Regarding disk capacity
This section explains how the D16V2 manages disk capacity.
For explanatory purposes, we will assume that you have recorded a song with the following structure.
It is not necessary that the Optimize Track opera- tion explained here be used frequently. It is suffi- cient to use it only if “Disk Busy” is displayed when you are actually editing, or if you wish to recover more disk free space after you have fin- ished the song.
Intro | A | B | Solo | Break | Ending |
Example 1
Suppose that you began recording on track 1 from the beginning of the song, and recorded only the Intro, Solo, and Ending as the first pass of recording.
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In this case, sections A, B, and the Break will be recorded as silence (in reality, sound at the noise level), and will occupy disk space unnecessarily. Execute the Erase Track operation on the silent portions (A, B, and Break) of track 1. At this time, the D16V2 is only “provi- sionally” erasing the unwanted portions A, B, and Break (the
→If you wish to retain only the audio data that you are actually using (Intro, Solo, and Ending) and recover the rest of the space, execute Optimize Track on track 1 between the beginning and end of the song. This will create audio data for only the portions that are actually used, so that only the Intro, Solo, and Ending will occupy disk capacity.
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Example 2
Suppose that you began recording on track 1 from the beginning of the song, and played the Intro, A, B, and Solo as the first take. Then you recorded A’ and B’ as the second take.
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Take 1 | Intro | A | B | Solo |
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In this case, the A and B (take 1) data underlying A’ and B’ of track 1 will remain as a single piece of audio data together with the Intro and Solo, in order to allow Undo to be performed. This means that the disk capacity will be occupied by data for the Intro, A+A’, B+B’, and Solo.
→If you wish to recover disk capacity by erasing the A and B data from the first take, execute the Optimize Track command on track 1 from the beginning to the end of the song. This will create audio consisting only of the Intro of take 1, A’ of take 2, B’ of take 2, and the Solo of take 1. Sections A and B of take 1 will no longer occupy disk capacity.
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