MDR 24/96

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MDR 24/96

 

Track Edit

The TRACK/EDIT button gives you access to the set of non-destructive editing tools on the MDR24/96. The MDR24/96 allows you to cut or copy a piece of audio from any track and paste it onto any other track. You can, for example, move a vocal from the first chorus of a song and paste it over a take in the second chorus. You are also able to cut or copy from multiple tracks at once and paste them onto a different group of tracks. If you need to replace the background vocals from a chorus, you could copy from the multiple backing tracks from the first chorus and paste them in the second. One final example to whet your appetite: if you have a few different vocal takes on virtual tracks, you can easily copy them from one virtual track to another to create a perfect composite vocal take. Now that we have described the possibilities, let’s explain how to do all this.

When audio data is cut or copied from a track it is placed on a virtual clipboard where it is held until you decide to put it somewhere. Data will also be removed from the clipboard when you replace the contents with something else. This means that you can copy a guitar line from one track then, record a bass part, drink some coffee, play your project a few thousand times, and finally decide to paste the guitar line and everything will be perfect. It also means that if you are not careful, you can accidentally lose audio. You might cut a bass drum kick, but if you decide to then copy a vocal and forget to paste the bass drum first, the bass drum will be replaced by the vocal on the clipboard. Since you cut the bass drum from its original position, it will no longer be on the track and because you did not paste it, it will be gone from the project. This is why it is always a good idea to paste audio right after you cut it. But remember that editing on the MDR24/96 is non-destructive so you can cut and copy all you like knowing that your audio is safe and sound. When you perform edits, the MDR24/96 is not actually moving the audio. Instead you are just reorganizing the order in which the MDR24/96 plays the audio files. All editing commands are remembered in a 999-level history list so that every edit can be undone and redone until you are satisfied (see Undo-Redo later in this manual).

To perform an edit you must tell the MDR24/96 three things: what type of an edit you would like to perform, what tracks to perform the edit on, and the audio range that you would like the edit to cover.

To perform an edit:

1. First press the

 

 

TRACK EDIT MENU

[1]->

TRACK/EDIT

 

 

button to enter the

 

 

 

Undo-

TRACK EDIT

 

 

 

 

TRACK/

 

MENU. Press

 

EDIT

Cut Copy Paste

Redo

 

 

either the Cut or Copy select

buttons to enter a menu for placing audio data from a track onto the clipboard. Press the Paste select button to enter a menu allowing you to return clipboard data to an audio track. These buttons do not perform the operation but take you to a specific menu for that command.

2. You will now be in a menu for the specific operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chosen. You may notice that the Record Ready lights

 

 

 

 

 

 

have all gone out, even if you had some tracks in Record

 

 

 

REC

REC

REC

 

Ready mode. This is normal; the Record Ready lights

 

 

1

2

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

have many duties on the MDR24/96. In an edit menu,

 

 

 

 

they are used to choose which tracks to perform an edit to. Press the

 

 

REC (Record Ready) button on the track you wish to edit. If the red

 

 

Record Ready light for a track is lit, the edit will be performed on that

 

 

track. As mentioned previously, you can select multiple tracks

 

 

 

 

simultaneously to edit them all at once. Read on for more detailed

 

 

 

information about each edit type.