Getting started – 360 Systems Instant Replay DR-552 User Manual

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Instant Replay Owner’s Manual

Storage of up to 1,000 audio Cuts.

Twenty-four hours of storage.

Assignment of Cuts to 50 front panel Hot-Keys.

Playlists that store a sequence of Hot-Keys for manual or automatic playback.

10 Banks – each providing up to 50 Hot-Key Assignments and a Playlist for those Hotkeys.

"Find" function locates a Cut by entering its Name or Index Number.

Familiar tape transport style controls to provide fast and sure operation.

References to menu items in this manual are in capital letters, such as RECORD SETUP.
References to physical features such as buttons and connectors are in small capitals, such as
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GETTING STARTED

Cuts, Hot-Keys™ and Banks

Perhaps the easiest way to understand Instant Replay is to see how individual recordings (Cuts)
relate to the fifty Hot-Keys, and how these relate to the ten Banks.

A Cut is simply a single audio recording. It can range from less than a second to any length,
limited only by the time remaining on the hard disk.

Each Cut has a unique Index Number, which identifies it within Instant Replay's library. It also
has a Name that you supply to aid in identifying and locating the Cut. To enter a Name, the Hot-
Keys assume the function of an alphanumeric keyboard. Cut Names can be added or altered at
any time and may consist of up to 15 characters. The Find function can be used to find a Cut by
name.

Any Cut can be assigned to any of the 50 Hot-Keys. This way, you have complete control over
which recording appears under a particular Hot-Key button. Instant Replay's unique feature is
that Hot-Keys allow any Cut to be played on command by a single key press. Whenever an
assigned Hot-Key is pressed, the corresponding Cut is selected and played at once. It will
immediately end the playback of any other Cut that may have been playing.

The 50 Hot-Key Assignments are referred to as a Bank. There are ten Banks numbered 1 to 10.
Each Bank is like a separate "page"; changing Banks is equivalent to flipping a page, and presents
a different set of Hot-Key Assignments. Note that the ten Banks all have access to all the Cuts
recorded in Instant Replay. Banks are a convenient way to organize Instant Replay's audio
collection. The different Banks might contain sounds for different purposes, or they might be
used by different people. A total of 500 Cuts can be assigned to Hot-Keys if all 50 keys in each of
the 10 banks are assigned to a different Cut. However, any Cut can be assigned to a Hot-Key in
any or all of the Banks. A particular Cut can only be assigned to one Hot-Key in a Bank

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The remaining Cuts not assigned in the currently selected Bank are still accessible with the
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keys or the "Find" function, and can be used to replace an existing Hot-Key

Assignment at any time. For more information on Find see page 4, The "Find" Function.

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Previous versions of Instant Replay used the term Preset to describe the assignment of a Cut to a

Hot-Key. This term has been dropped in favor of the terms Hot-Key and Hot-Key Assignment.

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