Mackie MDR 24/96 Technical Reference - Foreword

HD24/96 Technical Reference

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Foreword

Welcome Aboard! Thank you for choosing the Mackie Designs HDR24/96 Hard Disk Recorder -

- a benchmark in affordable professional multitrack audio recording.  Occupying only 4U of rack

mount space, the HDR combines the familiarity of a multitrack tape recorder with a powerful,

built-in DAW-style editor.

About This Manual/How To Use This Guide

Your HDR24/96 instruction manual comes in three parts.  The Quick Start Guide is intended

to help you get your HDR24/96 installed, interfaced to your console, and configured so you

can start recording quickly.  The Applications Guide walks you step-by-step through the

processes of recording, overdubbing, and editing, showing you the HDR24/96’s way of

doing familiar tasks and introducing you to the power features that bring it capabilities far

beyond those of a conventional multitrack recorder.

Finally, this Technical Reference gives detailed explanations of all the controls, displays,

and menus.  Keep it handy while you’re learning your way around.  Here you’ll find more

detailed information on controls, indicators, and functions, files and file management, the

complexities of clocking, synchronization, and interfacing unique to the world of digital

recording.  Here you’ll find some shortcuts to frequently and infrequently used features.

If you haven’t already done so, break open the Quick Start Guide, hook up your recorder,

connect the optional monitor, keyboard, or remote controller, and get rolling.  This is a

hands-on process.

Conventions

Text Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this guide:

Keyboard Keys – SHIFT, A, a

Key combinations – CTRL+SHIFT+6

Functions – Record

Names of GUI objects (buttons, arrows) or panel controls – TC CHASE

Window Navigation Conventions

This manual uses a shortcut notation that will lead you to a window in which a described

operation is performed or a parameter is viewed.  The various levels leading to the desired

window are separated by a vertical bar “|”.  For example:  Windows | Setup | Locator-MMC

means: Select Windows from the top level menu, then Setup from that list, then Locator-

MMC from the Setup dialog box.