4—Setting Up and Basic Operations

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A Quick Look at What’s on the Display

1. Press HOME•DISPLAY.
2. Press PAGE until “INPUT” appears on the display above F1.
The display should look something like this:
3. If it doesn’t, hold down SHIFT and press HOME•DISPLAY repeatedly until it does.
You can also change the magnification of the playlist by holding down SHIFT and
pressing
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and/or
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You’re now looking at the Home screen. This screen is so important that an entire
chapter—Chapter 8, starting on Page 119—is devoted to it. For now, we’ll just point out
a few items of interest. They’re labeled in the illustration above.
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Time counters
—The time counters show your current location in the project. You can
move to a new location by dialing in a new time in the counters, as described on
Page 126.
•
Meters
—The meters show you important level information during recording and
playback. If TR Mix above F3 isn’t highlighted, press F3 (TR Mix). The meters are
now showing you the level of each of the project’s tracks.
• Playlist—The playlist shows the data on all of the project’s tracks. Each chunk of
data you see is called a “phrase,” and is shown as a rectangle. As the project plays,
the data moves from right to left. (We’ll explain tracks, phrases and more on
Page 86.)
• Timeline—The timeline is a visual representation of the time location shown in the
counters. It shows you where in the project you are right now. You can think of it as
the “now line” if you prefer. When data in the playlist crosses the timeline, you hear
it.

Stopping and Starting Playback

• To stop listening to the demo before it ends, press STOP.
• To resume playback from the spot at which you stopped, press PLAY.
• To play the demo again from the top, press ZERO, and then PLAY.
• You can turn the SHUTTLE ring on the outside of the TIME/VALUE dial to fast-
forward and rewind.

Navigating the Demo Using Locators

You can store up to 100 specific time locations in each project as “locators.” By recalling
a locator, you can instantly jump to its location in the project.
“What You Don’t Know” contains 10 locators, all stored in Locator Bank 0—there are
ten locator banks, numbered 0-9.
Playlist
Time counters
Meters
Timeline
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