7 − Recorder

UNDO and REDO

Unlike a tape recorder, but like most word-processors, you can undo your mistakes (the 2488MKII remembers up to the last 999 operations you perform in each song). What is more, you can undo your undo operations (redo).

The operations that you can undo are:

•The different track editing functions described in this section

•Recording operations (including track bounce)

•Auto punch operations

•Mastering operations

•Import of WAV files

In addition, all these operations are stored as part of the song on the disk; even when you turn the machine off, the history of all the previous operations is stored ready for next time.

What this means is that you can finish your work for the day, come back in the morning with fresh ears, and decide that maybe you did not want that overdub after all. With the 2488MKII, this is no problem.

Undoing and redoing actions

1Press the UNDO/REDO key and a list of the opera- tions that you have done since the start of the song is shown on screen:

The first action (START UP) at the bottom of the display is numbered 0, and all the actions after this (above this) are then numbered in order.

2Use the dial to scroll to the step to which you want to go back.

3Press YES/ENTER, to return to the point in your work just before you made your mistake.

You can also redo an action that you have undone in exactly the same way.

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As well as using the dial to scroll through the list, you can also use the UNDO /REDO key to position the cursor automatically at the event before or after the current event.

If you press the UNDO key (unshifted), the cursor moves to the event immediately before the current event.

Press YES/ENTER to undo the last event.

If you press REDO (UNDO when the SHIFT indicator is lit), the cursor moves to the event immediately following the current event (i.e. the last action that has been undone). Press the YES/ENTER key to redo this action.

NOTE

Recording, track editing, or any other operation after an undo or redo operation, clears the list of redoable actions (i.e. those actions which have been undone).

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