360 Systems TCR Multi-Track - Manual (Page 35)

TCR Series User's Manual Overview 2-19
Menu Navigation
The TCR menu system will be familiar to everyone having some experience with computers. It will
be helpful to refer to the previous menu diagram while reading the next sections.
TCR is organized into two principle tasks. First is managing files, directories and drives. Secondly,
the tasks of recording, editing and playing individual audio files.
1. The underlying principle of TCR’s file organization is simple. Like a computer, files are
organized into directories, which are organized on drives. TCR recorders contain several
drives, each of which has ten directories.
Disk drives and directories are numbered and may be named by the user.
Each Directory may contain many audio Files, each of which has a unique ID number and
name.
The location of any specific File is therefore defined by the File name, the Directory it is in,
and the Drive containing that Directory. TCR’s menu system is designed so that navigation
through this storage system will be quite easy.
While there are always ten directories, there is no fixed-size requirement or limit to the size
of any directory. Each directory can hold up to 1,000 files. The only limit to file storage is
the drive size.
The DIR/DRIVES button may be pressed to view a list of Directories or Drives. The button
toggles between the two views.
Press the FILES button to view the File List of the current directory.
From any of these lists, press MENU to perform related functions.
2. The Transport mode allows recording, playback, and editing. To edit a file, select the file on
the File List and press ENTER. The Transport mode makes machine controls active for
recording, playback, editing, marking edit points, marking location points, slipping tracks and
setting offsets.
The MENU button may be pressed while the Transport Screen is active to access the
Transport menu for specific file-related functions such as cutting, copying, pasting and
inserting audio clips.