Cymatic Audio LR-16 Manual - Manual (Page 7)

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8.3. Recording ‘Home screen’
After the attached drive has been successfully tested, the LR-16’s screen will display the recording
“home screen”. This screen displays the pertinent settings and displays you will want to view,
when performing a recording operation.
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1. LR-16 connection status
This icon shows whether the device is connected to a PC / Mac or a USB storage device. When
the screen displays a USB drive icon with an “R” inside it, the LR-16 is in “recorder mode”, with a
valid USB drive attached, and is ready to record 16 separate tracks.
2. Currently selected sample rate
This number shows the sample rate that will be used when starting a new recording. To change
the sample rate please, refer to section “Recorder Menu / Sample rate & bit-depth”.
3. Remaining time
This number represents the available recording time still available on the attached drive. This
number will dynamically adjust itself, based on three separate settings you can adjust, that affect
how quickly you use up the available storage of an attached drive:
• Number of Tracks recorded in the take (2, 4, 8, or 16)
• Sample Rate (44.1kHz, 48kHz, or 96kHz)
• Bit-Depth (16 or 24-bit)
Press and hold SELECT to see the total available recording time on the USB storage device.
4. Total number of recordings on device
This line displays the name of the current recording, as well as the total number of recordings on
the attached drive.
5. Name of currently selected recording
This line displays the name of the currently selected recording. All recordings will automatically be
named and numbered sequentially, starting with “Take_01” and going all the way up to “Take_99”.
The maximum number of recordings per attached drive is 99 separate takes.
6. Signal / Peak Meters (-30dB / -3dB / 0dB)
This group of meters displays the approximate signal strength of an audio signal for all active input
channels. If a signal reaches the peak level of the meter, you should lower the input sensitivity
of the LR-16 in order to prevent signal distortion. Please refer to section “Recorder Menu / Input
sensitivity”.
The meters display will only show signal meters that correspond to the currently active number
of input channels. For example, if you have configured the recorder to only record 8 tracks, only
the first 8 meters will be visible.
7. Number of Channels/Sample rate of currently selected recording
This line displays both the number of tracks, as well as the sample rate of currently selected
recording. To change the sample rate of the recorder for subsequent recordings, please refer to
the section “Recorder Menu / Sample rate & width”.
8.4. Start recording
Connect your recording source to the inputs on the rear panel of the LR-16 (please refer to section
“Connecting recording sources”) and check whether you have an input signal by observing the
Signal / Peak detection meters.
If necessary, adjust the input levels of the LR-16 (please refer to section “Recorder Menu / Input
sensitivity”).
Press the Record button to start the recording. The LR-16 will create a new take, the hardware
record button light will illuminate in red, and the “walking dots” in the display indicate that the
recording is running.
At the same time the “Remaining time” indicator in the top right corner will start counting down the
maximum remaining time for this recording. The recording will be stored as separate wave files
into the ‘Recording/Take XX’ folder, located on the attached USB drive.
8.5. Creating a new take “on the fly”
When the Record button is pressed while the LR-16 is already recording, it will close the current
take, and create a new take on the USB storage device.
Note that when creating a new recording on the fly, the transition between the two takes will not
be seamless. There will be a gap between the former recording and the new one, in the same
way as if you first pressed stop, and then pressed record to initiate a new recording. Creating a
new take on the fly simply saves an extra button press.
For live recordings where you do not want any gaps between songs of any kind, it is required to
record the event as one single long take.