MACKIE HDR 24/96 - Manual (Page 23)

HD24/96 Technical Reference 23
convenient to back up a single song on a removable Mackie Media PROJECT
removable cartridge, or hand off a song to your bandmate who has an HDR24/96 so he
can add his tracks to it.
If you’re recording commercials, you may wish to create a new Project for each client
and make each commercial a Playlist. Now you can quickly pull common audio
material for that client, for instance a music bed, jingle, or sound effect, into a new
Playlist and add the voiceover with this week’s used car specials to it.
If you’re recording a concert, you probably won’t have time between songs to set each
one up as a new Project. If you want to divide the concert up into songs for production,
you can pull those into Playlists later on.
If you’ve been working on a project and put it away for the night, the HDR24/96 wakes
up with the name of the project you were working on just before shutting down. If you’re
starting out with a new or freshly formatted hard disk, the default project name Startup
will appear. If the HDR24/96 knows you were working on a project but can’t find it - for
example, it was on an external hard drive which you’ve removed, it won’t panic (though
you might!), it’ll boot up with the default Startup project name.
The name of the current Project and Playlist is shown on both on the front panel
alphanumeric display and the GUI screen.
Project Management
Project Manager
The Project Manager is a GUI utility for deleting, renaming, or backing up projects.
These functions can also be performed from menus opened with the front panel
PROJECT and BACKUP buttons. The following project management operations can be
performed from either the front panel or the GUI Project Manager.
New Project
New Project creates a new Project. The new Project inherits some if its settings (such
as Sample Rate and Time Code Frame Rate) from the current Project, and others from
the Project Template (such as Track Names and Snap settings). For information on
which parameters are inherited from the current Project and which are inherited from the
Template, see Appendix B.
To create a new Project from the front panel:
If the Active Drive (Internal or External, shown on the front panel display) is not the
drive you want to create a new Project on, press Disk Util and select Set. Change
the Active drive using the Select Active Drive menu, then select OK.
With the desired drive Active, press Project and then select New. If you have made
changes since the last Save, the HDR24/96 asks if you want to save the currently
open Project. Press No to discard the changes, press Yes to Save them. Enter the
name of the new Project and select New.
To create a new Project from the GUI:
Select New Project from the File menu or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+N . If you
have made changes since the last Save, the HDR24/96 asks if you want to save the
currently open Project. Click No to discard the changes, click Yes to Save them. In