Fostex DMT-8VL - The Difference between a Tapa Based Multitracker and a Hard Disk Multitracker

DMT8VL Owner's Manual (Before operating the DMT-8VL)
4. The difference between a tape-based multitracker and a hard disk multitracker
The DMT-8 vl uses a hard disk as the recording media. Recording and playing
back data on the DMT-Svl Is slightly different than on a conventional tape-based
multi tracker.
On a tape-based raultitracker, you can play the tape from any point between the
beginning and the end of the tape as shown below. However, hard disk recording
allows you to play between the AKS time (absolute time) - that Is, *0 M , and the
"END” point. (The end point represents the end of the recording.) You could make
the analogy that the DMT-8VL has a built-in tape with a maximum duration of 12-
minutes (when installing the 540MB hard disk unit). If you made a five-minute
recording, you would work with a five-minute tape; if you recorded one additional
minute, it would be like using a six-minute tape.
The Program Change function of the DMT-8VL allows you to record and edit up to
five songs individually on the built-in hard disk. This can be described with the
analogy of individual rooms as shown below, where you can record, play back, and
edit in each room without giving any influence to the other rooms.
One of the important things here is that the total recording time for five Programs
is 12 minutes using the standard built-in hard disk. (If you replace the hard disk,
the total time would be the maximum recording time of the new hard disk.) That
is, if you record 12-minutes (when installing the 540MB hard disk unit) of data in
one Program, you cannot record any more data In the other Programs. (If each
song is three-minutes long, you can record each song In five Programs.)
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