2 – Advanced techniques

The operations described here are ones that you may use less often than the ones described earlier in this manual, but you will find useful in your work with the unit.

Location

This section tells you how to jump around to different parts of a song on the unit.

Direct location

The unit displays the current position at the top of the display as hours:minutes:seconds:frames. There are 30 frames in a second.

NOTE

The unit can also display the current time in bars and beats. See “Working in bars & beats” on page 35 for details.

From the “home screen” when the unit is stopped, turn the DATA dial, so that the top time display blinks.

Use the ˙ and ¥ cursor keys to move the underline cursor between the different fields of the time shown at the top of the screen. In this case, the frame field is selected.

To change the value of the underlined field, use the DATA dial. Fields “wrap round”, so going from 59 seconds to 0 seconds adds 1 to the minutes, etc. As you turn the DATA dial, the frame field blinks. If you leave the DATA dial untouched for a few seconds, or if you press YES/ENTER, the display stops blinking.

If you want to edit another field, use the cursor keys to move to that field and then use the DATA dial to get to the time you’re looking for.

Press PLAY (¥) to start playback from the position whose value has just been entered.

Location marks

The unit can store up to 999 location marks per song! Use these to mark the start of verses, vocal entry points, etc.

ªTo set a location mark

While stopped, recording or playing, press and hold the SHIFT key and press the INSERT key at the point where you want the new mark.

Marks are shown on the display on the second line of the “home” screen. The mark number you see is the one at or immediately before the current position In the example below, “M023” indicates the twenty-third mark in the selected song.

NOTE

Marks are numbered in the order you enter them, not according to their position in the song. Mark 999 can therefore appear in a song before mark 001.

Alternatively, press and hold both LOCATE LIST keys togather to show the location mark list:

Use the DATA dial or the cursor (§/) keys to choose a mark (they’re listed in the order they appear in the song) and press YES/ENTER to jump to that mark.

ªTo delete a location mark

Stop playback (or recording) and locate to the mark you want to delete (or a little after). Press and hold the SHIFT key and press the DELETE key.

NOTE

You can’t undo this.

ªTo move to a location mark

Press and release the µ or ≤ keys to move to the previous or next mark in the song. This works while playing back, while stopped or “winding”, but not while recording.

ªTo edit a location mark

If you made a mistake when you entered a location mark, you can change the time of the mark.

T I P

This is sometimes called “trimming”.

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