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Punch
This button when pressed drops down a list which controls an automated Drop In and Drop Out feature for the
automation system. The features are available when the mix system is ON-LINE and the SEL switch setting includes
WRITE mode. The options that may be selected on this list are Disabled, Auto and Drop In/Out.
Disabled
In this mode, the automation operates normally.
Auto
When this option is selected, an additional mode ARM is added to whatever other modes are set for the SEL
switch. Thus if the SEL switch is set to be READ-WRITE-UPDATE, then when Auto is enabled, the SEL switch will
toggle between READ-WRITE-UPDATE-ARM, where ARM is indicated by a flashing READ light.
All channels that are ARMED will drop into automation WRITE when the Play key is pressed and the system be-
comes locked (some frames after the play key is pressed).
Drop In/Out
In this mode, channels which are ARMED as above will automatically drop into and out of Write mode at predeter-
mined points. The points are defined on the AUTOREC screen, which may be accessed from the MIX page.
At the top of the AUTOREC screen, there are timecode locations for Drop In and Drop Out. These may be entered
manually, or captured by one of two methods:
Capture In: Pressing this button transfers the current timecode position into the Drop In point
Capture out: Pressing this button transfers the current timecode position into the Drop Out point
Learn: When this is enabled, the next two depressions of the RECORD button on the locator panel will
capture the In Point and the Out Point respectively, allowing capture on-the-fly.
Note that when PREVIEW mode is enabled, the RECORD button is used to drop in and out of PREVIEW mode, and is
therefore not available for this operation. The Capture In and Capture Out buttons must therefore be used instead
when using Preview mode.
If the Record button is pressed again while the transport is stopped, PREVIEW Mode is exited, and all channels in
PREVIEW-WRITE go back to READ.
If the Record button is pressed again while the transport is Playing, all channels in PREVIEW are switched to
WRITE. This can be used to punch-in on the automation.
