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Chapter 3 Playback Operations
Chapter 3
Protecting Songs (Song
Protect)
It is possible to mistakenly overwrite or record over an
existing song, or to erase a song you meant to keep. You can
protect a song from being erased or recorded over by using
the Song Protect function.
Song Protect disables the following operations:
• Recording
• Undo/Redo
• Song Name, Song Optimize, Song Arrange, Song Split,
and Song Combine
• Track Edit and Phrase Edit
• Recording to Sync Tracks
• Creating Tempo Maps
• Song Store
About Song Protect
Song Protect performs the same function as the protect tab or
switch on floppy disks and magnetic optical disks. Even if
Song Protect is turned on, you can still place locate points
and markers, and carry out operations such as changing
Scenes. However, when you try to save your work, “Song
Protected” appears in the display, and you are prevented
from proceeding with the Save operation. However, when
you turn Song Protect off, any edits or changes to the song
you made during the time Song Protect was on will be lost. If
you are planning to make permanent edits and changes to a
song, make sure Song Protect is off before you start.
If you work in an environment where many different people
use one VS-1680, you may want to use the following system:
When you have finished all work for the day, turn Song
Protect on immediately before shutting off the power to the
VS-1680. At the beginning of the next day, after turning on
the VS-1680, immediately turn Song Protect off.
Selecting and Loading Songs
Before you can play a song you have saved on the hard drive,
you must select and load the song into the VS-1680’s
memory. Use the following procedure to select and load the
desired song.
1.
Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].
2.
Hold down [SHIFT] and press [F1 (SONG)].
3.
Press [F1 (Sel)]—the Song Select screen appears, showing
the songs stored in the currently selected hard drive
partition.
You can view the songs as icons or in a list. You can also
see the size of each song, and the date and time at which
it was created.
4.
Press [F1] to toggle between the icon display and the list
display to select the desired way of viewing the songs.
5.
Press [F5] to toggle between date of creation
→
time of
creation
→
size.
6.
Use TIME/VALUE to move the cursor to the song that
you wish to select and load.
7.
Press [F4 (Exec)].
8.
Press [YES].
9.
The display will ask “STORE Current?” If you wish to
save the current song, press [YES]. If not, press [NO].
After the current song has been saved—and the selected
song has been loaded—you are returned to Play mode.
Icon display List display
Icon / Date of creation Icon / Time of creation Icon / Size
List / Date of creation List / Time of creation List / Size