Roland VS-1824 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Contents
Preparations ............................................................................................5
Required Preparations...............................................................................................................................5
Installing Effect Expansion Boards ..........................................................................................................6
Cautions When Installing an Effect Expansion Board...............................................................6
Installation de la carte d’extension d’effets (French language for Canadian Safety Standard)......9
Précautions lors de l’installation de la carte d’extension d’effets ............................................9
Basic Connections (Power Supply, Audio Devices and Headphones).............................................12
Turning On the Power.............................................................................................................................13
Adjusting the Display Contrast ..................................................................................................13
If You Do Not Understand the Display or Don’t Know What to Do ....................................13
Mixer and System Initialize.........................................................................................................14
Setting the Date and Time of the Internal Clock..................................................................................15
Turning Off the Power.............................................................................................................................18
If “STORE Current?” is Displayed .............................................................................................19
Listening to the Demo Songs ..............................................................20
About the Demo Songs............................................................................................................................20
For Making the Preparations Which Listen to a Demo Song (Song Select).....................................22
Playing Back the Demo Song.................................................................................................................. 24
Viewing the Level Meters ............................................................................................................ 26
Adjusting the Overall Volume....................................................................................................27
Adjusting the Volume of an Individual Track.......................................................................... 27
Adjusting the Headphone Volume.............................................................................................27
Listening to the Demo Song with a Different Arrangement (Scene) ................................................28
Deleting Unneeded Songs (Song Erase)................................................................................................ 29
Making a Multi-Track Recording..........................................................32
Creating a New Song (Song New)......................................................................................................... 32
Connecting Microphones ........................................................................................................................36
Cautions When Connecting Microphones ................................................................................37
Adjusting the Input Sensitivity .............................................................................................................. 38
Recording On a Track ..............................................................................................................................40
Playing Back the Performance You Recorded......................................................................................43
Canceling the Recording ......................................................................................................................... 44
Checking the Time Available for Recording (Remaining Time)............................................ 44
Canceling a Recorded Result (Undo/Redo) .............................................................................45
Re-Recording a Specified Portion (Punch-In/Punch-Out) .....................................................48
Erasing Just a Portion of a Recording (Track Erase) ................................................................50
Deleting an Erased Recording from the Disk (Song Optimize) ............................................. 53
Recording On a V-Track..........................................................................................................................55
Comparing the Recorded Content of Two V-Tracks ...............................................................57
Recording On Other Tracks .................................................................................................................... 59
Playing Back Two or More Tracks.........................................................................................................62
Adjust the Volume Balance of the Tracks..................................................................................62
Adjusting the Stereo Position of Each Track.............................................................................63
Adjusting the Tone of Each Track ..............................................................................................65
Saving Your Performance (Song Store)................................................................................................. 67
Changing the Partition Size (Drive Initialize)...................................................................................... 68