Track-Edit trouble-shooting


Before suspecting an error in the program it is important to check that the problem is not elsewhere. The VS does not always update its display properly after a remote change to a parameter so first clear the display (by pressing the Play/Display button beneath the LCD) and then reselect the parameter to see its true value. If the VS parameters correspond to those which are displayed by the program then any "misfunctioning" of the VS is due to the fact the parameter selection is incorrect - in this case, refer to the VS manual.

Remember also that the communication settings are saved individually with each song. This means that selecting a new song which does not have the correct settings, most of all the three fundamental ones below, will cause the program to stop working.

SYS:MID:MIDIThr = Out
SYS:MID:SysEx.Rx = On
SYS:MID:SysEx.Tx = On


Known problems


Using Measures mode it may be noticed that there is occasionally a difference of one block between where the program defines the measure/beat and where the VS defines the measure/beat. It is not clear if this is a numerical precision problem in the program or in the VS. However, one block is the equivalent of 0.36ms at 44.1kHz, and the error does not depend on song position, so this difference should be imperceptible.

Audio downloading is not reliable, the data received is sometimes corrupted, so use this function with caution and be aware that sometimes pressing Play immediately after downloading can cause a burst of digital noise. These problems are probably dependent on R-DAC compression mode and VS system version (observed using VS-880 system version 3.1).

Clearing the Locate point via MIDI may not cause the VS to switch off the associated LED, and if the "disabled" button is pressed the song position will move to 23:59:59. This is not an error in the program, but a limitation of the VS MIDI capabilities (observed using VS-880 system version 3.1).

Using the Preview buttons may not work correctly. With VS-880 system version 3.1 pressing the To and then the For button causes the preview to play, but either To or For alone does not work.

Over-enthusiastic use of the scrub function can cause the VS to get slightly confused (it appears that it responds that it is not busy at the moment the mouse button is pressed but then it signals an error saying that it is busy when the scrub is enabled). This may result in the occasional beep (the program warning that the busy message was received), and occasionally the scrub may not turn on. Try to leave a couple of seconds for the VS to recover (wait for the disk activity to stop) before trying again. This phenomenon is most noticeable with MAS mode songs but, in any case, should not happen enough to be more than a minor inconvenience.