User manual TASCAM VIEWNET MX

[. . . ] ViewNet MX Graphic Interface Network Modular Multitrack ViewNet MX 1. 15 OWNER'S MANUAL CR1100-84393-5 ViewNet MX Assistance and Information Technical support is available free of charge only to registered owners of a TASCAM® MX-2424. Be prepared to provide the serial number of your TASCAM® MX-2424 when calling for technical support. For future reference, please write your serial number here: You may register your TASCAM® MX-2424 via the internet. Email: mxteam@tascam. com Web: http://www. tascam. com Copyright and Trademark Software. The software described in this document is supplied under license. [. . . ] To system will inform you that the Smart Copy operation has been successfully aborted. Click OK to clear the box and return to normal operation. ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual 49 ViewNet MX TapeMode Convert The TASCAM MX-2424 has a special recording mode known as TapeMode, which creates a single audio file per track. This mode makes efficient use of disk space and processor resources for recording and works especially well when there are a lot of punch in and out events/edits over multiple tracks. Nondestructive projects (which may have many separate sound files referenced per track) can be converted to TapeMode. This process will convert all audio in each track to a new track, writing new audio files which incorporate all sound elements on that track, into a single audio file. To TapeMode convert a project, select a project to be converted from the list of projects, then click the TapeMode convert button. The TapeMode convert dialog box will appear. Type the SCSI ID number of the target drive and click OK to begin the conversion process. Individual tracks may also be TapeMode converted by double clicking on the Project folder to open it and selecting an individual track to be converted to TapeMode. Only one track at a time can be selected. Auto Naming of TapeMode Converted Files The TapeMode conversion process will use the same name as the original file but will append _TAPE to the end of the name. Since the name of the new project will always be different than the original (the system will keep appending _TAPE each time a conversion is made), it is not possible to overwrite an existing project using TapeMode convert. 50 ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual ViewNet MX Not Enough Space Warning The TapeMode Convert, process will always write the converted tracks to disk as new audio files but will not delete the existing audio files. In some cases, there may not be enough space left on the target drive to perform the TapeMode Conversion. If this condition occurs, a warning message will alert you. If this occurs, it will be necessary to dismiss the warning then delete some existing material on the disk and perform a disk cleanup before the TapeMode Convert operation can be performed. Or select another target disk with more space availabe. Note that since TapeMode Convert writes data for the entire length of the track, even in places where no audio was recorded (these will be filled with digital zeros which still take up disk space) it is more likely for this situation to occur with TapeMode Convert than with Smart Copy. TapeMode Convert Progress Display Once the TapeMode conversion process begins, the system will indicate progress of the conversion operation as Tape convert % in the Disk Status display at the top of the File Utilities window. Once the conversion is complete, the Disk status will show "No backups active". ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual 51 ViewNet MX Cancel TapeMode Convert To cancel (abort) a TapeMode conversion in progress, click the Abort button next to the Disk status indicator. The system will ask if you are sure you want to abort the process. To inform you that the TapeMode conversion has been successfully aborted, the system will show this message: Click OK to clear the box and return to normal operation. Delete To delete a project from the disk, select the project in the project list then click on the Delete button. The following safety warning will appear: To cancel the deletion and return to normal operation, click No. It is also possible to delete single tracks from a project by first selecting a track, then clicking the Delete button. The following safety warning will appear: To cancel the deletion and return to normal operation, click No. Note that this operation will only delete the project or track (EDL) file, but will not delete any audio files referenced by the project or track. [. . . ] The clipboard is not affected. INSERT INSERT places the contents of the clipboard into the selected track(s) at the In point, while slipping all subsequent audio on the selected tracks later in time an amount equal to the inserted audio. 111 OPEN OPEN places a segment of silence into the selected track(s) at the In point equal to the time between the In and Out points, while slipping all subsequent audio later in time an amount equal to the time between the In and Out points. LEFT CUT Left Cut removes the audio from the selected track(s) between the In mark and the Out mark and places it into the clipboard, while slipping all previous events on the track later in time by an amount equal to the length of the cut track segment. The keyboard shortcut for this command is Ctrl+G. 112 EVENT LOCAL CUT The EVENT LOCAL CUT function removes the audio from the selected track(s) between the In and the Out points within an audio event and places it into the clipboard. Subsequent audio within that event will be slipped earlier in time to replace the audio that was cut. Subsequent events will not move. EVENT LOCAL LEFT CUT Event Local Left Cut removes the audio from the selected clip between the In and Out marks and places it on the clipboard. [. . . ]