Trim An Offset; Using Cue Times; Saving To Tape - Alesis AI-2 Reference Manual

4.6 TRIM AN OFFSET

To trim an offset press the DISPLAY key until the offset register is
shown in the display. Press the SET/HOLD key, the frames digits
will start to flash, press the SET/HOLD key again to select the
desired pair of time code digits, then use the DOWN and UP keys
to adjust the offset. When adjusting time code frames or subframes
the adjustment can be made dynamically with the ADAT transports
in play, so that it is possible to listen to audio as it comes into sync.
Once the correct offset is entered, press the STORE key to save
the offset and exit Set/Hold mode.

4.7 USING CUE TIMES

The AI-2 stores start time and offset information for 20 cues, this
information can be saved to and read from the ADAT tape header.
Each cue has a name, a start time and a tape time. AI-2 cues are
the same as BRC songs and the AI-2 start time is referred to as the
SMPTE start offset in BRC documentation.
To use the AI-2 cues, the cue menu option Use Times must be set
to on. When use times is selected the times for the current cue are
added to the main display rotation and can be edited using Set/Hold
mode in the normal manner.
If use times is set on the AI-2 offset and capture feature operates
as follows. When a cue is selected in the cue menu the offset is
automatically calculated from the cue times by subtracting the start
time from the tape time. Selecting a different cue causes the offset
to immediately recalculate.
Pressing capture transfers the current reader time to the start time
register and current ADAT time to the tape time register and then
calculates the offset as above. This process updates the selected
cue times, ready for saving to tape. It should be noted that the AI-2
cue start time is a high resolution time code number which contains
subframe information.
If an offset is entered or captured when use times is set to off, the
AI-2 calculates the current cue start time from the offset and zeros
out the tape start time. The AI-2 automatically updates the current
cue time, even if use times is set to off, so that offset information is
always ready to be stored to the ADAT tape header.

4.8 SAVING TO TAPE

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