Fostex CR500 owner manual Main features, • Supporting two recording formats

CD-R/RW MASTER RECORDER CR500 (Overview)

Main features

The CR500 is a two-track digital master recorder which uses a CD-R or CD-RW disc as a recording medium.

The CR500 supports both the BWF-P (interleave) and CD-DA formats for file for- mats of CD-R/RW discs. It also supports the UDF rev.1.02 (Universal Disk Format), CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) and ISO9660 file systems, enabling high quality recording and playback (playback only with a ISO9660 disc).

By finalizing a CD-R/RW disc recorded by the CR500, you can export files on the disc to a PC. You can also play back a finalized CD-DA disc by an audio CD player. The CR500 offers versatile playback functions including auto play and program play. By using these functions, you can also use the CR500 as a long continuous playback machine.

• Supporting two recording formats

The CR500 supports both the BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) and CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) formats as recording formats of CD-R/RW discs. You can record WAV audio files to a BWF formatted disc, and record audio tracks to a CD-DA formatted disc.

By closing a BWF disc, you can export a file to a Windows PC and divide the file into two mono-track files using the WAV Manager, a freeware application by Fostex (for details about the WAV Manager, ask your Fostex distributer or dealer). By finalizing a CD-DA disc, you can export tracks to a Windows or Mac OS computer, as well as can play it back by a CD player.

<Note>: In this manual, each audio data file recorded on a BWF formatted disc is called an "audio file", while each audio data file recorded on a CD-DA formatted disc is called an "audio track".

ACCESS

DISPLAY

MEMORY MEMORY SET

LOCATE

EXIT/NO

SHIFT

1

2

3

CONTRAST

space

ABC

DEF

EDIT TIME

PUSH

PLAY MODE

CLEAR

MENU/ENTER/YES

FILE SEL

4

5

6

+10

PROGRAM SET

DIR SEL

GHI

JKL

MNO

REPEAT

REC RDY

SKIP/CURSOR

7

8

9

0

L

R

PQRS

TUV

WXYZ

symbol

OPEN/CLOSE

REC END

ABS 0

POWER

USB

MIN

MAX

MIN

MAX

MIN

MAX

(KYBD ONLY)

PHONES

INPUT LEVEL

RECORD

STOP/HOME

PLAY

REWIND

F FWD

BWF

Exportable to

Windows machines

Exportable to both

Windows and Mac OS

machines

PC

CD-DA

Finalized CD-R disc

<Note>: An audio track recorded on a CD-DA for- matted CD-RW disc may not be played back by a normal CD player.

Computer

CD player

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