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VS-2000 also provides 200 memory locations into which you can save your own effect
patches. See the
VS-2000 Appendices
for a list of the factory effect patches.
Effects can be applied to an audio signal in either of two ways, as we’ll discuss in
Chapter 5, starting on Page 87.
What’s the Difference Between a VS8F-2 and a VS8F-3?
Though a VS8F-2 provides an additional pair of stereo effect processors that can
produce the same effects that ship with the VS-2000. This can be helpful when two
stereo processors just aren’t enough for your creative needs.
The VS8F-3 allows you to take advantage of third-party plug-in effects, as well as some
new and powerful Roland-produced algorithms. A plug-in is an effect program
designed specifically for the production of a single, high-quality effect, and can be
individually purchased according to your needs.
The ability to use plug-ins means that you can expand the VS-2000’s effect processing
power far beyond its already potent built-in effects or those offered on a VS8F-2. A wide
range of plug-ins created by some of today’s leading effect programmers are available
for the VS8F-3 and the VS-2000. For a list of the plug-ins currently available for the
VS8F-3, visit Roland’s Web site at www.RolandUS.com or www. Roland.com.
The Hard Disk Recorder
The VS-2000’s hard disk recorder is the simplest of its three major components to
explain and understand—it’s an audio recorder, acting a lot like a cassette recorder,
VCR or any other traditional kind of recorder. Its basic controls will be familiar to you.
Instead of recording on a cassette or VHS tape, however, the hard disk recorder records
audio onto a computer hard disk drive (Page 93). This provides some important
advantages over other kinds of recorders:
• Its sound quality is excellent.
•You can instantly jump to any location in a recording with no waiting while the
machine fast-forwards or rewinds.
•You can easily manipulate recorded audio, copying it, pasting it, moving it, time-
stretching it and much more.
•You can edit audio “non-destructively,” with the ability to undo any edit you make.
•The VS-2000 can memorize multiple locations within a recording so that you can
jump back and forth between sections in a heartbeat.
How Many Tracks Can It Record?
The hard disk recorder can record up to 8 tracks at once, and play back up to 18 tracks at
a time. That’s really only the beginning of the story—each project on the VS-2000 can
actually contain
320
“Virtual Tracks” from which you can pick and choose.
We’ll discuss how to use the hard disk recorder in Chapter 13, starting on Page 175.
The words “track” and “Virtual Track” have special meanings in the VS-2000. We’ll
discuss them in Chapter 6.
The number of tracks you can record and play at once is determined by the selected
recording mode, as you’ll learn in Chapter 7.
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