Cortex HDTT-5000 Operation Manual Download Page 29

USA Warranty Info

Cortex products are designed and manufactured to the highest standards in professional audio. With proper care and maintenance, your product will

provide years of reliable service. Please register your product online at http://www.cortex-pro.com

Limited Warranty:

In the USA, Cortex guarantees its products against defects in workmanship for the period of One (1) year* from the original date of purchase.

This limited warranty does

not

cover damage or failure caused by abuse, misuse, abnormal use, faulty installation, improper maintenance or any repairs

other than those provided by an authorized service center.

There are no obligations of liability on the part of GCI, Cortex, or any of its retailers for consequential damages arising out of or in connection with

the use or performance of the product or other indirect damages with respect to loss of property, revenues, profit, or costs of removal, installation, or

reinstallation. All implied warranties for GCI, including implied warranties for fitness, are limited in duration to

One (1) year

from the original date of

purchase,

unless otherwise mandated by local statutes

.

Returning Your Product for Service:

In the U.S.A., please call our helpful Customer Service Representatives at (732) 346-0061, and they will be happy to give you a

Return Merchandise

Authorization (RMA)

number and the address of an authorized service center closest to you.

After receiving an

RMA

, include a

copy

of the

original sales receipt

, with defective product and a description of the defect. Send by insured freight

to GCI Technologies Corporation, and use the address provided by your customer service representative.

Your RMA must be written on the outside

of the package, or processing will be delayed indefinitely! GCI reserves the right to refuse all packages that arrive without an RMA number.

Service covered under warranty will be paid for by GCI and returned to you. For non-warrantied products, GCI will repair your unit after payment is

received. Repair charges do not include return freight.

Your warranty is valid only in the country where the unit has been purchased. Repairs performed outside of the country of purchase will be treated as

out-of-warranty.

For warranty service,

you pay for shipping to GCI; we pay for return shipping within the Continental United States

. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,

Canada, Bahamas, and the Virgin Islands

will be charged for freight.

Please allow

2-4 weeks

for return of your product. Under normal circumstances your product will spend no more than

10

working days at GCI. We

are not responsible for shipping times.

For repairs and warranty information outside of the USA, please call the GCI affiliate closest to where you reside, listed on the specifications page of

this manual (page 28), or visit the Cortex website at http://www.cortex-pro.com.

For Your Records

Model Number of Product:

(HDC-1000, HDC-3000, HDTT-5000, DMIX-300)

Serial Number of Product:

found on rear panel of unit

Original Purchase Date:

Name of Retailer:

* Unless otherwise mandated by local statutes.

Please register your warranty online at http://www.cortex-pro.com

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Summary of Contents for HDTT-5000

Page 1: ... 12 File Browser Search Options 13 Search Options continued 14 Info Button Track Attributes 15 Play Mode Single Auto Cue 16 Options 17 Waveform display and Shuffle Mode 18 Time Display and Pitch Control 19 Jog Mode and Playlist Support 20 Cue Points and Cue Memorization 21 Device Menu 22 Hot Cue Menu 23 Seamless Loop Menu 24 DSP Effects Menu 25 Sample Menu 26 Messages Troubleshooting 27 Technical ...

Page 2: ...display the version number of the currently installed HDTT 5000 firmware To upgrade your firmware to the newest version 1 Using your PC download the firmware update to the root directory of your USB stor age device X where X is the letter of the drive We recommend Internet Explorer 2 Connect the USB storage device to the HDTT 5000 3 Power on the HDTT 5000 and select the aforementioned device 4 The...

Page 3: ... or pinched by items placed upon or against them paying particular attention to cords at plugs convenience receptacles and the point where they exit from the product OUTDOOR ANTENNA GROUNDING If an outside antenna or cable system is connected to the product be sure the antenna or cable system is grounded so as to provide some protection against voltage surges and built up static charges Article 81...

Page 4: ...lly be loud and harmful to your hearing Guard against this by setting your equipment at a safe level BEFORE your hearing adapts To establish a safe level Start your volume control at a low setting Slowly increase the sound until you can hear it comfortably and clearly and without distortion Once you have established a comfortable sound level Set the dial and leave it there Taking a minute to do th...

Page 5: ...aterial in a creative fashion All CUE POINTS are automaticly stored on your hard drive when you eject it For further creative options the HDTT 5000 provides for seamless loops for the DJ to use at any time Loop In and Out points can be edited on the fly with no limit in time length or position Up to four loops can be stored per song The HDTT 5000 offers an unparalled level of connectivity with all...

Page 6: ...25668 Due to the sometimes fragile state of PC components we insist that you make backups of the storage devices that you plan on using with the Cortex All hard drives and hard drive based portable music players are prone to failure they have moving parts inside Instead of taking a chance that your hard drive will last one more performance one more month or one more year it is a far more intellige...

Page 7: ...itable mass storage devices include but are not limited to external hard drives flash memory portable digital music players CD DVD ROM drives memory card readers and active USB hubs 4 Power Cord Connector This connector is used to connect the power cord to your HDTT 5000 Note that the power supply automaticaly switches as long as you have a compatible power cable you will be able to use your HDTT ...

Page 8: ...tion of when the unit is creating a database 6 LCD DISPLAY panel This blue backlit display is a 192x128 LCD that displays information such as track waveform folders parameter adjustments and search information Contrast is available in the Edit menu 7 PITCH ON OFF indicator and PITCH BEND buttons Pressing both PITCH BEND and PITCH BEND simultaneously tog gles whether or not the unit will respond to...

Page 9: ... can be saved and edited per song and upon loop creation the in and out points can be edited on the fly Loops are automatically saved to the MSD for later use 18 Hot Cue button This button engages the Hot Cue menu Up to 4 hot cue s are available per song Hot Cues are automatically saved to the MSD for later use 19 Samples button This button engages the samples menu Up to 4 samples can be used 20 M...

Page 10: ... ports If you wish to link 2 HDTT 5000s together select the unit you desire to be Master flip the Master Slave switch to M then power on Do the same for the unit that you wish to slave off the unit only select S on the Slave unit Connect a standard USB cable to the chain link OUT port on the MASTER and then to the chain link IN port on the SLAVE Then connect the audio outputs for both units to the...

Page 11: ...st on the storage device The speed of this procedure directly relates to how many songs are stored on the con nected device If you are using a hard drive over 20 gigs or an NTFS device we suggest that you use the Cortex Database Creation PC appli cation to perform the indexing as it will save time especially with a fast CPU The Cortex Database Creation software is available for FREE from http www ...

Page 12: ...evice 3 Connect the USB storage device to the HDTT 5000 and select it from the Device Menu during startup Make sure your HDTT 5000 is connect ed to a stable power source where there is no potential of the unit losing power during update 4 When the HDTT 5000 detects the firmware in the root directory of the USB storage device it will ask you if you want to apply the update You must answer YES If th...

Page 13: ... the Play Mode button to return to the play screen SEARCH OPTIONS The database driven searching of the HDTT 5000 provides DJs with a quick and easy way to find tracks amongst a large library by allowing the user to search by Song Artist Genre Album or String Simply choose one of these Search Options and that particular criteria will be displayed in alphabetical order Search by Songs When you Searc...

Page 14: ...the search Once you press Enter twice the unit will begin processing your search Depending on the size of your library this may take awhile After the unit is finished executing the search it will display the results that were found for each category Titles Artists Genres and Albums each of which can be accessed by using the Navigation Pad Arrow Keys or the Jog Wheel Note that the amount of results...

Page 15: ... the file is MP3 or WAV Genre Genre as per what is listed in the ID3 tag Path Filename Exactly how it exists in the directory structure of the storage device Note that most of the attributes are taken directly from the ID3 tag found in the MP3 file If the ID3 tag is missing any of these attributes they will not be displayed in the Info screens Also note that if you are using a Wav file that Wav fi...

Page 16: ... cue to the first frame of audio and then wait for you to press play At the end of that track the unit will pause Respectivly when the unit is in SINGLE OFF mode and you load a track the unit will begin playing immediately At the end of that track the unit will continue to play the next file displayed in the Search Results this gives you the ability to play all of the Search Results in the order t...

Page 17: ...ish French German Database Creation Toggles DB creation for new media on off Date Menu Allows user to set the internal Date and Time Recall Cues Loops Turns on off auto save recall of Loops and Hot Cue Restore Defaults Restores factory settings DSP effects editor This menu allows the user to control the HDTT 5000 effects see section fourteen on page 25 for more information HOT CUES editor This men...

Page 18: ...B Creates a waveform for all the songs at one time when you create a database Create on load Creates a Waveform for each individual song upon loading it Save to MSD Save the created waveforms to your Mass Storage Device Length Determines the length of of time represented by the Waveform Display the choices are 5 10 20 and 40 Seconds you can also toggle between the four choices instantly by pressin...

Page 19: ...ange For a momentary change in Pitch the Pitch Bend and Pitch Bend buttons will temporarily increase or decrease pitch relative to the amount of time either button is held down When the Jog Mode is not engaged LED remains unlit you may also use the Jog Wheel to perform a Pitch Bend Key Adjust and Master Tempo The Key Adjust and Master Tempo controls allow you to have independ ent controls of Key A...

Page 20: ...lists are accessible at any time Playlists are created in real time with in the HDTT 5000 and can be saved at th end of a gig so that your set can be recalled for future use As well if you wish to create a playlist from your computer Itunes can be used to sort music into playlists before a gig Creating a Playlist The beauty of the HDTT 5000 playlist system is that you are creating a playlist all t...

Page 21: ...h to set as a Cue Point and press Shift Cue This will permanently set save the Cue Point to the storage device This process can also be done on the fly without the unit being paused The screen will indicate when a Cue Point has been stored To advance back to the set Cue Point simply press the Cue button during playback Do not press Pause first as this will instead set a new point Once advanced to ...

Page 22: ... Eject using the Navigation keypad or Jog Wheel Press Enter to eject the device 3 If the device you have ejected is being used by both of the HDTT 5000 s if you have a MASTER SLAVE setup the MASTER unit will warn you by displaying The device is also attached to other side This simply means that if you intend to remove the device from the HDTT 5000 you must eject both sides before unplugging it 4 W...

Page 23: ...ll see a small Cue symbol on the play screen Creating editing deleting Hot Cues in this mode is the same as in the edit screen the main difference is you cannot edit in points unless you re enter the Edit mode To exit Hot Cue mode while in the play screen simply press the Play Button above the screen not the main Play Pause button Hot Cues are saved to the MSD on a per song basis and are automati ...

Page 24: ... an option To delete simply hold down Shift plus the num ber of the Loop you wish to delete Loops can also be created edited from the play screen To go into Loop mode in the Play screen press the Loop button twice You will see a small Loop symbol on the Play screen Creating editing deleting Loops in this mode is the same as in the Edit screen the main difference is you cannot edit in out points un...

Page 25: ... effected signal DSP Effects can also be created edited from the Play screen To go into DSP mode in the Play screen press the DSP button twice You will see a small DSP symbol on the play screen Creating editing deleting loops in this mode is the same as in the edit screen the main difference is you cannot edit in out points unless you re enter the Edit mode To exit DSP mode while in the play scree...

Page 26: ...wn along with the chosen sample number Samples can also be created edited from the Play screen To go into Sample mode in the play screen press the Sample button twice You will see a small Sample symbol on the play screen Creating editing deleting Samples in this mode is the same as in the edit screen the main difference is you cannot edit in out points unless you re enter the Edit mode Samples wil...

Page 27: ...fore using the eject procedure If the device is removed from the USB port without using the proper ejec tion procedure it is possible that the unit will not detect the absence of a USB storage device and will try to access the port anyway If the device is powered by an external power supply make sure that the unit is receiving power If the device has just been plugged in and it was immediately sel...

Page 28: ...USB port protector cap 003 807 R Pitch control knob GCI Technologies USA 1 732 346 0061 GCI Latin America and Carribean 1 305 592 4746 GCI United Kingdom LTD 44 0 87 087 00880 GCI France 33 1 69 79 97 72 GCI SA Spain 34 93 436 37 00 GCI GmbH Germany 49 8131 39171 0 Should your Cortex product require warranty or non warranty service in the USA or if you wish to purchase replacement parts operating ...

Page 29: ...iginal sales receipt with defective product and a description of the defect Send by insured freight to GCI Technologies Corporation and use the address provided by your customer service representative Your RMA must be written on the outside of the package or processing will be delayed indefinitely GCI reserves the right to refuse all packages that arrive without an RMA number Service covered under...

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