Roland VS-880EX - Manual (Page 109)

Range
The two tracks designated by the VS-880EX for writ-
ing to the CD-R disc are written from the beginning of
the tracks (normally “00h00m00s00”) to the end (song
end). Thus, any blank space on the tracks before or
after the actual performance results in wasted space
on the CD-R disc. To avoid this, use Track Cut to
remove any unused portions on the tracks.
Writing Songs to CD-R Discs
1. Place a blank CD-R disc in the CD-RW drive.
2. Press [SONG] several times until “SNG CD-R
Write ?” appears in the display.
3. Press [YES].
“-Scanning CD-R -” appears in the display. The VS-
880EX is checking the SCSI ID of the connected CD-
RW drive, and displays the next ID number for a set
time.
4. “SNG Write+Finalize?” appears in the display.
Press PARAMETER [ ].
“Write w/o Fin.?” (Write without finalize?) appears in
the display.
5. Press [YES].
6. Press [SEL (CH EDIT)] for the tracks to be written
to the CD-R L track.
7. Press CURSOR [ ].
8. Press [SEL (CH EDIT)] for the track to be written
to the CD-R R track.
9. The display appears as shown below. Check each
of the capacity.
• “MEASURE” “BEAT” field:
Disk space required for the song being written to
the CD-R disc.
• “SYNC MODE” “SCENE” field:
Free space on the internal IDE hard disk.
• “REMAINING TIME” field:
Free space on the CD-R disc.
* If “the space required for the song being written to the
CD-R disc” exceeds the total of the “free space on the
internal IDE hard disk” and the “free space on the CD-R
disc,” you cannot write the song to the CD-R disc.
* The used capacity of the song is displayed as 1 MB =
1,000,000 bytes. The displayed value is the approximate
standard value.
10. Press PARAMETER [ ].
“SNG CD-R Write Sure?” appears in the display.
00h00m00s00
Blank Space Performance Data Blank Space
Performance Data
Time
After Track Cutting
Before Track Cutting
CONDITION MARKER#
MASTER INPUT TRACK AUX
TIME
48
24
4
0
dB
12
SCSI ID (in the example, ID=2)
Drive model number (Hardware Manufacturer)
CONDITION MARKER#
MASTER INPUT TRACK AUX
TIME
48
24
4
0
dB
12
Writing source tracks (left/right)
Disk space occupied by a song when written to a disc (27MB)
CD-R disc free space (790 MB)
Internal hard disk free space (468 MB)
Disk space required for the song being
written to the CD-R disc
The disk space occupied by a song when written
to a CD-R disc may not be equivalent to the size
of the song itself (the space is indicated when
[SHIFT] + [SONG] are pressed). This is something
that varies with the number of tracks and record-
ing mode used. You can make a rough estimate of
the space required for a song when written to a
CD-R disc as shown below.
Size (bytes) = 44,100 (Hz) x 2 (stereo tracks) x 2
(bytes) x “song length” (in seconds)
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