MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 68)

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Number Pad and Calculator on the Remote 48
The Number Pad allows you to directly enter time values into the Locate Time (as shown in the
LOCATE TIME window on the Remote 48). First you will want to decide what Time Units to
use for your project. More than likely this will be set at the start of the project and not adjusted
after that.
Choosing Time Units
Press the TIME UNITS button to toggle between SMPTE Time Code format and Bars and Beats
format for time values. This setting affects how time is displayed and therefore also affects how
you type in new times manually.
Entering Numbers Directly
When you press the first number button in the Number Pad, the LOCATE TIME display is
cleared and that new number is shown in the first (right-most, least significant) digit position.
You can type in one or several numbers. As you press additional number buttons, those digits are
added to the right of the number displayed. So, just as you would write time values, the most
significant time units are typed in first. They move left to make room for less significant
numbers. You can stop pressing numbers as soon as the number displayed is the time value you
want. Press ENTER to make the number stick (become the Locate Time). You do not have to
fill in all the digit positions if your desired time value does not require it. However, you may
have to add zeros onto the end of a time, even if you do not care about that level of precision, in
order to move the most significant numbers into the hours or bars position, for example.
Editing Times
Press the EDIT TIME button to make changes to a number that has already been entered into the
Locate Time. The least significant time unit (set of digits) will become editable first and will
flash in the display. To move to a different time unit field to change those digits just press EDIT
TIME again as many times as needed. You can increment and decrement the flashing digits with
the +/NEXT and -/PREV buttons or with the Wheel. Or you can simply type in the numbers for
the value you want. The new number presses are added to the right of the displayed time unit
field. The whole point of the EDIT TIME feature is to be able to just modify a part of the number
without having re-enter digits that are not changing, so typing more numbers than will fit into the
editable time unit just causes the left most number to be discarded.
Adding and Subtracting Times
You can add or subtract a manually entered number from the Locate Time by preceding the entry
with +/NEXT or -/PREV. Make sure the Locate Number is fully entered (or recalled, or edited as
needed) then press the operand you need and follow with a time value as described in Entering
Numbers Directly above. Follow as always with the ENTER button, and the Locate Time will be
updated with the results of the calculation. It is not possible to add and/or subtract two recalled
times. When the TC Frame rate is in drop frame, the operands are converted to non-drop frame,
added/subtracted, and the result converted to drop frame.
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