Fostex VF160EX Cueing/Digital Scrubbing, Cueing with the F FWD/REWIND key, Shuttle Cueing

Chapter 4 Recorder Functions

This chapter describes the cueing/digital scrubbing function, vari pitch control, auto functions, program management and track editing (such as copy/paste, move/paste, erase, track exchange, etc.).

Cueing/Digital Scrubbing

This section describes the cueing feature for cueing sound during the F FWD or REWIND process.

Cueing with the [F FWD]/[REWIND] key

The user can cue at 3x speed by pressing the [F FWD]/ [REWIND] key while the recorder is playing.

1.Start playback by pressing the [PLAY] key.

2.Press the [F FWD] or [REWIND] key during playback.

Either “FWD >” or “< RWD” will appear on the LCD. Then 3x speed cuing starts in the direction chosen.

3.Press the [PLAY] key to return to the original play speed (1x speed).

Shuttle Cueing

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Once the data is rewound to the beginning of a program (ABS 0), playback starts from the beginning of the program, regardless of pressing the [SHIFT] key. When reaching the end of a program (ABS:23H 59M 59S), the program stops and the [PLAY] key flashes.

Digital scrubbing with the [SCRUB] key

To enter the Digital Scrub Mode, press the [SCRUB] key while the recorder is in the STOP state to cue at 0-1x speed without any change in musical key.

Digital scrub is possible for each track. The level envelope (volume wave form) of that track appears. This feature is effective when it is necessary to conduct a pinpoint search of the beginning of a song or a point (location) between songs.

1.Press the [SCRUB] key while the recorder is in the STOP state.

The scrub mode is activated and the following display appears.

Shuttle cueing at a cue speed between 1-64x is possible by turning the [JOG] dial while the [SHIFT] key is depressed when the recorder is playing. The speed varies according to the degree the dial is turned.

1.Press the [PLAY] key to start playback.

2.Turn the [JOG/SHUTTLE] dial to the left/right while the [SHIFT] key is depressed.

*Turn the [JOG] dial to the right to shuttle cue in the FORWARD direction.

Turn the [JOG] dial to the left to shuttle cue in the REWIND direction.

*The cueing speed varies from 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x according to the degree (angle) in which the [JOG] dial is turned. The current cueing speed appears on the LCD.

2.Press the [CH STATUS/CH SEL] key of the track to scrub.

The level envelope of the selected track appears. The first time you enter the scrub mode after turning on the power, the magnification is set to x 1.

Current location Magnification

*Shuttle cueing continues as long as the [SHIFT] key is depressed, even when the [JOG] dial isn’t used.

3.Lift finger from [SHIFT] key to return to the original play speed (1x).

Tips: How to change the zoom magnification

You can select the zoom magnification by using the [F FWD] and [REWIND] keys. Each press of the [F FWD] key increases the magnification from x 01 -> x 02 -> x 04 -> x 08 -> x 16. Each press of the [REWIND] key decreases the magnifica- tion. The magnification setting is global for all tracks, and is shown at the bottom of the display. Also, when the mag- nification is not set to x 01, you can temporarily change it to x 01 while holding down the [SHIFT] key.

Note that the magnification is resets to x 01 when turn- ing off the power.

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