HD24/96 Technical Reference

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Pairs of SELECT buttons with << >> displayed above them are used to select among choices or move a cursor v through a text field. The (-)DEC and (+)INC (decrement and increment) buttons scroll through choices in the active field. Sometimes they duplicate the << >> buttons, and at other times, they interact, where the << >> buttons select the character which will be changed by the DEC and INC buttons.

Pressing the SELECT button labeled “OK” in the display performs the menu operation in process. There’s usually a button labeled “Cancel” should you decide not to complete an operation. Pressing any menu button will also back out without performing the operation.

Front Panel Display and Controls

The (-)DEC and (+)INC (decrement and increment) buttons are used to modify an alphabetical or numerical parameter displayed in the LCD such as Project Name or Time Code Offset. If the red LEDs above the buttons are glowing, they’re active. Generally you can tell that a character can be edited with the (-)DEC and (+)INC buttons if it’s sitting above a pair of << >> characters. The Select buttons below the << >> characters move a v cursor along numeric field, indicating which character will be changed by pressing the (- )DEC and (+)INC buttons.

Any time you’re working in a menu, LED’s will illuminate above any button that does something within that menu. Some operations, particularly those which could be disastrous like deleting data which can’t be recovered, will offer you a Cancel option, allowing you to quit without changing anything.

Depending on the menu and how many layers it has, Exit or Cancel may bring you back to a previous menu or all the way back to the top. You can also leave the menu by pressing the button that got you there (its red LED will be on to remind you where you are), or by pressing the left < button when the ← symbol isn’t displayed. You need not completely exit one menu before moving to another, just press another menu button to jump into a new menu.

Transport Controls

Transport operating controls are described in detail in other sections of this manual, so they won’t be repeated here. This section describes the front panel displays and the setup and system function buttons located below the LCD.

Current Time Display

Current transport time is displayed in either hours:minutes:seconds:frames (SMPTE time) or musical score position in bars:beats:ticks (BBT). If you want the BBT display, it must be selected through the GUI. Display of musical score position is, by nature, based on either a known tempo (default of 120 BPM) or a tempo map derived from a standard MIDI file. Since the tools for managing tempo are only available within the GUI, we’ve left the display section there, too.

In BBT mode, the front panel display only shows tick numbers when the transport is stopped. When running, the Ticks field contains hyphens (- -). Leading spaces in the Bars field are also filled with hyphens, as: - - 73:04:45. Bar numbers greater than 999 are displayed as hyphens, however the display still counts beats (01 through 04) while the transport is running.

NOTE: Other display options of samples and milliseconds are not available on the front panel time code display. When those options have been selected from the GUI, the front panel displays SMPTE time.