Directory - Using Libraries - Akai DD1500 User Manual

14 - EDITING

DIRECTORY - USING LIBRARIES

The DIRECTORY key allows you to access the libraries in order to import recordings into
your project from disk. For example, you may use this to access a sound effects or music
library you may have on disk.
A LIBRARY is a file in which you can keep an assortment of CLIPS. CLIPS are edits you
make in a project (complete with fade up, fade down, level adjustment, sync points, etc.),
which can be stored away in libraries for future use. In this way, you can use the DD1500's
libraries to assemble sound effects and music cue libraries as well as generally file your
recordings and edits more efficiently. Without any form of library system, when you enter
DIRECTORY, all you would see is a huge list of all recordings and edits which would be
very difficult to keep track of.
If you have used a WINDOWS™ based computer or a Macintosh™ at any time, you can
liken the DD1500's libraries to the concept of 'folders'. In this way, you can sort your
recordings and edits by category. For example, you may have an ANIMALS library where
you keep all your animal sound effects; you may have a TRAFFIC library where you keep
all your traffic SFX; an AUTOS library where you keep all your car sounds; a MUSIC library
where you keep your music cues. Furthermore, you can copy and move clips from one
library to another - for example, a sound in TRAFFIC may also be useful when you are
using the AUTOS library so you could copy it from one to the other. You may place 'raw'
recordings into libraries as well and you can import these 'raw' recordings into a project at
any time. Once in the GRID, they can be edited and these edited stored as part of the
project and/or stored in libraries for future use.
At its simplest level, a library clip can consist of one cue from one track. I.e.:
COPY FROM PROJECT
TR 1
TR 2
The next level would be to have two cues from two tracks (for example, a stereo cue
across two tracks with the left and right sides copied to a library). I.e.:
COPY FROM PROJECT
TR 1
TR 2
As a CLIP, these two cues would have just one filename (for example THUNDER 1) but,
when you come to place this clip into a project, you would be inserting two cues across
two tracks.
The next level up would be for a clip to contain several sequential cues. This would
typically be achieved by marking an edit region that spans several cues. I.e.:
COPY FROM PROJECT
TR 1
TR 2
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IN OUT
IN OUT
IN OUT
TO LIBRARY PASTE TO PROJECT
CLIP 1
TO LIBRARY PASTE TO PROJECT
CLIP 2
TO LIBRARY PASTE TO PROJECT
CLIP 3
TR 7
TR 8
TR 3
TR 4
TR 5
TR 6
Version 2.00 - March, 1996