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bers are renumbered accordingly. See the dia- gram above for an example.

If you need to make the new track (formerly the A-B portion) into part of the preceding and/or following track, use the track combine facility (see 5.4, "Combining tracks") to turn these tracks into one track.

The A and B points are lost after this edit opera- tion, and will have to be re-entered if they are to be used again.

You can cancel the operation at any time in the usual way (SHUTTLE wheel counterclock- wise, EDIT key or STOP key).

NOTE

You cannot move the A-B portion inside itself (i.e. the insert point cannot be between the A point and the B point).

5.8 Restoring erased material

A track or section erased can be unerased. This is an “all or nothing”-type process—all tracks and sections deleted are restored, and it is not possible to restore only one of these tracks or sections.

In addition, if tracks or sections are restored, the audio data only is restored—the titles and recording dates are not restored, but a title such as RST.001 will be automatically given, showing that this is a restored track. The tracks restored in a single operation start numbering at 001, regardless of any other track titles with the same number that were on the disc before the operation.

This function can also be used in an emergency, if recording was taking place, and power to the unit was cut off part of the way through the recording process. In this event, data on the disc will be present, but will not be organized with the TOC and will hence be inaccessible. This function may allow the data to be accessed after the restore operation has been performed.

However, there are occasions on which this function does not restore such data, and the Not Execute! message will appear..

NOTES

Tracks and sections of less than 12 seconds in length may not be restored.

When restoring a track or tracks, the last restored track will have the unused portion of the disc automatically appended to it. This will result in a Disc Full error message if you try to record on the disc.

To overcome this problem, split the new long track at the end of the recorded section, and delete the new track which consists of the unused part of the disc.

When restoring recordings that have been interrupted, the time shown on the display may disappear from the display at the point at which the power was cut. This is a normal function, and you should not be concerned if this happens. You may want to use this as the position to divide the new "long" track into two before deleting the unwanted part, as described above.

If a track or section occupies a part of the disc which has been overwritten by a new record- ing, the older section cannot be restored—the data is no longer available.

This operation can take place in stop, play ready or play mode.

1Press the EDIT key, and turn the DATA dial until the display shows:

RESTORE ?

2Turn the SHUTTLE wheel clockwise to restore deleted data.

The display may show Not Execute!. Here, this means that the disc has no material recorded on it which has been erased (there may even be no material at all recorded on it).

5.9 Changing track attributes

After a track has been restored in the way described above, it may have the wrong attribute assigned to it (it may be restored as mono when it was originally stereo, or vice versa). This function allows you to restore the correct attribute.

1Use the TRACK keys or any other convenient method to select the track whose attributes you wish to change.

2After pressing the EDIT key, turn the DATA dial until the display shows:

TRK ATTR ?

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MD-801RMKII specifications

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