Vs 2480 problems.. effects/burning

[tard of the re]

Hi, i just bought the ROLAND vs 2480, and it's been working great... up until now...

1.) I burned each track for a song onto a CD-R and its a hellish nightmare. is there a faster way? can i buy a zip drive and hook it up to the 2480, so i can save it onto a zip disk, and then transport it onto my pc???? or is there a way for me to hook the system to my computer???


2.) When i burned each track seperately, i took the cd-r and put it into my pc, so i can rip it into .wav format for mixing/editing. And i used guitar effects for 2 guitar tracks, and its not working! i've tried hours trying to figure out how to burn the distorted guitars onto the cd-r, but i just can't figure it out, it just plays the guitars clean. please help me!!!!

[tard of the re]

okay now im at the point where i have to use SoundForge, but the distortion on soundforge is horrible!!! (cries) Somebody please help me...!!!!!

[DarthFaders]

If you're using the VS's effects, you have to record with the effects printed in order to do what you want to do. Put the effects on the input channels, not on the tracks after you've recorded them.

As for a faster way to burn wav files to CDR's, you can put as many files as you want to on one CDR. Just use the MAP function from the 'track export' function, and put a check mark on the tracks you want to go on the CD. You can put an entire song's worth of wav files (all the tracks) on one CDR easily. As for exporting to a zip disk, Roland has no intention of implementing this, from what I've been told. We're stuck to wasting a bunch of CDR's.

I hope this helps, let me know if this is unclear or if I can help in any other way.

Darth