chapter 3
Basic Recording and Playback
About the hard drivesSongs
There are no "internal" hard drives in the ADAT-Songs are the basic structures the ADAT HD24
HD24; the drive bays on the front panel houseuses to record tracks. Up to 64 Songs may be
drives up to 2000 GB each which can be removedstored on a single drive. You must select an
and/or replaced while the machine is powered up,existing Song, or start a new Song, before you can
as long as the LED indicator for therecord or play back.
drive is OFF. Because the HD24 uses
inexpensive, off-the-shelf IDE-format hard drivesY Each Song is defined from the beginning as
instead of more expensive SCSI drives as itshaving a certain number of tracks (2, 6, 8, 16,
recording medium, it's practical to use a drive asor 24). More tracks use up more disk space.
permanent storage for audio instead of
downloading to tape or optical disc.Y Each Song has its own unique locate points:
the zero point, 20 namable locate points, and
For this chapter, we'll assume that you're using thefour special points (punch in, punch out, edit
drive supplied with the unit, and the caddy isin, and edit out).
inserted in the left slot (DRIVE 1). This drive will
automatically mount when the unit is powered on.Y A Song can be up to 23 hours long, subject to
the limit of available disk space on a single
drive.
If you see a message in the display such asY Each Song can be named (up to 10 characters
"No Disk Drive Selected", see Chapter 5,long).
OWorking with Drives� before proceeding.
Y Each Song is initialized at a certain sample
rate (although it may be played back at a
different one).
This is what the display looks like in Song Select
mode:
S0 1 :"Song Name "
00:05:00:00 24t
The display above shows the song number (Song
01), the song name (OSong Name�), the song's
length (5 minutes), the write protect status of the
song (indicated by the "locked" or "unlocked"
icons), and the track "width" of the song (24
tracks), as chosen during the NEW SONG
creation process. The song number, song name,
write protect status, and song name fields are
editable, while the song length and song track
width is not.
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