2 – Advanced techniques

Backing up and restoring songs

When you back up a song, you’re backing up the audio tracks, as well as any editing, etc. Reverse the process (computer hard disk to FAT partition on the recording media in the unit) when you want to restore a song.

Backing up

Before you start, make sure that you’ve selected the partition containing the song you’re going to back up ( “Selecting the active partition” on page 38).

1.From the MENU screen, select and enter the DATA BACKUPaction.

2.Select the SONG BACKUPaction and press the ¥ cursor or YES/ENTER key.

The current song is shown with the Ú symbol beside it.

3.Use the DATA dial to select the song to be backed up. Press YES/ENTER.

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If you do not have enough space on the FAT partition to back up a song, you must connect the unit to a PC and manage the files from the PC.

4.You can now use the left and right cursor keys and the dial to name the song archive (up to 8 charac- ters) (see “Titling” on page 11) :

5.Press YES/ENTER to back up the song to the FAT partition. An error message appears if there is not enough space.

The song is then copied as an archive from the current partition to the FAT partition (with a .001 extension). An icon appears on the screen as the unit goes through the process.

6.Connect the unit to the computer using the USB cable, and “open” the recording media (““Open” and “Close”” on page 43).

7.Use the PC operating system to copy or move the song archive from the BACKUPdirectory of the unit

FAT partition to the PC.

Once the song archive is on the PC, you can “close” the unit.

NOTE

You should not rename the song archive on the PC as this may “confuse” the unit when you come to restore it.

The song archive on the PC can then be backed up to CD-R, etc. You can restore it later to the same unit or to a friend’s unit, allowing you to complete the recording at another location, or perform the final mix where there are better speakers available, etc.

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