Roland TurboStart VS-880 User Manual

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Supplemental
Notes
September 4, 1996 SN57 Ver 1.0
© Roland Corporation U.S. Basic Recording with the VS-880 Page 1 of 29
Basic Recording with the VS-880
Welcome to the VS-880 Supplemental Notes on Basic Recording. We hope that you will find this
document a friendly user guide on many of the common functions associated with recording and editing.
The VS-880 offers a great deal of functionality, and with a little practice, you will be able to utilize it fully
Ð allowing you to make great sounding recordings that you can master directly from the VS-880.
I. FRONT PANEL LAYOUT
First, letÕs get familiar with how the VS-880 is laid out. From the front panel, you can tell that there are
physical distinctions that help define the internal components. The left half of the VS-880 is the Mixer
section. Here we can control the recorded volume levels with the Faders, pan position (left to right speaker)
of each Track with the PAN knobs, the Input volume of an instrument or voice with the INPUT SENS knobs,
muting and soloing of Tracks with the STATUS buttons, MIXER MODE, and a lot more that we will get into
later.
3
MIDI
1 2 4 1234
L
IN
OUT IN OUT THRU
R
FOOT
SWITCH
POWER
AB
SCSI
DIGITAL
(
5,6
)
PHONES
AUX SEND
INPUT B
INPUT A
MASTER OUT
CONDITION MARKER#
MASTER INPUT TRACK AUX
TIME
48
24
4
0
dB
12
LOOP
NEXT
MARKER
PREVIOUS
TAP
CLEAR
AUTO PUNCH
LOC 1/ LOC 2/ LOC 3/ LOC 4/ SCRUB
PREVIEW
NO
CURSOR
CANCEL ENTER
FROMTO
DISPLAY
12345
67890
1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ CLEAR
TIME VALUE
SCENE
UNDONUMERICS
Pre Level
Post Level
Play List
Amp Profile
TRACK SYSTEMEFFECT
Tr a ck
-
Move
Copy
-
Xchg
-
Insert
-
Cut
-
Erase
Time Comp Exp.
EFFECT
-
2
-
1Marker
Locate
Loop
A.Punch I O
System
MIDI
Sync
Scene
DISK
Song Select
-
Name
-
New
-
Copy
-
Erase
-
Optimize
Drive Select
-
Initialize
DAT
-
Recover
Backup
LOCATORSONG
Fader Pan
STOP PLAY RECFFZERO REW
VARI PITCH
LOCATOR
EDIT CONDITION PLAY
SONG TOPSTORE SONG END SHUT EJECT RESTART
DISK
MIDI/
5678
YES
SHIFT
PARAMETER
5678
PAN
C
TRACK MIX
STATUS
SEL
a
1
Input BUSS
Input BUSS
V. Tr a ck
INPUT
TRACK
INPUT MIX
SOLO
AUX SEND
PEAK
(
dB
)
REC
PLAY
MUTE
EQ
BUSS Send
Channel Link
AUX Send
SOURCE
Master Out
6
4
0
4
8
12
18
24
36
(
dB
)
6
4
0
4
8
12
18
24
36
BUSS BUSS BUSS BUSSAUX
V.Track EQ Low EQ Mid EQ Hi Aux Send
SELECT
EFFECT
-
1 EFFECT
-
2
10
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
b AUX
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
c AUX
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
d AUX
PAN
C
STATUS
SEL
AUX SEND
2
PEAK
10
3
PEAK
10
4
0
PEAK
10
MASTER
CH EDIT CH EDIT EDIT
INPUT SENS
PHONES
MIXER MODE
12
CH EDIT CH EDIT
34
CH EDIT CH EDIT
56
CH EDIT CH EDIT
78
LR LR LR LR LR LR LR LR
4 50dBm 4 50dBm 4 50dBm 4 50 dBm
010
6dB
EFFECT
-
2
-
1
EFFECT
-
2
-
1
The right half of the VS-880 is the Recorder section. Here, we have the transport controls (STOP, PLAY,
FF, REW, REC, etc.), the LOCATOR controls for setting markers and locate points, punch points, etc., and
global EDIT CONDITION buttons that allow us to access the various edit functions. We will discuss these in
more depth later on.
The other important components of the right side of the VS-880 are the PLAY/DISPLAY button, the SHIFT
button, the CURSOR buttons and the PARAMETER buttons. These are the buttons that you will most likely
use in some combination for nearly every operation you do on the VS-880.

Roland TurboStart VS-880 Specifications

General

Brand	Roland
Model	TurboStart VS-880
Category	Music Equipment
Language	English