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Restoring from DAT
When restoring material from DAT, you often need to clear off everything you have on the drive to make room for
the restored material. For this reason, the VS-880 allows you to easily initialize your drive when reloading material
from an audio DAT. Be careful and make sure that you want to do this, because it will erase everything on your
drive.
When you see “INIT DRIVE IDE:0?” or “INIT DRIVE SC:0?”, be aware that if you press Yes, you will lose
everything on your drive. If you don’t want to lose all of your material, just answer “NO” and the VS-880 will
continue restoring your old song, while keeping the material already recorded on the drive. Of course, you will
need enough room on the drive for the older song that you want to restore.
XII. Transferring Data Between VS-880s
If you have bandmates who own VS-880s, here’s how you can transfer all eight tracks of data, mixer settings,
Scenes, etc. from a song in one unit to another.
• Route a digital audio cable between the digital output of the source VS-880 and the digital input of the
destination VS-880.
• Lock the system clock of the destination VS-880 to that of the source.
• Put the source VS-880 into DAT Backup Mode, and the destination unit into DAT Recover Mode. Press
Execute for “PLAY DAT” on the destination VS, and then Execute for “REC DAT” on the source VS.
That’s all there is to it.
XIII. Internet Connections
Quite a few Web sites on the Internet have information about the VS-880 that may be of interest to you. Here are
a couple to check out.
Join a User Group Newsletter
There is an on-line newsletter dedicated to the VS-880. It includes lots of comments from VS-880 owners and
questions from people thinking about entering the digital recording age with the VS-880.
If you’re interested in joining the fray, send e-mail to majordomo@lists.teleport.com with the message: “subscribe
VS880-users-l” (that’s a lower-case “L” at the end). You will then automatically receive messages at your e-mail
address as they are posted to this newsgroup. You can also participate with your own advice on the best ways to
se the VS.
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VS-880 Mixer Panel on Your Computer
Want to see the control interface for the VS-880 on your computer? Access Emagic’s Web page at
http://www.emagic.de for a complete MIDI template of the VS-880’s mixer settings (see Figure 2 on the next
age).
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NOTE: The e-mail addresses listed above have changed since the writing of this article. The new address for the
VS-880 User’s Group is http://www.mooncafe.com. To become a member, click on “Mailing List.” Then, click on
“Join the List” and answer the onscreen questions. To download a mixer template for Emagic’s Logic, you can
access the VS-880 Resource Page at http://colargol.idb.hist.no/~timh/download.html.
© 1997 Miller Freeman, Inc. VS-880 Hot Tips Keyboard Magazine Article Page 7 of 9
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