Alesis ALESIS M20 owner manual Transport Controls and Basic Recording, About the Tape Counter

CHAPTER 8

TRANSPORT CONTROLS AND BASIC RECORDING

The transport buttons include Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Play, Record, and Eject. The transport movement may also be controlled by the jog/shuttle wheel, or various built-in automatic features.

8.1ABOUT THE TAPE COUNTER

The tape counter, located on the right side of the right display, shows the current tape location. The Tape Counter button selects the counter mode (the 10-digit location counter is above the Tape Counter switch). Pushing the switch cycles through three different modes.

∙ABS Time references the current tape location to the proprietary sample-accurate ADAT time code formatted into each ADAT tape.

∙Relative references the current tape location to the relative zero location. The relative zero point is set by entering an absolute time value into the Locate 00 address. That value is subtracted from the absolute time code value when the tape counter display is in Relative mode.

∙SMPTE references the current tape location to SMPTE (i.e., ABS + any SMPTE offset, as described in section 11.6a).

Note: this is NOT necessarily the SMPTE time code printed onto the T/C track. That code is displayed in the Reference counter on the left side of the display.

8.2STOP

Press to stop the tape transport (Stop button lights steadily). The tape stops moving, but remains threaded around the head drum.

The tape will unthread (i.e., disengage from the head drum) automatically if no transport movement occurs during a user-definable timeout period (default = 4 minutes; see section 13.9). Stop will flash. To re-thread the tape, press Stop again (it lights steadily). Note that entering play from the unthreaded position takes slightly longer than when the tape is already threaded, due to the time required to wrap the tape around the head drum.

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