Chapter 6 Editing a Recorded Performance (Track Editing) ... 88
About Editing Operations ............................................................................................ 88
Track Edit .................................................................................................................... 88
About the Bar Display ....................................................................................................... 88
Repeating Performance Data (Track Copy) ................................................................... 89
Moving Performance Data (Track Move) ...................................................................... 91
Exchanging Performance Data Between Tracks (Track Exchange) ............................ 92
Inserting a Blank Space Into Performance Data (Track Insert) ................................... 93
Deleting Performance Data (Track Cut) ......................................................................... 94
Erasing Performance Data (Track Erase) ....................................................................... 95
Modifying the Playback Time of the Performance Data
(Time Compression/Expansion) ..... 96
Chapter 7 Use with a Zip Drive ............................................ 99
Before You Use a Zip Drive ........................................................................................ 99
Handling the Zip Drive .................................................................................................... 99
Handling Zip Disks ........................................................................................................... 99
Connecting the Zip Drive ............................................................................................. 99
Initializing the Disk (Drive Initialize) ........................................................................... 100
Checking Disk Reliability ............................................................................................... 101
Saving Performance Data to a Zip Drive (Song Copy) ............................................. 102
Saving a Song to a Single Disk (Playable) ................................................................ 103
To Load Data from Disks (Drive Select) .................................................................... 104
When You Cannot Save a Song to a Single Disk (Archives) .................................... 105
Saving to Disks (Store) .................................................................................................... 105
Loading Data From Disks (Extract) .............................................................................. 106
About power-save mode ........................................................................................... 106
Chapter 8 Use with a CD-RW Drive .................................... 107
Before You Use a CD-RW Drive ............................................................................... 107
Handling the CD-RW Drive ........................................................................................... 107
Handling CD-RW Discs .................................................................................................. 107
Connecting the CD-RW Drive ................................................................................... 107
Creating an Audio CD ............................................................................................... 108
Items Necessary for Creating an Audio CD ................................................................ 108
Creating a Master Data ................................................................................................... 108
Writing Songs to CD-R Discs ......................................................................................... 109
Auditioning (Test Listening) Songs Written to CDs (CD Player Function) ............ 110
Writing Additional Songs to the Disc ........................................................................... 111
Arranging and Writing Multiple Songs to Disc .......................................................... 111
Writing the Song Data (Finalize) ................................................................................... 112
Arranging and Writing Songs and Song Data ............................................................ 113
Saving Songs to CD-RW Discs (CD-R Backup) ....................................................... 113
Items Necessary for CD-R Backup ................................................................................ 114
Saving Songs to CD-RW Discs ....................................................................................... 114
Loading Songs From CD-RW Discs .............................................................................. 115
How to Erase the Data in the CD-RW Disc ................................................................. 115
Chapter 9 Use with MIDI Devices ....................................... 116
Synchronizing with MIDI Sequencers ....................................................................... 116
Items Necessary for Synchronization ........................................................................... 116
Master and Slave .............................................................................................................. 116
Using MTC ....................................................................................................................... 116
Synchronization with the VS-880EX as the Reference (Master) ............................... 117
Synchronization with the MIDI Sequencer as the Reference (Slave) ....................... 118
Synchronizing with an External MIDI Device ............................................................ 119
Using the Sync Track (Master) ....................................................................................... 119
Using the Tempo Map (Master) .................................................................................... 121
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