Track Editing Versus Phrase Editing

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On the track level, there are two methods to tackle editing: track editing and phrase editing. Every time you press REC and then STOP on your VS-1680, a section of audio data is recorded. These sections of audio are called phrases. If you start at the beginning of a song and press REC and don't press STOP until the end of the song, you will be left with one long phrase. In contrast, if you punch in and out several times throughout the duration of the song, you will be left with many different phrases. You will have a different phrase for each punch-in and punch-out.

In a track edit, you must tell the VS-1680 where to begin the edit and where to end the edit. That is what the START and END points are for. Most of the track editing functions require you to set four points ”START, END, FROM, and TO ”however, for functions such as CUT and ERASE, you only have to set the START and END points. In phrase editing, the START and END points are already defined as the start and end of the phrase, respectively.

Phrase editing can work well when doing a lot of punching in and out. The VS-1680 uses the edges of the phrase to define the START and END points on each punch-in and punch-out. In many cases, phrase editing can be a valuable time saver.

To get to your track editing functions, hold SHIFT and press F2 (Track). Use the F1 key to toggle between the track editing and phrase editing functions. For track editing, you will see the following options:

  • Track Copy: Copies selected sections of audio to another location and/or another track if desired. The original audio remains in tact.

  • Track Move: Moves selected sections of audio to another location and/or another track if desired.

  • Track Exchange: Swaps all audio data on two tracks.

  • Track Insert: Inserts blank space at the specified location.

  • Track Cut: Removes audio from a specified location. When the audio is cut, the data between the start and end points is completely removed and the remaining sections of audio are spliced together. This is much different from Track Erase.

  • Track Erase: Erases audio from a specified location. This is similar to recording blank space on an analog recorder, as shown in Figure 10.1.

    Figure 10.1. The Track Erase function erases a selected piece of audio and leaves a space. Track Cut, on the other hand, erases the audio and deletes the remaining space, thus joining the remaining pieces (A and C) together


  • Track Compression/Expansion: Allows you to expand or compress the playback time of a track or group of tracks by a specified time. This is usually referred to as time stretching on software editing applications.

  • Track Name : Allows you to give your track a unique name.

  • Track Import: Allows you to copy tracks from other songs into the current song.

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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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