MACKIE HDR 24/96 - Manual (Page 9)

HD24/96 Technical Reference 9
Pairs of SELECT buttons with << >> displayed above them are used to select
among choices or move a cursor v through a text field. The (-)DEC and (+)INC
(decrement and increment) buttons scroll through choices in the active field. Sometimes
they duplicate the << >> buttons, and at other times, they interact, where the << >>
buttons select the character which will be changed by the DEC and INC buttons.
Pressing the SELECT button labeled “OK” in the display performs the menu operation in
process. There’s usually a button labeled “Cancel” should you decide not to complete an
operation. Pressing any menu button will also back out without performing the operation.
Front Panel Display and Controls
The (-)DEC and (+)INC (decrement and increment) buttons are used to modify an
alphabetical or numerical parameter displayed in the LCD such as Project Name or Time
Code Offset. If the red LEDs above the buttons are glowing, they’re active. Generally you
can tell that a character can be edited with the (-)DEC and (+)INC buttons if it’s sitting above
a pair of << >> characters. The Select buttons below the << >> characters move a v
cursor along numeric field, indicating which character will be changed by pressing the (-
)DEC and (+)INC buttons.
Any time you’re working in a menu, LED’s will illuminate above any button that does
something within that menu. Some operations, particularly those which could be disastrous
like deleting data which can’t be recovered, will offer you a Cancel option, allowing you to
quit without changing anything.
Depending on the menu and how many layers it has, Exit or Cancel may bring you back to a
previous menu or all the way back to the top. You can also leave the menu by pressing the
button that got you there (its red LED will be on to remind you where you are), or by
pressing the left < button when the
← symbol isn’t displayed. You need not completely exit
one menu before moving to another, just press another menu button to jump into a new
menu.
Transport Controls
Transport operating controls are described in detail in other sections of this manual, so
they won’t be repeated here. This section describes the front panel displays and the
setup and system function buttons located below the LCD.
Current Time Display
Current transport time is displayed in either hours:minutes:seconds:frames (SMPTE
time) or musical score position in bars:beats:ticks (BBT). If you want the BBT display, it
must be selected through the GUI. Display of musical score position is, by nature, based
on either a known tempo (default of 120 BPM) or a tempo map derived from a standard
MIDI file. Since the tools for managing tempo are only available within the GUI, we’ve
left the display section there, too.
In BBT mode, the front panel display only shows tick numbers when the transport is
stopped. When running, the Ticks field contains hyphens (- -). Leading spaces in the
Bars field are also filled with hyphens, as: - - 73:04:45. Bar numbers greater than 999
are displayed as hyphens, however the display still counts beats (01 through 04) while
the transport is running.
NOTE: Other display options of samples and milliseconds are not available on the front panel
time code display. When those options have been selected from the GUI, the front panel
displays SMPTE time.