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TECHNICAL REFERENCE
24 TRACK/24 BIT, DIGITAL AUDIO HARD DISK RECORDER AND EDITOR
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................. 7 About This Manual/How To Use This Guide ..................................................................................... 7 CONVENTIONS............................................................................................................................. 7 Text Conventions............................
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 3 History List – Undo and Re-do..................................................................................................................... 21 FILE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................. 22 Projects and Playlists – Keeping Track of the Files .......................................................................... 22 What’s A Project?........................................
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 4 Auto Take .......................................................................................................................................... 41 Record Time Left............................................................................................................................... 41 MONITOR MODES ..................................................................................................................... 41 All Input...........................
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 5 Region Length .............................................................................................................................................. 56 Fade In and Fade Out .................................................................................................................................. 56 Envelope Active ...........................................................................................................................................
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 6 APPENDIX C – NETWORKING (FTP) SETUP ............................................................................ 84 Peer to Peer Networking.................................................................................................................... 84 Required Cables and Hardware................................................................................................................... 84 Hardware Interconnection .......................................
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 7 Foreword Welcome Aboard! Thank you for choosing the Mackie Designs HDR24/96 Hard Disk Recorder - - a benchmark in affordable professional multitrack audio recording. Occupying only 4U of rack mount space, the HDR combines the familiarity of a multitrack tape recorder with a powerful, built-in DAW-style editor. About This Manual/How To Use This Guide Your HDR24/96 instruction manual comes in three parts. The Quick Start Guide is intended to help you get your HDR24/
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 8 Hardware Overview The HDR24/96 has two user interfaces. The front panel controls are designed so that you can operate it just like any other multitrack recorder. Other than the naming of projects to assist you with session record keeping, if you’re familiar with multitrack recorders, there are very few unfamiliar operations. Using only the front panel controls, you can perform all of the normal recording, playback, backup, and file management operations. There’s
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 9 Pairs of SELECT buttons with << >> displayed above them are used to select among choices or move a cursor v through a text field. The (-)DEC and (+)INC (decrement and increment) buttons scroll through choices in the active field. Sometimes they duplicate the << >> buttons, and at other times, they interact, where the << >> buttons select the character which will be changed by the DEC and INC buttons. Pressing the SELECT button labeled “OK” in the
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 10 Status LEDs The group of LEDs to the left of the time code display indicates the state of several of the current setup options. 44.1k, 48k and 96k LEDs indicate the selected sample rate. VARI indicates that the sample rate is controlled by an external word clock source or video sync signal. 16 BIT and 24 BIT indicate the selected word length. ERROR indicates a clock or synchronization error, for example, a word clock frequency that is out of range. TC indicates tha
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 11 All the other controls have been addressed in the Quick Start Guide. Refer to that guide for their descriptions. Rear Panel The I/O slots and connectors for the remote, footswitch, keyboard, mouse, and monitor are explained in the Quick Start Guide. Here are a few more details about what you’ll find on the rear panel. BNC Termination Switch The Termination switch on the Sync card selects whether the BNC input is bridging (high impedance) or terminated (75 ? input i
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 12 The top portion of the screen contains the Tools/Meters panel and Transport Controls. The transport control buttons will be used throughout all project operations, whereas Meters are typically used during Tracking and Tools are typically used during Edit operations. This is why that portion of the screen is shared between the two functions. The Transport Control section is always visible (unless covered by a floating window) and acts as the general location displa
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 13 GUI Conventions Mouse Clicking Left click Most of the time when we say “click”, we mean left-click, that is, a single click of the left mouse button when the cursor is pointing to the text or object you want to change or move. Text menu items are selected with a single point-and-click operation. Time fields such as locate points and the time code display can be edited by clicking on a numeric field and dragging the mouse pointer up or down. Alternatively, when th
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 14 dragging the title bar allows the window to be placed elsewhere within the confines of the screen. Most windows will float and can be condensed to only the title bar with the exception of the 'window-like' Lists. In some windows, you’ll find a Zoom box on the title bar which expands the window to maximum screen size, and a resize tab (lower right hand corner) to tailor the size to your liking. Scroll bars with arrows and a list location scroll 'thumb' are found in
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 15 Shortcuts (modifiers) Shortcuts are made up of key combinations with the shift, control, and alt keys leading the pack for 'buddy' keys - the keys that need to pal along with pressing some other key in order to accomplish some operation without having to click and drag. For example, pressing the Ctrl plus the 'N' key will start a New Project operation. See the shortcuts list in the appendix. Numeric Keypad The numeric keypad is used for quick Cue point entry and lo
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 16 Time Bar At the highest resolution, the display is approximately 12 milliseconds wide, or about half a video frame. At the lowest resolution, full scale of the display is 24 hours, the maximum recording time of the HDR24/96. The left and right arrow buttons to the left of the time/marker bar expand and contract the track display in time. Use high resolution when editing samples or small regions, use lower resolution to get the big picture of your project. Tip: Trac
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 17 virtual takes, and regions. The right section, which can be opened or closed, depending on what you want to see at the moment, contains the List Panel (see page 20). Track Area Scrolling Conventions The vertical and horizontal scroll bars that frame the track area are standard GUI tools. Scroll thumb buttons (resembling console fader knobs) appear along the scroll bar whenever the track screen is expanded so that there are more tracks than are visible on the screen
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 18 will play off screen and remain out of view. The Auto Scroll button blinking indicates that a zoom level has been selected that the auto-scroll function cannot track. Screen Drag (Special Scroll) Mode Holding the D key down when the cursor is in the track area temporarily changes the cursor into a hand icon with which to drag the screen in any direction, to the extent of the minimum or maximum axis values. This time-saver can be used to pull the screen view omnidir
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 19 Take View and Active Take Number Buttons The Active Take is the one that you’ll hear in playback or to which you’ll record. Since only one virtual take can be active at a time, the number displayed in the Active Take button indicates which of the eight takes is currently active. Clicking on a track’s Active Take button pops up a list box allowing you to select the active take. The number within the button changes accordingly to match the selected take. The Take Vie
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HD24/96 Technical Reference 20 record the same tracks (name them for your band members or instruments) or are creating a new project for each song in a live session. If you work on a variety of projects, however, you’ll probably have different track names for every project, so you might as well retain the old, boring defaults and enter new names as you work. Lists Panel The List panel is opened and closed by clicking on the List View arrow at the right end of the Time/Marker bar, by selecting on
