HD24/96 Technical Reference

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Selection Start (left), Selection End (right), Selection (center) boxes

These three boxes select whether the left boundary, right boundary, or the entire selection or region will be nudged. These are “radio buttons” - only one may be active at a time. When the Hand tool is selected, the boxes contain a waveform icon, indicating that portions of a region will be nudged. When the I-Beam tool is selected, the boxes show a divided block, indicating that a selection will be nudged.

Selecting the left box causes the left boundary of the selection or region to be nudged when the left or right arrow is clicked. Similarly, selecting the right box and clicking on an arrow will nudge the right boundary in the direction of the arrow. Selecting the center box causes the complete region or selection area to be nudged when a direction arrow is clicked, without changing its length.

Scrub Wheel

The Scrub Wheel button is the round wheel at the right-hand end of the group of editing tool buttons. Its function is similar to “rocking the reels” of a reel-to-reel tape deck. Scrubbing allows playback at slow speed, even in reverse, to locate an edit or punch-in point the old fashioned way - by ear. The Scrub function is engaged by clicking on the Scrub Wheel button to highlight it.

The S key momentarily activates the Scrub tool, turning it off when you release the key.

When Scrub is engaged, clicking and dragging the mouse pointer horizontally along the Marker Bar at the top of the track screen starts the transport playing on all 24 tracks. Dragging it to the right plays forward, dragging it to the left plays backward. The mouse acts as a throttle - the further you drag it, the faster the transport plays, up to full speed. By using a side-to-side motion with the mouse and listening to the playback, you can zero in on a point in the track that you’re trying to locate.

Scrubbing on the time bar plays all 24 tracks. If you want to scrub just a single track, with the I-Beam and Scrub tools both active, place the cursor on the track you want to hear, then click, and scrub.

Caution: Selecting the Scrub tool does not automatically de-activate the Hand tool. If you scrub on a region with the hand tool active, you won’t scrub, you’ll move the region.

Note: Even though the transport time display follows the “tape head” position when scrubbing, there is no time code output. If you’re synchronizing other devices to the HDR24/96 using time code, they won’t follow along when scrubbing.

Edit Clipboard

Cut, copy and paste editing operations are performed through the Clipboard. The HDR24/96 clipboard follows the conventions common to word processors and other computer-based editing tools. The editing clipboard buffer holds the result of a single cut or copy operation (which could be performed on multiple items if selected). The cut or copied section remains on the clipboard until replaced by the next cut/copy operation.

For example, if two region Copy operations are performed successively, only the second selection copied remains on the clipboard, with the first copied selection going into the bit bucket to make room for the second. As long as a copy remains on the clipboard, it may be pasted any number of times and to any location.

Each cut and paste operation is recorded on the History list. This edit list (which can become quite long in an active session) is retained only as long as the Project file is open.