Akai DD1500 User Manual page 72

11 - RECORDING
There are advantages and disadvantages to recording to a library. The advantage is that
ALL recordings you make are kept safe in the library so, regardless of what you do to
them in the project, you can always fall back on the original source recording.
However, in the case where you are recording multiple punch-ins and punch-outs (for
example, in dialogue recording), also placing them in a library means that all the mistakes
and out-takes are also kept which you may or may not want. Another disadvantage of
placing recordings in a library in this case is that when you subsequently come to clean up
your disk to clear some disk space, you will find that very little space is cleared because
even though the out-takes are not actually being used in any projects, they are being
referenced in the library in which they are placed and so they will not be deleted. In this
case, you will have to go through the library and specifically delete the clips you don't
need.
Please refer to the section SYSTEM - DISK MANAGEMENT for details on the CLEANUP
process.
FREE ON DISK
TO DISK
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NOTES REGARDING RECORDING TO A LIBRARY
In this field, you can see how much time you have free on
the currently selected disk. This field is not accessible and
is shown for information.
You will note that as you select more tracks for recording,
so the amount shown in the FREE ON DISK field changes.
For example, if you have 12 minutes free on disk, when
you select one track for record, that time remains
unchanged. If, however, you select two tracks for record,
that figure will halve, informing you have 6 minutes. Should
you select another track, it will show that only 4 minutes is
available.
Of course, you still have 12 minutes available in total but
this available time is divided by the number of tracks you
have selected. For example, in this case, when two tracks
are selected, you still have 12 minutes free on disk but,
because you are making two recordings you may only
record for a total of six minutes.
At the top right of the screen, you may select which disk to
record onto (assuming you have more than one drive
attached to the system). However, please note that
recording to an external drive could cause playback
problems later on.
For example, in the case where you are playing back a
project from an MO disk in Drive SCSI ID 0 but, for some
reason, you record to a hard disk on SCSI ID 1, if the MO
is removed and played back on another system, because
some audio has been recorded on the other system's hard
disk, that audio will not play. The cue will be shown bright
yellow in this case indicating that although the cue is in the
project, the audio is not on the selected disk. In this
instance, either make sure you record to the same disk
that the project is on (you can see the Project Disk number
on the VGA in the bottom left of the screen above the
OVERVIEW). If you do record to an external disk, ensure
that this disk accompanies the project disk or use the
COMPILE function.
Version 2.00 - March, 1996