Floppy Disk

•Click the on-screen Floppy Disk icon to open the floppy disk window.

•Common navigation procedures apply through folders and sub-folders.

Desktop File Menu

Use the Desktop File Menu to:

•Close windows (ESC)

•Go Back to Mixer (Ctrl+D)

•Shutdown (Ctrl+Q)

The Edit Menu within the hard disk and floppy disk windows contain the same options.

New Folder (Ctrl+N)

•This action creates a new folder in the active window.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, Duplicate Files

You guessed it! All these items do all these things to any selected file or folder.

Delete Files (DELETE)

•Highlight the file or folder and select Delete from the Edit menu.

•Drag any file or folder to the toilet icon to remove it from the disk.

•A Warning window stands between you and complete erasure of the file to verify the action.

Note: Once a file is put in the toilet (DELETED), there is no way to recover it. It’s flushed!

Mount/Refresh Drives

Any time a file doesn’t seem to have ended up where you thought you put it, or you’ve swapped floppy disks, selecting Mount/Refresh Drives will update a file directory window to display its current contents.

Select All

Selects everything that’s selectable in the open window.

Note: Anytime you save patches (EQ, compressor, gate, plug-ins, etc.) the Mackie OS defaults to the User Presets folder. Don’t fight this procedure! To guarantee that your file will be around through various OS and plug- in updates, keep your presets in the default locations.

Shutdown (Ctrl+Q)

Use the shutdown function to close the Mackie Real Time OS prior to shutting off the D8B.

The Edit Menu

The primary edit menu (top of the faders overview screen) contains some functions common to normal computer use (Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Clear) along with several very useful features unique to the D8B operating system.

The Edit Menu Contains:

•Undo (Ctrl+Z)

•Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z)

•Cut Channels (Ctrl+X)

•Copy Channel(s) (Ctrl+C)

•Paste Channels (Ctrl+V)

•Delete Events (DEL)

•Set Default Levels…

•Modify Levels (Alt+M)

•Insert Time

•Delete Time

•Insert Global Time

•Delete Global Time

•Clear Automation...

•Clear Edit History

•Copy Mix To Bus

•Play From Selection (Ctrl+Space)

•Select All (Ctrl+A)

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