EDITING cont.

PORTADISC MDP500 MiniDisc Recorder

3.The display will repeatedly show the following messages one after another:

3.The display will now show the following messages: one after another:

Rehearsal !

 

RH

TRK001+000

YES

EXIT

Track OK !

 

RH

TRK001+000

YES

EXIT

Rehearsal !

 

RH

TRK002

YES

EXIT

Track OK !

 

RH

TRK002

YES

EXIT

The PORTADISC will playback the audio at the dividing point repeatedly. If the audio plays from the correct point, skip to point 5 in this list.

4.It is possible to adjust the divide point in 0.06 second steps by pressing either the FF button or REW buttons repeatedly. The adjustment range is from -128 to +127 within a track.

5.Press F2 to confirm.

6.The divide process has been completed and ‘Complete!’ will be shown on the display. The PORTADISC will now start audio playback from the divided position. If the original undivided track had a track name, the track after the divide process will not have a name.

NOTE – If you want to cancel the divide function in the middle of the procedure, press either F3 or the STOP button. You can return the divided track back to its original status by using the combine function.

COMBINE FUNCTION

This function combines two adjacent tracks into one track. This is useful when you want to combine short sections of recorded tracks into one. If you wish to combine two non-adjacent tracks, you first need to move them so they are next to each other using the move function (see next column).

This example illustrates combining tracks 2 and 3:

Track number

1

2

3

4

Track content

A

B

C

D

 

 

COMBINE

 

New track content

A

B+C

D

 

1.During stop mode, press the EDIT button until ‘COMBINE?’ is displayed.

COMBINE ?

TRK002 YES EXIT

2.Press F1 to select the first track number of the two adjacent tracks that you want to combine (track 2 in this example). Then press F2 to set-up.

The PORTADISC will playback the end of the first track (TRK002) and the beginning of the second track (TRK003) repeatedly. If you are happy with the sound played back, skip to point 5 in this list.

4.If the PORTADISC is not playing back the correct point in the audio, press either F3 or STOP to cancel the function. Then, start the procedure again from point 1.

5.Press F2 to confirm.

6.The combining process has been completed and ‘Complete!’ will be shown on the display. The PORTADISC will now start playing back the audio from the beginning of the combined tracks. If the first track before the combine process had a track name, this will now become the name of the combined track. The name of the second track will be deleted.

NOTE – If you want to cancel the COMBINE function in the middle of the procedure, press either F3 or STOP. You can return the combined tracks back to their original status as separate tracks by using the divide function. If ‘Impossible!’ is shown on the display, you cannot use the combine function with the two tracks you have chosen. Due to a natural limitation of the MD system, you may not be able to use the combine function if you have used it too many times before.

MOVE FUNCTION

You can move a particular track to anywhere on the disc simply by changing the track order. The track numbers will be automatically re-aligned so that all the tracks have continuous numbers in numerical order.

This example illustrates moving track C to between tracks A and B.

Track number

1

2

3

4

Track contents

A

B

C

D

 

 

 

MOVE

 

New track contents

A

C

B

D

1.During stop mode, press the EDIT button until ‘MOVE >> ?’ is displayed.

MOVE >> ?

TRK003 YES TRK002

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