Front Panel Tour-Left Side - Alesis ADAT-HD24 Reference Manual

quick start guide • chapter 1
Front panel tour—left side
Meters
Each track has its own 10-segment, peak-reading meter.
When it turns yellow, you have 6 dB or less of
headroom left. At the top, the red CLIP warns you of
the onset of clipping.
If a track's meter is surrounded by a lit rectangle, that
track is currently selected for editing. See page
55.
These indicate when a track is
REC INDICATORS:
"armed" for recording (flashing) or in record (solid),
as controlled by TRACK BUTTONS 1-24.
These indicate when a track
INPUT INDICATORS:
is monitoring its input (indicator ON), as
controlled by the
AUTO INPUT, ALL INPUT
in combination with whether the track is armed.
See page 40 for details.
Use these buttons to select or
DRIVE 1, DRIVE 2:
unmount (power down) a drive. The LED beneath
it indicates the state of
the drive:
• If the LED is
off, the drive is
unmounted (or
empty) and
may be
removed.
• LED green: the
drive is
mounted.
• LED red: the
drive is currently
being accessed for
recording or
playback.
To see which drive is
selected, look at the icons
next to the HD Free Space
display. See page 49.
14
buttons
: Once the
POWER (SOFT)
"hard" POWER switch on the
rear panel is ON, push this to
turn the unit on and off.
: these are most often
TRACK BUTTONS 1-24
used to arm a track for recording, but they
are also used to select tracks for editing.
: Hold this while pressing a
TRACK EDIT
button to select a track for editing.
PEAK MODE
meter will display peaks:
continuously holding them until
PEAK CLEAR
peaks on the meter for a few
moments, or not hold them at all.
For more about the meters and
level setting, see
slot comes with an empty caddy, which you can fill
with an IDE drive of any size, from almost any
manufacturer (see your Alesis dealer for details).
Additional drive caddies are available from your
Alesis dealer, so you can instantly swap out
projects, just as conveniently as tape.
Never pull a drive caddy out unless its LED is
off! Doing so could physically damage the
drive or corrupt data on it.
For more information about drive caddies, see
.
TRACK
: This sets how the
is pressed, holding
.
Drive
caddies:
The ADAT
HD24 records
on removable,
affordable IDE
hard drives. It
comes sup-
plied with a 10-
gigabyte drive
in the DRIVE 1
slot, which
gives you 45
minutes of 24-
track recording
time (1080 total
track minutes).
The DRIVE 2
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