Akai RE32, Руководство оператора

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RECORDING
** NOTES REGARDING TRACK MONITORING DURING RECORDING **
On analogue multi-track tape recorders, we take seamless punch-in/out for granted. However,
this is much more difficult to achieve on hard disk recorders.
The Akai DD/DR-Series have seamless punch-in/out and to achieve this, they play previously
recorded material in the background so that, when you punch-out manually, the track is ready
to play back immediately with no gap at the punch-out. I.e.:
PUNCH-IN PUNCH-OUT
PLAY PLAY MUTED
ORIGINAL RECORDING
NEW RECORDING
This means that in most cases, the system will drop in and out of record pretty much like a
normal MTR. Usually, on most hard disk recorders, due to disk speed restrictions and SCSI
bandwidth, there is a gap of several seconds or more at the point of drop-out. This is not so on
the Akai system and it is possible to punch in and out seamlessly on mono and stereo tracks.
However, in order to achieve this, it is necessary to drop tracks because, during recording, the
track selected for recording is actually using two tracks - one for the actual recording and the
other for the muted track. The Akai DD/DR-Series machines deal with this in a way so that this
should not be much of a problem and the way this works is designed to be as transparent as
possible. When you enable a track for record, the priority for track dropping is:
FIRST TRACK(S) TO BE DROPPED - Those with no audio on them.
NEXT TRACKS TO BE DROPPED - Any tracks not selected for playback.
NEXT TRACK(S) TO BE DROPPED - Those with the least audio on them (i.e. a track with one
or two cues will be dropped before a very busy one).
In normal practice, you should find the process fairly transparent and it’s only in very busy
projects with a lot of cues across all tracks that you will hear the track dropping take place.
However, when using an MO, because these are slower than hard disks, you may notice
tracks dropping. Also, when recording four tracks, there may be gap in monitoring when you
drop out of record. The actual recording will be fine - only the monitoring at the point of punch-
out will be momentarily affected.
As mentioned, though, under normal circumstances, when recording stereo or mono cues
onto either a hard disk or MO, you should not notice this.