Alesis BRC Reference Manual page 60

• If there is only one ADAT connected, Continuous mode will not
be selectable from the previous page (Offset mode).
• If there are two ADATs connected, then X will be 2, and YY will
not be displayed. This indicates that only the second unit will be
offset.
• If there are three ADATs connected, then X will be 3, and YY will
not be displayed. This indicates that only the third unit will be
offset.
• If there are 16 ADATs connected, X and YY will be 9-16,
respectively, since ADATs 1–8 will be recording first.
• If there are an odd number of ADATs connected (7, for example),
then there will be one less in the second set of ADATs than in the
first (X=5, Y=7; this assigns ADATs 1–4 to the first group and
ADATs 5–7 to the second group).
6. Press the EDIT button to exit edit mode;
7. Press the TAPE OFFSET button to turn it on (its LED will be lit).
Example:
To use this feature with eight ADATs and a 30 minute offset:
1. Set the Continuous mode offset to 30 minutes;
The display should look like this:
Offset Tape 5-8
by 3 0 minutes
2. Place tracks 1 through 64 in record ready using the TRACK
SELECT buttons;
3. Place 8 tapes into the ADATs, and rewind them to the beginning.
If the tapes are not formatted, enable the FORMAT function.
Tracks must be in record ready before enabling format;
4. Enter record by pressing RECORD and PLAY. The first four
ADATs will start recording from their current location, and the
second four ADATs will locate to the beginning of their tapes (if
they are not already there);
5. When the first four ADATs reach 27:45, the second four ADATs
will start recording (if Format is on, they will start formatting).
Since there are 15 seconds of leader and two minutes of data at the
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