Track Arming; Track-To-Media Routing - Sound Devices 788T-SSD User Manual And Technical Information

788T/788T-SSD User Guide and Technical Information

Track Arming

The 788T will only record armed tracks. Armed tracks are tracks that are record enabled and have ac-
tive inputs routed to them. These are indicated by the blue Track Arm LEDs on the 788T front panel
and fl ashing asterisks in the Track Setup Menu while in record mode.
Track Enabling is controlled in the Track Setup Menu. At least one track has to be enabled in order
for the 788T to begin recording. Additionally, at least one active input has be assigned to a record
enabled track in order for the track to be recorded. To enable a track for recording perform the fol-
lowing steps.
1. Enter the Track Setup Menu by pressing the INPUT
2. Navigate through the Tracks using the Multi-Function Rotary Switch. The Track with the box around it
is the selected track. This is Track L in the above image.
3. The * in front of a given track indicates that the track is record enabled. Tracks that are record enabled
and have at least one active input routed to it are considered armed and will be recorded. Enable/Dis-
able select tracks by pressing in on the Multi-Function Rotary Switch. The above image indicates that
Tracks L, R, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are enabled for recording. Tracks X1 and X2 may have inputs
routed to them, but are not enabled and will not be recorded.
4. Exit the Track Setup Menu by pressing the INPUT key.
When recording higher track counts or higher sampling rates, Sound Devices recommends using solid
state drives, hard drives, and high speed UDMA CompactFlash cards.

Track-to-Media Routing

From the Track-to-Media View, tracks are individually assigned to CompactFlash, Internal Drive, or
External media. This is extremely useful for those recording to a deliverable media, but only select
tracks need to be delivered. For Example, the specifi c application may require ten-track recordings,
two-track stereo mix and eight isolated tracks. Instead of recording ten tracks to all three media, the
user can select which tracks are written to each media. The user may opt to record all ten tracks to
internal drive, eight isolated tracks to CompactFlash, and the two-track stereo mix to DVD-RAM.
The media status on the Main Display toggles between Remaining Time and Track Count when the
given media is set to receive less than the full amount of armed tracks.
By default, all tracks are assigned to all available media. Tracks will only be written to a given media
if the media is selected in the Setup Menu option REC: MEDIA SELECT, regardless of it's Track-to-
Media routing status.
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See Media Select.
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