HD24/96 Technical Reference

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This is a convenient way of managing a section of a song that you wish to use in multiple places. It differs from copying a region in that it does not use the clipboard, and it makes a permanent copy of the selected area as an audio file.

Capture Region doesn’t work across region boundaries in the Playlist but it carries fades and volume envelope changes that have been applied to it. The selected area must be from a single region. If you have an edited section, for example a composite vocal track, which you want to handle as a unit, use the Render Tracks command to create a single region from the edited section.

Capture Region is accessed from the Edit pulldown menu, or with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-R.

Importing Audio Files

In the HDR24/96, Recorded Regions are directly accessible only from within the Project in which they were originally recorded; you cannot see or directly access another Project’s Region List. To make audio from another Project available for use in the currently open Project, you must Import the audio files into the Project. When you import an audio file, the HDR24/96 places a copy of the source file in the Project’s Imported folder to keep the original recorded audio intact and safe from deletion if you delete or purge another Project. Imported audio files appear in the Regions List with their original long file names. If multiple copies of the same source file are imported, the names of the duplicates are appended with numbers (1,2, etc.).

You can import both mono and stereo interleaved WAV and AIFF files. When an AIFF file is imported it is automatically converted to a WAV file. Stereo interleaved AIFF and WAV files are converted to two mono files.

To Import audio files into the open Project (GUI operation only):

Select Import Audio Files from the File menu, or use keyboard shortcut ALT+I.

Select the drive on which the Project from which you wish to import files resides. The Location list box will display the drive letter, and the list box will display the names of the project folders on that drive. If you’re importing files from a Mackie Media PROJECT drive and have changed cartridges since booting the HDR24/96, you will need to click on the REFRESH button in order to view the directory of that disk.

Double-click on the Project name to open its folder. You will probably be importing from the AudioFiles 1 folder, so double click on that to display the list of files.

The File Types list box is a list display filter, allowing All file names, only WAV files, or only AIFF files to appear on the list. If you’re working with HDR24/96 files, they’re all WAV, so you’ll see nothing if you select AIFF.

Use the Location arrow and list box to navigate up and down the HDR24/96 directory tree, and locate the folder containing the files you wish to import. Select the source file(s) from the file list, and click Open. You can import WAV and AIFF files at the same time.

Render Tracks

The Render Tracks command is the functional equivalent of playing an edited track and re-recording it so that it becomes a single region rather than a group of sequential regions on a Playlist. Rendering includes all fades, crossfades, and volume envelope changes. Rendering can simplify handling of a project by replacing a track with a lot of complex edits with a single, contiguous file. Rendering is also useful when transferring a