Fostex VF160EX Then carry out the move & paste operation, When mixdown starts from ABS

Inserting “silence” at the beginning of a song

To insert “silence” at the beginning of a song, use ei- ther of the following methods depending on the start time.

The following operations are assumed to be done when the time base is set to “ABS”.

If you want to perform the operations with another time base (such as Bar/Beat), press the [DISP SEL] key while holding down the [SHIFT] key to change the time base in advance.

When mixdown starts from “ABS 0”

You can make a silence at the beginning of a program which is mixed down from “ABS 0” by using the “move

&paste” technique.

In the following description, we assumed that the cur- rent program is a 5-minute length program, in which the [CLIPBOARD IN] and [CLIPBOARD OUT] keys hold “00M 00S 00F 00SF” and “05M 00S 00F 00SF” respec- tively, and audio immediately starts from ABS 0 (=00M 00S 00F 00SF).

And you are now going to create a 3-second silent space at the beginning of the program.

•First, enter the “AUTO PUNCH IN” point, which is the destination for the paste operation.

1.At the beginning of the program (ABS 0), press the [HOLD/>] key.

The current time is held and “S” on the display flashes, showing that you can now edit the “second” field.

Flashing

2.While “S” flashes, enter “03” using [JOG] dial and press the [STORE] key.

“Hit Any Memory Keys!” appears on the display.

To edit another field than "second", use the

[HOLD/>] key (or [REWIND]/[F FWD] keys) to flash the

appropriate point.

3.Press the [AUTO PUNCH IN] key.

Now the [AUTO PUNCH IN] key holds “00M 03S 00F 00SF” as the auto punch-in point, and the display returns to the Normal display.

• Then carry out the move & paste operation.

4.After pressing the [EDIT] key, use the [JOG] dial to display “Move Clip?”.

“Select Track!” appears together with “Move Clip?”.

5.Press the [CH STATUS/CH SEL] keys of channels 1 and 2.

These [CH STATUS/CH SEL] keys that start flashing in red, showing that tracks 1 and 2 are selected to be moved.

6.Press the [ENTER/YES] key.

The “move” operation is immediately completed, and “Move Paste?” appears on the display.

7.Press the [ENTER/YES] key again.

The display for selecting the number of repeat times appears, in which “01” and “Sure?” flash.

In this tutorial, leave the number as the initial “01”.

8.Press the [ENTER/YES] key again while “01” flashes.

The move & paste operation is immediately completed and the program data now moved as shown below. When the move & paste operation is completed, “Completed!” appears on the display.

CLIPBOARD IN point			CLIPBOARD OUT point
ABS 0=00M 00S 00F 00SF			REC END=05M 00S 00F 00SF
		5 minutes
				REC END
	00M 03S 00F 00SF			05M 03S 00F 00SF
ABS 0
00M 00S 00F 00SF

5 minutes

As we mentioned earlier, if you make an audio CD in this condition, data after the “CLIPBOARD OUT point” will not be recorded.

Therefore, you have to set the “CLIPBOARD OUT point” to the “REC END point”.

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