HD24/96 Technical Reference

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convenient to back up a single song on a removable Mackie Media PROJECT removable cartridge, or hand off a song to your bandmate who has an HDR24/96 so he can add his tracks to it.

If you’re recording commercials, you may wish to create a new Project for each client and make each commercial a Playlist. Now you can quickly pull common audio material for that client, for instance a music bed, jingle, or sound effect, into a new Playlist and add the voiceover with this week’s used car specials to it.

If you’re recording a concert, you probably won’t have time between songs to set each one up as a new Project. If you want to divide the concert up into songs for production, you can pull those into Playlists later on.

If you’ve been working on a project and put it away for the night, the HDR24/96 wakes up with the name of the project you were working on just before shutting down. If you’re starting out with a new or freshly formatted hard disk, the default project name Startup will appear. If the HDR24/96 knows you were working on a project but can’t find it - for example, it was on an external hard drive which you’ve removed, it won’t panic (though you might!), it’ll boot up with the default Startup project name.

The name of the current Project and Playlist is shown on both on the front panel alphanumeric display and the GUI screen.

Project Management

Project Manager

The Project Manager is a GUI utility for deleting, renaming, or backing up projects. These functions can also be performed from menus opened with the front panel PROJECT and BACKUP buttons. The following project management operations can be performed from either the front panel or the GUI Project Manager.

New Project

New Project creates a new Project. The new Project inherits some if its settings (such as Sample Rate and Time Code Frame Rate) from the current Project, and others from the Project Template (such as Track Names and Snap settings). For information on which parameters are inherited from the current Project and which are inherited from the Template, see Appendix B.

To create a new Project from the front panel:

If the Active Drive (Internal or External, shown on the front panel display) is not the drive you want to create a new Project on, press Disk Util and select Set. Change the Active drive using the Select Active Drive menu, then select OK.

With the desired drive Active, press Project and then select New. If you have made changes since the last Save, the HDR24/96 asks if you want to save the currently open Project. Press No to discard the changes, press Yes to Save them. Enter the name of the new Project and select New.

To create a new Project from the GUI:

Select New Project from the File menu or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+N. If you have made changes since the last Save, the HDR24/96 asks if you want to save the currently open Project. Click No to discard the changes, click Yes to Save them. In