Alesis ML-9600 New Playlist Edit Features, 2.1SEAMLESS ADJACENT TRACK TRANSITIONS, 2.2TRACK SPLIT

Chapter 2

NEW PLAYLIST EDIT

FEATURES

2.1SEAMLESS "ADJACENT TRACK" TRANSITIONS

In version 1.xx software, two adjacent tracks would always play back with a miniscule amount of silence between them, even if the start time of the second Track was equal to the end time of the first Track. This was due to the way the MasterLink handled Audio Files and Tracks in a playlist.

In Version 2.0, adjacent tracks play back with no audible gap; the Tracks will have adjacent samples at the track boundary. This, however, is only true if neither of the adjacent tracks have (real-time) Track DSP applied to them. If you have two adjacent tracks that must play seamlessly over the track boundary and one or both have Track DSP applied, use the Render DSP function (described in Section 3.4 of this addendum) to commit this DSP to the Audio File (which will then turn off the real-time DSP for the track). This feature is very important when considered with the next two features: Track Split and Track Join.

2.2TRACK SPLIT

One of the most important features added to version 2.0 software was the ability to Split and Join Tracks. This section describes a Track Split; the following section describes a Track Join.

A Track Split is simply the act of taking one Track (and its associated Audio File) and splitting it into two Tracks (and two Audio Files). Track Splits can be useful in several ways:

∙Inserting Track Markers into a long, continuous piece of audio, without interrupting the audio flow.

∙Breaking a long recording into discrete songs.

∙Isolating regions of a song for re-sequencing.

∙Isolating regions of a song for different DSP processing.

The point at which the track is split is determined by the TRACK START pointer, whose operation is described in detail in section 4.8 of the MasterLink User's Manual, and in Section

2.5of this addendum. Once the TRACK START point has been set, holding PLAYLIST EDIT and pressing NEW TRACK will cause the Split Confirmation Screen to be displayed, an example of which is shown in Figure 2.2.1.

Figure 2.2.1

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