Akai DD1500

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RECORDING TO A LIBRARY
Whenever you make a recording, it is possible to set the DD1500 so that the recording
automatically gets placed into a library of your choosing. You may wish to keep all
recordings in their ‘raw’ format in a library called RECORDINGS so you should create a
library called RECORDINGS and always select that recordings are placed in there when
you record. In this way, you can always go back to the original recording at any time. As
an example, you may record something into a project and then edit it extensively. After all
the editing, you may not like the result so you could just paste in the original recording and
start again. Alternatively, you may record into one project but want to use all or part of that
recording in another. This could be done simply by pasting in the original recording into a
new project from the RECORDINGS library.
You can, of course, place particular types of cues into specific libraries. You could place all
music cues into a library called MUSIC when you record them and place all dialogue
recordings into a library called DIALOGUE.
Recording into a library will also help in the event of something going wrong. For example,
you may make a recording, do a lot of work on it and then, for some reason, inadvertently
create a new project or load an existing one without first saving your work. In this case,
although it would be tiresome to have to repeat all the editing work you have done, you
do at least have the original recording(s) to fall back on to re-build the project you lost.
Similarly, in the event of a particular project being inadvertently erased, you could re-
construct it again using the original recordings from your library.
It’s worth remembering that recording into a library and a project does not take up any
more disk space than recording into a project only and so it is recommended that you
select to record to PROJECT+LIBRARY in the RECORD (i.e. REC/#) page for added
security.