Moving Around Within Your Project

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One of the keys to working efficiently is the ability to navigate quickly to various edit points. As with many things on the VS-2480, there is more than one way to accomplish this.

Cursor Buttons and Time/Value Dial

While viewing the Home screen, the cursor buttons, shown in Figure 15.3, will shift the focus of the Time/Value dial along the values in the upper left of the display. This makes it very easy to move in large or small steps by selecting the proper increment and dialing away.

Figure 15.3. The left/right cursor keys select which value to edit


Select hours, minutes, seconds, frames, sub- frames , measure, beat, tick, or marker with the left/ right cursor keys. Use the Time/Value dial to move the project forward or backward by the selected increment.

For very small movements, set the focus to the sub-frames value and hold down the SHIFT button while adjusting the Time/Value dial. If you have placed markers throughout your project, you can scroll to any marker number. If your project has been recorded to a VS-2480-provided Tempo Map, you can scroll by measures, beats, and ticks .

Quick Scrolling

You can also scroll through the values displayed in the upper left with your mouse. Just click the mouse on the desired increment and drag the mouse up or down to change the data. If the project is playing, it will continue to play normally until you release the mouse, then snap directly to the new point and continue playing from there.


Shuttle Ring

Just twist the Shuttle ring to move your project forward or backward. The further you twist, the faster the project moves. If the project is playing when you use the Shuttle ring, the audio will be muted except for small bursts, making it difficult to know exactly where you are just by listening, especially at greater speeds.

Previous and Next

These controls move you to the previous or next "edge" of a phrase on the currently selected track. Any start or end of a phrase is considered an edge. If no edge exists in the requested direction, the project just will stay where it is.

Locators

A locator is simply a numbered point in time. There are 100 available locators for any one project. Naming your locators as you go will help you keep track of your project.

Locators are organized as 10 banks of 10 locations. To access the different banks, hold SHIFT and press the LOC button. Nine of the 10 numeric buttons will flash. The button that is solidly illuminated is the current bank. Press any of the numeric buttons to select the corresponding bank. Bank 0 is selected by default.

Once you select the desired bank, and the LOCATOR button is solidly illuminated, pressing any non-illuminated numeric button will save the current location, and pressing any illuminated numeric button will recall the corresponding saved location and jump to that point in time within the project.

To undefine a locator, hold the CLEAR button and press the illuminated numeric button that corresponds to the locator to be undefined.

Locator Scratchpad

I like to use locator bank 9 as a scratchpad while editing. Select bank 9 and use its locators while working on a specific item. If you always use bank 9 for temporary workspace, you can feel pretty safe about clearing any defined locators you may find there when you start your next editing task.


Naming Locators

Click on the LOC button near the upper-right corner of the VGA display to access the Locator dialog, as shown in Figure 15.4.

Figure 15.4. Click on the LOC button to open the Locator dialog box


Here you can assign names to your locators and view their information, in addition to setting or clearing them.

Markers

Dropping a marker is a quick way to note a particular point in your project. Markers cannot be named.

  • To drop a marker, just press the TAP button.

  • Hold SHIFT and press the PREVIOUS or NEXT button to move adjacent markers.

  • To remove a marker, move directly to it, hold the CLEAR button, and press the TAP button.

  • CDR markers are special markers that denote the start of a new track on an audio CD (more on that later).

Jump Button

Press the JUMP button and enter any time or measure/beat desired, and the VS-2480 will locate to the desired point immediately.

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Roland VS Recorder Power.
Roland VS Recorder Power.
ISBN: 1592008364
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 202

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