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DISK MANAGEMENT
If the selected machine is a DD1500, pressing DAT OPTIONS (F1/F2) will give this screen display:
Here you may select which of the digital I/Os you will use for the archive/restore. For restoring, you
may choose between DIG A or B (or if optional digital I/Os are fitted, DIG C or D) and for archiving,
you may select MIX A or MIX B outputs.
In both of these screens, you may also set the tape length of the DAT you are restoring to and you
may choose between DAT 30 (30 minute tapes) to DAT 180 (3 hour tapes). The archive process
uses the stereo capacity of the DAT tape so a DAT 120 can hold 4 hours worth of material (you can
do your own maths for the other tape lengths!).
To perform the archive, insert a blank DAT tape into the DAT recorder and make sure it is rewound
to the start. Put the DAT recorder into ‘record pause’. Get the selected machine ready for archive,
‘unpause’ the DAT and then press ARCHIVE (F5/F6). The archiving process will begin.
If the tape runs out during the archive, you will be prompted to insert another.
The time taken to archive is just a little longer than real-time (i.e. one hour of material will take just
over one hour to archive). However, please note the capacity of DAT for archiving purposes. A DAT
60 can hold approximately 600Mb of data making it a bit too small to archive one side of a 1.3Gb
MO disk (650Mb - approximately 2 hours of audio at 44.1kHz) but because a DAT 90 can hold
approximately 900Mb you could easily archive one side of a 1.3Gb MO disk to such a tape. A DAT
120 could be used to archive a 1Gbyte hard disk. Larger hard disks will need to be archived over
several tapes and you may prefer to archive your projects and/or libraries individually in this case
as you can organise the order you want the items archived and decide which tapes you want them
on. Furthermore, with single files archived in this way, when you come to restore, you don’t have to
do the full restore but you can selectively restore projects you are interested in.
** IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT RESTORING SINGLE ITEMS **
YOU CANNOT RESTORE A SINGLE PROJECT/LIBRARY TO A DISK TO ADD TO
OTHER PROJECTS/LIBRARIES ON THAT DISK!!!
The restore process first erases the disk and then restores the audio onto the disk. In other
words, you cannot make a compilation of projects and libraries from different archive tapes
onto one disk because each time you restore an archive, the disk will be erased.
Please ensure that you use a blank disk (or one you are happy to erase) when restoring.
AKAI professional CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA LOST IN THIS WAY.
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