Akai DD1500

14 - EDITING
Page 96 Version 2.00 - March, 1996
COPYING TO AN EXTERNAL DISK
It could be that you want to build a library up on an external disk. For example, your
system may have a fixed hard drive where you keep your central library of sound effects,
music cues, etc., and the removable MO is a ‘project’ disk which you treat much like a reel
of tape that can be taken out at the end of a session and transferred to the mixdown
room or wherever. It is possible to import clips from libraries on other disks and, similarly,
you may copy edits across to external disks.
To do this, move the cursor to the DISK: field in the top right hand corner and select the
drive you wish to copy to. When you change the disk number, it will select the first library it
can find on that disk. If it is not the correct one, select as appropriate.
You may now copy edits to that library on the external disk as normal. However, you will
note one important thing when copying to an external disk.
When you copy an edit to an external disk, the audio is copied with it. The reason for this
is that it is meaningless to have a clip on a disk without the audio associated with it - if the
two disks get separated, the clip on the external disk could not be used. Similarly, if the
audio on the original disk is deleted, the clip you copied to the external disk could never
be used again!
However, please note that when you copy an edit to an external disk, only the audio within
that edit is copied. For example, if the edit you are copying is just a 2 second section of a
longer 5 minute recording, only the 2 second section is copied, not the whole recording it
references. A 10% ‘handle’ of audio either side of the 2 second section is also copied so
that you have some leeway for trimming it at a later date.
When you copy to an external disk, therefore, it does take a little longer as the audio is
copied across as well.
If you try to copy to an external disk that has no libraries, the screen will prompt you
accordingly.
NOTE: This applies to CUT and ERASE as well.