Roland VS-1680 - Manual (Page 7)

The playback pitch is strange
●The Vari-Pitch function is turned on (the VARI
PITCH indicator is lit).
●The time compression/expansion function is being
used (Owner’s Manual p. 90).
Disk drive problems
The internal hard disk is not being
recognized
●The hard disk has not been installed correctly.
●“IDE Drive” is set to “Off” (Owner’s Manual p. 189).
●The “Partition” settings are not right.
→When a high-capacity hard disk is installed in the
VS-1680, we recommend setting the partition size to
“2000MB.”
The Zip drive is not recognized
●The Zip drive is not connected correctly.
●The same device ID number is assigned to two or
more SCSI devices (Zip drives , CD-R drives, etc.).
●The Zip drive has not been initialized (Owner’s
Manual p. 111).
●No Zip disk is inserted in the drive.
→When switching Zip disks, be sure to select the
newly inserted disk as the current drive.
●An archives copy Zip disk is inserted.
Internal Effects
Effects cannot be used
●The VS8F-2 has not been installed correctly.
●Only one VS8F-2 has been installed (when EFFECT B
cannot be used).
●You are attempting to select the algorithm for
Reverb, Gated Reverb, Vocoder 2, or Voice
Transformer with EFX2 or EFX4.
●You are attempting to select the algorithm for
Vocoder 2 or Voice Transformer with EFX1 or EFX3
(p. 105, 106).
CD-R Drive Problems
The CD-R drive is not being recognized
●The CD-R drive is not connected correctly.
●The same device ID number is assigned to two or
more SCSI devices (Zip drives , CD-R drives, etc.).
●No CD-R disc is inserted in the drive.
●A CD-R drive that is not designated by Roland.
Cannot write to CD-R discs
●The song’s sample rate is set to something other than
44.1 kHz (Owner’s Manual p. 58).
●No IDE hard disk is installed.
●The internal IDE hard disk does not have sufficient
free disk space (Owner’s Manual p. 169).
●The CD-R disc does not have sufficient free space.
●You are trying to write to a commercial CD software
disc.
●You are trying to write to a CD-R disc that has been
finalized.
MIDI Devices
With the VS-1680 as master, the
sequencer does not respond to com-
mands
●The MIDI cable is not connected correctly.
●The MIDI cable is broken.
●The MIDI Thru switch is not set to “Out” (Owner’s
Manual p. 129).
●“Sync Gen.” (the sync generator) is not set to the
appropriate synchronization method (MTC, MIDI
Clock, Sync Track) (Owner’s Manual p. 133).
●The EXT indicator is blinking (“Sync Source” is set
to “EXT”).
●The two devices are not set to the same type of MTC
(during MTC synchronization).
●The MIDI clock data has not been recorded on the
sync track (if you are using the sync track for syn-
chronization).
●The settings of the MIDI sequencer are not correct.
●The MIDI sequencer is not ready to playback.
Troubleshooting
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