Formatting The Hard Disk For Disk Recording - Akai S3000XL User Manual

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FORMATTING THE HARD DISK FOR DISK RECORDING

Before you can use the disk record functions, it is necessary to format your hard disk. The
S3000XL allows you to allocate a certain part of your hard disk for sound library and a
certain part for disk recordings. In this way, you may conveniently have takes and sound
library on one disk which is particularly useful if you plan to use the disk record functions to
'spin in' recordings over sequenced material because you can have takes and the
programs associated with them on one disk.
Formatting is done in the SAVE mode. Pressing SAVE and then F6 -
this screen:
Select the drive you wish to format in the
Using the
storage leaving the rest of the disk free for disk recording.
For example, say you have a 300Mb hard disk - you can allocate maybe 4 x 50Mb
partitions for library leaving 100Mb free for disk recording. This would give you 200Mb for
library and around 10 minutes of stereo recording at 44.1kHz or twice that in mono. You
can, of course, set the disk up as you like depending on whether you want more or less
sound library relative to takes.
While formatting, a message shows to say:
to indicate that the disk is being formatted.
When the formatting process is finished, the screen display will show you how much
space is available for disk recording.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EITHER COPIED THE CONTENTS ONTO FLOPPY DISK OR
HAVE MADE A DAT BACK-UP BEFORE FORMATTING A DISK THAT CONTAINS SOUND
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BE CAREFUL TO SELECT THE CORRECT DRIVE NUMBER!!!
field, you may set the number of partitions you require for sound library
FORMATTING (typical 10-30 min)........
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE
Formatting the disk will, of course, erase everything on it.
You have been warned!!
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LIBRARY.
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