Akai DD1500

AUTOLOCATOR - 13
Version 2.00 - March, 1996 Page 79
STORING LOCATE MEMORIES
To store locate memories, press SHIFT+GOTO (STORE). You will see this screen:
The STORE TIME field shows the current NOW time when you enter this page. However,
by pressing F2 - TIME - you may change this time here prior to storing it but this will not
affect your position and you will stay on the current NOW time. For example, if you know
you want to store 00:05:00:00.0 in a locator memory, you may enter this value here
without moving from the current NOW time.
There are actually two ways to store locate memories. One allows you to store single
memories and leave the page, the other allows you to stay in the page and store multiple
locate memories without having to keep re-entering the STORE page.
To store a single memory, locate to the time you want to store using GOTO, TIME and
then press SHIFT+GOTO (STORE), type in a locate memory 0-99 from the keypad and
press EXECUTE.
To store multiple locate memories, enter GOTO STORE and enter the first memory
number 0-99 you want to store and then press STORE NEXT (F5/6). The memory will be
stored and TO LOCATOR MEMORY number will automatically be incremented to the next
number so you can store the next number simply by press STORE NEXT again. This
allows you to store locate positions ‘on the fly’ during playback. For example, with this
page open and select a suitable memory location. Now start playback and, while playing
back, pressing STORE NEXT will store the memory locations incrementally. You may also
do this whilst jogging or using the NEXT/PREV CUE function, etc.. Pressing EXIT or
EXECUTE will close this screen and return you to the main screen.
When you store locate memories, they are shown on the scroll bar beneath the GRID as a
white triangle:
You may also mark locate points using the GRAB key. Simply pressing the GRAB key will
mark a grabbed locate point and it will be show as a grey vertical line in the scroll bar
beneath the GRID:
You may ‘grab’ the points at any time when the DD1500 is stopped or, in fact, when
playing back. These markers are particularly useful for marking locate points of interest
you may wish to come back to later (for example, sections in a piece of music, mistakes in
a dialogue track, etc.) and up to 100 grab points may be marked in one project. They can
be converted to locate memories simply by locating to them (holding down GOTO plus the
numeric keypad’s -/< or +/> key) and then storing a locate memory as described above.
When this page is open, pressing EXIT will return you to the main work page.