Alesis ALESIS M20 owner manual 4D Search Master

Transport Controls and Basic Recording, Chapter 8

8.4D SEARCH MASTER

This function (available only in the ID 1 master M20 in a system) accommodates situations where you want to use jog on a machine that is not the master (e.g., to find a particular point on the tape of a slave ADAT only). In this case, you don’t want the slave M20 to follow the master, but instead, to act as a “temporary locate master” so all machines (including the ID 1 master) park where the designated search master machine parks after a jog or shuttle operation. The default Search Master machine is ID1. Search Master status is not retained when the power goes off.

To set which online M20 controls the parking address for all other M20s in a system:

1.Press and hold Search for 2 seconds to enter Search Master Edit mode. The display shows “Search Master: n” (n = 1 — 8 or All).

2.While continuing to hold Search, use the numeric keypad buttons (1-8, 0) or Up/Down buttons to select a search master (default is 1). Releasing the Search button exits the edit mode without changing the Search mode status.

Selecting a machine other than ID 1 as a search master and activating Search mode (Jogging or Shuttling) causes the display to indicate momentarily “Machine n Search Master” (n = 1 -

8)or “No Search Master” when All is selected. If you pause a search, ID 1 will query the search master, update ID 1’s tape counter, and locate all connected machines to the position of the designated search master.

When search master equals All, ID 1 will not send a locate command to the slaves. All decks will remain parked after a search.

Releasing the Search button exits Search Master Edit mode, and the M20 reverts to the display prior to selecting the Search Master.

Note: ID1 must remain online, and the user must observe the time code display when actively jogging or shuttling because when a slave is the search master, the master’s tape counter display will only reflect ID1’s tape position until Search mode is paused and ID1 has located to the search master’s tape position.

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