Making A Recording; Time Counter - Alesis ADAT-HD24 Reference Manual

basic recording and playback • chapter 3

Making A Recording

Recording on the HD24 is similar to recording on a
multitrack tape machine, if you think of each Song
being like its own small tape. The process involves
selecting a song (see previous tutorial), putting one
or more tracks into record-ready, adjusting record
levels on your mixer, setting the input monitor
mode, locating to the start time and engaging
record.

Time Counter

Before recording, you should familiarize yourself
with the transport buttons, and the TIME counter
on the top line of the display. The current position
in the Song is displayed as hours:minutes:
seconds:frames. A "frame " is 1/30
00 15
H
The counter typically uses 00:00:00:00 as the
beginning of each song. Pressing the
button will instantly locate the HD24 to the start
point of the currently selected Song.
There is no "leader" or preroll in the HD24; there is
no way to "rewind" past the Locate 0 or "sample
zero" point (although, of course, you may record as
much silence as you wish in a Song before the
music starts).
Absolute and Relative Times
For synchronization with tape-based ADATs or
MIDI sequencers, you can redefine the time stamp
used for the Locate 0 point. This doesn't change
anything except the time counter display and the
time code reference used at the SYNC IN, SYNC
OUT and (if MTC is enabled) MIDI OUT jacks.
For example, if you reset Locate 0 to 00:04:00:00, the
start of the current Song will correspond to the
four-minute time on an ADAT tape. All location
points in the current song will remain the same, but
will have four minutes added to them. See page 44
for information on how to edit the Locate 0 point.
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of a second.
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LOCATE 0
Unlike tape-based ADATs, where each song is
recorded with a different place on the tape,
the ADAT HD24 treats every Song as its
own miniature "tape" starting at zero and
ending at the current song length. If you
press PLAY on Song 01, it doesn't continue
onto Song 02 or 03, etc.
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