HD24/96 Technical Reference

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On the front panel, All Input and Auto Input buttons are located on the front panel in the area above the floppy disk drive.

All Input

All Input is most often used for rehearsal and level setting. When All Input is ON, both armed and unarmed tracks monitor their Inputs, and the Auto Input setting has no effect. When All Input is OFF, the output monitoring is determined by the Auto Input function.

Auto Input

Auto Input is used for recording. Auto Input affects only tracks that are in Record Ready (i.e. “armed”). Tracks that are not armed monitor the playback of previously recorded audio. To use either Auto Input mode, the All Input mode must be turned off.

Auto Input ON

When Auto Input is ON, any time the transport is in Stop, Fast Forward, Rewind, or Record, tracks armed for recording have their inputs routed directly to their outputs for monitoring. When the transport is in Play, you will hear a playback of the recorded tracks regardless of their armed status. This mode is used primarily for tracking and overdubbing, where you want to hear material previously recorded on the track up to the punch-in point, or to quickly review a recording. It’s convenient for studio work because any time other than during actual playback, you can hear the talent in the studio.

When punching-in to an existing track with Auto Input ON, you’ll hear the old track up until you punch (actually begin recording), then you’ll hear what you’re recording until you drop out of record. If you want to listen to what you’ve just recorded, all you need to do is rewind and play. This is the handiest mode most of the time, and it’s the default mode when you power up the HDR24/96.

Auto Input OFF

When Auto Input is OFF, armed tracks always monitor their Inputs. This mode is used primarily for rehearsing an overdub to locate a good punch-in point. It’s also useful when punching in and you don’t want to hear the recording on the track leading up to the punch-in point, but prefer to hear yourself warming up instead.

Solo and Mute

Solo is normally a one track at a time function, but if you want to hear a duet or the whole rhythm section, Shift-click on the solo buttons to solo multiple tracks. You can also solo multiple tracks with a single click be selecting Solo Latch from the Options pulldown menu. If your solos appear to be misbehaving, check this option to be sure it isn’t engaged.

Mute turns off the output of selected tracks. Shift+clicking allows you to mute multiple tracks.

Mute is also accessible from the front panel by pressing the TRACK button. Select Mute from the TRACK menu. Track numbers (units digit only) will be displayed.

The << >> SELECT buttons move the cursor (underscore _) to select the track to mute or un-mute. The (-)DEC and (+)INC buttons toggle the Mute status on the track indicated by the cursor. An asterisk (*) is placed below the number of a muted track in the LCD.

NOTE: When only one track is soloed, clicking on its Solo button again unmutes all the other tracks and returns monitoring to normal. If more than one track is in Solo, clicking on