2 − Names and functions of parts

Home Screen during recording

Home Screen REC/MON page

used appears green during playback and red when recording.

If there is no media in the slot, NoMedia is shown and the background is light grey. If the card has no projects or folders, a NoProject message appears. When an unformatted CF card is inserted in the CF card slot that is not being used, UNFORMAT appears. When a CF card is inserted during recording, UNMOUNT appears. When recording is stopped, the usual screen is shown.

If the total number of entries, including files and subfolders, inside a folder exceeds about 5000, recording becomes impossible and “Rec Limit” is shown. For details, see “Recording operation limitations” on page 29.

Press this part of the screen to open the CFSELECT screen (media selection screen). (See “CF card selection” on page 23.)

yREC/MON button

Touch this button to open the REC/MON page where you can make record function and input monitoring settings.

Home Screen NEXT TAKE NAME page

<Record arm button>

Home Screen PAN/LEVEL page

Home Screen INFO page

tRecording media display (button)

This shows which of the two CF card slots is being used, as well as its remaining recording time. The background of the media that is currently being

Touch this to arm a track for recording. When a track is armed, the track signal will be recorded during recording.

When a channel is armed for recording, the signal from the assigned input connector is input when the unit is stopped, recording or in recording standby.

<Input monitoring button>

Touch this to enable/disable input monitoring.

When enabled for a channel, sound input through the assigned input connector is always input.

uNEXT TAKE NAME button

Touch this button to open the “NEXTTAKENAME” page where you can set the name that will be given to takes recorded in the future.

•First half of take names

The first half of the take name can be set to either the “User Word” or the “Folder Name”. (Default setting: Folder Name)

NOTE

The first half of the take name can only be changed when the unit is stopped.

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