Salvage - Akai DD1500 User Manual

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SALVAGE

This is the opposite of CLEANUP. If you have, as described above, been dropping in over
recordings so that the audio file becomes 'detached' and unreferenced from any project
and/or library but you need to get them back, SALVAGE will make new clips out of them
and place them in a 'salvage' library.
An example of this may be that you have recorded some dialogue to PROJECT ONLY.
However, for some reason or another (maybe you forgot to save the project at the end of
the session), those recordings have become 'detached' from their original project cues.
SALVAGE would allow you to retrieve the 'lost' recordings. Of course, you will need to re-
build your project manually (if you recorded to external timecode, however, you could use
the ORIGINAL function to place the salvaged recordings at their original time positions).
Please note, however, that clips recorded in stereo will be retrieved as two mono clips and
you must manually 'stereofy' them in a project. This may be awkward but it is better than
losing everything forever!
NOTES REGARDING UNREFERENCED AUDIO
You can overcome the problem of audio being unreferenced by selecting that all new
recordings are automatically placed in a recordings library as well. In this way, you will
always have the 'raw' recordings stored safely in a library should you need to come back
to them. This is set in the RECORD pages by selecting PROJECT + LIBRARY in the
RECORD MODE field.
Unreferenced audio can be created under the following circumstances:
1. When recording, if the recording is not placed in a library at the same time (i.e.
PROJECT ONLY is selected as the RECORD MODE in the RECORD page), if you
subsequently drop in over that recording, you wipe out its cue reference in the project but
the actual audio remains on disk.
2. If you make a recording and then delete it from the project or close the project without
saving it first, if the recording is not in a library as well, you can end up with 'orphaned'
audio on disk.
3. Even if the recording is placed in a library, if the project AND the library are deleted and
the audio associated with them are not used by any other project or library, the audio
associated with them can become 'orphaned'.
If you have just performed a CLEANUP or MINIMISE, SALVAGE will not be able to
retrieve the deleted files.
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