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RECORDING

** NOTES REGARDING TRACK MONITORING DURING RECORDING **

On analogue multi-track tape recorders, we take seamless punch-in/out for granted. However,

this is much more difficult to achieve on hard disk recorders.

The Akai DD/DR-Series have seamless punch-in/out and to achieve this, they play previously

recorded material in the background so that, when you punch-out manually, the track is ready

to play back immediately with no gap at the punch-out. I.e.:

PUNCH-IN PUNCH-OUT

PLAY PLAYMUTED

ORIGINAL RECORDING

NEW RECORDING

This means that in most cases, the system will drop in and out of record pretty much like a

normal MTR. Usually, on most hard disk recorders, due to disk speed restrictions and SCSI

bandwidth, there is a gap of several seconds or more at the point of drop-out. This is not so on

the Akai system and it is possible to punch in and out seamlessly on mono and stereo tracks.

However, in order to achieve this, it is necessary to drop tracks because, during recording, the

track selected for recording is actually using two tracks - one for the actual recording and the

other for the muted track. The Akai DD/DR-Series machines deal with this in a way so that this

should not be much of a problem and the way this works is designed to be as transparent as

possible. When you enable a track for record, the priority for track dropping is:

FIRST TRACK(S) TO BE DROPPED - Those with no audio on them.

NEXT TRACKS TO BE DROPPED - Any tracks not selected for playback.

NEXT TRACK(S) TO BE DROPPED - Those with the least audio on them (i.e. a track with one

or two cues will be dropped before a very busy one).

In normal practice, you should find the process fairly transparent and it’s only in very busy

projects with a lot of cues across all tracks that you will hear the track dropping take place.

However, when using an MO, because these are slower than hard disks, you may notice

tracks dropping. Also, when recording four tracks, there may be gap in monitoring when you

drop out of record. The actual recording will be fine - only the monitoring at the point of punch-

out will be momentarily affected.

As mentioned, though, under normal circumstances, when recording stereo or mono cues

onto either a hard disk or MO, you should not notice this.

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