Akai DD1500 User Manual page 14

2 - TERMINOLOGY
DIRECTORY
LIBRARY
CLIP
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The DIRECTORY is a list of all your LIBRARIES.
A library is a file in which you can keep CLIPS (see below)
for pasting or inserting into projects. If you have used an
Apple Macintosh™, you can think of them almost like
folders where files can be conveniently kept together.
Similarly, if you have used a PC, you can liken them to
directories. For example, you may have a folder/directory
on your computer where you keep all your accounts,
another where you keep all your correspondence and
another where you keep all your games. On the DD1500,
you could have a library where all your 'raw' recordings are
kept, another where you keep all your traffic sound effects,
another where you keep all your animal sound effects,
another where you keep all your music cues, etc.. When
working, you may open a library at any time and paste or
insert clips into your project. You can also copy edits you
make in the GRID to a library.
A clip is a library item and can contain a single cue or
several cues. It can also contain several cues across
several tracks. In this way, a clip can be mono, stereo or
multi-track. Usually, a clip is created by copying a cue (or
cues) or an edit region into a library. That clip may then
subsequently be re-used elsewhere by pasting it or
inserting it from the library into the GRID where it becomes
part of the project.
Version 2.00 - March, 1996