Fostex PD204 owner manual 118, Example of copying data to a computer hard disk

Chapter 6: Advanced operations

Example of copying data to a computer hard disk

In the following procedure, we assume that the cable between the PD204 and the PC is connected and the “USB to PC” menu item in the “SYS SETUP” menu of the MENU mode is set to “CONNECT”.

<Note>: While the "USB to PC" screen shows "Con- necting", the keys and dial on the PD204 are dis- abled. If you operate any key/dial, the popup mes- sage shown on the right appears for warning.

1)Make sure that the PD204 drive (or partition) icon appears on the desktop of your computer (note that the icon looks differently depending on the personal computer).

2)Start up an appropriate application such as Explorer on the computer, and copy an audio data file in the PD204 drive (or partition) to the computer hard disk.

Example of exporting data to a computer application

The procedure example below shows how to export PD204 data to Digidesign Pro Tools for Macintosh. For details about operations of Pro Tools, see the instructions supplied with Pro Tools. Note that the screen examples below may look different from the screen you actually see. Also note that the procedure below is assumed that the PD204 is connected to the PC (Macintosh) and the “USB to PC” menu in the “SYS SETUP” menu is set to “CONNECT”.

1)Start up the application software (Pro Tools, in this example).

2)Click on “Audio” on the Pro Tools screen to pop up the audio region list menu (indicated by an arrow 1).

3)Select and click on the “Import Audio” menu from the popup menu (indicated by an arrow 2).

1 Audio

Click on “Audio”.

2

Import Audio

Select and click on

“Import Audio”.

4)Select and click on “DVD drive” (or partition) on the desktop (indicated by an arrow3).

The disk volume label in the example shown on the next page shows the default tentative name.

If you edit the volume label (Reel Number) in the process of disk formatting, the edited volume label is shown.

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