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2.10 RADAR II PROJECTS OPERATION
In many ways, RADAR II behaves exactly like a reel-to-reel tape machine.
However, RADAR II provides many important features that are only possible
because of the random-access nature of hard disk digital recording.
RADAR II supports up to 99 different projects, each of which is a playlist with its
own material, locate points, Sampling Rate, Sync Offset, and Start Time.
With multiple projects, you may create, say, a Project 01 that starts at SMPTE time
code of one hour; you may then create a new Project 02 , that has completely
different recorded material, but also starts at SMPTE time code of one hour!
Another advantage of multiple projects is when editing - you may edit Project 02 as
needed, without changing Project 01 in any way; you may record new material into
a project without overwriting material in any other project. (The only limitation is
the amount of free recording time, which is shared among all projects.)
A third advantage of RADAR II’s project architecture is that you may copy material
between projects using the editing clipboard, and you may also copy entire projects!
Thus, you may record raw material into
Project 01 , then copy ’01 to ’03. You can
then edit Project 03 as desired - but the original Project 01 is always available in its
un-edited form!
Please Note:
Because projects are simply “playlists”, copying material between projects does
not reduce the amount of free recording time.
2.10.1 Default Project
When RADAR II boots on a “clean” system, it automatically creates and loads an
empty project 01... you may use this project as desired (or all the time - since you
are not forced to use the multiple-projects feature if you don’t need to!)
Please Note:
RADAR II remembers the last active project number on shutdown, and re-
loads it on power-up.
2.10.2 Creating a New Project
When you want to create a new project, select CREATE PROJECT from the
Project menu. You may then enter a name for the new project - RADAR II assigns
the first available Project number, which appears on the 2-digit LED of the RE-8.
Projects are saved immediately to disk after creation.
2.10.3 Switching Between Projects
To change the current Project, select “GOTO PROJECT” from the Project menu.
The system will display the current on the system; use the UP and DOWN
buttons, the cursor arrows, or the jog wheel to display the desired project, then press
ENTER to select it.
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