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In this chapter we've compiled some points of interest about
FST/Connect. They are divided into two categories: Tips and
Tricks, with some timesaving tips and practical uses for
FST/Connect, and Useful Information, which offers details
about the way FST/Connect is integrated into the Windows
environment on your PC.
No doubt you will develop some unique procedures of your own.
If you come across something you think will help people get even
more out of their FirePort 1394 systems, please e-mail the
suggestions to us! We may include them in a later version of this
manual, or put them on our website.
Tips and Tricks
HD24 memory conservation
As you may know, when you create a song on an FST drive you
define the "track depth," or number of tracks in the song, from
the very beginning. Even if you only record on one track, the
HD24 will reserve hard drive space for each of the as yet
unrecorded tracks in the song. This goes a long way toward
preventing hard drive fragmentation, which in turn ensures that
the HD24 will be able to access your tracks with a minimal amount
of delay, no matter how far apart your locate points may be.
But occasionally you may discover that you reserved too many
tracks; for instance, you may decide that a given song sounds better
with fewer tracks than you originally anticipated. Instead of 24
tracks, you've only used 16 or less. So are you stuck? Is there
nothing you can do to reclaim the unused memory?
The old standby method was to transfer the tracks to another
Adat-compatible device through the optical ports in real time, and
then back the same way. Besides being somewhat time-intensive,
this process also requires a couple of extra Adats!
The FirePort 1394 will be a great help in scenarios like this. To
solve this problem even more quickly and accurately, export all the
song's tracks into your PC, create a new 16-track song at the same
sample rate, and send the tracks back to the FST drive. After you
delete the original song, this will have freed up the hard drive space
being occupied by 8 tracks of audio for the entire length of the
song. For a 48k track of 4 minutes in duration, that's a lot of
memory freed up!
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