Managing Your Libraries; Creating A Library; Renaming A Library; Sorting Libraries - Akai DD1500 User Manual

21 - UTILITIES - DIRECTORY

MANAGING YOUR LIBRARIES

Once you start building your libraries, you need to be able to organise them. One way to
do this would be to create empty libraries with suitable names in advance and selecting
one as appropriate at the time or copying. However, as it is not really possible to anticipate
what you may need except in the broadest of terms, you might like to create a 'dumping
ground' library called something like MISC SFX or MISC MUSIC into which recordings
and/or edits can be placed while you work and then come back to that and move the clips
from this library to a more appropriate library later on.

CREATING A LIBRARY

If you are using the DD1500 for the first time or are using a newly formatted disk, pressing
DIRECTORY displays this screen:
This shows us that there are no libraries on this disk. To create a library, simply press
F1/F2 - NEW LIBRARY. You will receive this prompt:
The EXECUTE key will flash and you should respond accordingly pressing EXECUTE to
create the library or EXIT to abort/cancel. Assuming you press EXECUTE, you will see this
screen:
A library with the default name NEWLIB
creating NEWLIB
keys again.
Once you have a few libraries created, in order to keep track of them more easily, you will
probably want to rename them to something more meaningful.

RENAMING A LIBRARY

To rename a library, first select the library you want to rename and press the NAME key
and enter a suitable name of up to ten characters using the track select keys. Press
EXECUTE to finish off entering the name and then EXECUTE again to actually rename
the library.
If you are using an external PC keyboard (recommended if your plan to do a lot of
naming), simply move the cursor to the library you wish to rename and start typing on the
keyboard. The file name will automatically go into 'name mode' and you can enter the
name. Hit RETURN to complete the name and RETURN again to rename the library.

SORTING LIBRARIES

Libraries are automatically sorted alphabetically. If a library called ANIMALS is renamed
ZEBRAS, it will be sorted from one end of the list to the other! This makes finding a library
easier.
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2, NEWLIB 3, NEWLIB
1 has been created. You can repeat the process
4, etc., by pressing the NEW LIBRARY soft
Version 2.00 - March, 1996