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and Editing Screen

pressing the Blue Key with certain keys on the Numeric Keypad. Several of the screens are shown or described in the next five pages.

The Disk Recorder display page is always shown when the system is turned on.

Current Time

This field shows the timecode position of the current disk project.

Zoom range

Shows the Zoom number, from 1 to 16, of the horizontal scale. Higher numbers indicate finer display (less time on screen).

Takes Screen

Shows information about the clips (pieces of audio) on the currently selected track. You also see layers of clips that are “underneath” and cannot be heard.

This screen is automatically displayed whenever you enter an editing Menu. You can also force its display by typing <Blue>k.

4T Screen

Shows four tracks. You can select this screen by typing <Blue - 4>.

The features of this screen are identical to those of the 24, 16, 12, 8,

2 and 1-track displays. They are selected by typing <Blue-0>, <Blue-

2>, <Blue-1>, <Blue-5>, <Blue-8> and <Blue-7> respectively.

waveforms quickly appear.

Clip Names

Each clip is named as it is recorded, and can be renamed in the Name

Menu. These names scroll as the clip be affected by the next edit command.

Unselected Clip

Clips must be touching the cursor in order to be selected (unless a range is used by the editing mode). In either case, unselected clips are shown in blue, and moves across the screen.

Track Names

Each track can be named in the Name Menu.

These names are fixed in position on the screen.

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Explanation of Terms

Name of the current open project, if any

(see Starting a Project)

Each storage device has a number from 1 to

6 (plus a backup device which may be number 7)

You can name each device when initialising it if you wish (see Preparing Disk Drives for

Work).

Manufacturer of disk drive

Total size in Megabytes (each megabyte is approximately 10 seconds of mono audio at 44.1

kHz).

Unused disk space in Megabytes

Unused disk space in minutes and seconds of mono audio at 44.1 kHz

Name of domain, or working group of systems.

Name of network node, which may be a FAME, an MFX system, a server, or another computer.

Unit, or hard disk disk drive, attached to system.

Folder or directory on a disk drive.

4 Gbyte hard drive by Seagate, SCSI address 0

Number of items in current directory view.

SCSI ID and

Logical Unit

Number of current disk.

The timecode frame rate for the project

(see MFX Menu)

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Projects are named on the Project Menu or renamed on the Name Menu. The .MT

at the end of the name indicates a

“multitrack” file or project. Other file types you may see are .MK files (macro files) .omf files (OMF export files) WAVE files and more.

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