Fostex VR800 owner manual Editing Tracks, Copy & Paste and Move & Paste, Edit functions

VR800 Owner’s Manual (Editing Tracks)

Editing Tracks

The VR800 features speedy, non-linear, non-destructive editing of independent audio tracks and uses a zip, MO disk, fixed hard disk or 3.5-inch E-IDE hard disk as the recording media. The following edit functions enable you to edit tracks. Press the EDIT key on the control panel to access the edit menu.

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Copy & Paste

You can copy a specific range of data from a specific track and paste it to the same or a different track.

Move & Paste

You can move a specific range of data from a specific track and paste it to the same or a different track.

Track Exchange

You can swap data between tracks.

Monaural track data can be swapped between Real tracks 1–8 and Additional tracks 9–24. Multiple-track data can be swapped between Real tracks 1–8 and Additional tracks 9–16, and Additional tracks 17-24 by eight-track unit.

Erase

You can erase a specific range of data from a specific track or from all tracks.

Note: These edit functions are available for the currently-selected Program. You can perform Copy & Paste, Move & Paste, and Erase operations (except for Track Exchange) for data recorded in the Real tracks.

If the disk contains multiple Programs, you need to select the desired Program first to perform the track edit operation. Do not select another Program until you finish the edit operation. Otherwise, you may lose or incorrectly edit another Program.

Copy & Paste and Move & Paste

Copy & Paste and Move & Paste might seem like the same function. However, they are different, as shown in the diagram. Remember this difference when you start using these functions.

• Copy & Paste

Using the Copy & Paste function enables you to copy a specific range of data from a specific track to the clipboard as shown below (this is called [Copy Clip] operation on the VR800), then paste the data at a specific point in a specific track. The number of copy source tracks and the number of destination tracks are the same. That is, if you copy mono track data, you can paste it to a mono track. If you copy adjacent odd/even tracks (e.g., track 1 and track 2), you can paste it to adjacent odd/even tracks. The data on the clipboard remains as it is. You can paste it as many times as you wish.

CLIPBOARD IN point CLIPBOARD OUT point

Copy source track

Copy Clip

• Move & Paste

Move & Paste is almost the same as Copy & Paste.

As shown in the figure, it allows you to move a specific range of data from a specific track to the clipboard (this is called [Move Clip] on the VR800), and paste it to a destination track. The difference from Copy & Paste is that the data on the source track and the clipboard will be erased when you paste the data to the destination. That is, you cannot paste the moved data repeatedly.

CLIPBOARD IN point CLIPBOARD OUT point

Move source track

Move Clip

AUTO PUNCH IN point

Paste destination track

Paste

AUTO PUNCH IN point

Paste destination track

Paste

As shown in the drawing, points for copy or move are called the CLIPBOARD IN point for the copy (or move) starting point, and CLIPBOARD OUT point for the ending point, and the paste starting point is called the AUTO PUNCH IN point.

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