Fostex R8 Owner's Manual page 21

Pressing this button to light its LED © enters AUT PLAY
mode. i.e. the R8 wJI start playback whenever a memory
pomt is located (See page 14.)
© AUT PLAY LED
When the AUT PLAY LED is lit, auto play mode is currently
set
® AUT RTN (RETURN) button
When this button has been pressed to ight its LED indicator,
the tape will automatically return to a preset "start point"
once the specified "end point" is reached (seo page 14).
Normally, the tape will stop there, but if used in combmation
with AUT PLAY, playback wi automatically begin from the
start part, thus creating an endless play loop ("shuttle play').
To cancel auto return mode amply press this button again.
® AUT TRN LED
This LED lights up to indicate auto return mode
if a mistake has been made when specifying the auto return
zone (see page 14), this LED will blink instead, showing that
auto return mode cannot be entered.
© L CATE 0 button
Press this button to automatically rewindiast forward the tape
to the "0 H 0M0 S" position on the TAPE TIME display ©
(If you have set a pre-roll, the tape w* stop at the pre-roll
position instead See page 13).
© L CATE 0 LED
This LED lights up when the L CATE 0 button is pressed
As soon as the "00HC M0 S" position is located, ths LED
goes out.
© L CATE button
Used to rewmdWast forward the tape to the currently selected
memory position. (See page 13),
© L CATE LED
Lights up when L CATE @ s pressed and the R8 «
«Mnch-
mg for the selected locate pomt. It goes
out as soon M tape
leaches to the destination
When the RCL button © is
used
in
combination with a
numerc key to recall 8 certain memory pomt. this LED starts
to blink.
© Z NE LIMIT button
Pressing this button limits tape travel within the specified
zone (see page 15). The tape wtf automatically stop as soon
as ¡t goes out ol the pre-programmed zona
To cancel the zone limit (or tape reel, zone) function, press this
button again
© Z NE LIMIT LED
Pressing the Z NE LIMIT button © causes this LED to
either light up or blmk.
It Z NE LIMIT is pressed outside of the specified zone this
LED will blink It also starts to flash when the end or the be ­
ginning of the zone is reached m zone limit mode
The Z NE LIMIT LED lights up continuously when Z NE
LIMIT ts pressed within the limited zone or as soon as the
zone is entered in any of the transport modes
© RESET button
This button resets the TAPE TIME counter to 0; all currently
□ splayed numbers are canceled and a 0 appears for all
dgits The present tape location now becomes the cue pant
for the locate zero function
When the RESET button is used, all locate function memory
points are automatically readjusted (recalculated) to cor ­
respond to the new zero location Thus memory points will
still have the same position on the tape even after pressing
RESET.
Memory Memory
point 1 point 2
0 30 soco-ds 1 m wie 1 min 30 sec
Current tape positon
Press RESET.
!
Î _______ »
I I ------------- i --------------- » —
-30 seconds 0 30 seconds 1 mnute
Memory Memory
point 1 point 2
© INPUT M N (M NIT R) button
Pressing this button allows you to monitor the input signals
ol all channels These signals are also displayed on the peak
level meter (See page 9).
© INPUT M N LED
Ths indicator lights up when the INPUT M N button is
pressed, showing that you can monitor all input signals.
When the record button REC © is pressed atone, the INPUT
M N LED starts to Wink. Then, only the input signals of
those tracks selected for recording (whose SAFE/RDY LEDs
© are flashing red and green) will be present at the cor ­
responding UTPUT jacks and visible on the peak level
meter,
© SAFE/RDY (READY) button
Preesing
SAFE/RDY allows you to select tracks for recording
w<h ihe
corresponding numeric keys ®. (For details, see
paoe
8 )
© CLR (CLEAR) button
Th*s button has two main functions. ne is to completely
dear the MEM RY dsplay © in order to input various data
such as memory points
It is also used to set all tracks selected for recording (whose
SAFE/RDY LEDs® are blinking red and green) back to safe
causing their LEDs to light green.
® RCL (RECALL) button
This button is used in combination with other keys to recal
various memory settings on the displays. (See the section on
"Advanced Features")
© RCL LED
Lights up when the recall button RCL is pressed and goes
out when the desired data is shown on the display or RCL
is pressed again.
© H LD button
Press this button to copy the data appearing on the TAPE
TIME counter © to the MEM RY display ®. for instance
when you want to use >< as a memory pant ther functions
of this button are explaned in the "Advanced Features"
section.
© ST RE button
This button is used to store various kinds of data m the inter ­
nal memory