How the Disk Recorder Works. Fairlight Prodigy

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How the Disk Recorder Works

When we record in Prodigy 2, the audio is turned into digital data and stored on hard disk, together with the other recordings we have made. It also appears as a clip on the screen, which is a “reference” to the “Master Recording” we just made

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Immediately after our fourth recording, we can see the Master

Recording on the hard disk, and its referencing clip on the track where we went into record. The clip references the Master Recording by “pointing” at the audio to be played (in this case the whole

Master Recording)

When we edit the audio, we do it by changing which part of the

Master Recording we are pointing at. We call these pointers the Head and Tail of the clip

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Here we have split the original clip so that the first part is on a different track. In fact we now have two clips which point at different parts of the Master Recording. On the first one we have also removed part of the Tail, which has moved the Tail pointer to an earlier part of the audio.

The Head and Tail pointers can be moved by editing at any time, allowing us to cut pieces off the clip, or replace parts that were previously removed.

A clip can be thought of as an instruction to the computer to play a certain Master Recording at a particular time, within the given pointers.

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