MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 180)

HDR 24/96
Labeling Your Drives
Notice in the illustration showing the top level directory listing that there’s a folder named
“_Internal Drive”. Using the FTP client program, you can create a new directory on the
recorder’s drive, and you can use this directory entry as a label for that drive. It’s particularly
useful when you’re jumping between the internal and external drive – you can easily tell which
one you’ve accessed.
If you make the first character of your drive label an underscore, when the listings are sorted by
name, the label will always appear at the top of the list.
A directory entry doesn’t take up any additional disk space so you’re not losing capacity by doing
this.
Session Notes and Track Sheets
The HDR24/96 has certain files that must be present in order for it to function, but it isn’t
bothered by other files present on the disk that it doesn’t use. If you use your computer to take
session or mixdown notes or use a word processor or spreadsheet to keep track sheets, you can
FTP those files from the computer to the drive containing the project. It’s a good way of assuring
that you don’t lose the paperwork.
Making Tracks Easier to Locate
Most FTP client programs will sort the listing by name or file date, which can make it easy to find
the files you want to move over to your workstation. Get in the habit of checking the recorder’s
clock/calendar before a session to make sure it’s at least on the right date.
The HDR24/96’s file naming convention is Track Name_tk#.wav. If you’ve named your tracks
by instrument or voice, they’ll appear alphabetically as you expect. No problem, right? But
suppose you prefer to just use numbered tracks and keep track of them on paper. You’d think
that they’d appear in the FTP list as:
Track 1_tk1.wav
Track 2_tk1.wav
Track 3_tk1.wav
Track 4_tk1.wav
But they don’t. Assuming you have more than 9 tracks recorded, you’ll see Track 10 at the top of
the list, and Track 1 will be somewhere in the middle. The reason why is because of that
underscore character. To a computer,
“10”, in fact even "19", comes before “1_”.
Remember Templates? (You did review this manual while your project was backing up, didn’t
you?) Track names are stored as part of a template. If you create a template with tracks 1-9
named with a leading zero (Track 01), when you use that template, your tracks will show up in
your FTP list in the order you expect.
FTP Turbo Mode
You’ll find a button both on the front panel and the GUI to turn the FTP Turbo mode On or Off
(default is on). We all have a need for speed, but a little explanation is in order. The Nagle algorithm
is an optimization to the TCP protocol that makes the protocol stack wait until all data is
acknowledged on the receiving end before sending the next batch of data. It’s designed to increase
efficiency when sending certain types of data. In the case of file transfers from the HDR24/96,
however, it’s of little value, and its overhead can actually slow down file transfers. Turning Turbo
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