Fostex MR-8CD owner manual About song, Remain recordable space left on the disk

MR-8HD/CDOwner’s Manual (Read this chapter first!)

About song

To understand songs, imagine separated rooms as shown below. Each room can be regarded as a song. With the MR-8HD/CD, you can create up to 99 rooms (songs) on the hard disk (although the available space may limit the number of songs).

Song01Song05

Song02

Song03Song98

Song04Song99

Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV files, as shown below.

Track 1 Track 2 Track 8

Song01

WAV files

Each song is independent on a disk and you can record, play back or edit a song without affect- ing other songs. You can give a desired song name for managing recorded songs (see page 99).

Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV files.

The MR-8HD/CD can convert the two WAV files recorded on tracks 7 and 8 (L and R) to a stereo WAV file (see page 90).

You can burn converted stereo WAV files to an audio CD by using the internal CD-R/RW drive or a drive connected to the [USB HOST] port (see the supplementary manual "Using the CD-R/RW drive"). You can also burn converted stereo WAV files to an audio CD by exporting them to a personal computer and using the music software application on the personal computer (see page 92).

Remain (recordable space left on the disk)

"Remain" shows how much time you can further record audio data to the available space left on the internal hard disk.

As described earlier, the MR-8HD/CD stripes ABS time from 0m 00s 000ms to 399m 59s 999ms at maximum for each song. However, the remaining time (= available recording time left) de- pends on the available space on the hard disk in actual use. The remaining time is shown as in the screen example below during recording or record standby. Note that it shows the remaining time for recording onto a mono track.

Remain value

A "mono" track means a single track. Therefore, you can calculate the remaining time for record- ing to more than one track by dividing the displayed time by the number of tracks. Note that the remaining time shown on the screen is an approximate time.

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