Fostex VF160EX - Manual (Page 14)

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ABS
MTC
00M 00S 00M 03S 00M 06S
00H 59M 57S 01H 00M 00S 01H 00M 03S
BAR/ /CLK
001BAR 1 - 002BAR 1 002BAR 1
ABS 0
TIME BASE
The term “ Time Base ” frequently appears in the text of this
manual. The time base plays the same role as the “ tape counter ”
of conventional tape recorders, and is used to show the
location of the recorder.
There are 3 types of time bases:
1. ABS (Absolute Time) indication
2. BAR/BEAT/CLK (Bar, Beat, Clock) indication
3. MTC (MIDI Time Code)
The user can switch between time bases by pressing the [ DISP
SEL/TIME BASE ] key, while the [ SHIFT ] key is depressed.
An ABS (Absolute Time) base is the “absolute time” of the hard
disk. A time base counter between 00H 00M 00S (ABS 0) and
23H 59M 59S is created when
creating a program. According to the following figure, the
recorder is located at a 00M (minute) 00S (second) ABS point.
The H (hour) appears when the ABS exceeds the one hour mark.
ABS 0 is the universal standard point to manage the recorder
location, and correlates with other time bases.
BAR/BEAT/CLK indicate the “Bar, Beat, Clock” that are created
with the tempo map (beat and tempo) of the VF160. According
to the following figure, the recorder is located at -002BAR (Bar
2) 1BEAT (Beat 1) of the BAR/BEAT/CLK. BAR/BEAT/CLK set
the ABS 0 location as Bar -002 as the offset position.
The location of the bar thereafter is determined according to
the beat and tempo setting.
The default setting of ABS 0 is set at Bar -002, however, this
setting is variable between Bars -009 and -002.
MTC set the ABS 0 location to MTC ** H** M**S. In other words,
MTC sets the time base to start MTC from a certain time, which
serves as the offset time, to synchronize the following 24 hour
MTC time base with the ABS to count the time. If, for example,
ABS 0 is set to MTC 1H, then MTC starts from 1H and ABS 1H
(one hour elapsed) will be MTC 2H.
The MTC time set as ABS 0 is called the “MTC Offset”. According
to the figure below, the current location of the recorder is at
MTC 00H (hour), 59M (minutes), 57S (seconds).
The default setting of the MTC offset is set to 00H 59M 57S
00F 00SF. This time base can be changed to any 24 hour clock.
It is also possible to change the setting to Bar 001 and Beat 1
of BAR/BEAT/CLK, instead of using the ABS 0 location point.
The following illustrates the relationship between the 3 time
bases.
* When pressing the [ BUSS-SOURCE ] key, the status will
require selection of a channel to send to “REC BUSS”, as
mentioned earlier. Therefore, the channel in which the
[
CH STATUS/CH SEL ] key is pressed is sent to the “REC
BUSS”.
All channels are selected up to this point.
The following two types only select tracks.
* It is possible to select the track to record (REC READY) in
each respective REC mode by pressing the [ BUSS-REC TRK ]
key and [ DIRECT-REC TRK ] key.