MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 218)

HDR 24/96
through an Ethernet connection. See Appendix D for details on how to set up the computer, the
HDR24/96, and making the connection.
Due to the file naming conventions of the HDR24/96, it’s quite likely that you’ll have to deal
with several files with the same name. Separating them by project folders on your DAW
computer will help you find the files you want to work on. Familiarize yourself with the file
naming conventions described in Appendix C so you’ll be able to identify the files to transfer.
If you’re going to work on just a single region and put the processed version back on the
HDR24/96 (for example if you wan to re-tune an otherwise good vocal take), you don’t need to
render. If it’s a composite vocal or one with punches however, save yourself a lot of time and
trouble by rendering before transferring. Remember that rendered tracks aren’t stored on the
recorder’s AudioFiles folders along with the recorded regions. Look for them in the Project’s
Rendered folder.
Removable Disk Drives
There’s no quicker and easier way to move files from the recorder to the DAW than by plugging
a Mackie M-90 external hard drive into a drive bay in your computer. If you anticipate doing a
lot of file juggling, you’ll appreciate this inexpensive addition to your computer. The removable
drive bay mounts in the computer case in a standard 5-1/4” disk drive slot and has data and power
connectors identical to any standard IDE ATA-100 drive. You can purchase a genuine
HDR24/96 drive bay from the Mackie Parts Department, or buy a compatible one from a
computer parts vendor. The original Mackie part is based on the Lian Li model RH-58 Mobile
Rack, which at the time of this writing, is readily available and works just fine.
An IDE controller can support two drives and most computers these days have two IDE ports.
The HDR24/96 requires the External drive to be configured as a Master and the only drive on its
IDE port. When installing the drive bay in your computer, if possible, connect it by itself to one
of the IDE ports. If the drive bay has to share a controller port with another IDE drive, you may
have to switch jumpers on the Mackie external drive before it can be recognized by your
computer, and then change them back so that it will be recognized by the recorder when it goes
back home.
The external drive in the HDR24/96 isn’t hot-swappable. You can remove the drive and re-install
it without damage (unlocking the carrier from the bay with the key turns off the power to the
drive) but it only looks for the drive when it boots. Some computers can be set up so that drives
can be hot-swapped. It’s a bit of a timesaver, but at most you’ll have to reboot.
If you have a Mackie Media PROJECT drive for your recorder and an Orb drive installed in your
DAW, you can carry a project or two over on a removable cartridge.
You can’t copy individual files to the Media PROJECT cartridge (nor to the External hard drive
either), you can only copy an entire Project. This is pretty quick on the hard drive but might take
some time on the cartridge. If you only want to carry over one or two files, you can save time by
creating a new project, importing the files you want to massage into the new project, then back up
the new project to the PROJECT cartridge.
Once the Mackie External drive or Media PROJECT cartridge is plugged into your computer, the
audio files are right there. Grab ‘em and go.
Play it in
Connect the recorder outputs to the computer inputs, crank up your DAW program, put the DAW
in Record and the HDR24/96 in Play, and relax until the song’s over. This is a low tech solution,
but it’s often the most foolproof and can frequently be the quickest. It requires the same type of
interface on both the recorder and computer of course – if you have ADAT Lightpipe digital I/O
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