Fostex MR-8MKII - Manual (Page 13)

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MR-8mkII Owner’s Manual (Read this chapter first!)
About song
To understand songs, imagine separated rooms as shown below. Each room can be regarded as
a song. With the MR-8mkII, you can create up to 99 rooms (songs) on the CompactFlash
TM Card
(although the available space may limit the number of songs).
Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV
files, as shown below.
Each song is independent on a CompactFlash TM Card and you can record, play back or edit a song
without affecting other songs. You can give a desired song name for managing recorded songs
(see pages 23 and 91).
Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV files.
The MR-8mkII can convert the two WAV files recorded on tracks 7 and 8 (L and R) to a stereo
WAV file (see page 115).
You can export the converted stereo WAV file to your USB-connected personal computer, and
use the file by a music software application or make an original audio CD on the computer using
a CD burn software application. You can also burn an audio CD by using an external CD-R/RW
drive connected via the [USB HOST] port of the MR-8mkII (see page 115 and 123).
Song01
Track 1 Track 2 Track 8
Song01
Song02
Song03
Song04
Song05
Song99
Song98
Remain (recordable space left on the CompactFlash TM Card)
"Remain" shows how much time you can further record audio data to the available space left on
the CompactFlash
TM Card.
As described earlier, the MR-8mkII stripes ABS time from 0m 00s 000ms to 99m 59s 999ms at
maximum for each song. However, the remaining time (= available recording time left) depends
on the available space on the CompactFlash
TM Card in actual use. The remaining time is shown as
in the screen example below during recording or record standby. Note that it shows the remain-
ing time for recording onto a mono track.
A "mono" track means a single track. Therefore, you can calculate the remaining time for record-
ing to more than one track by dividing the displayed time by the number of tracks. Note that the
remaining time shown on the screen is an approximate time.
Remain value
WAV files