Fostex VF80EX Owner's Manual page 128

Save/Load of Song data (VF80EX)
The Mark Enable setting selects enabling or disabling marks registered between the Start and End points
of a material which is internally mastered for creating an audio CD.
Normally, when mastering a song using the internal
mastering function, the Start and End points are au-
tomatically set (see the figure below). The Start point
acts as "mark" at the beginning of the song.
By default, the "Mark Enable" is set to "ON" (enabled).
Therefore, when recording to a CD-R/RW disc, the
VF80EX recognizes the material between the Start and
End points as a song (track).
Start point
mastered song
However, if a mastered song has any mark(s) (be-
sides the Start point), set "Mark Enable" to "OFF".
Note that the Start point is always recognized as
"Mark00" regardless of the "Mark Enable" setting.
The figure below shows the example of a mastered
song which has marks.
Start point Mark 01 Mark 02
mastered song
<"Mark Enable" should also be set to "OFF" in such a case!>
Let's assume that there are two programs; program 1 and program 2. The material in program 1 has marks,
while the material in program 2 does not (as shown in figure below).
If you make an audio CD from these two materials, burn a disc with "Mark Enable" set to "OFF". In result, you
can make an audio CD containing two tracks (ignoring marks on program 1).
If you burn a disc with "Mark Enable" set to "ON", program 1 is divided into four tracks. In result, a CD
containing five tracks (four from program 1 and one from program 2) is made.
Start point
Mark 01
Program 1
Start point
Program 2
Track 1 (CD01)
Program 2
Track 2 (CD02)
<"Mark Enable" should be set to "ON" in such a case!>
When loading more than one track from an audio CD you made to the VF80EX hard disk, all the tracks are
loaded onto a single program (see "Loading from an audio CD" on the next page for details), in which a mark is
automatically set to the beginning of each track.
When making an audio CD from a program which has been loaded from an audio CD and contains more than
one track, set "Mark Enable" to "ON". This allows making a CD which contains the same number of tracks as the
number of tracks loaded from an audio CD.
<Details of Mark Enable setting>
End point
Mark 03 End point
End point
Mark 02 Mark 03
End point
Program 1
If you record a song which has marks (as above) to a
CD-R/RW disc while "Mark Enable" is set to "ON", the
song is divided into tracks by marks (see the figure
below).
Therefore, when creating an audio CD from a mas-
tered song which has any mark(s), make sure that
"Mark Enable" is set to "OFF", in order to ignore the
mark(s) except the Start point (Mark00) and prevent
the song from being divided into tracks.
Start point
Mark 01
A
Start point
Program 1 A
Start point
Program 2
Start point
(=Mark 00) Mark 03
Mark 01
Mark 02
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
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Mark 02 Mark 03
B C
A
Track 1 (CD01)
B
Track 2 (CD02)
C
Track 3 (CD03)
D
Track 4 (CD04)
Mark 01 Mark 02 Mark 03
B C
End point
A
Track 1 (CD01)
B
Track 2 (CD02)
C
Track 3 (CD03)
D
Track 4 (CD04)
Track 5 (CD05) Program 2
Mark nn End point
Track n
End point
D
End point
D