Bouncing Down Tracks - Akai DD1500 User Manual

11 - RECORDING
Of course, depending on your system, you may have more or less analogue and/or digital
inputs. The procedure is exactly the same, however, regardless of system configurations.
Once you have set parameters in this page, you may continue as normal - just press
PLAY and REC to record onto the selected tracks. As mentioned, however, it is not
absolutely vital to set parameters in this page when all you need to do is make a quick
recording. There is no need to name a recording if you don't want to and the default input
routing (or the routing you have saved as part of the SETTING file) will be used.

BOUNCING DOWN TRACKS

It is also possible to 'bounce down' tracks onto others. For example, you may wish to
bounce down a sub-mix of some sound effects from tracks 1-6 onto 7 and 8. This is
achieved using the ROUTE INPUTS page.
By selecting MIX A or MIX B as your input source, you may set a mix of the 'source'
channels complete with level and pan settings and record them onto a track or tracks. For
example, to record tracks 1-6 onto 7 and 8, select tracks 7 and 8 for record. In the ROUTE
INPUTS page, route MIX A to tracks 7 and 8 and set a mix as appropriate using the fader
and panpot (see the section MIXER for more details on mixing within the DD1500). When
you press PLAY and REC to record tracks 7 and 8, you will record tracks 1-6 on them and
you will hear it as it is being 'bounced'.
NOTE: When bouncing down in this way, if you open the MIXER page and adjust levels
during the bounce down, those level changes will be recorded. In this way, you could, for
example, bounce down a music track to another spare pair of tracks and 'duck' their level
under a voice over. You could then erase the original music tracks.
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