5–Screen Overview

When the unit is ordinarily playing or stopped, the Home screen appears on the display. Setting screens appear when making various settings, and the Record screen appears when the unit is recording or in recording standby.

Home screen

The items that appear on the Home screen are explained below. See the explanations later in this chapter for the setting screens and the Record screen.

1Unit status

This icon show the current operation status.

¥Track playing

πFile stopped in progress (paused) · File stopped at its beginning ˚ Fast forwarding

Fast rewinding

≤ Skipping to the beginning of the next track

μSkipping to the beginning of the current or previous track

: File dividing mode

2Loop/repeat setting status

The following icons appear depending on the current loop/repeat setting.

Repeat playback

Loop repeat active

3Level meter

During playback, the signal level of the playback track is indicated.

The right end of the meter lights up for a while when the signal level is too high.

4File number

The number of the file currently played back is indicated.

5Marker name

The name of the nearest marker of those which position previous of the current playback position is indicated.

6Speaker output status

The speaker output status is indicated. : Built-in speakers ON

: Built-in speakers OFF

: Headphones connected

7Battery status

When batteries are being used, a battery icon shows the amount of power remaining in bars (, , ). The batteries are almost dead and the power will soon turn off if the icon has no bars . When using the AC

adapter appears.

8Elapsed time

Shows the elapsed time (hours: minutes: seconds) of the currently playing track.

9Remaining time

Shows the remaining playback time of the current track (hours: minutes: seconds).

0Marker positions

The positions of markers are indicated.

The icons on the playback position display bar indicates the positions of markers.

qPlayback position display bar

This bar shows the current playback position. The bar darkens from the left as playback proceeds.

wCurrent function of the F1 key

This shows the function currently assigned to the F1 key. On the Home screen, pressing it skips playback to the nearest previous marker.

eStatus of loop IN and OUT points

This shows the status of the IN and OUT point settings for loop playback.

If an IN point is set, the icon appears under the display bar at the position equivalent to the playback location.

If an OUT point is set, the icon appears under the display bar at the position equivalent to the playback location.

rCurrent function of the F2 key

This shows the function currently assigned to the F2 key. On the Home screen, pressing it skips playback to the next marker.

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