio. That’ s what we’ll do here. More specific descriptions of how to use these components can be found in later c hapters as noted. [...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 52 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Mixing Console T he VS-2480 contains a digital 64-channel mixing console. What’s a Digital Mixing Console? First, let’ s make sure we understand what a mixing console, or “mixer, ” is . A mixer is a device that lets y ou manipulate audio, and lets you co[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 53 The Main Roles of the VS-2480 Mixer T wo of the most important jobs the mixer performs in the VS-2480 are this: Y ou’ll also use the VS-2480’s mixer to: • mix input signals for your performers to listen to in headphones or stage monitors. • send input signal[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 54 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Internal Ef fects What Are the Internal Effects? T he VS-2480 contains a set of individual internal effects processors. As shipped from the factory , there are tw o internal stereo effect processors onboard. Y ou can install up to three additional VS8F-2 Effect [...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 55 The Har d Disk Recorder T he 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 lik e a cassette recorder , VCR or any other traditional kind of recor der . Its basic con[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 56 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T he VS-2480 provides analog output jacks and digital connectors for all of these situations. W e’ll discuss them in detail in Chapter 22, starting on P age 287. Signal Flow Here’ s an illustration that shows, in general terms , how signals typically flo w in t[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 57 • pla yback speed settings. • all information relating to tempo and synchronization. • all project-related UTILITY menu settings. T he VS-2480 always has a project loaded, ev en if you’ ve nev er created one yourself. A projects can be as large as space allo[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 58 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Although ev ery bus is essentially the same thing—a pathwa y—busses are named for the type of signal they typicall y carry . The VS-2480 provides the following busses. Achieving Perfect Levels In all digital recording, the best sound is achie ved when a signal i[...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 59 Take Care During Recording When it comes to establishing great le vels, the most critical stage is during the original recording process. T he most difficult recording situations inv olve the recor ding of musicians whose lev els fluctuate between one performance [...]

3—Introduction to the VS-2480 60 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual It’ s vitally important, therefore, that y ou do what every computer user must do: regularly back up y our data to an external storage device. If an unexpected problem does occur , you can alw ays re-load y our backed-up data and carry on. W e strongly recommend t[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 61 4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Things Y ou’ll Need Power Y ou’ll need a standard A C power sock et that supplies grounded A C power . If y ou’ re going to listen to the VS-2480 through speakers, you’ll also need pow er for them and for their amplifier if it’ s a separate component.[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 62 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Connect a PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 ASCII Keyboard A mouse and ASCII ke yboard can mak e the operation of the VS-2480 even easier . The VS-2480 supports the use of a PS/2-type mouse and PS/2 ke yboard. A PS/2 mouse is included with your VS-2480. A PS/2 ke yboard must [...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 63 Making Power Connections Connect one end of the supplied A C power cable to a grounded A C outlet, and the other to the VS-2480’ s A C IN jack—use only the supplied A C cable. Connect all other devices’ power cables as recommended in their documentation. P[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 64 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Configuring the VS-2480 Setting Up the VGA Monitor , Mouse and Keyboard Y ou’ll want to make sure y our mouse, ke yboard and V GA monitor are properly set up . All of the settings for these devices are found on the same UTILITY menu pages. T o get there: 1. P[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 65 Setting the VS-2480’ s Clock T he VS-2480 time-stamps your recor dings to make it easier for you to k eep track of your work. In order to allow the VS-2480 to do this , you’ll need to set its system clock. 1. Press UTILITY . 2. Press P A GE repeatedly—if n[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 66 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Switches Some settings in the VS-2480 are presented as switches. T hey’ re typically shown in either of two w a ys: • As a box —when a switch is on, it’s dark ened. When it’ s off, it’ s not. • As chec ked items —when a value is c heck ed, it’s[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 67 • act as on/off switches. • change the v alue of the associated parameter. • mov e the selection cursor to a location on the display . • exit the current screen. Sometimes the boxes at the bottom of the screen are large and contain icons. When this is th[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 68 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T he ENTER/YES button also blinks to indicate that you can press it to view additional options. EXIT/NO flashes at times to sho w you can press it to exit the current screen. The SHIFT Button Many of the VS-2480’ s buttons perform more than one job—these bu[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 69 Pop-Up Menus When a pop-up menu is a vailable, you can select an item in the menu b y dragging the mouse to it—so the item’ s highlighted— and then click the left mouse button to select it. The following tw o pop-up menus are a vailable from a number of sc[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 70 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using the VGA Info Display Most of the VS-2480 Info Displa y’ s screens are divided into four areas. General Information Strip T his area appears at the top of all of the Info Display’ s screens . T he: 1. ABS/REL indicators —tell whether the Info Displa y[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 71 8. LOOP indicator —shows when looping is turned on. 9. A UTOMIX indicator —shows when A utomix is turned on. 10. REMAIN —shows how muc h disk space you ha ve left. (Y ou can set the unit of measurement with the REMAIN DISPLA Y TYPE parameter in the UTILITY[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 72 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3. Y ou can press F1 through F5 to view the following screens: • ID PL (Info Display Playlist screen) —shows the track pla ylist in the lower area on the displa y . • ID IN (Info Display Input Channels) —shows all 24 input c hannels in the lower area on [...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 73 Undoing a Track Recording or Editing Operation 1. Press UNDO•REDO . 2. Locate the desired action in the Undo list. 3. T urn the TIME V ALUE dial to select the desired Undo lev el—the selected level has an arro w to its left. 4. Press ENTER/YES. The selected [...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 74 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Entering a New Name Using the VS-2480 Controls 1. Press  to select the first character in the naming box if it isn’t alread y selected. 2. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the desired first character—a box appears around the currently selected c har[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 75 If Y ou’re Using DS-90A or DS-50A Monitors If you’ re using Roland DS-90A or DS-50A Digital Reference Monitors , you’ll need to route the MONITOR bus to the digital output to whic h you’ re connecting the monitors . (In the factory demo songs, this has a[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 76 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual If you’ re using headphones , the setting of the MONITOR knob establishes the basic monitoring lev el, so set it to its 0dB position. T o adjust your headphones’ volume, use the PHONES 1 or 2 knob that corresponds to the jack into whic h you’ ve plugged yo[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 77 A Quick Look at What’s on the Display 1. Press HOME•DISPLA Y . 2. Press P A GE until “INPUT” appears on the display abo ve F1. T he display should look something lik e this: 3. If it doesn’t, hold do wn SHIFT and press HOME•DISPLA Y repeatedly until [...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 78 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Here’ s where the locators in Bank 0 take y ou: Y ou can recall locators when the project is playing or stopped—w e’ll recall them when the project isn’t pla ying so you can see how the y help you move through a project: 1. Press STOP to stop pla yback. [...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 79 3. Press 1 on the numeric keypad to jump to Locator 01 at the start of the first turnaround. T he first four faders—the bass drum, snare, hi-hat and floor tom— move do wnwar d since the drums don’t play in this part of the project. 4. Press PLA Y to beg[...]

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations 80 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. Press SCENE again, and then 2 on the k eypad to recall Scene 02—AcIntro Dflt. The displa y changes to show that this scene uses different V -T racks than Scene 01. 6. Press ZERO and then PLA Y to hear what’s been added to the project’ s introduction. 7[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 81 5—Understanding Ef fects Harnessing the VS-2480’ s Ef fects T he VS-2480 provides a range of creativ e possibilities when it comes to effects . How and where you appl y them will hav e a big impact on the sound you ac hieve. T his chapter discusses important effect-related ideas, including: ?[...]

5—Understanding Effects 82 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Insert Ef fects An insert effect detours a signal as it makes its w ay through the VS-2480. T he signal is diverted into the effect, processed, and the effect’ s output—the wet version of the signal—tak es the original signal’ s place and resumes its journey . The[...]

5—Understanding Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 83 Pre-Fader and Post-Fader Sends T he VS-2480 allows you to send a signal to an A ux bus from either of two places as the signal makes its w ay through a c hannel. Y ou can send it: • pre-fader —to send the signal to the A ux bus before the signal reaches its c hannel f[...]

5—Understanding Effects 84 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual W e’ll describe this procedure in more detail on P age 215. Getting the Most Fr om Y our Effect Pr ocessors It’ s important to be strategic about how y ou employ y our effects so that you’ll ha ve the effects you need at eac h step along the wa y as you record and m[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 85 6—Understanding the Har d Disk Recor der T his chapter describes the fundamentals of har d disk recording in the VS-2480. If y ou’ re new to hard disk recor ding, y ou’ll find all the basics here. W e’ll explain: • what a hard disk dri ve is. • how a VS-2480 hard driv e organizes data[...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder 86 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual How a VS-2480 Har d Drive Organizes Data A VS-2480 hard dri ve divides up its total disk space into sections called “partitions . ” P artitions help keep project data together on the hard dri ve. Each partition acts lik e a separate virtual drive—it e[...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 87 How Recor dings Are Played Back Random Access When y our VS-2480 pla ys back your music from a har d drive, it uses something called “random access” playback. The phrase “random access” has its roots in computer programming, but what it means to y o[...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder 88 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Non-Destructive, Pointer -Based Editing Pointer -Based Editing When y ou edit audio on the VS-2480, what you’ re actually doing is editing a phrase, the set of pointers that instruct the VS-2480 how to pla y the audio. Y ou’ re not actually changing the[...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 89 The Advantage of Non-Destructive Editing Non-destructive editing allo ws you to undo an y edits you perform because all of y our original hard disk recor dings—your tak es—remain safe and sound on your hard disk no matter how man y edits you perform on [...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder 90 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Power of V -T racks Although the VS-2480 is a 24-track studio, in a very real sense it’ s wa y more than that. Since each of its 24 trac ks can play an y of 16 V -T racks, a project can actuall y hold as many as 384 recordings from whic h you can c ho[...]

6—Understanding the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 91 About Editing Regions A region is a selected time range within a track. Y ou define the region you w ant to edit b y placing two “edit points”: • IN—T he position of the IN marker determines the beginning of the section you w ant to edit. This loca[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 93 7—Pr oject and Drive Operations T his chapter describes the v arious project- and hard driv e-related activities y ou can perform from the VS-2480’ s PROJECT menu screens. Most e verything that has to do with an entire project can be found on this menu. Navigating the PROJECT Menu Scr eens 1. [...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 94 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual In the project list, you can also see all of the projects on the currentl y selected drive. The VS-2480 provides information about eac h project. Selecting an Item in the Project List T o select a project or drive shown in the project list: 1. Press  or  or t[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 95 Pr oject Operations About F6 (MARK) Before you can perform some of the project operations, you ha ve to target the project on which y ou want to perform the operation. Y ou do this b y marking the project. Marking a Project 1. Press  or  or turn the TIME/V AL[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 96 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual NEW When y ou create a new project, you mak e two important choices that determine both the nature of the project and what you can do with its audio. W hile these choices are a product of the VS-2480’ s great flexibility , the y can’t be changed once the proje[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 97 Recording Mode T he VS-2480 provides eight “recording modes” from which to choose. A project’s recording mode configures the VS-2480’ s hard disk recorder at the desired balance between a project’ s audio quality , how man y tracks the project contains, [...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 98 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Amount of Recording Time with Eac h Recording Mode T his chart shows the number of minutes y ou’ d get when recording a single track in a single 10G partition. T he av ailable time depends on the selected sample rate. Creating a New Project 1. Press PROJECT . 2. [...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 99 8. Press F5 (OK). The VS-2480 displays: 9. T o proceed, press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel the operation. T he VS-2480 asks if you w ant to store the current project before creating and loading the new one. 10. Press ENTER/YES to sa ve an y changes y ou’[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 100 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Locking and Un-Locking a Project on Your Hard Drive 1. Press PROJECT . 2. If “PROTEC” isn’t visible above F4, press P A GE until it is . 3. Select the desired project. 4. Press F4 (PROTEC). Depending on whether the project is currently lock ed or not, the VS[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 101 7. If you’ re sure you w ant to proceed, press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel optimization of the displa yed project. Since you’ re about to permanently delete audio data, the VS-2480 asks again: 8. Press ENTER/YES to optimize the current project, or EX[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 102 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 6. Press F1 (COPY)—the PROJECT COPY screen appears . Y ou can wipe the destination drive clean before cop ying your data to it. 7. Set Erase all Projects to: • Off —if you w ant to add what you’ re copying to the list of projects alread y on the destinatio[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 103 5. If you’ re sure you w ant to delete the marked project(s) from y our hard driv e, press ENTER/YES. If not, press EXIT/NO . 6. Since ERASE is irreversible, the VS-2480 asks again: 7. T o erase the marked project(s), press ENTER/YES, or press EXIT/NO to cancel.[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 104 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. T o select a V -T rack, cursor to it and press F4 (MARK) to check its chec kbox; to unselect it, press F4 (MARK) again. Y ou can select and unselect all of the V -T racks in the map at once b y repeatedly pressing F3 (ALL). 6. If you prefer to work on the Selec[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 105 1. Load the project you want to use as the basis for the final project. 2. Press PROJECT . 3. Select the project you want to add to the end of the loaded project. 4. If “COMBIN” isn’t visible above F4, press P AGE until it is. 5. Press F4 (COMBIN)—the VS-[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 106 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Backing Up a Project 1. Connect your Roland-approved CD-R/R W drive or Zip dri ve to the VS-2480. 2. Insert the required media—a CD-R/RW or Zip disk—into the dri ve. 3. Press PROJECT . 4. Mark the project(s) you want to bac k up. 5. If “BA CKUP” isn’t vi[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 107 RECOVER T o re-load VS-2480 project backup data, use the RECO VER operation. When y ou recover a project, the project is restored to your internal har d drive in its original state. Y ou can also use project RECO VER to restore song backup and archi ve data from t[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 108 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 10. Set Erase all Projects to: • Off —if you w ant to add the project(s) you’ re recovering to the list of projects already on the destination dri ve. • On —if you w ant to clear the drive so it contains onl y your recov ered projects. 11. If y ou’ re [...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 109 8. Select the drive to which y ou want to import the song. 9. If “IMPORT” isn’t visible above F3, press P AGE until it is. 10. Press F3 (IMPORT)—the PROJECT IMPORT screen appears. 11. Press F5 (OK) to import the marked songs—the VS-2480 asks if you’ re[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 110 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Exporting to a VS-890 or VSR-880 • Eight project tracks are exported. Y ou can select T racks 1-8, 9-16 or 17-24. • V -T racks 1-8 are exported to Bank A, and V -T racks 9-16 to Bank B. • Projects that use the M24 and L V2 recording modes can’t be exported[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 111 8. If you’ re exporting to a CD-R/R W , set the V erify and CD Speed parameters: • V erify’s setting determines whether or not the VS-2480 double-checks the accurac y of the data it writes on your CD . T urning V erify on is alwa ys the safest method, though[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 112 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Fragmentation What Is Fragmentation? When a har d drive has first been set up and has lots of free space, your VS-2480 can write each file’ s data in one single area of the hard driv e. W hen the file is pla yed back, the VS-2480 only has to look in one place[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 113 What Can Be Done About a Fragmented Hard Drive? Y ou can de-fragment—or “defrag”—your har d drive using the same three steps we listed in “How Can I Pre vent Fragmentation?” If you ha ve trouble backing up a project, it ma y be because it’ s just too[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 114 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Formatting a Hard Drive 1. Press PROJECT . 2. Select a drive belonging to the hard dri ve y ou want to format. 3. If “FmtDrv” isn’t visible above F2, press P AGE until it is. 4. Press F2 (FmtDrv)—the FORMA T DRIVE screen appears. 5. Select the desired part[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 115 10. Press ENTER/YES to proceed with formatting, or EXIT/NO to cancel the operation. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2480 asks if you want to sa ve any recent c hanges to the currently loaded project. 11. Press ENTER/YES to sa ve the project, or EXIT/NO to proceed[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations 116 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 7. Press ENTER/YES to clear the drive, or EXIT/NO to cancel. If you pressed ENTER/YES, the VS-2480 double-checks to mak e sure you want to proceed, since you’ re about to wipe everything on the selected dri ve/partition. 8. If you want to proceed, press ENTER/YE[...]

7—Project and Drive Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 117 About Drive Check’s Repair Capabilities If Disk Check finds a problem it can attempt to fix it for y ou b y deleting the data that’ s causing the trouble you’ re experiencing. Often—once the damaged data is remo ved— the problems that led you to Dri ve[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 119 8—The Home Scr een T he Home screen is central to VS-2480 operations . It’ s one screen ev ery VS-2480 user needs to master: • It’ s the first screen you see when y ou power up the VS-2480. • It provides y ou a comprehensive o verview of the current project. • It serves as y our home[...]

8—The Home Screen 120 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Curr ent Channel Display T he current channel displa y shows y ou the name of the input, track or FX return channel that’ s most recently been selected for editing (“Selecting a Channel for Editing” on P age 138). P AN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knob Display T he P AN/A UX SEND 1-8 kn[...]

8—The Home Screen Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 121 How the VS-2480 Meters Show Signals Lev els are shown on the VS-2480’s displa y in a row of verticall y oriented meters. Eac h meter’ s signal is shown as a thick blac k bar that grows taller as its signal gets louder . The 48, 12, 4 and 0 markings to the left of the meter[...]

8—The Home Screen 122 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Position Bar T he position bar has a handle you can grab with y our mouse and drag: • rightwar d to mov e to a later time in the project. • leftwar d to mov e to an earlier time . T he position bar’ s handle shows where you are in the project. The blac k area to either s[...]

8—The Home Screen Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 123 If this sounds similar to a V -T rack (P age 87), y ou’ re right. Each track in the trac ks display shows the string of phrases that comprise its currently selected V -T rack. In fact, to put it more plainly: What you see on eac h track in the tracks displa y is its currentl[...]

8—The Home Screen 124 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Expanded Playlist Views Y ou can hold down SHIFT and press HOME•DISPLA Y to more radically c hange the wa y the playlist is displa yed. Each time you press HOME•DISPLA Y , the screen cycles through two additional pla ylist views and back to its original appearance: • W i[...]

8—The Home Screen Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 125 • F3 (TR Mix) —to show the pla yback le vels of the tracks and the MONIT OR and MASTER bus lev els . • F4 (A UXDIR) —to show the master le vels of the eight A ux send busses, eight Direct busses and the MONITOR and MASTER bus le vels. • F5 (OUTPUT) —to show the le [...]

8—The Home Screen 126 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Curr ent T ime Location Display At the top of many of the VS-2480’ s screens is the current time location displa y , which consists of three project time counters. Eac h shows y ou the timeline’ s current location in the project using its own form of time measurement: T he[...]

8—The Home Screen Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 127 Using the Fader/Pan Display Y ou can replace the meters display (P age 120) on the Home screen with the fader/pan displa y if you wish. The fader/pan displa y presents a small channel strip representing each c hannel of the type selected with the F/P Switches. Each onscreen c [...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 129 9—W orking with Input Signals T his chapter describes how to get signals into the VS-2480’ s analog and digital input jacks and connectors. Y ou’ll learn how to set analog input lev els and how to configure the VS-2480’ s digital inputs for the external digital devices y ou want to use. [...]

9—Working with Input Signals 130 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Phantom Power Each of the VS-2480’ s eight XLR jacks can supply +48 V phantom power to a connected condenser microphone that doesn’t ha ve its own internal po wer source. To Turn an XLR Input Jack’s Phantom Power On or Off 1. Hold down SHIFT and press EZ ROUTI[...]

9—Working with Input Signals Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 131 Digital Input Signals Digital Connections T he VS-2480 can accept digital audio from an external digital device through the VS-2480’ s S/P DIF stereo coaxial and optical inputs or via its two R-BUS connectors. T o learn about connecting devices to these jac ks , s[...]

9—Working with Input Signals 132 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Digital Considerations T his section discusses a couple of issues you should consider to help ensure that y our digital audio is successfully captured b y the VS-2480. Sample Rates T he VS-2480 operates at the sampling rate of the currently loaded project. As a resu[...]

9—Working with Input Signals Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 133 Who Should Supply the Master Clock? T here are two basic conditions in which y ou’ll be bringing digital audio signals into the VS-2480’ s digital inputs, and eac h has its own master clock considerations: • when its hard disk recor der isn’t being synchroni[...]

9—Working with Input Signals 134 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the desired master word cloc k source. Completing the Master/Slave Setup Make sure that: • the device designated as the master cloc k source uses its internal clock as its timing reference. On the VS-2480, set MASTER CLOCK t[...]

9—Working with Input Signals Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 135 Routing Input Signals to Input Channels Much of the internal “wiring” through which a signal tra vels from one place to another in the VS-2480 is virtual—the signal path is determined b y your current settings, not b y permanently placed ph ysical wires . This[...]

9—Working with Input Signals 136 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual How Input Connections W ork Input Channel Perspective Input routing is done from the input channels’ point of view . Y ou begin by selecting the desired input channels, and then choose the signals y ou want to route to them. Two by Two In the VS-2480’ s virtual [...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 137 10—Using the Digital Mixer In this chapter , w e’ll discuss how to perform basic operations on the mixer . For an introduction to the VS-2480’ s built-in digital mixer , see Chapter 3. Changing Channels As described on P age 52, all of the VS-2480’ s 64 mixer channels are activ e and a va[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer 138 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Channel Selection When y ou want to adjust a c hannel’ s parameters , you must first select the c hannel. Selecting a Channel for Editing Using the CH EDIT Buttons 1. Press the FADER button that selects the set of c hannels containing the channel y ou want to w ork[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 139 Using the P AN/AUX SEND 1-8 Knobs When the c hannel strips are controlling input, track and FX return c hannels , the P AN/ A UX SEND 1-8 knobs at the top of the strips can do a variety of things. The y can: • adjust the stereo positioning of the selected channels?[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer 140 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Activating Knob Control of Dynamics and EQ Parameters 1. If the A UX SEND•PRM EDIT button is: • lit red —the P AN/A UX SEND 1-8 knobs are set to control the selected channel’ s dynamics and EQ parameters • not lit —press the button repeatedly until it’ s[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 141 T o T urn the KNOB/F ADER ASSIGN Feature On and Of f 1. Press KNOB/FDR ASSIGN so that it’s flashing to turn the feature on. 2. Press KNOB/FDR ASSIGN again—so its indicator light goes out—to turn the feature off. Activating Knob or Fader Contr ol of Aux Send Lev[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer 142 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The MASTER Fader T he MASTER fader—located at the far right of the channel strip area— controls the overall le vel of the main stereo MASTER mix. While Recording During recording, you’ll typicall y listen to this mix, so moving the MASTER fader affects how loud [...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 143 Mute Mode Mute mode lets you mute or un-mute multiple input, track and FX return channels quickly and easil y . After muting the desired c hannels, y ou can lea ve Mute mode with the channels remaining muted. Y ou can return to Mute mode at any time to un-mute the sil[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer 144 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Scenes T he VS-2480 allows you to sa ve a wide range of current mixer settings as a “scene. ” Each project can contain up to 100 scenes. A scene contains all of y our current: • channel fader positions • c hannel parameter settings • MASTER lev el settings ?[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 145 Recalling a Scene 1. Press SCENE•BANK if it’ s not already lit. 2. If the current scene bank contains the scene you want, press the scene’s lit button on the ke ypad. T o recall a scene from a different bank, follow the instructions in “Changing Scene Banks”[...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer 146 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3. Press  or  or turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the desired scene. Y ou can: • Press F1 (NAME) to rename (P age 73) the selected scene. • Press F2 (CLEAR) to delete the selected scene. • Press F3 (STORE) to store your current settings as the selected [...]

10—Using the Digital Mixer Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 147 4. Press ENTER/YES to recall the selected scene and close the window , or just press EXIT/NO twice to lea ve the window without recalling a scene. Storing a Scene in Safe Mode 1. Press SCENE—the SCENE window appears. 2. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to scroll through t[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 149 11—Input and T rack Channel T ools Input channel and trac k channels offer almost exactly the same parameters with whic h you can shape their signals. T his chapter describes these “CH EDIT” parameters , named for the button you press to view them. The y ha ve their own c hapter since they?[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 150 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Top of the CH EDIT Screens T he top of each CH EDIT screen contains elements also found on the Home screen: F or a detailed description of what’ s at the top of a CH EDIT screen, see Chapter 8. The Bottom of the CH EDIT Screens At the bottom of the CH EDIT[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 151 1. STATUS (track channel only) T he ST A TUS parameter mirrors the behavior of the TRA CK ST A TUS buttons (P age 178). Changing a trac k’ s recording or pla yback status in either place changes it in both. Y ou can set the parameter to: • PLA Y —T he trac[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 152 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. ChLink When CHLink (“Channel Link”) is turned on, the current channel becomes linked to the c hannel next to it. If the current channel is: • odd-numbered —it’ s linked to the e ven-numbered channel to its right. • even-numbered —it’ s linked [...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 153 About Aux Send Configuration In the VS-2480, each A ux bus can accept pre-fader signals from all input and track channels or post-fader signals from the input and track c hannels—not a mix of both. An A ux bus can also be linked with its odd/ev en partner to [...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 154 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 10. Channel Output Meter 11. Channel Output Meter Pre/Post Switch T he channel output meter shows the le vel of the c hannel’ s signal as it leav es the channel. W ith an input channel, this is particularly important since it shows the le vel at which the sign[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 155 frequently in situations with multiple mics placed close together , as when a drum kit is being recorded. T o fix this , change the PHASE switc h value from Nrm (“Normal”) to Inv (for “Inv ert”) to reverse the timing, or “phase, ” of one or more of [...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 156 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 17. FX INS T he FX INS display sho ws the number of any effect that’ s been inserted into the channel’ s signal flow(P age 82), or “Off” if there are no effects inserted in the channel. Press ENTER/YES to jump to the FX Ins screen to insert an effect on[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 157 The DYN Scr een Each VS-2480 input and track channel has its o wn dynamics processor that can act as a compressor , expander or a combination expander/compressor for the channel’ s signal. What is Dynamics Processing? A dynamics processor—as its name suggest[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 158 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual What’s an Expander? T he D YN screen expander is a downward-type expander that exaggerates the differences between a signal’ s loudest parts and its softest parts—it widens , or “expands, ” the signal’ s dynamic range. Y ou can use an expander to mak[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 159 Y ou can set Ratio anywhere from 1.00:1 to ∞ :1. T he Ratio setting tells you how muc h a signal’ s lev el is to be changed b y describing how much gain control the processor would apply to k eep a signal 1 dB from the threshold. W ith a 4.00:1 compressor ra[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 160 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. AutoGain A utoGain automatically boosts signals whose lev els hav e been lowered b y dynamics processing so that the y peak at -6 dB below 0 dB. 6. Attack T he Attack parameter—which can be set from 0.0 ms (milliseconds) to 800.0 ms—sets the speed at whic[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 161 T he Ke yIn feature can be helpful when the current channel’ s signal level fluctuations aren’t making the dynamics processor react the w a y you w ant. If there’ s another signal with stronger dynamic c hanges that match the timing of those in the c hann[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 162 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The EQ Scr een What Is EQ? A sound wa ve is a repeating change in air pressure that y our ear perceives as a sound. T he sound wa ve c hanges over and o ver between its least amount of air pressure and its greatest very quickly—man y , many times per second. T[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 163 The Basic Mechanics of an Equalizer All EQs use the same basic devices to do what the y do. T hey all contain a: • frequency selector —that allows y ou to select the desired frequency range b y selecting the frequenc y at its center, sometimes called the “[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 164 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 1. EQ Sw T he EQ Sw (“EQ Switch”) parameter turns the CH EDIT EQ on and off. 2. ATT T he EQ screen provides easy access to the A TT parameter that also appears on the CH EDIT VIEW screen. See P age 153. 3. EQ Meters T here are two meters on the EQ screen: ?[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 165 T he filter frequency selector can be set an ywhere from 20 Hz to 20.0kHz. The Q setting can be set to any v alue from 0.36 to 16.0. Higher Q v alues result in a steeper filter slope—in the low and high pass configurations—and a narrow er bandwidth in the[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 166 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The FX Ins Scr een T he FX Ins (“Effect Insert”) screen is discussed in Chapter 16—see P age 217. The Surrnd Scr een T he Surrnd (“Surround”) screen is described in Chapter 25, on P age 322. The CH EDIT P .BA Y Screen Y ou can assign an input signal to[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 167 The CH EDIT ASSIGN Scr een On a track c hannel’ s ASSIGN screen, you can route input channel, FX return, Aux bus and Direct bus signals, or other trac ks , to the current channel’ s track for recording. The screen acts like the EZ ROUTING VIEW screen (P age [...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools 168 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual At the bottom of the P arameter V iew screen is a set of four tabbed lay ers that contain an F button for each of the view able parameters or parameter groups for the current channel. Press the desired F button. T o reveal an F button that’ s currently hidden,[...]

11—Input and Track Channel Tools Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 169 Assorted CH EDIT T ools The CH EDIT VIEW CpyPRM Button Y ou can copy another input or trac k channel’ s parameter values to the current channel from the current channel’ s CH EDIT VEW screen. T o do this: 1. Press F5 (CpyPRM)—the COPY MIXER P ARAMETER dial[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 171 12—W orking with Input Channels Intr oduction to Input Channel Routing T his chapter discusses what to do with an input c hannel’ s signal once you’ ve got it sounding the wa y you want. If you’ d like to learn about: • routing an analog input jack or digital connector to an input chann[...]

12—Working with Input Channels 172 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Routing an Input Channel Signal to a T rack Y ou can route an input signal to a track in any of three w a ys in the VS-2480: • Y ou can use the fast and easy Quick Routing mode, described below . • Y ou can route the signal to the track on the EZ ROUTING VIEW [...]

12—Working with Input Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 173 How the FADER Buttons Act in Quick Routing To Quick-Route an Input Signal to a Track 1. Press the FADER button that selects the group of track c hannels containing the desired destination track’ s channel. 2. Hold down the desired track channel’ s TRA CK ST A [...]

12—Working with Input Channels 174 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 6. T o route another signal to the track, repeat Step 3, if necessary , and Step 4. 7. T o select another destination track, press the desired track’ s TRACK ST A TUS button—it lights solidly to show that it’ s now the Quick Routing destination trac k. If th[...]

12—Working with Input Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 175 Input Channel Signals and the Main Mix Removing Input Channel Signals fr om the Main Mix When y ou create a new project, the VS-2480’ s input channels are routed into the MASTER mix to help ensure that you can easil y hear their signals even before y ou route th[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 177 13—Operating the Har d Disk Recor der T his chapter discusses the mec hanics of using the VS-2480’s har d disk recorder— basically , it’ s all about recording and pla ying back a project. W e’ll describe the recorder’ s set of helpful tools for navigating a project and for pla ying it[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 178 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The SHUTTLE Ring T he outer ring around the TIME V ALUE dial is the SHUTTLE ring. Y ou can use the ring to move quic kly: • back through the project —b y turning the ring counter - clockwise. • forward through the project —b y turning the ring clockwi[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 179 Recor ding T he following section describes the recording of a single mono trac k. If you’ d like to record stereo audio across a pair of trac ks , link their track c hannels (P age 152) and follow the steps below . Befor e Recording a T rack Select a V-Tra[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 180 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Playback Basic Playback Pr ocedure Playing Back Recorded Tracks 1. Press TR 1-16 and TR 17-24 and make sure that the TRA CK ST A TUS button for any track y ou want to pla y back is lit green. 2. Bring up the track channel faders for an y track y ou want to he[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 181 Looped Playback Y ou can loop a section of a project so that it plays o ver and ov er. This can be handy when a section needs rehearsal, or when you’ re punching a section over and over as a performance is perfected (see P age 192.) T o use the Loop feature[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 182 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Editing Loop FROM and TO Points Manually Y ou can edit, clear and place Loop Punc h FROM and TO points on the A UTO PUNCH/ LOOP screen in the UTILITY MENU. 1. Hold down SHIFT and press LOOP—the A UTO PUNCH/LOOP screen appears. Y ou can do a few things with [...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 183 Activating Vari Pitch 1. Press UTILITY . 2. If you don’t see “PlyRec” above F4, press P A GE until you do. 3. Press F4 (PlyRec). 4. T urn V ARI PITCH Sw on to activ ate the V ari Pitch feature—the VS-2480 takes a few moments to switch to V ari Speed o[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 184 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Pinpointing an Event with the PREVIEW Buttons 1. P osition the timeline in the general area of the event y ou want to pinpoint, noting its position in the current time location displa y . 2. Press PREVIEW TO to see if the preview reac hes the event or pla ys [...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 185 Finding an Event with Microscopic Precision Using Scrub 1. Press HOME•DISPLA Y . 2. Move the timeline to approximately the location of the e vent y ou want to locate. 3. Select the track containing the event y ou seek. 4. Press STOP if the project’ s pla [...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 186 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Basic Locator Operations T he following operations take place when the LOC A TOR indicator is lit to signify you’ re in Locator mode. Storing a Locator 1. Press LOC A TOR•B ANK if it’ s not already lit. Each locator bank contains 10 memory slots, number[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 187 4. Press  or  or turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the desired locator. Y ou can: • press F1 (NAME) to rename (P age 73) the selected locator. • press F2 (CLEAR) to delete the selected locator. • press F3 (GetNow) to reset the locator to the tim[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 188 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Storing a Locator in Safe Mode 1. P osition the timeline at the desired location on the project. 2. Press LOC A TOR—the LOC A TOR window appears. 3. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to scroll through the list until the desired unused locator slot is visible. 4. E[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 189 Placing a Marker Y ou can place a marker when the project is stopped or when it’ s pla ying. To Place a Marker 1. Press T AP to place a marker at the timeline’ s current location. The marker appears as a downw ard-pointing arro w above the home screen’ [...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 190 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Clearing Markers Clearing a Marker Using PREVIOUS and NEXT 1. Move to the marker y ou want to clear using PREVIOUS or NEXT (see P age 189). 2. Hold down CLEAR and press T AP . Clearing a Marker in the Clear Marker Window 1. Press MARKER—the Locate to Marker[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 191 Punching Y ou can re-record an y section of an already recor ded track using a process called “punching. ” T he process actually has three stages, eac h with its own name: • When you start the re-recor ding , you “punch in. ” • The re-recording ac[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 192 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Punching In and Out Manually If you w ant to punch something quic kly without stopping to set up an auto-punch— and you’ ve got a hand free—y ou can punch in and out using the transport buttons. 1. Hold down REC and press the track’ s TRACK ST A TUS b[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 193 Setting Auto Punch Points While a Project Is Playing 1. Start playback shortl y before the location at which y ou want the punc h to begin. 2. Hold down A.PUNCH. 3. Without releasing A.PUNCH, press T AP at the desired punch-in point. 4. Continue holding A.PUN[...]

13—Operating the Hard Disk Recorder 194 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Performing an Auto Punch 1. Set your A uto Punch IN and OUT points as described abov e. 2. Press A.PUNCH so it’s lit. 3. Move to a conv enient location in the project before the location you w ant to punch. 4. Press the track’ s TRA CK ST A TUS button so [...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 195 14—W orking with T rack Channels T he VS-2480’ s track channels control the sound of its har d disk recorder’ s tracks. When you’ re recording a track, you listen to its source signal through the corresponding track channel to ensure y ou’ re hearing what the hard disk recor der is capt[...]

14—Working with Track Channels 196 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Mechanics of Bouncing F or most of the things you do with tracks in the VS-2480, you can think of a track in the hard disk recor der and its corresponding track c hannel as pretty much the same thing—the track pla ys through its track c hannel, which provide[...]

14—Working with Track Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 197 Link the Destination T racks For a Stereo Bounce T o link the adjacent odd/even tracks on whic h you’ll be recor ding a stereo bounce: 1. Press the FADER button that selects the group of track c hannels containing those that correspond to the desired destination[...]

14—Working with Track Channels 198 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3. Press the FADER button for the set of track c hannels that contains a source track c hannel. 4. Press the source track channel’ s SELECT button—a virtual wire appears on the screen to show the connection y ou’v e made. If you w ant to break the connection[...]

14—Working with Track Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 199 3. Use  ,  ,  and/or  to select a source track c hannel’ s output along the upper edge of the TRA CK MIXER block. W e’ve selected T rack Channel 1’ s output in the illustration on the previous page. 4. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial clockwise—as yo[...]

14—Working with Track Channels 200 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Listening as Y ou Bounce When y ou bounce tracks, it’ s important to know what you’ re hearing: • Y ou don’t want to listen directly to the source trac k channels. • Y ou only want to listen to y our destination track c hannel(s). By listening only to th[...]

14—Working with Track Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 201 Rehearse the bounce b y pla ying the project a few times , blending together the track channels y ou’ re bouncing. Use each source track c hannel’ s CH EDIT screens to make any desired c hanges to its sound. Adjust its EQ or d ynamics processing values as need[...]

14—Working with Track Channels 202 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Sending a T rack Channel’ s Signal to a Dir ect Bus While y ou can send a track c hannel’ s signal directly to an output using the track direct outs (P age 289), doing so requires the disabling of all bus connections to y our output jacks. If you need to send [...]

14—Working with Track Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 203 T o create the final mix, send all project elements to the stereo MASTER bus. • Recorded tracks—are sent to the MASTER mix from their track c hannels. If y ou’v e inserted effects on any trac k channels, they go along for the ride as w ell. • Loop effects[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 205 15—The Aux and Dir ect Busses T he VS-2480 has two types of multi-purpose busses: A ux busses and Direct busses. • An Aux bus is a traditional bus. It carries multiple signals to a common destination. • A Direct bus carries just one signal at a time—it’s not a bus in the classic sense. [...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses 206 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Sending a Signal to an Aux Bus Y ou can send an input, trac k or FX return channel’ s signal to an Aux bus in tw o wa ys: • Each input, track and FX return channel has a set of CH EDIT A UX send controls that let you send a cop y of the channel’ s signal to an[...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 207 Adjusting an Aux Bus’s Master Level 1. Press IN 17-24/A UX MST button so that the channel strips control Input Channels 17-24 and the A ux master levels. T he eight right-most channel strips—labeled “ AUX MST 1-8”—control the master lev els of the eight Au[...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses 208 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3. Press ENTER/YES—the following dialog box appears. 4. Select Pre or Pst for the POSITION parameter, as desired. 5. T urn BUS LINK on or off as desired. Dir ect Busses Here’ s what the eight Direct busses can do: • The y can carry a single signal. • Each in[...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 209 Sending a Signal to a Dir ect Bus Send an input or track c hannel’ s signal to a Direct bus from the channel’ s CH EDIT VIEW screen—see P age 156. P age 229 describes sending an effect to a Direct bus . Dir ect Bus Levels While eac h Direct bus’ s lev el is [...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses 210 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Aux Bus/Dir ect Bus Strategy Sending Signals to Internal Ef fects As shipped from the factory , A ux Busses 1-8 are routed to the VS-2480’s internal effects so that you can send multiple input, track or FX return channel signals to an y internal effect. Howe ver ,[...]

15—The Aux and Direct Busses Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 211 Cr eating a Headphone Mix Using an Aux Bus Probably the second most common use of an A ux bus—aside from using it to carry signals to an internal effect—is to use the bus to carry input and/or track c hannel signals to performers’ headphones so they can hear w[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 213 16—Using Ef fects In this chapter , w e’ll describe how to use the VS-2480’ s effect processing power . W e’ll detail how to: • set up a loop effect. • insert an effect on an input or track channel, or the MASTER bus. • add effects to a headphone mix. • select effects . • edit e[...]

16—Using Effects 214 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Mechanics of a Loop Effect T here are six steps to setting up an internal loop effect: 1. Choose one of the internal effect processors as the one you’ll use. 2. Route an Aux or Direct bus to the selected effect. 3. Configure the Aux or Direct bus as desired. 4. Send sign[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 215 T o send a channel’ s signal to an effect, adjust the A ux send controls for the Aux bus you’ re using: 1. Select the desired channel and press its CH EDIT button to displa y its CH EDIT VIEW screen. 2. T urn on the Aux send control’ s send status switch b y setting it to[...]

16—Using Effects 216 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Inserting an Ef fect About Insert Ef fects Where They’re Used Insert effects can be inserted on individual input and track channels. T hey can also be inserted on the MASTER bus when y ou want to run y our entire mix through an effect, such as when y ou’ re mastering a proj[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 217 Inserting Effects on an Input or Track Channel 1. Select the group of channels that contains the desired input or track c hannel b y pressing its F ADER button. 2. Press the desired channel’ s CH EDIT button. 3. Select the FX INS parameter—the ENTER/YES button begins to fl[...]

16—Using Effects 218 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 6. Y ou can adjust the lev el of the signal going into the insert effect using the effect’s Snd control. Y ou can also adjust the Rtn level of the signal as it lea ves the effect. W ith a single insert effect, you’ll typicall y adjust these settings only if there’ s a pro[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 219 MASTER Bus Insert Ef fects Where Effects are Inserted MASTER bus insert effects are inserted onto the MASTER bus just before its final lev el control—the MASTER fader . Use an insert effect on the MASTER bus if an entire mix needs a particular type of processing. When y ou m[...]

16—Using Effects 220 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Selecting, Editing and Saving Ef fect Patches Y ou’ll find the screens on which you select, edit and sav e effect patches in the EFFECT menu. T o view the EFFECT menu, press the EFFECT button. The EFFECT VIEW Scr een When y ou press the EFFECT MENU button, the EFFECT VIEW sc[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 221 When a processor’ s Bypass feature is turned on, an y signals sent to the processor go around it instead of through it, so the signals are not processed. In essence, the effect is turned off. T herefore, if BYP ASS is: • Off —the effect processor is on. • On —the effe[...]

16—Using Effects 222 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Preset and User Effect Patches T he VS-2480’ s memory contains 250 “preset” patches designed to meet a wide range of effect-processing needs. The preset patc hes can’t be erased or modified—though you can use them as the basis for your o wn patches—so the y’ re a[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 223 Match the Patch to the Project When a project’ s sampling rate is 64 kHz or higher—see P age 96—patches based on the following algorithms become gra yed out and can’t be used: • Reverb • Gate Reverb • V ocoder2 (19) • V oice T ransformer • Mic Modeling • Spe[...]

16—Using Effects 224 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual It’ s not uncommon for a patch to ha ve more parameters than will fit on one screen. When this is the case, you can na vigate between the patch’ s screens by pressing F2 (NEXT) to mo ve to the next editing screen, or F1 (PREV) to move bac k. All changes y ou make to a patc[...]

16—Using Effects Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 225 Saving an Effect Patch 1. Press EFFECT . 2. If the F button for the desired effect processor isn’t visible, press P A GE. 3. Press the processor’s F button to displa y its Algorithm View screen. 4. Press F3 (EDIT). 5. Edit the patch as desired. 6. Press F5 (SA VE) to view t[...]

16—Using Effects 226 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Micr ophone Modeling Microphone modeling can make audio captured b y an inexpensive mic sound like it’ s been captured b y one of the world’ s best studio mics . In order to create a realistic microphone model, the VS-2480 needs to know the sonic characteristics of the mic [...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 227 17—W orking with FX Return Channels When y ou press TR 17-24/FX RTN•V -FADER, the eight right-most channel strips— labeled “FX RTN 1-8”—are FX return channels that control the stereo outputs of Effects 1-8, respectivel y , when the y’ re set up as loop effects. What Does an FX Retur[...]

17—Working with FX Channels 228 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual The Main FX Return CH EDIT Scr een 1. Press TR 17-24/FX RTN•V -F ADER to activ ate channel strip control of FX Return Channels 1-8. 2. Press the desired FX return channel’ s CH EDIT button—its main CH EDIT VIEW screen appears. 1. ASSIGN T he ASSIGN selector des[...]

17—Working with FX Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 229 5. DIR 1-8 Using the DIR 1-8 parameters, y ou can route the effect to an output after sending in to any of the eight Direct busses (P age 208). Y ou can use a pre- or post-fader Direct bus, as explained on P age 209. Chapter 22 describes working with the VS-2480 outp[...]

17—Working with FX Channels 230 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 11. MIX When MIX is turned on, the effect is sent to the MASTER bus . When it’ s off, it’ s not. T o add the effect to a mix, mak e sure MIX is turned on. 12. FADER T he FADER parameter’ s value sets the output le vel of the effect. T he FX return channel’ s [...]

17—Working with FX Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 231 The FX Return Parameter V iew Screen T he FX return channels’ P arameter V iew feature lets you view , and adjust the v alue of, the currently selected parameter for all of the FX return c hannels at once. At the bottom of the P arameter V iew screen are four tabbe[...]

17—Working with FX Channels 232 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Quick Routing an FX Return Channel 1. Press TR 1-16 or TR 17-24/FX RTN to select the group of channels that contains the track c hannels for the linked pair of tracks to whic h you w ant to send the effect. 2. Hold down either destination track channel’ s TRA CK ST[...]

17—Working with FX Channels Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 233 FX Return Routing on the EZ Routing VIEW Scr een 1. Press EZ ROUTING . 2. If the ROUTING VIEW screen doesn’t appear, and you see “VIEW” above F1, press F1 (VIEW). If you don’t see “VIEW” above F1, press P A GE and then F1 (VIEW). 3. Use  ,  ,  an[...]

17—Working with FX Channels 234 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Adding Ef fects to a Headphone Mix When y ou’v e created a headphone mix using an Aux bus, it’ s easy to add an effect to any of its signals. Send each c hannel’ s signal to the effect as desired. T he following steps describe how to route the effect to the A u[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 235 18—Editing T racks T his chapter provides an introduction to the editing of audio data on VS-2480 tracks. T he first part of the chapter explains important editing concepts. The second part explains how to use the v arious a vailable editing methods. Chapter 6 explains how audio data is recor [...]

18—Editing Tracks 236 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Edit Points T he VS-2480 provides a set of special markers just for editing—these mark ers are called “edit points. ” The IN and OUT edit points define regions of data. The FROM and TO edit points help you accuratel y position phrases and regions you’ re moving or cop[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 237 T herefore, as a convenience: • when you select a phrase, the VS-2480 automatically places the FROM point at the beginning of the phrase. If you select multiple phrases, FROM is placed at the front of the first phrase you select. • when you place an IN point to define th[...]

18—Editing Tracks 238 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual When a phrase or region is selected, it’s outline becomes dotted. Wher e Editing T akes Place Y ou’ll edit tracks on the VS-2480’ s Home screen—see Chapter 8—or on the wa ve displa y , described on P age 238. Each screen offers a different view of a project’ s audi[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 239 Y ou can move through the project while y ou’ re on the wa ve displa y using the current time location displa y (P age 126)—which is still visible above the w a ve displa y—the transport buttons, SHUTTLE ring, position bar , Jump feature, locators or markers. Choosing th[...]

18—Editing Tracks 240 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual What Each Editing Method Offers Y our Mouse Mouse editing provides an enjo y ably tactile editing experience. When you edit with a mouse, you can select phrases or regions b y clicking and dragging. Y ou can move them b y simply dragging them to the desired locations, and e ve[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 241 Editing with a Mouse The Edit Pop-Up Menu T he mouse works in conjunction with the Edit P op-Up menu during phrase and region editing. Y ou can set edit points from the menu—see P age 242—and perform quite a few other editing-related actions as described below . T o view a[...]

18—Editing Tracks 242 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual If you hold do wn CLEAR or SHIFT , additional options appear in the pop-up. Placing Edit Points with Your Mouse T o place an edit point with your mouse: 1. Click the mouse at the desired time location in the project. A dotted vertical line appears. This is called the “positi[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 243 Selecting Phrases By Clicking or Dragging Your Mouse When PHRASE•REGION•A UTOMIX is lit green, you can select a phrase using the mouse b y clicking on the desired phrase or dragging across it. In addition, y ou can drag vertically or diagonall y across multiple tracks to s[...]

18—Editing Tracks 244 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Selecting Regions From the SELECT TRACK Pop-Up Menu T o select one or more regions using the SELECT TRACK pop-up: 1. Press PHRASE•REGION•A UTOMIX repeatedly until it’ s lit red. 2. Make sure your IN and OUT points are set as desired. 3. Right click on any trac k number t[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 245 Copying Data by Dragging with Your Mouse 1. Set the PHRASE•REGION•A UTOMIX button as desired. 2. Select the desired phrase(s) or region(s). T he FROM point is automatically placed at the front of the earliest data you select. Reset the FROM point to another location if you[...]

18—Editing Tracks 246 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Position Cursors As you drag phrases or regions in the pla ylist to move or cop y them, watc h the closed- hand cursor . It changes to help y ou place the moved or copied data precisely b y showing y ou when the moving TO point (P age 236) is touching certain ke y locations: P[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 247 Editing with the TRACK EDIT Buttons T his section describes how to perform sev en of the most common track phrase and region edits using the TRA CK EDIT buttons, the cursor buttons, SHIFT and the TIME/V ALUE dial. Placing Edit Points Using the IN, OUT, FROM and TO Buttons T o [...]

18—Editing Tracks 248 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Moving or Copying Data Using the TRACK EDIT Buttons When y ou cop y or move data, you can use the VS-2480’ s buttons to select the desired destination track, or tracks: 1. When you’ ve selected the data y ou want to mov e or cop y , press the desired TRA CK EDIT button. 2.[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 249 Editing fr om the TRACK Menu Y ou can perform any phrase or region editing operation from the TRA CK menu. How the TRACK Menu Is Organized T he TRA CK menu presents all phrase and region editing operations in two sub-menus: • The TRA CK PHRASE EDIT MENU • T he TRA CK REGIO[...]

18—Editing Tracks 250 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Performing an Edit Operation from the TRACK Menu 1. Press the TRA CK menu button. 2. If the desired edit menu isn’t displayed: • press F6 (Ph → Reg) to switch to the TRA CK REGION EDIT MENU screen. • press F6 (Reg → Ph) to switch to the TRA CK PHRASE EDIT MENU screen[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 251 When y ou select and begin an editing operation that requires the selection of phrases or regions, the TRA CK ST A TUS buttons—and sometimes the SELECT buttons—start to flash. Y ou use these buttons to quick-select the tracks that contain the desired phrases or regions. W[...]

18—Editing Tracks 252 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T he V -T rack map on the displa y shows y ou which V -T racks are currently selected for editing. Any V -T rack with a flashing , wide white box is selected for editing. Selection Using the TRACK Menu’s Onscreen Selection Tools F or most of the TRA CK menu’ s editing ope[...]

18—Editing Tracks Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 253 4. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the desired destination V -T rack. 5. Repeat Steps 1-4 for any phrase or region you wish to select. 6. Press F1 (<<BA CK) to return to the edit operation’ s main screen, or F6 (EXIT) to return to the TRA CK PHRASE EDIT MENU or th[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 255 19—Phrase Editing Operations T his chapter describes the phrase-based editing operations y ou can perform in the VS-2480. Most of the operations can be performed using a mouse, the TRA CK EDIT buttons or the edit commands presented in the TRA CK menu. Some can be performed only from the TRA CK [...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations 256 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Times T his sets the number of copies to be pasted, one after another, at the TO point. Quantize When T imes is set to a number other than 1, Quantize lets you paste the copied phrases precisely on the first beat of the tempo map’ s measures . Y ou can set Quanti[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 257 MOVE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Phrase MO VE lets you place a selected phrase in a new location. Y ou can move a phrase to a new time location and/or to another trac k. Y ou can move it to a currentl y selected V -T rack, or to a V -T rack that isn?[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations 258 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual TRIM OUT Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu TRIM OUT allows y ou to adjust the location at which a selected phrase ends without changing the timing of its audio content. Why You’d Use Phrase TRIM OUT Use TRIM OUT to remove unw anted audio from the end of a[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 259 Edit Points TO —sets the point at which a selected phrase is split. NEW Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Y ou can create a new phrase from any of the project’ s takes stored on your har d drive—to learn about tak es, see P age 86. Why You’d Use Phr[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations 260 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Track T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select any V -T rack in the project as the V -T rack on which the new phrase is to be created. NORMALIZE Use: TRACK menu Normalization raises the lev el of a phrase to its optimal volume. T he main NORMALIZE screen provides a phra[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 261 Why You’d Use Phrase DIVIDE Phrase DIVIDE breaks up a longer phrase into smaller phrases so that you can more easily work with the elements of a recor ding on an individual basis. It seeks to achie ve the same result as phrase SPLIT (P age 258), but it does so aut[...]

19—Phrase Editing Operations 262 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T ake Mngr Use: TRACK menu T he T ake Mngr (“T ake Manager”) shows y ou all of the project’ s takes currently on y our hard driv e. Y ou can do a variety of things with the takes y ou see in the T ake Manager screen—use the  and  buttons or the TIME/V [...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 263 20—Region Editing Operations T his chapter explains the editing operations y ou can perform on regions in the VS-2480. Since region editing operations work on a c hunk of time within a track, you can think of them as track editing operations—some of them do, in fact, affect an entire trac k. [...]

20—Region Editing Operations 264 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Edit Points • IN —sets the beginning of the audio region to be copied. • OUT —sets the end of the audio region to be copied. • FROM —sets the location of the region’ s time anchor . • TO —sets the time location at which y ou want to paste the time [...]

20—Region Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 265 MOVE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu T he region MO VE edit operation moves the selected audio to a new location. Y ou can move a region to a new time location and/or to another track. Y ou can move it to a currentl y selected V -T rack, or to a V -T rack[...]

20—Region Editing Operations 266 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Why You’d Use Region INSERT Y ou’ d use region INSERT if you w anted to shift audio to a later time in the project, lea ving empty sonic space before it. Edit Points • IN —sets beginning of the blank space you’ re inserting. • OUT —sets the end of the [...]

20—Region Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 267 AllVTr T urn AllVT r on if you want to remo ve the chunk of time from all of the V -T racks belonging to a selected track. ERASE Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Erase removes a specified region from a selected trac k, lea ving all of its other audio wher[...]

20—Region Editing Operations 268 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Once you’ ve defined the desired region, the location of the TO point determines whether the region’ s audio will be stretched out or shrunk. If the TO point is: • before the OUT point —the region’ s audio is made shorter in duration. • after the OUT po[...]

20—Region Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 269 IMPOR T Use: Mouse, TRACK EDIT buttons, TRACK menu Y ou can import a track from another project recorded using the same sampling rate and recording mode as the current project. When y ou select IMPORT , the VS-2480 scans the selected drive and presents y ou a list o[...]

20—Region Editing Operations 270 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual EXCHANGE Use: TRACK menu Region EXCHANGE allows y ou to swap audio regions between source and destination tracks. Why You’d Use Region EXCHANGE Region EXCHANGE lets you re-organize a project’ s tracks to make them easier to work with. Also, you can use EXCHANGE [...]

20—Region Editing Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 271 Creating a New Playlist On the region ARRANGE main screen: 1. Press F1 (CREA TE) to create the first segment of the new pla ylist. 2. Cursor to the segment’s Start mark er number. 3. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the marker at the start of the desired sect[...]

20—Region Editing Operations 272 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T he TO location is the place in the project where the pla ylist is to start. 2. Set TO to the desired project location. Y ou can: • dial in the desired location using the TIME/V ALUE dial. • move the timeline to the desired location using the current time locat[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 273 21—Using the Phrase Pads When the VS-2480’ s Phrase P ad feature is activ ated, you can use eac h of the VS-2480’ s 24 TRA CK ST A TUS/PHRASE P AD buttons as a performance device that lets y ou pla y a phrase from its corresponding track. Y ou can record your performance into the VS-2480’[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 274 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Understanding the Phrase Pads What a Phrase Pad Plays Each phrase pad pla ys the first phrase that’s on its corresponding hard disk recor der track. If you want a phrase pad to pla y a phrase from somewhere in the middle of a track, you can: • Copy the desired phra[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 275 Activating Phrase Pad Mode 1. Press PHRASE P AD PLA Y•PHRASE SEQ, and: • the button lights solid green to show that the phrase pads are now turned on. • the PHRASE P AD buttons turn amber for each trac k channel whose PhrP AD parameter is turned on. 2. T o turn of[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 276 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Y ou can record, or “sequence, ” your phrase pad performance into the VS-2480’s phrase sequencer using either of two approac hes . Y ou can sequence: • in realtime —b y performing on the phrase pad buttons as your har d disk recorder tracks pla y . This method[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 277 What the Appearance of Sequenced Data Means Each sequencer trac k in the playlist on the PHRASE SEQUENCE screen and the Home screen shows its recor ded phrase pad performance. Y ou can see where you struck the pad, and you can see the shape of the phrase pla yback produ[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 278 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T he phrase sequencer Undo feature is av ailable on the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen. T o use it, na vigate to a PHRASE SEQUENCE screen and: 1. If “UNDO” doesn’t appear above F5, press P AGE until it does. 2. Press F5 (UNDO). Once y ou’v e undone an action, “[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 279 Step Entry In step entry phrase sequencing, the VS-2480 doesn’t play through the project as it normally does—y ou control when and how the sequencer mov es forward in time. W ith the sequencer stopped, you enter phrase pad strik es where you w ant them. W ith the A [...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 280 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 11. Press ZERO , or return the timeline to the location y ou started at in Step 10. 12. Press PLA Y to hear the sequence. 13. If y ou want to try again, repeat Steps 6-12. Phrase Sequencing Using Step Entry without AutoLoc 1. Navigate to a PHRASE SEQUENCE screen (P age [...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 281 Editing a Phrase Sequence Edit your sequenced data using the PHRASE SEQUENCE screens. Y ou can perform many standar d phrase and region editing operations on phrase sequencer data using the mouse and TRA CK EDIT buttons—TRA CK menu commands apply only to hard disk rec[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 282 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Quantizing Phrase Sequence Data On the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, you’ll see F1 (Qtize) (“Quantize”). Quantizing moves the start of an y selected phrase—or phrase within a selected group of phrases—to the nearest 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 note to co[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 283 Micro-Editing Sequencer Data On the first PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, press F4 (MICRO) to view the MICRO EDIT screen. On this screen, you can manuall y change the start time and the length of each sequenced phrase. Y ou can also delete phrases on this screen. T o view the [...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 284 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using Tie, Rest and BackStep On the second PHRASE SEQUENCE screen, the T ie and Backstep features use the position of the timeline to change the duration of the closest phrase on the selected track within a specified time window to the left of the timeline. Rest moves [...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 285 T he amount of time b y which the timeline mov es and the time window are determined b y F2’ s setting. When: • F2 (Length) —the timeline moves forw ard or bac k b y an amount of time equal to the shortest phrase it’ s touching. • F2 (Meas) —the timeline mov[...]

21—Using the Phrase Pads 286 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Bouncing Phrase Sequence Tracks 1. If you’ re not in Phrase Sequence mode, hold down SHIFT and press PHRASE P AD PLA Y•PHRASE SEQ so that it lights solid red to indicate that the phrase sequencer is ready to pla y back its data. 2. Make sure that the PHRASE SEQ ST A[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 287 22—W orking with the VS-2480 Outputs T he VS-2480 offers a wide range of analog output jacks and digital connectors from which y ou can send its audio signals to external devices. This c hapter discusses how to route signals to them and how the y can be used. The VS-2480 Outputs Output Pairs T [...]

22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs 288 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual R-BUS Connectors T he VS-2480’ s two R-BUS connectors each pro vide eight input and eight output channels of digital audio. (During routing we refer to each c hannel as a “connector . ”) Y ou can send signals out of the VS-2480 digitally to any R-BUS de[...]

22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 289 T he output jack and connector pairs run along the top of the screen, and the bus pairs run up and down its left edge. 4. Use  or  to select the desired pair of output jacks or digital connectors. 5. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to choose the desired pair[...]

22—Working with the VS-2480 0utputs 290 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T rack direct outs are a great wa y to transfer tracks to a T ASC AM D A series recorder or AD A T multitrack recorder connected via R-BUS and DIF-A T to the VS-2480. Y ou can also route a track to an R-BUS output to digitally transfer the trac k’ s audio t[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 291 23—EZ Routing T he EZ ROUTING screens are where you go to set up the connections that allow signals to tra vel within the VS-2480. This c hapter provides an ov erview of the EZ ROUTING screens we’ ve been discussing all along, and describes the VS-2480’ s helpful EZ Routing tools. The EZ RO[...]

23—EZ Routing 292 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual EZ ROUTING VIEW Scr een T he EZ ROUTING VIEW screen shows—and allows y ou to interconnect—all of your: • input jacks and connectors • input channels • Aux busses • Direct busses • hard disk recorder tracks • track channels • FX return channels Making Connections [...]

23—EZ Routing Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 293 On the P A TCH BA Y screen, y ou can route the following jac ks and connectors to input channels: • the 16 analog input jacks (XLR and 1/4”) • The R-BUS 1 and R-BUS 2 connectors’ total of 16 digital channels • the stereo coaxial S/P DIF digital connector • the stereo o[...]

23—EZ Routing 294 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual On this screen, you can also configure the trac k direct outputs so that they’ re pre-fader or post fader (P age 290), and adjust the o verall har d disk recorder track recor ding lev el using the REC A TT parameter (P age 201). Making Connections on the EZ ROUTING OUTPUT ASSIG[...]

23—EZ Routing Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 295 EZ Routing T ools T he EZ Routing tools that appear at the bottom of the EZ ROUTING VIEW , P A TCH B A Y , OUTPUT and EFFECT screens allow you to clear and initialize connections between inputs and input c hannels—patch ba y connections—and the routing of any signals to the ha[...]

23—EZ Routing 296 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Saving and Loading EZ Routing T emplates As you use y our VS-2480, you’ll spend lots of time creating routing setups for the various situations in whic h you’ll be recor ding and mixing. Y ou can sav e a routing setup—along with a host of other parameters—as an EZ Routing [...]

23—EZ Routing Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 297 Loading an EZ Routing T emplate 1. Press EZ ROUTING . 2. If “LO AD” isn’t visible above F5, press P A GE until it is . 3. Press F5 (LO AD)—the EZ ROUTING TEMPLA TE LO AD screen appears . 4. T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the template you want to load. 5. Press F5 (OK[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 299 24—MIDI and Synchr onization T his chapter discusses the VS-2480’s MIDI capabilities. T he VS-2480 can: • act as a MIDI control surface that lets you manipulate parameters in an external MIDI device. • be operated remotely from an external MIDI device. • transmit its internal settings v[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 300 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual MIDI OUT or THRU? T he VS-2480’ s MIDI OUT/THRU parameter sets the behavior of the MIDI OUT/THRU jack on the VS-2480’s rear panel. It can be set to: • Out —so that MIDI data produced b y the VS-2480 is transmitted to connected external MIDI devices. T his is [...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 301 Using the VS-2480 as a MIDI Control Surface 1. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’ s MIDI OUT/THRU jack to the MIDI IN of the device y ou want to control from the VS-2480. 2. Navigate to the MIDI parameter screen (P age 299). 3. Set MIDI OUT/THRU to Out. 4. Pr[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 302 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Remote Control of the VS-2480 with SysEx Messages Y ou can control the VS-2480 using SysEx messages in either of two wa ys . Create SysEx Messages Manually Y ou can manually program the SysEx messages in an external MIDI device for transmission to the VS-2480. T his [...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 303 Changing Effect Patches via MIDI Y ou can remotely select effect patches b y sending the VS-2480 the appropriate Bank Select and Program Change messages on the effect’ s MIDI channel. Effects 1-8 respond to messages received on MIDI Channels 1-8, respectivel y . Re[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 304 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual T o enable Control Change reception on the VS-2480: 1. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’ s MIDI IN jack to the external device’ s MIDI OUT jack. 2. Navigate to the MIDI parameter screen (P age 299). 3. Set MIXER CONTROL TYPE to C.C. (“Control Change”).[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 305 7. If you want to include EZ Routing user template data in the dump , turn on the EZR Usr Tmplt section’ s BULK Tx Sw and select a single EZ Routing template or ALL templates for its BULK Tx T ARGET parameter. 8. T o include one or all of your user effect patc hes [...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 306 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Setting Up a MIDI Metronome 1. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’ s MIDI OUT/THRU jack to the MIDI IN jack of the de vice whose sounds you w ant to use as a metronome. 2. Navigate to the MIDI parameter screen (P age 299). 3. Set MIDI OUT/THRU to Out. 4. Press[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 307 Synchr onization Why Sync the VS-2480? T he ability to synchronize the VS-2480—specifically , its har d disk recorder—with other devices can be useful in a v ariety of situations. Working with a MIDI Sequencer Y ou can sync the VS-2480 to any kind of sequencer?[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 308 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual SMPTE/MTC T he film and video industries use a steady stream of timing data called “SMPTE time code” to keep devices tightly sync hronized with each other as the y pla y . A form of SMPTE called “MIDI Time Code, ” or “MTC” can be transmitted and received[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 309 numbers per second. It can either show 29 per second or 30, but there’s no w ay to displa y only a fraction of a counter number—a number’ s either shown or it isn’t. A technique called the “drop frame” was de vised b y the video industry to deal with this[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 310 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual data can then be sent back to the sequencer , sla ving it to the VS-2480. Y ou can also construct a sync track for a new or alread y recorded project using mark ers . In addition, the VS-2480 can use information you pro vide about an already recor ded project to crea[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 311 W orking with a Sync T rack Recording a Sync Track from an External Device 1. Using a MIDI cable, connect the VS-2480’ s MIDI IN jack to the MIDI OUT of the device from whic h you w ant to transmit the MIDI clocks. 2. Navigate to the SYNC screen (P age 310). 3. Pre[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 312 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 1. Hold down SHIFT and press T AP—the TEMPO MAP screen appears . 2. Press F1 (TM Cnv) to displa y the TEMPO MAP CONVERT window . 3. Set to CONVERT TYPE to Time → SyncT rk. 4. Set the ST ART TIME parameter to the time at which the project’ s audio starts . 5. Se[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 313 The Elements of a Tempo Map In a tempo map, each tempo or time signature c hange in a project is represented b y a group of parameters collectivel y called a “map. ” The maps are numbered starting with “1” in the order in which the y occur in the project. A m[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 314 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Creating a Tempo Map from Markers When a project contains music and has a single time signature, you can create a tempo map from markers y ou’v e placed on every beat. T o learn about placing markers, see P age 188. 1. Hold down SHIFT and press T AP—the TEMPO MAP[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 315 Setting Up the VS-2480 as the Sync Master 1. Navigate to the MIDI P ARAMETER screen (P age 299). 2. If the VS-2480 is connected to the slave de vice with a MIDI cable, set MIDI OUT/ THRU to Out. If you’ re using an R-BUS connection, skip this step . 3. If the devic[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization 316 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. Set SYNC MODE to EXT , for “External” so that the VS-2480 uses the master device’ s timing to operate. T he SYNC with GAP parameter determines how the VS-2480 responds to small gaps, or “dropouts, ” that often occur in time code for a variety of reasons.[...]

24—MIDI and Synchronization Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 317 Y ou can shift, or “offset, ” the project’ s start time to solve this problem so that whene ver the master starts over , y our project begins at the top . T o offset the project start time: 1. Press UTILITY . 2. If “Proj” isn’t visible above F3, press P A[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 319 25—Surr ound T he VS-2480 can generate Surround mixes in three popular Surround formats , allowing you to place input, track or FX return channel signals an ywhere in Surround’ s three- dimensional space. T his chapter describes how to set up for Surround mixing on the VS-2480, and how to del[...]

25—Surround 320 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual How the VS-2480 Delivers Surr ound When its Surround mode is acti ve, the VS-2480 assigns an A ux bus to each of the Surround speakers, or “stems, ” in the currently selected Surround format. Signals panned to a stem are automatically sent to its A ux bus. T he Aux busses are ro[...]

25—Surround Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 321 T urning on Surr ound Mode T o create a Surround mix, y ou must be in Surround mode. 1. Press UTILITY . 2. If “Surrnd” isn’t visible above F3, press P AGE until it is. 3. Press F3 (Surrnd) to view the SURROUND screen. 4. Set SURROUND MIX MODE to the desired Surround format. 5.[...]

25—Surround 322 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Certain parameter values c hange when you turn on Surround mode. Positioning a Signal in the Surr ound Field Each input, track and FX return channel has its o wn Surround controls that let you place its signal at the desired location within the three-dimensional Surround field. Y o[...]

25—Surround Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 323 T he position ball shows the current Surround placement of the channel’ s signal. 5. Move the channel’ s signal to the desired location b y dragging the position ball with your mouse, or by adjusting the: • PA N —to move the signal to the left or right. Y ou can set P AN any[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 325 26—Automix T his chapter describes how to perform automated mixing on the VS-2480 using its A utomix feature. Automix allo ws you to create and perfect automated mixes. The Benefits of Automix Automated Mixdown Mixing is a challenging art, a delicate balance of attention to detail and artistic[...]

26—Automix 326 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual How Do Automix Tracks Work? F or every input, track, A ux bus and FX return channel there’ s a dedicated Automix track. W hen A utomix mode is active, a channel’ s A utomix track can capture or pla y back c hanges you make to its parameters. T here are also Automix trac ks for th[...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 327 The AUTOMIX STATUS Area In the A UTOMIX ST A TUS area, select each A utomix track and turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to set it as desired. T he appearance of each A utomix track’ s box shows y ou its current status . An A utomix track can be set to: • Manual —so the corresponding in[...]

26—Automix 328 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Recor ding Automix Data Y ou can record A utomix data two w ays: • Realtime Automix —Realtime A utomix records c hanges you make to mix settings as the project pla ys . T his method captures every subtle c hange you mak e, and is the best method to use when you’ re making const[...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 329 Realtime Punching of Automix Data Y ou can re-record sections of your automated mix b y punching in new A utomix data on any A utomix tracks that are set to Write mode. Merging New and Old Automix Data When y ou insert new A utomix data b y punching in on an A utomix track, the AFTER[...]

26—Automix 330 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. Hold down A UTOMIX, and at the location you want the punc h to begin, press the desired A utomix track’ s A UTOMIX ST A TUS button—its indicator turns red to show that y ou’v e punched in and are now recor ding A utomix data. 6. P erform the new parameter changes you w ant t[...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 331 Taking a Snapshot 1. Move the timeline to the location at which y ou want to tak e a snapshot. 2. If Automix isn’t alread y turned on, press A UTOMIX so that it lights solid amber . 3. Hold down A UTOMIX and press the A UTOMIX ST A TUS button for any A utomix track whose settings y[...]

26—Automix 332 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Targeting Automix Data A utomix can record and pla y back more data than can possibly fit onscreen at once. T argeting allows you to select the A utomix data and tracks y ou want to see and edit. 1. On the A UTOMIX EDIT screen, press F1 (T ARGET)— the T ARGET SELECT window appears[...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 333 Automix Editing Methods Y ou can perform any A utomix editing operation using your mouse or the TRA CK EDIT buttons. Both operate muc h the same as they do in trac k and phrase sequencer editing. Automix Editing with the Mouse Select and edit A utomix data using the usual region edit[...]

26—Automix 334 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Automix Editing Operations Since all A utomix edit operations affect regions of Automix data, they all use the IN and OUT edit points. W e’ll note how FROM and TO are used where applicable. About Moving and Deleting Automix Data When y ou move or delete A utomix data, the location [...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 335 INSERT Insert adds an area of blank space at the IN location equal to the length of the selected A utomix region—all data at the IN point and onwar d is moved so that it starts at the end of the inserted blank space. When y ou’v e inserted empty space in an audio track, you’ll [...]

26—Automix 336 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual COMP/EXP. T he Automix COMP/EXP . (“COMPRESS/EXP AND) edit operations allow you to lo wer or raise parameter values in the selected region. COMP/EXP . actually contains three separate operations: • Compression and Expansion —change parameter v alues according to their distance [...]

26—Automix Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 337 Shift Shift allows y ou to raise or lower all parameter v alues in the selected region b y a percentage of the parameter’ s entire range of values. Y ou can set Shift anywhere from -50—which reduces the parameters’ values b y 50% of the parameter’ s entire range—to 50, whic[...]

26—Automix 338 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual On the A UTOMIX MICRO EDIT screen, you can individuall y edit the location and value of an y Automix e vent. Y ou can also delete any e vents you no longer w ant, and create new ones if you so c hoose. T o leave the A UTOMIX MICRO EDIT screen, press F6 (EXIT). Micro-Editing Automix D[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 339 27—Mastering and CD-R/R W Operations Mastering Mastering is the process of turning your mix into a final, polished stereo recording, suitable for writing, or “burning, ” onto an audio CD for your priv ate use or for mass- duplication. T he VS-2480’s Mastering Room and Mastering T ool Kit[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 340 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual CD audio is recorded at bit depth of a 16 bits. If you’ ve recor ded a project at 24 bits, the VS-2480 dithers its audio down internally to the required 16 bits during mastering—if you’ re using the CDR recording mode (P age 340)—or during CD burning.[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 341 hard dri ve. It’ s this stereo file that actually gets written onto the CD . A disk image file can be as large as 700MB depending on how muc h audio you’ re packing onto a CD . T here are two times during the mastering process at which y ou can create a[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 342 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using Project COMBINE Y ou can also use the Project COMBINE operation (P age 104) to combine all of the projects into a single compilation project. If you’ re doing a full-length CD , this project will be very large, and require lots of disk space. As with [...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 343 W orking in the VS-2480 Mastering Room Navigating to the Mastering Room 1. While holding down SHIFT , press CD-R W/MASTERING . T he MASTERING ROOM screen appears. Turning On the Mastering Room T o turn on the Mastering Room: 1. Set the MASTERING ROOM on/off s[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 344 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Selecting the Mastering V-Tracks T urn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the V -T racks on which y ou want to recor d your mastering trac ks . Y ou can select any same- numbered pair of tracks belonging to T rack 23 and 24, (P age 340). T he currently selected m[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 345 Using the Mastering Tool Kit In the Mastering Room, you can insert an y of the VS-2480’ s Mastering T ool Kit (MTK) effects onto the MASTER bus to add the final touch of processing to y our mix. T he MTK effect patches cov er a wide variety of mastering si[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 346 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 7. T o hear your mastering tracks, set ST A TUS to Pla y . 8. Press PLA Y . 9. If you’ d like to re-do the mastering tracks, Repeat Steps 2-8 Stretching Effects If you’ re using all of your effects in your mix, you won’t ha ve any processing po wer left[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 347 4. Use phrase editing to trim any extra space from the very beginning of the mastering track. During the actual burning of your audio CD , the VS-2480 places the first CD track marker at the beginning of the mastering trac k—trimming its front ensures that[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 348 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Y ou’ll find the process of placing CD track markers muc h simpler if the numbers of the CD track markers y ou place correspond to the numbering of the CD’ s audio selections. T here are a couple of things you can do to make this happen. Delete all of th[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 349 CD-R/R W Operations All CD-R/R W operations described in the following sections start on the CD-R W MASTERING MENU screen. T o get there: 1. Press CD-RW—the CD-R W MASTERING MENU screen appears . Cr eating an Audio CD Track at Once or Disk at Once? T he VS-[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 350 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Making Sure You Have Enough Space Before burning an audio CD , y ou’ll want to make sure y our audio is going to fit on the blank CD-R or CD-R W . In addition, if your mastering trac ks were created using an y recording mode other than CDR mode, the VS-248[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 351 3. Press CD-RW/MASTERING. 4. Press F2 (CDWrit)—”Store Current?” appears on the displa y . 5. Press ENTER/YES to store the most recent changes to your project—including any mastering trac ks you’ ve just created—or press EXIT/NO to proceed without [...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 352 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 11. Select the desired WRITING METHOD: T rack at Once or Disk at Once (see P age 349). 12. Set Finalize (P age 349) as desired. Y ou can set it to: • Off —Use this setting when you’ re burning audio on a T rack at Once CD , and you’ll to be adding mor[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 353 If Y ou Encounter Error Messages During CD Burning T he two error messages you’ re most likely to see during CD burning are the follo wing: • Please Insert CD-R Disc! —If you see this message, there’s no CD-R or CD-R W disk in the burner , the burner?[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 354 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual .W A V File Importing T he VS-2480’ s W A V Import feature allows you to load .W A V audio files from a data CD . T here are many recor dings and samples that use Microsoft’ s .W A V format av ailable on commercial CDs and on the Internet. When y ou impo[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 355 Each file directory on the CD appears in the displa yed list as a folder. T o open a folder, select it and press F5 (ChgDir) for “Change Directory . ” When you’ re inside a folder, an upwar d arrow points y ou back to the folder’ s parent directory .[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 356 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 8. Select the desired type of file conversion, as described in “Converting .W A V Files” on P age 354. 9. Press F5 (OK) to import the .W A V file to the selected V -T rack and time location. 10. W hen the VS-2480 displays “Done!” press F1 (<<B[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 357 3. T o select a V -T rack for export on the Select T rack screen, turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to highlight the V -T rack and press F4 (MARK) to place a checkmark next it. Y ou can toggle on or off the selection status of all V -T racks that contain data b y pre[...]

27—Mastering and CD-R/RW Operations 358 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 3. Select a phrase for export by cursoring to it using  and  and pressing F3 (MARK) to chec kmark it. 4. When you’ ve selected all of the phrases y ou want to export as .W A V files , press F5 (NEXT) to view the W A V Export CD burning screen, descri[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 359 28—Utility Menu Parameters T he UTILITY MENU contains a wide array of parameters. Some of its screens present parameters that set the general beha vior of the VS-2480—or its behavior when a particular project is loaded—while others offer detailed control of specific VS-2480 features. This [...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 360 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual SYSTEM PHANTOM SW T he VS-2480 provides phantom pow er for its eight XLR inputs , as described on P age 130. Eac h input’ s phantom power on/off switc h is a vailable in tw o places , on the EZ ROUTING P A TCH BA Y screen—described on P age 130—and on the SYSTEM[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 361 METER POSITION T his parameter sets whether metered input, track, A ux master and FX return channel signals are shown before or after their faders on the MB-24. TIME DISPLAY TIME DISPLA Y determines the time shown b y the MB-24’s time counter . It can sho w: • MEA[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 362 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual H.POSITION Adjust the H.POSITION (“Horizontal P osition”) parameter if you’ d like to shift the image on your V GA monitor to the left (negative v alues) or to the right (positive values). Y ou can move as far as -5 to the left or +5 to the right. V.POSITION Adj[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 363 • T apMarker —so the foot switch acts lik e the T AP button: A press of the foot switch places a marker at the timeline’ s current position. • Next —so the foot switch acts lik e the NEXT button, moving the timeline to the next phrase or marker , according t[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 364 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual LOCATOR/SCENE TYPE T he LOC A TOR/SCENE TYPE parameters activates or de-acti vates the Safe mode for selecting locators and scenes, as described on P age 187 and P age 146, respectively . NUMERICS TYPE W ith NUMERICS TYPE set to: • Up —numbers are entered from the[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 365 PRM KNOB AUTODisp When the P AN-A UX SEND 1-8 knobs are controlling the dynamics and EQ parameters of a selected channel (P age 140), the VS-2480 can automatically jump to a screen that displa ys those values when y ou turn one of the knobs. Set PRM KNOB A UTODisp to:[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 366 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual PROJECT DIGIT AL I/0 MASTER CLOCK T o learn about setting the MASTER CLOCK parameter, see “Designating the Master Clock for Digital A udio Input” on P age 133. DITHER If you’ re sending audio to a connected external digital recorder that records at a lo wer bit [...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 367 DISPLA Y DISPLAY OFFSET TIME T his parameter is explained in “Shifting the Project Start T ime” on P age 316. TIME DISPLAY FORMAT T his parameter is explained in “Shifting the Project Start T ime” on P age 316. PEAK HOLD Sw Y ou can set the VS-2480’s le vel [...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 368 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual FADE LENGTH Y ou can set the length of the crossfade described in FADE CUR VE on the previous page. Y ou can select 2ms , 10ms, 20ms, 30ms, 40ms or 50ms. T he default setting is 10ms . V ARI PITCH VARI PITCH Sw and VARI PITCH T he two V ARI PITCH parameters are explai[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 369 SYNC Synchronization parameters and operations are described starting on P age 307. See the VS-2480 Owner’ s Manual index for page numbers of specific parameter references. TEMPO “Synchronization with T empo Changes” on P age 309 introduces the project tempo ma[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 370 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual METRONOME OUT METRONOME OUT turns on the metronome and configures it for internal use or for MIDI use. Y ou can set the parameter to Off, INT (“Internal”) or MIDI. INT LEVEL When the metronome is being used internall y , this parameter sets its v olume, from - ?[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 371 Each instrument has its o wn horizontal line of quarter notes . T o make an instrument sound one of its quarter notes, cursor to the quarter note and turn the TIME/V ALUE dial clockwise so that a black ball appears. T o silence the note, turn the TIME/V ALUE dial the [...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 372 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual V .FDR At the top of the V .FADER/USER screen is the USER KNOB/FDR ASSIGN to parameter , described in “Controlling a P arameter of Y our Choice” on P age 141. “V .Fader—T he VS-2480 MIDI Control Surface” on P age 300 describes how to use the V .Fader feature[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 373 When using the generator , start b y choosing the desired test signal. Select the SOURCE parameter and turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select: • Pink Noise —a static-like noise comprised of the frequencies at eac h octav e of the frequenc y spectrum sounding together[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 374 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual • F4 (OUTPUT) —to view the stereo analog A ux A and B outs , R-BUS 1 and 2 outs, and the coaxial and optical outs. Y ou can select pre- or post-fader Aux bus and Direct bus metering b y pressing: • F5 (T o Pre) —to select pre-fader metering before the A ux bus[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 375 Setting Up the Spectrum Analysis Display Select the SOURCE parameter and turn the TIME/V ALUE dial to select the signal you want to anal yze. The anal yzer works with an y of the following mono signals: • individual input and track channel signals • the left or ri[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters 376 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Correcting Problems Y ou can correct most problems b y inserting a stereo graphic EQ—such as Effect P atch P031—on the VS-2480’ s MASTER bus. Y ou can adjust the sound of the speakers using the graphic EQ’ s settings, returning frequentl y to the analyzer to c[...]

28—UTILITY Menu Parameters Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 377 Phrase Sequencer T he phrase sequencer and phrase pads are described in Chapter 21. See P age 276 to learn about the PHRASE SEQUENCE screens . R-BUS On this screen, you can acti vate remote control of an R-BUS de vice connected to R-BUS Jac ks 1 and/or 2 (P age 49). Y[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 379 29—Expanding the VS-2480 Installing a VS8F-2 Ef fect Expansion Board T he VS-2480 ships from the factory with one VS8F-2 effect expansion board—this boar d produces stereo Effects 1 and 2. Y ou can install an additional three VS8F-2s—sold separately—for a total of eight stereo effects, or[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 380 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Installation Procedure 1. Before installing the VS8F-2, turn off the po wer of the VS-2480 (P age 80) and all connected devices, and disconnect all cables from the VS-2480. 2. T urn the VS-2480 ov er onto its back, and remove onl y the screws shown in the following diag[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 381 Connecting a CD-R/R W Drive to the VS-2480 1. Double-check to make sure that both the CD-R/R W drive and the VS-2480 are turned off. If there are any other SCSI devices connected to the VS-2480, make sure they’ re powered do wn as well. 2. Connect a SCSI cable from on[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 382 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Attaching an MB-24 Level Meter Connecting the MB-24 to the VS-2480 1. With the po wer to the VS-2480 and the MB24 turned off, connect the VS-2480’s MIDI OUT to the MB-24’ s MIDI IN using a MIDI cable. 2. If you want to connect another MIDI de vice to the VS-2480, co[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 383 3. T urn the VS-2480 ov er onto its back, and remove onl y the screws shown in the following illustrations. 4. The battery should now be visible, as shown here. 5. Remove the VS8F-2 for Effect A. 6. Replace the old battery with a new one. T he VS-2480 uses a lithium CR2[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 384 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 7. Reinstall the effect expansion board (VS8F-2) removed in Step 5. Insert the plastic pins into the VS8F-2’ s holes, making sure the boar d is securely fastened in place. 8. Use the screws that you removed in Step 3 to re-fasten the VS-2480’ s bottom cover . T his [...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 385 3. With the w arning label on the hard disk cadd y facing upwar d, slide it gently into the installation ba y as far as it will go. Fit the indentation on the drive cadd y over the ridge on the chassis of the VS-2480. 4. After you install the hard disk, lock it in place[...]

29—Expanding the VS-2480 386 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual 5. Reattach the front panel cover . 6. T urn on the VS-2480’ s power (P age 63) to verify that it powers up correctl y . 7. If the display shows “Not F ound any Dri ves, ” the new internal hard driv e is not being recognized b y the VS-2480. P ower down the VS-248[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 387 Supplemental Information R-BUS Remote Contr ol Y ou can remotely control a variety of connected R-BUS de vices right from the VS-2480. T o learn how to activ ate remote control of an R-BUS device, see P age 377. The follo wing sections describe the parameters in each de vice that you can set from[...]

Supplemental Information 388 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using a Roland DIF-A T With an ADAT W ith a Roland DIF-A T , audio can be digitally exchanged betw een the VS-2480 and an AD A T recorder , controlling the AD A T from the VS-2480. 1. With the po wer to all devices turned off, connect the AD A T to the DIF-A T , and the D[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 389 7. Press the F button for the DIF-A T’ s R-BUS jack to displa y the DIF-A T’s settings. 8. Set INPUT SELECT to TDIF . 9. Press UTILITY . 10. Press P A GE until “Proj” appears above F3. 11. Press F3 (Proj)—the PROJECT P ARAMETER screen appears. 12. Set MASTER CLO[...]

Supplemental Information 390 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual CLOCK SOURCE CLOCK SOURCE selects the master clock timing reference for the AD A-7000. This parameter interacts with the VS-2480’ s MASTER CLOCK parameter (P age 132). • When the VS-2480’ s MASTER CLOCK parameter’ s value is the R-BUS jack to which the AD A-7000 i[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 391 INPUT STATUS A-D T he INPUT ST A TUS display pro vides information about input signals received b y the AE-7000’ s A/D input conv erters . T here are four kinds of information display ed regarding eac h of the four inputs, A, B, C and D . The displa yed information is e[...]

Supplemental Information 392 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual DIGITAL OUT TYPE T his parameter selects the type of digital audio signals to be output from the AE-7000. Y ou can select: • TYPE1 —to produce digital audio that conforms to AES/EBU standards for use b y professional broadcast and recording studios. Use this setting i[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 393 Using the VS-2480 with a VM-7000 Mixing System Y ou can transfer audio between a VS-2480 and an R-BUs equipped Roland VM-7000 mixing system. 1. With all de vices turned off, use an R-BUS cable to connect a VM-7000 R-BUS connector to a VS-2480 R-BUS connector . 2. T urn on[...]

Supplemental Information 394 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Using a Roland VE-7000 T he optional Roland VE-7000 Channel Edit Controller provides ph ysical knobs and buttons with which y ou can quickly edit an y input, trac k or FX return channel’ s CH EDIT parameters. These parameters are explained in detail in Chapters 11 and 1[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 395 FLEX BUS Area EQ Area VE-7000 knob or button: Same as CH EDIT parameter or F button: 10. 1-8 Knobs Corresponding A UX Send Levels 1-8 11. 1-8 ON/OFF Corresponding A UX Send Status 12. EDIT (Set ALL to 0dB) Displays CH EDIT VIEW screen, A ux send selected Hold SHIFT and pr[...]

Supplemental Information 396 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual SURROUND, CH VIEW, MAIN CUE Areas Roland MB-24 Notes T he optional MB-24 Level Meter Bridge adds a full-sized meter arra y to your VS-2480. T o learn how to connect and MB-24 to your VS-2480, see P age 382. “EXT LEVEL METER (MB-24)” on P age 360 explains how to confi[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 397 Factory EZ Routing T emplates T he VS-2480 ships with seven EZ Routing templates—see P age 296 for information on EZ Routing templates. The settings contained in the factory templates are as follo ws. Recor ding T emplate P atch Bay: Input Mixer: Recording T rack: ANALO[...]

Supplemental Information 398 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Bouncing T emplate TRA CK ASSIGN: IN1 T o bounce track* : : IN24 T o bounce track* TR1 T o bounce track* : : TR22 T o bounce track* T o bounce track* Cannot be assigned FX1 RTN T o bounce track* : : FX8 RTN T o bounce track* A UX1 Not in Use : : A UX8 Not in Use DIR1 Not [...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 399 *Bounce destination tracks are: • TR 23/24 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 15/16 —M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 11/12 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 64k or higher • TR 7/8 —[...]

Supplemental Information 400 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Mastering T emplate TRA CK ASSIGN: IN1 Not in Use : : IN24 Not in Use TR1 Not in Use : : TR24 Not in Use FX1 RTN Not in Use : : FX8 RTN Not in Use A UX1 Not in Use : : A UX8 Not in Use DIR1 Not in Use : : DIR8 Not in Use OUTPUT ASSIGN: T rack Direct Out Off TRA CK ST ATUS[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 401 Surr ound 2+2 T emplate MASTERING MODE Rec FX1 P atch P231:MTK:Mixdown TRA CK ASSIGN: IN1 Not in Use : : IN24 Not in Use TR1 Not in Use : : TR24 Not in Use FX1 RTN Not in Use : : FX8 RTN Not in Use A UX1 Not in Use : : A UX4 Not in Use L (A UX 5) Recor d T rack A* R (A UX[...]

Supplemental Information 402 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual *Recording tracks are: • TR 21/22/23/24 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 13/14/15/16 —M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 9/10/11/12 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 64k or higher • TR[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 403 *Recording tracks are: • TR 21/22/23/24 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 13/14/15/16 —M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 9/10/11/12 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 64k or higher • TR[...]

Supplemental Information 404 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Surr ound 3+2+1 T emplate TRA CK ASSIGN: IN1 Not in Use : : IN24 Not in Use TR1 Not in Use : : TR24 Not in Use FX1 RTN Not in Use : : FX8 RTN Not in Use A UX1 Not in Use A UX2 Not in Use L (A UX 3) Record T rack A* R (A UX 4) Record T rack B* C (A UX 5) Record T rack C* S[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 405 *Recording tracks are: • TR 19/2021/22/23/24 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 11/12/13/14/15/16 —M24, M16 or CDR, and a sample rate of 48k or lower • TR 7/8/9/10/11/12 —MTP , MT1, MT2, LIV or L V2, and a sample rate of 64k o[...]

Supplemental Information 406 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual MIDI Channels and Contr ol Change Maps Channels and Master Edit Area MIDI Channels Control Change Numbers—Input Channel Parameters MIDI Channel Input Channel T rack Channel FX Return Channels 1 1/17 1 1 2 2/18 2 2 3 3/19 3 3 4 4/20 4 4 5 5/21 5 5 6 6/22 6 6 7 7/23 7 7 8[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 407 Control Change Numbers—T rack Channel Parameters TRACK ST A TUS Buttons—The Effects of Control Change V alues Y ou can change the current setting of a TRACK ST A TUS button b y sending Control Change messages to the VS-2480. T racks 1-16 respond to Control Change 35. [...]

Supplemental Information 408 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Control Change Numbers—FX Return Channel 1-8 Parameters Control Change Numbers—Master Edit Parameters Control Change P arameter Control Change P arameter 102 F ader Level 109 A ux 6 Send Level 103 Balance 110 A ux 7 Send Level 104 A ux 1 Send Level 111 A ux 8 Send Lev[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 409 V -Fader Contr ol Messages T he V -Fader feature—P age 300—allows y ou to send the following Control Change messages from the VS-2480’ s faders and P AN/A UX SEND 1-8 knobs. Control Change: Range: Control Change: Range: CC 0 (BankSelMSB) 0-127 CC66 (Sostenuto) 0-127[...]

Supplemental Information 410 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Automix Parameter List T he VS-2480’ s Automix feature can recor d and pla yback changes to the v alues of the following parameters. *1 When ChLink or FLink is on. *2 When ChLink is on *3 When Aux Busses 1 and 2 are linked. *4 When Aux Busses 3 and 4 are linked. *5 When[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 411 FX return channel parameters Automix name: Description: Automix name: Description: LEVEL (F ader) Effect Return Level A UX2 Send Lev A UX2 Send Level B ALANCE Effect Return Balance A UX3 Send Lev A UX3 Send Level MUTE Mute A UX4 Send Lev A UX4 Send Level A UX1 Send Sw A U[...]

Supplemental Information 412 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual V -Studio Song/VS-2480 Pr oject Compatibility Recor ding Mode T ables A project using the following recor ding modes can be converted into a VS-2480 project using the project IMPORT operation. *Imported VSR-mode songs are converted to MTP mode. A project using the followi[...]

Supplemental Information Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 413 Busses When importing earlier V -Studio songs into the VS-2480, busses are re-assigned as follows. EQ When importing earlier V -Studio songs into the VS-2480, EQ parameters are re- mapped as follows. Effect Patches T his table notes the existence of certain VS-2480 effect[...]

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Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 415 Glossary 24-bit T he VS-2480 captures and plays audio digitall y as 24-bit data. 24-bit recording is the current industry standard for pro-quality digital audio. See “Bit depth. ” Analog audio Analog audio is a type of electrical signal in which sound is represented b y varying amounts of vol[...]

Glossary 416 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Balanced Balanced cables and connectors produce low-noise signals b y using all three of the cable’s wires. In a balanced connection, two copies of the signal tra vel through the cable—one cop y is 180 degrees out of phase. If the two signals ha ve pick ed up any noise along the w ay[...]

Glossary Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 417 Dither Dither is a process that deliberately adds a tin y amount of noise to a signal in order to mask unwanted sounds that can be introduced when the signal’ s original bit depth is reduced. Dithering is recommended when transferring audio to an external device that uses a lo wer bit [...]

Glossary 418 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual IDE Short for “Integrated Device and Electronics. ” A set of data transmission standards employ ed b y high-speed disk drives. T he VS-2480 has an internal IDE hard driv e. Limiter A limiter is a compressor with a ratio setting of 10:1 or greater . This has the effect of prev enting [...]

Glossary Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 419 MIDI F or “Musical Instrument Digital Interface, ” the wiring and message protocol that allows the VS-2480 and other MIDI devices to communicate b y exchanging instructions called “MIDI messages. ” MIDI control surface A hardw are device that transmits MIDI messages, and whose pu[...]

Glossary 420 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Playlist A list of all of the data to be pla yed in a project, arranged along a horizontal, left-to-right axis. On the Home screen and phrase sequencer screens, a pla ylist presents the project’ s phrases. On the A UTOMIX EDIT screen, Automix data is listed. Project All of the audio an[...]

Glossary Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 421 Scene A scene is an object that stores all of the mixer’ s current settings. Eac h project can hold 100 scenes. Y ou can instantly recall a scene to restore the settings it contains. SCSI, SCSI Bus Short for “Small Computer System Interface. ” SCSI is a set of cabling and data stan[...]

Glossary 422 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual TRS Short for “Tip/Ring/Slee ve. ” A type of 1/4” audio cable connector that uses three wires for carrying audio signals and for grounding. T he wires are attached to the connector’ s tip , ring and a second ring called a “sleeve. ” Track In the VS-2480’ s hard disk recor d[...]

Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 423 Symbols +Insert ................................................................. 264 – 265 .WAV files exporting overview ............................................................. 356 phrases ............................................................... 357 tracks ........................[...]

Index 424 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual benefits of ............................................................... 325 editing about moving, deleting data .............................. 334 appearance of Automix data ............................. 332 AUTOMIX EDIT screen .................................... 331 methods ..........[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 425 overview .................................................................. 195 performing the bounce ........................................... 201 phrase sequencer tracks ......................................... 285 preparation ...........................................................[...]

Index 426 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Hi-Mid EQ band ................................................ 165 interactive EQ display ....................................... 164 KeyIn .................................................................. 160 Level ................................................................... 160 L[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 427 a new phrase ........................................................... 259 a new project ............................................................. 96 Current Channel display ............................................ 120 CURRENT TEMPO MAP ........................................... [...]

Index 428 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Drive Check ........................................................... 116 fragmentation ......................................................... 112 introduction ............................................................. 86 maintenance .................................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 429 EFFECT button ...................................................... 40 , 220 Effect patches Algorithm View screen ........................................... 221 and scenes ............................................................... 224 changing via MIDI ...............................[...]

Index 430 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual METER SCALE ...................................................... 361 TIME DISPLAY ...................................................... 361 EXT SYNC button ........................................ 43 , 315 – 316 External effects insert-like effects .....................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 431 Gap. See Synchronization Gate ............................................................................. 274 GENERATOR/OSCILLATOR screen ......................... 372 GetNow editing tracks .......................................................... 250 locator ............................[...]

Index 432 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual songs ...................................................................... 108 track ........................................................................ 269 Importing .WAV files .............................................................. 354 tracks ................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 433 Listening level ............................................................... 75 LIV recording mode ...................................................... 97 LOCATOR/SCENE TYPE ........................................... 146 LOCATOR•BANK button ..........................................[...]

Index 434 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Mastering Room ................................................ 340 mastering tracks ................................................ 340 multi-project CDs .............................................. 341 Mastering Room selecting operating mode .................................. 343 turni[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 435 bulk storage of data ............................................ 304 remote control of VS-2480 .................................. 301 V.Fader described ............................................................ 300 using ...................................................................[...]

Index 436 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Non-destructive editing ......................................... 88 – 89 Non-drop frame ......................................................... 308 NORMAL NOTE ........................................................ 306 NORMALIZE .......................................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 437 overview .................................................................. 292 routing inputs to input channels ............................ 135 Patches. See Effect patches PEAK HOLD Sw ......................................................... 367 Peak lines ...............................[...]

Index 438 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual looping ................................................................... 181 Preview ................................................................... 183 Scrub ...................................................................... 184 Vari Pitch .......................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 439 loading a project ....................................................... 95 mastering ........................................................ 339 – 348 naming ...................................................................... 99 navigating ...........................................[...]

Index 440 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual copying with mouse ...................................... 245 Edit Pop-Up menu ................................ 241 , 246 editing from TRACK menu ........................... 250 moving with mouse ....................................... 244 SELECT TRACK Pop-Up menu .................... 244 s[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 441 selecting target channels ........................................ 146 storing ..................................................................... 144 SCMS .......................................................................... 366 Scrub overview .......................................[...]

Index 442 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual Stereo Aux busses ...................................................... 206 Stereo bouncing ......................................................... 196 Stereo channels .......................................................... 152 Stereo effects ..........................................[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 443 sending tracks to ..................................................... 290 Tempo map and metronome ...................................................... 369 building manually .................................................. 313 converting from sync track ................................[...]

Index 444 www.rolandus.com Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual directly to outputs .............................................. 289 FX return channels to ........................................ 231 input channels to ....................................... 167 , 172 to outputs via Direct busses .............................. 208 track channels to ...[...]

Index Roland VS-2480 Owner’s Manual www.rolandus.com 445 TIME DISPLAY .............................................. 361 PHANTOM Sw ................................................... 360 VGA .................................................................... 361 H.POSITION .................................................. 362 REFRESH RATE ....[...]

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