Roland VS-2000 - 5 Understanding Effects; Harnessing the VS-2000 S Effects; Dry and Wet; Effect Routings

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5—Understanding Effects
Harnessing the VS-2000’s Effects
The VS-2000 provides a range of creative possibilities when it comes to effects. How
and where you apply them will have a big impact on the sound you achieve.
This chapter discusses important effect-related ideas, including:
• effect routings —How you get your signals in and out of an effect has a lot to do with
the way they’ll sound.
• master effects —You can add effects to your entire mix. This ability is especially
important when you’re creating a final master.
• when and where to apply effects —You can add effects as you record, during mixdown,
or add them to your entire mix at once. We’ll offer some tips that’ll help you decide
when and where to apply your effects.
• native effects and plug-in effects —You can use the VS-2000’s built-in effects or special
plug-in effects (purchased separately) sold by leading effect houses.
• external effects —You can send signals out of the VS-2000, into external effects-
processing devices, and back, if you wish to.
Dry and Wet
“Dry” and “wet” are two terms that are frequently used in any discussion of effects,
providing a shorthand way to say whether or not a signal has had effects applied to it:
• dry —A dry signal is a signal to which you haven’t applied an effect.
• wet —A wet signal is a signal to which you have applied an effect.
Effect Routings
There are two basic methods you can use to apply an effect to a signal.
You can bring a signal into the VS-2000 that already uses an effect—from the effect
processor built into a synthesizer, for example—but for our purposes, until you add a
VS-2000 effect to the signal, we’ll consider it dry.
You can: Term for an effect applied this way:
replace the dry signal with a wet version of the
signal so that only the wet version is heard.
insert effect
add a wet version of the signal to the dry
version so that both are heard.
loop effect
Loop effects are sometimes called “send-and-return effects.”
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