Saving A Project With A Different Name - Akai DD1500 User Manual

15 - UTILITIES - SAVING PROJECTS

SAVING A PROJECT WITH A DIFFERENT NAME

To save a project with a different name, press the NAME key. You will receive this screen:
The name field is automatically 'opened' for naming (and the NAME key will flash). The
bottom line will prompt you to enter the name and complete the action by pressing
EXECUTE. When you press EXECUTE, you will receive the following prompt:
You should respond accordingly with EXECUTE (YES) or EXIT (NO/CANCEL). EXECUTE
will save the project and leave the screen; EXIT will just cancel the process.
If you are using an external PC keyboard, there is no need to press NAME - simply start
typing on the keyboard to enter a new name. Press RETURN to enter the name and
RETURN again to finish the naming process and save the project with the new name.
If the name has a number in it (i.e. PROJECT 1), you can save it with a new number just
by pressing any of the number keys on the numeric keypad. For example, to save
PROJECT 1 as PROJECT 2, simply press 2, EXECUTE, EXECUTE.
If the name you give the project already exists, you will receive this prompt:
You should press EXECUTE to overwrite the file or EXIT to cancel the process.
Pressing EXECUTE will save the project with the new name and you will leave this page.
You can also use the SAVE NEXT key to save the project with a unique name
automatically generated by the DD1500. The basic name is retained and a unique
number is appended to the end. Pressing SAVE NEXT will display this prompt:
Pressing EXECUTE saves the file with a unique numeric suffix and will return you to the
screen you were in previously. EXIT will cancel the process. Please note, however, that
the last four characters in the name are reserved for the auto-naming process to allow for
up to 9,999 unique names. For example, if you were to use SAVE NEXT with a file called
PROJECT 1, pressing F1/F2 - SAVE NEXT - would save the file as PROJEC
project you save would be called PROJEC
NOTE: It is not possible to save the project to another disk and the TO DISK field is shown
for information only. The DD1500 always saves the project back to the disk it was loaded
from. This is because saving a project to another disk would detach the project from the
audio. Imagine the situation where you load a project from hard disk on SCSI ID#0 and
save it to an MO on SCSI ID#1. When you remove the MO and try an play it elsewhere,
because the audio is not on that disk, the project would not play.
If you really want to have the project on another disk with its associated audio, you should
copy the project using the DISK COPY functions.
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Version 2.00 - March, 1996
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