Roland VS-1824 - Manual (Page 3)

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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