Basic Recording And Playback; About The Hard Drives; Songs - Alesis ADAT-HD24 Reference Manual

Basic Recording and Playback

About the hard drives

There are no "internal" hard drives in the ADAT-
HD24; the drive bays on the front panel house
drives up to 2000 GB each which can be removed
and/or replaced while the machine is powered up,
as long as the LED indicator for the
drive is OFF.
inexpensive, off-the-shelf IDE-format hard drives
instead of more expensive SCSI drives as its
recording medium, it's practical to use a drive as
permanent storage for audio instead of
downloading to tape or optical disc.
For this chapter, we'll assume that you're using the
drive supplied with the unit, and the caddy is
inserted in the left slot (DRIVE 1). This drive will
automatically mount when the unit is powered on.
If you see a message in the display such as
"No Disk Drive Selected", see Chapter 5,
"Working with Drives" before proceeding.
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Because the HD24 uses

Songs

Songs are the basic structures the ADAT HD24
uses to record tracks. Up to 64 Songs may be
stored on a single drive. You must select an
existing Song, or start a new Song, before you can
record or play back.
• Each Song is defined from the beginning as
having a certain number of tracks (2, 6, 8, 16,
or 24). More tracks use up more disk space.
• Each Song has its own unique locate points:
the zero point, 20 namable locate points, and
four special points (punch in, punch out, edit
in, and edit out).
• A Song can be up to 23 hours long, subject to
the limit of available disk space on a single
drive.
• Each Song can be named (up to 10 characters
long).
• Each Song is initialized at a certain sample
rate (although it may be played back at a
different one).
This is what the display looks like in Song Select
mode:
S0 1 :"Song Name "
00:05:00:00
The display above shows the song number (Song
01), the song name ("Song Name"), the song's
length (5 minutes), the write protect status of the
song (indicated by the "locked" or "unlocked"
icons), and the track "width" of the song (24
tracks), as chosen during the NEW SONG
creation process. The song number, song name,
write protect status, and song name fields are
editable, while the song length and song track
width is not.
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