User manual TASCAM VIEWNET MX

[. . . ] ViewNet MX Graphic Interface Network Modular Multitrack ViewNet MX 1. 15 OWNER'S MANUAL CR1100-84393-5 ViewNet MX Assistance and Information Technical support is available free of charge only to registered owners of a TASCAM® MX-2424. Be prepared to provide the serial number of your TASCAM® MX-2424 when calling for technical support. For future reference, please write your serial number here: You may register your TASCAM® MX-2424 via the internet. Email: mxteam@tascam. com Web: http://www. tascam. com Copyright and Trademark Software. The software may be used and/or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. [. . . ] To system will inform you that the Smart Copy operation has been successfully aborted. Click OK to clear the box and return to normal operation. ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual 49 ViewNet MX TapeMode Convert The TASCAM MX-2424 has a special recording mode known as TapeMode, which creates a single audio file per track. This mode makes efficient use of disk space and processor resources for recording and works especially well when there are a lot of punch in and out events/edits over multiple tracks. Nondestructive projects (which may have many separate sound files referenced per track) can be converted to TapeMode. This process will convert all audio in each track to a new track, writing new audio files which incorporate all sound elements on that track, into a single audio file. To TapeMode convert a project, select a project to be converted from the list of projects, then click the TapeMode convert button. Type the SCSI ID number of the target drive and click OK to begin the conversion process. Individual tracks may also be TapeMode converted by double clicking on the Project folder to open it and selecting an individual track to be converted to TapeMode. Only one track at a time can be selected. Auto Naming of TapeMode Converted Files The TapeMode conversion process will use the same name as the original file but will append _TAPE to the end of the name. Since the name of the new project will always be different than the original (the system will keep appending _TAPE each time a conversion is made), it is not possible to overwrite an existing project using TapeMode convert. 50 ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual ViewNet MX Not Enough Space Warning The TapeMode Convert, process will always write the converted tracks to disk as new audio files but will not delete the existing audio files. In some cases, there may not be enough space left on the target drive to perform the TapeMode Conversion. If this condition occurs, a warning message will alert you. If this occurs, it will be necessary to dismiss the warning then delete some existing material on the disk and perform a disk cleanup before the TapeMode Convert operation can be performed. Note that since TapeMode Convert writes data for the entire length of the track, even in places where no audio was recorded (these will be filled with digital zeros which still take up disk space) it is more likely for this situation to occur with TapeMode Convert than with Smart Copy. TapeMode Convert Progress Display Once the TapeMode conversion process begins, the system will indicate progress of the conversion operation as Tape convert % in the Disk Status display at the top of the File Utilities window. Once the conversion is complete, the Disk status will show "No backups active". ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual 51 ViewNet MX Cancel TapeMode Convert To cancel (abort) a TapeMode conversion in progress, click the Abort button next to the Disk status indicator. To inform you that the TapeMode conversion has been successfully aborted, the system will show this message: Click OK to clear the box and return to normal operation. Delete To delete a project from the disk, select the project in the project list then click on the Delete button. The following safety warning will appear: To cancel the deletion and return to normal operation, click No. It is also possible to delete single tracks from a project by first selecting a track, then clicking the Delete button. The following safety warning will appear: To cancel the deletion and return to normal operation, click No. Note that this operation will only delete the project or track (EDL) file, but will not delete any audio files referenced by the project or track. Since it is possible for more than one project per track to reference the same audio files, this safeguards files from being accidentally deleted that are referenced by some other project or track. To delete the audio files that were referenced by the deleted project or track, use the 52 ViewNet MX Version 1. 1/1. 5 Owners Manual ViewNet MX Disk Cleanup function in the 700 bank of the Machine Settings window. See Chapter 7, Machine Settings for more information. Creating a New Project To create a new Project, choose "New project. . . " from the File menu while in the Project View window. . This will bring up the dialog box to enter the name for the new project: Creating a new project will automatically unmount all of the tracks for any currently loaded project. [. . . ] All subsequent audio will be slipped earlier in time to replace the audio that was cut. 109 COPY The COPY function copies the audio from the selected track(s) between the In and Out points and places it into the clipboard. PASTE PASTE places the contents of the clipboard into the selected track(s) at the position of the In point and overwrites any existing material on those selected tracks starting at the In point and extending for the duration of the clipboard contents. PASTE does not alter the placement of any other material on the track(s). 110 CLEAR The CLEAR function removes the audio between the In and Out points, replacing it with silence. It does not affect the position of any other audio material on the track(s). The clipboard is not affected. INSERT INSERT places the contents of the clipboard into the selected track(s) at the In point, while slipping all subsequent audio on the selected tracks later in time an amount equal to the inserted audio. 111 OPEN OPEN places a segment of silence into the selected track(s) at the In point equal to the time between the In and Out points, while slipping all subsequent audio later in time an amount equal to the time between the In and Out points. LEFT CUT Left Cut removes the audio from the selected track(s) between the In mark and the Out mark and places it into the clipboard, while slipping all previous events on the track later in time by an amount equal to the length of the cut track segment. [. . . ]