Creating A Song For Recording - Fostex MR-8CD Owner's Manual

Creating a song for recording

This section describes how to create a new song for recording on the hard disk, while keeping the
demo song. In the following procedure, it is assumed that the MR-8HD/CD is stopped at the
beginning (ABS ZERO) of the demo song.
1) While the recorder is stopped, press the
[MENU/ENTER] knob to enter the menu mode.
The display now shows the first page of the
menu selection screen, where "
highlighted initially.
By selecting "
<Note>:
the [ MENU/ENTER ] knob, the display returns
to the previous screen. You can also return
the display to the previous screen by press-
ing the [ REWIND ] key.
2) Rotate the [MENU/ENTER] knob to select "Song ",
and press the [MENU/ENTER] knob.
The display now shows the first page of the
song menu screen, where "
highlighted initially.
3) Rotate the [MENU/ENTER] knob to select
"Select Song ", and press the [MENU/ENTER]
knob.
The display now shows the first page of the
song selection screen. You can see the list of
the song numbers/names on the hard disk.
Currently, only the demo song is created, and
"S01: FOSTEX_FEVER" and "---:(New Song)" are
shown.
"---:(New Song)" is used to create a new song.
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4) Rotate the [MENU/ENTER] knob to select
"- - -:(New Song)", and press the [MENU/ENTER]
knob.
The display now shows the screen for entering
a new song name. The rightmost character on
the default song name is flashing (in the ex-
ample below, "2" of "Song02" starts flashing).
5) Enter the desired song name.
Use the character entry keys to enter the de-
sired character at the flashing point.
Rotate the [MENU/ENTER] knob to move the
flashing point. Use the [UNDO/REDO]/[DELETE]
key to delete the character at the flashing point.
Therefore, when the rightmost character is
flashing as in the screen example above, you
can delete all characters by pressing the [UNDO/
REDO]/[DELETE] key repeatedly. You can en-
ter up to 16 characters for a song name.
See <How to enter characters> on the next page
for entering the song name as "My_Song".
You may leave the default song
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name as it is. Also, you can edit the song
name after creating a song using the "Re-
name Song" menu item in the song menu
of the menu mode (see page 99).
Flashing