7 − Recorder

Editing the active mark

This process is sometimes referred to as trimming. This is a similar process to the jog positioning of the playback point (see “Jog positioning” on page 48), except that in this operation, the final position is stored as the position of the active mark.

You can edit the active mark when playback is stopped. You cannot edit the active mark when recording or playing back.

1Make sure that the mark you want to edit is shown on the home display and that playback is stopped.

2Press the TRIM key. The display shows TRIM and a view of the waveform of the currently selected track at the active mark.

5Use the § and keys to adjust the vertical scale (the way that the volume of the sound is shown). The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x 8, x 16

and x 32. Pressing the key increases the verti- cal scaling of the display, and pressing the key decreases the scale.

NOTE

If you cannot see any waveforms when you first enter this display, press the § key to zoom the volume so that you can see the quiet passages.

6Use the JOG/DATA dial to move the playback posi- tion as you like. You can monitor the jogged sound of the selected track through the monitoring system.

3Press the SELECT key of the track that you want to view. The display changes to the waveform of that track.

Although the active mark applies to all tracks, if you have a track selected with nothing or little recorded on it at that point, it will be impossible to see or hear anything using this function.

4Use the Ó and Á keys to zoom out and in respec- tively horizontally. That is, pressing the Á key will increase the amount of space on the screen taken by a certain amount of time, and pressing the Ó key will make the same amount of time take less space on the screen. The three zoom levels available are: x 1, x 2 at about single-frame accuracy), and x 32 at about 10-sub-frame accuracy (shown below the time display).

NOTE

You cannot move the mark to a position before the previous mark or after the next mark.

7To move past the edge of the screen, press and hold the F FWD and REW keys to play the tracks forwards or backwards at normal speed for a rough position. When you release the keys, the playback will stop.

8Press YES/ENTER to accept the new position as the active mark value (the playback position is now the new position), and return to the home screen.

9Press NO/EXIT to return to the home screen with the playback position being the point which has just been set, but the active mark value is unchanged.

Skip between marks

During playback or when the transport is stopped, press the F FWD or REW key briefly and release it to skip to the next or previous mark.

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