Kolpak DA-98 manual Automatic punch point setting, Setting punch points on the fly

AUTO MON

Section 6 – Basic operations

and edited to frame accuracy, either from a cue list or “on-the-fly” in real time.

The DA-98 provides a rehearsal mode which sim- ulates the punching process, allowing the artists to perfect the timing of the new material.

The mechanics of punching on a digital recorder appear to the operator to be the same as on an ana- log recorder.

Crossfading, however, is an important and useful function on digital recorders, to ensure continuity between original and punched material. In the case of the DA-98, this crossfade time is adjust- able from 10 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds (see 8.4, “Crossfade times”).

Themode is essential here: in both rehearsal and punch modes, the material prior to the punch point is monitored off tape. The moni- toring of armed tracks changes to source while rehearsals and punching are carried out and then changes to off-tape again after the punch-out point.

Pre-roll		Punch-in		Punch-out Post-roll
point		point		point		point
	Pre-roll time			Post-roll time
			Rehearsal learn
		TAPE	SOURCE		TAPE
			Rehearsal
		TAPE	SOURCE		TAPE
			AUTO PUNCH
		TAPE	SOURCE		TAPE
			Replay check
		TAPE	TAPE		TAPE

NOTE

Though you can perform punch recording in either the confidence mode (see 7.2, “Confidence mode”) or the ALL INPUT mode (see 7.1.1, “ALL INPUT [18] and INPUT MONITOR [29]”) , the monitoring in these modes does not make it easy to perform accurate punch operations. We suggest that you turn these modes off if you want to perform punch-ins.

6.6.1 Automatic punch point setting

Whenever recording takes place, the time when recording begins is automatically stored as a

punch-in time, and the time when recording stops is stored as a punch-out time.

This is not usually the way in which you will want to set the punch points, however. There are several alternative ways in which you can set these points, as described below:

6.6.2Setting punch points “on the fly”

This method demands sharp reflexes (but you can edit the punch points later as we show below).

1)Press the AUTO MON key [19] (the indicator will light).

2)Arm the track(s) on which you will be recording (use REC FUNCTION).

3)Press the RHSL (rehearsal) key [9].

The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-98 is in “rehearsal learn” mode.

4)Rewind the tape to before where the punch is to occur.

5)Start playing the tape (press PLAY).

You will monitor the off-tape signals.

6) At the point where the punch is to occur, press

RECORD.

The RECORD key will flash, and the REC FUNC- TION indicator of any armed tracks will light steadily.

The INPUT MONITOR indicator of any armed tracks will light and monitoring will change to input source recording for these tracks.

At any time when the rehearsal key is lit or flash- ing, this means that recording will not actually be carried out, even if the RECORD key and/or the REC FUNCTION indicators are lit.

7)At the point where you want to punch out, press PLAY.

The REC FUNCTION indicator of any armed tracks will start flashing again. The RECORD key will go out.

The INPUT MONITOR indicator of any armed tracks will go out, and monitoring of these tracks will return to off-tape status.

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