Akai DD1500 User Manual page 38

5 - BASIC CONCEPTS
As a very simple example, imagine you wish chop out a cough from a piece of dialogue
on track 4. Select track 4 for editing, play (or locate or fast forward/rewind or jog) to the
start of the cough, jog over it to find an exact start point (you may also refer to the
waveform shown on the monitor for extra assistance) and press the IN key. Now jog to the
end of the cough and press the OUT key at an appropriate point. Pressing CUT will get rid
of the cough and close the gap, shifting all subsequent audio backwards accordingly;
pressing ERASE will also get rid of the offending cough but will keep the gap created, thus
preserving timing. For example:
You may, of course, edit entire cues in this way. For example, let's say you have a sound
effect you wish to copy, select the track for editing, go to the cue, press SELECT CUE
followed by COPY, EXECUTE. In this case, you have not needed to specifically mark IN
and OUT times - simply selecting the cue was sufficient. Multiple cues (across several
tracks if necessary) may also be edited this way. You may now locate to the point you
want to place the copy and press PASTE or INSERT followed by EXECUTE.
Of course, this is just a very simple example and there are many different ways the
DD1500 may be used to edit and sync audio. However, whatever it is you are trying to
achieve, you will find that all functions are consistent making operation easy and fast.
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IN OUT
IN OUT
IN OUT
BEFORE CUT
AFTER CUT
BEFORE ERASE
AFTER ERASE
Version 2.00 - March, 1996