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Save/Load of Song data (VF80EX)

<Details of Mark Enable setting>

The Mark Enable setting selects enabling or disabling marks registered between the Start and End points of a material which is internally mastered for creating an audio CD.

Normally, when mastering a song using the internal mastering function, the Start and End points are au- tomatically set (see the figure below). The Start point acts as "mark" at the beginning of the song.

By default, the "Mark Enable" is set to "ON" (enabled). Therefore, when recording to a CD-R/RW disc, the VF80EX recognizes the material between the Start and End points as a song (track).

Start point End point

mastered song

However, if a mastered song has any mark(s) (be- sides the Start point), set "Mark Enable" to "OFF". Note that the Start point is always recognized as "Mark00" regardless of the "Mark Enable" setting. The figure below shows the example of a mastered song which has marks.

Start point Mark 01 Mark 02 Mark 03 End point

If you record a song which has marks (as above) to a CD-R/RW disc while "Mark Enable" is set to "ON", the song is divided into tracks by marks (see the figure below).

Therefore, when creating an audio CD from a mas- tered song which has any mark(s), make sure that "Mark Enable" is set to "OFF", in order to ignore the mark(s) except the Start point (Mark00) and prevent the song from being divided into tracks.

Start point		Mark 02				End point
	Mark 01			Mark 03
	A	B	C		D
		Track 1 (CD01)		A
		Track 2 (CD02)		B
		Track 3 (CD03)		C
		Track 4 (CD04)		D

mastered song

<"Mark Enable" should also be set to "OFF" in such a case!>

Let's assume that there are two programs; program 1 and program 2. The material in program 1 has marks, while the material in program 2 does not (as shown in figure below).

If you make an audio CD from these two materials, burn a disc with "Mark Enable" set to "OFF". In result, you can make an audio CD containing two tracks (ignoring marks on program 1).

If you burn a disc with "Mark Enable" set to "ON", program 1 is divided into four tracks. In result, a CD containing five tracks (four from program 1 and one from program 2) is made.

Start point		Mark 02		End point	Start point	Mark 01	Mark 02				End point
	Mark 01		Mark 03						Mark 03
Program 1					Program 1	A	B	C			D
Start point			End point		Start point				End point
Program 2					Program 2
Track 1 (CD01)			Program 1			Track 1 (CD01)		A
Track 2 (CD02)		Program 2				Track 2 (CD02)		B
						Track 3 (CD03)		C
						Track 4 (CD04)		D
						Track 5 (CD05)				Program 2

<"Mark Enable" should be set to "ON" in such a case!>

When loading more than one track from an audio CD you made to the VF80EX hard disk, all the tracks are loaded onto a single program (see "Loading from an audio CD" on the next page for details), in which a mark is automatically set to the beginning of each track.

Start point
(=Mark 00)	Mark 01	Mark 02	Mark 03	Mark nn	End point

Track 1 Track 2

Track 3

Track n

When making an audio CD from a program which has been loaded from an audio CD and contains more than one track, set "Mark Enable" to "ON". This allows making a CD which contains the same number of tracks as the number of tracks loaded from an audio CD.

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