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Projects
Each song or composition in the MixPre-6M is known as a Project. A Project
is essentially a folder on the SD card that stores all your song’s audio files
and settings. This makes it easy to organize, share, and copy your musical
creations. The project folder also includes a special ‘session’ file that enables
the MixPre-6M to control precisely where on the timeline and on which track the
project’s recorded audio files should be played back.
Conceptually, a Music project operates like a typical DAW and as such you can
visualize it in much the same way. A play cursor moves across a horizontal
timeline and audio tracks (referred to as ‘channels’ in the MixPre) are laid out
as rows. A song always starts at 00:00:00:0 (hh:mm:ss:tenths), bar 1.
You can store many projects on an SD card, which is great if you are working
on multiple songs or an album, because you can quickly switch between them.
Only one project is active at any one time.
All project audio files and settings (e.g. mix parameters, track names, project
history, etc.) are saved automatically so don’t worry about having to manually
save.
If power is lost in the middle of recording, the 6M returns to the project state
prior to the loss of power, and no previously recorded audio is lost or corrupted.
On power up, the MixPre-6M automatically loads the last open project.