MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 27)

HDR 24/96
and the infamous About Box, which tells you what version of software you're using and who
the heck is responsible for much of this wunderbox.
GUI Time Display and Controls
The following section introduces the different areas of the GUI screen that deal with time.
References are made to certain items with which you may not yet be familiar such as Regions and
Virtual Takes. Don’t worry; they’ll be described further on.
Project Information Display
The following project information is displayed in the upper right corner of the main screen:
Drive: [Internal/External] Project Name Version Time
Current Time Display
The Current Time display shows the time of the current transport position in SMPTE time
(Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames) or in musical score position called BBT (Bars or measures,
Beats and Ticks). The displayed time will always be the position of the Current Time line.
Since the transport position is ultimately related to absolute time, BBT is calculated for the
purpose of display based on a known tempo. The default tempo is 120 beats per minute, but this
can be adjusted from the Windows | Setup | Locator-MMC window. The working tempo
is stored along with the Project.
A tempo map can also be extracted from a Standard MIDI file, and the BBT display will change
dynamically to follow the MIDI file’s tempo changes. Tempo maps are loaded from the floppy
disk using the LOAD button in the Windows | Setup | MIDI window.
Units for the time display are selectable from the GUI only, from the Options | Time Units
window. As a short cut you can right-click on any time display window. A pop-up menu will
allow you to change units directly. This is a global setting and changing time units from ANY
time display will change the time units in ALL time displays.
Time Bar and Marker Bar
The strip immediately above the track area is split horizontally into the Marker (top) and Time
(bottom) bars. The Marker bar contains graphic icons representing cues, punch or loop points.
The Time bar contains the time scale, with major and minor divisions spaced according to the
chosen SMPTE / BBT display mode and resolution.
Time Bar
At the highest resolution, the display is approximately 12 milliseconds wide, or about half a
video frame. At the lowest resolution, full scale is 24 hours, the maximum recording time of
the HDR24/96. The left and right arrow buttons to the left of the time/marker bar expand and
contract the track display in time. Use high resolution when editing samples or small regions,
use lower resolution to get the big picture of your project.
TIP: Track area overviews may be stored and recalled using the [F5] to [F12] keys ([Fn]).
This is useful for jumping between high and low resolution views or switching between
displaying the single active take or multiple takes. These keys store the track zoom level and
the positioning and expansion of takes, but of course the content of the tracks changes with
editing and recording. The current content is always displayed even when recalling a stored
view. [C
TRL +Fn] stores the view, [Fn] recalls the stored view.
Time is selected by click-and-dragging the I-Beam tool along the time/marker bar. This
creates a selection area across all tracks, but does not specifically define any regions within
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