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1. A period of silence equal in length to the range is inserted at the start of the range This will remove all of the The audio in the range audio in the Range and the and the time it occupies time as well so the ends of are moved to the cursor the range come together position This is equiva Useful for removing audio lent to cutting a piece of after a recut of pictures tape and re inserting it at the cursor position A copy of the audio in the Range and the time it occu pies are inserted at the cur sor This is equivalent to mak ing a tape dub of the audio in the range and inserting the copy at the cursor position Page 46 d M P User Manual TM The Razor Submenu Illustrated Original Track Layout Range Cursor Delete The Range is completely removed and the audio on either side butts up together The Range and the audio in it are relocated to the Cursor position Duplicate The Range and the audio in it are copied to the Cursor position User Manual d M B Page 47 17 The Track Menu The TRACK Menu is used for inter track operations The commands operate over a range like the BLOCK menu commands and the Range is set up in exactly the same way All TRACK commands involve two tracks the
2. This will remove all of the audio in the Range leaving a block of si lence The audio in the Range is copied to the cursor posi tion covering the audio that is already there The audio in the Range is moved to the cursor position covering the audio that is al ready there and leaving a block of silence in the range Dubber Submenu commands are illustrated on the next page Notes 1 The Block Menu is not a back timing menu It always copies or moves the front of the range to the cursor position 2 Block operations never require the use of the ENTER key so they happen as soon as you press the Soft key 3 Block operations cut through all layers of the selected track s This is unlike the Edit menu which only acts on the top layer of clips Page 44 d M E User Manual TM The Dubber Menu Illustrated Original Track Layout Erase Audio is removed within the range Move ZI SS DDDDD GADNA MRAK AAAAA Copy The audio in the range is copied over the audio at the cursort position User Manual d M B Page 45 The Razor SubMenu BRAZOR DUBBER delete duplicate insert I GJ G
3. 119 Master Time cccscccccssesssesssessseseesesseeees 9 Headin bte st etie as aes 31 Match AudioBase ce 72 Head of Clip sse 10 Media Read niece sto nadie 21 Hold gating oinensis 54 Meter Settings cccecceescsseeeeeeeesees 123 I MEGI iecit t tere 26 MFX Console see 8 ID UID OF oct terceras 66 User Manual Page 125 fame e MFX Console illustrated 8 Mixed OUtp t a oirneiccii lies 28 MK file suffix sssssssessss 14 Mode Keys iiit ora trei ess 8 Modify Write essen 21 Monitor switching erasini 26 Mono Stereo sssssssesses 25 Move Fil ces 84 Moving files 19 MT tile SUX secioni 14 Multi User File Access 21 Multiple input assign 25 Multiple WAVE Import s 67 lur 30 N Name track sse 29 NAMING pese 29 Navigation through directories 17 Negative numbers typing 25 New Folder sseseseess 19 New Ptoject ois 18 New Record Mode sssssss 23 NNOGe ere tee s 17 Numeric Keypad ssssssss 8 Numeric Register seussss 9 O Offsetting ssssssseeneen 101 Operators AudioBase
4. seseeeeeee 44 Blue Key oer ad eiie 9 DOI OW Mr E E E 66 e fa wf p o REPREHENE 65 Browsing through files 17 iSISb e 84 Bulk File Handling 84 Bump sync of clips scarsissima 43 C CAN T ATTACH eee 66 Capturing offsets sssssss 101 CD Red Book export ssssse 90 Change input settings sse 16 Clear error messages sssse 8 Clip level och eens 53 Clip names sesss 29 Glip selectiori irc 32 Clip selection for editing 32 e c M R 22 Comnmit sees 81 118 COMMIT Gating iot 54 Compatibility with MFX2 and MFXS 98 Configuration Files ssss 120 Copy clip name nsss 29 Copy Files icit dict etnia 84 Copy head sssssseee 37 Copy Master Time susss 100 Copy Protection esssssssss 28 Copy Tall eoo 37 Copying EQ Settings se 57 Copying flo Sinnesro 19 Create new folder n se 19 GrOSStade iiie bens 50 Crossfade from Zero 52 123 CURL Key ua eee 115 Current Time ssseseeee 13 Current aK 2 rte 22 GUSOT e E 12 Cut amp Paste unas 35 CU CODY uite N nere bnt deed 36 D DaD file export Dubber export 90 Database of clips A
5. 89 Building a Sound Library 67 The Backup Display ssse 89 25 AwudioBase eere iens 69 30 The Export Menu 90 AudioBase Glossary ssss 69 Rules for writing to CD 90 Field Summary 69 31 The Print Menu nene 92 User RISIB Sa ciu tod reote o dan ic 70 Setting Printer Characteristics 93 The AudioBase Screen s 70 Printer Head Density 93 The AudioBase Form n se 70 Pixel Density X Axis 93 The Record List sssssssses 70 Pixel Density Y Axis 93 The AudioBase Menu eee 71 Printer Compression ssse 93 More About Paste sss 71 Join Clips ssssssssssssesccsesssnsssssssenasssssseesen 93 More About Audition s 71 Minimum Gap in Frames s 93 The Search Submenu sss 72 Timecode Format 93 The Search Options Submenu 72 Printer Characteristics D ve 93 How to Search for Clip Records 73 Pin Connections Switch Settings interface Entering Data into Fields ccccccccccccccececeeeee 73 cards TTT 93 Cycling through Va
6. Page 10 d M P User Manual 4 FAME Editing Screens There are 10 user screens in the FAME software Some take up the top section of the screen and others the lower part There are always one upper and one lower display on the screen Displays are automatically changed in response to recording editing and transport control commands but they can also be placed on the screen by command A description of each display follows Display Name Upper Lower Key sequence Automatic Display Arm Upper lt Blue gt A Arm Menu The display shows the amount of recording time left in the currently used disk drive the length of the currently recording clip and the input output meters Patch Lower lt Blue gt P Input SubMenu Shows the inputs that are patched to each track plus the type of input selected Track Lower lt Blue gt T Whenever a project is open Shows clips on the tracks with waveforms that scroll when the transport is moved The number of tracks shown on the screen can be changed by holding down the Blue key and pressing the number keys in the Numeric Display These are marked to show the numbers of tracks that will be shown Takes Upper lt Blue gt K Takes Menu Shows clip information including mono stereo audio level duration source file if borrowed and layer number Where several clips are stacked on top of each other it is possible to see the top four layers By going to the Takes Menu you can scroll down
7. When ND or DF is selected for the previous Soft choice al lows you to determine whether the correct frame rate is 29 97 or 30 frames per second This field determines at which frame rate your selected sam ple rate will be accurately re produced For example if you choose a sample rate of 44100 Hz and you set this field to 30 the system will run at precisely 44100 Hz when 30 frame timecode is used for synchro nisation But if you use stand ard NTSC video at 29 97 fps as a sync source the system will run down to 44056 Hz This may be desirable if you plan to return the audio to a 30 fps environment later Often projects that are finished on film require a setting of 30 but projects finished on video normally use 29 97 Range MANUA N Preroll Offset Determines what happens to ranges when changing menus Modes In Auto Mode ranges are always switched off when entering a new Mode unless the new Mode must have a Range In Manual Mode ranges are al ways preserved unless the new Mode cannot have a Range Also in Manual Mode pressing the current Mode key again toggles the Range on and off keeping the last timecode values that it had Sets the Baud rate of the serial con nection between FAME and a printer Can be set to 9600 or 38400 Always set the correct sample rate and frame rate before making y
8. ssuss 72 Seedname sess 29 Selection for editing 32 SET LOOP menu seen 110 Setup page print parameters 92 Shadow 48 SHIFT Key iiis etc rt te et es 115 Shu lttle 5 cech iter onte 106 Sp audeant ias tees tiu etta ele eni nec 40 Page 126 fa Ig User Manual Slip Trim default sssssse 41 U Siem p 30 Solo and Mute keys PD ees ois ate eat eet 9 Undo RE epicenter ret da 9 Sony 9 pin control setup o 99 Undoing e cop ein nett eres 80 Sound library READER 65 LU Ta E EE S Figenses cuisses inkidun 17 SP DIF Digital format 25 UNREFERENCED recordings 81 SP DIF output ener nnne 28 User Fields AudioBase 70 Space Men tiec ite ped a 81 V Special Record Commands 104 Splice MEET 46 Varispeed eene 61 Stack ot elips trei 64 W Sin cr 28 Stereo to mono ssssssessses 83 Warranty Policy ssessseeeees 2 reo 104 WAV EXO crni spees eiei esn 90 Storage devices sssssssssss 15 WAVE file Export eeseeesss 91 S E E 58 WAVE file import eseesssess 65 Subframe nudging sssse 43 Wave Menu Audio Format 123 Syn
9. seessesssss 109 Timecode ranges esses 33 Timecode Track ssssssssssss 26 Toggle Mute group eseeessss 30 Track balance in mixed out mode 53 Track display tiit 11 Tack Keys aiostar eana Te aurassa sevens 8 Track MenUu 5 dieere ane nein 48 Transport Commands 104 Transport Mode Keys esssssse 9 GUM eter A D 41 Trim submenu creca 41 Trimming Numbers sser 100 User Manual fa M Bg Page 127
10. 74 Optical Disk formatting 119 Oultp tipad i enel ees 28 Overlapping Clips sssssse 22 Overwrite Recording ssssse 23 Overwrite warning on restore 89 P Packs versace eect 81 118 Pad on outpults as 28 Panning in mixed out mode 53 Password Protection 20 Pasting audio ENTER key for pasting 36 Patch Display seeeeesss 16 Patch Display illustrated 16 Patching inputs eeeeesseesss 25 Pitchiichange inneni 60 Play secti e piro eta irte Eee EE vu EAE 104 Play Menu commands 105 Playback eee s 26 POME re 117 Pop Takes menu ssssessss 64 Preroll actin t note 103 Preroll current position 105 Print Men iiiter enss 92 Project extension ssessss 20 Project Ea8y6r Eois 32 Project menu sees 18 Project Head iere 21 Public Write esseeseeseeeeee 20 Publish a project AudioBase 76 Publishing with a Text File 77 Pull up Pull down 97 Punch in Punch out sseeussss 27 Put back trimmed audio 41 R acp 33 Range automatic and manual 34 Ra
11. The Digi Menu The Digi Menu has two submenus which are accessed in turn by toggling the first Soft Key Choice They are used to choose the source of Master Clock synchronisation and to select the type of digital outputs that will be produced by the system House Submenu House Sync defines the normal synchronisation source for the Master Sample Clock This submenu chooses its clock source Selects the source for House Sync Includes Internal crystal sync some choices relating to rear panel inputs AES EBU Word Clock Video and Input This last choice allows you to choose one track whose digital input will be used as the source for House Sync OUTPUT Sync HOUSE Int m When switched to AUTO finds the lowest numbered armed track with a digital input if any and selects it as House Sync This means that sync may change if different tracks are armed Inp Sync Rate OFF 44100 Sample 16 bits Lu Chooses the sample rate of the project Cannot be changed after the first audio has been put into the project by recording or importing from another project Chooses how many bits will be recorded in each sample This applies to all operations where new Master Recordings are produced including Re cordings Time Compres sion Bounce etc Can be changed at an
12. The Recover Waveform Command If you have found a master recording that you think is the one you want type RW number lt RETURN gt where number is the number printed at the left end of the line The RW stands for Recover Waveform This command will place a clip using the full length of the master recording on your current track with its head at the cursor position Then you can play the clip to find out whether it was the one you wanted If the master recording is a stereo recording it will have two waveforms and you will often see them on consecutive lines They will have the same numbers in their birthday size and space fields Occasionally due to the dispose command the two waveforms will not be at consecutive positions in the display To recover both sides into a stereo clip type RW number number 2 lt RETURN gt using both waveform numbers You cannot create a stereo clip out of two original mono recordings The software will simply refuse You can make a mono clip from one side of a stereo waveform but this will prevent it from subsequently being made into a stereo clip By typing the two waveform numbers in reverse you can reverse the right and left sides of the waveform To get a clip back into sync with the position it was originally recorded highlight the clip and type the Return to Birthday command RTB lt RETURN gt The Waveform Show Command If you wish to show all the Master Recordings in the project type
13. to the first part of the Master Recording that the clip plays Immediately after record ing the Head will be at the Start of the Master Recording By editing you can move it elsewhere Tail The Tail is a pointer to the last part of the Master Recording that the clip plays Master Recording Clip Heard Start Head Possible Tail End Sync Point Fade In Point Fade Out Point Sync Point The Sync Point of the clip is a point that you can place anywhere in the clip It is usually chosen as the clearest moment of the audio that you can use to check whether it is in sync For example it might be a par ticularly loud crash in a sequence of smashing plates Until you set a Sync Point in a clip it is at the Head of the clip The Sync Point can be found by jumping to points see Jump keys Timecode Reference The clip is played at a predetermined timecode and this is stored in the clip Fade Every clip contains a fade in and a fade out By default these are of zero length so the clip reaches its maxi mum level right at the start But you can set fade points in the clip so that the level is ramped up from silence User Manual d M Bg Page 31 at the Head to maximum at the Fade In Point and from maximum at the Fade Out Point to silence at the Tail When clips overlap the Fades become Crossfades Level Every clip has an audio level After fading in and before fading out the clip plays at th
14. 100 The Sony Ib file Loos E oiisE ossia daba 121 Copy Add or Subtract Master Time 100 The Sync Configuration File 122 Copy Last MEI 100 50 The System Page 123 Entering a VEU quepettein sitientes 100 Print Options seeeneeeee 123 Minning MUI etcetera 100 Backup Options eessesese 123 Displaying Subframes 100 File Display Sorting 123 36 The Offset Menu eene 101 Meter Settings sees 123 37 The Generator Setup Menu 102 Crossfade from Zero ssssss 123 38 The Preroll Menu 103 Fade Def on Butted Clips 123 39 Transport Commands 104 Auto Update DL File ssssss 123 Basic Controls ertaina 104 Wave Menu Audio Format 123 Special Play Commands 104 Index iuis iique na nr nan cuc XR IO XR una eaaa 124 Special Record Commands 104 Jump Keys euo cicir ii ricerca 104 Jog and Shuttle esses 104 Special Transport Menus 105 The Play Menu nein 105 The Record Menu sees 105 40 The Jogger Wheel 106 So 106 Succ 106
15. User Fields There are two User Fields shown on the default AudioBase screen It is possible to define up to 4 User Fields give them customised names and change the way the screen is laid out so that they can be seen This is explained in the section called Editing the Form The AudioBase Screen Pressing the AudioBase Mode Key changes the screen to show the following areas The AudioBase Form This area is seen in the upper section of the screen It shows a number of fields from the current AudioBase Record You can change the selection of fields shown on the form see Editing the Form below This form is used for three purposes Entering Search criteria e Displaying data in Found Clip Records Editing data in Clip Records The Record List This is the list of Found Clip Records displayed at the right side of the Track Display It can be scrolled using the Jogger Wheel and the Plus and Minus Keys Blue plus and blue minus scroll the list by pages of data The Record at the top of the List is shown in extra detail in the AudioBase form This is called the Current Record MENU J FRAME RATE SAMPLE RATEN ERU AudioBase Form freq with bac WAILER 3 Air Brakes AIR CONDITIONED ROOM AIR SWIPE AIR WHOOSH CLAST BLUE gt ALARM OFF ALARM SET OFFI ALARM SET OFF2 ALARM SET OFFS ALARM with AMBIANCE ALARMCRP1 ALARMCRP2 ALARMCRPS ALN NEIGHBORHOOD BIRD ANGELIC GLOW Angels ANVIL HIT Record APPROACH SPORTS CAR List ARC
16. 4 To exit this menu press any mode or transport key on the FAME Editing Console Page 116 d M P User Manual 47 Disk Information The following diagram illustrates some aspects of the way FAME uses a hard disk Project 2 Two different clips are referencing Master Recording 4 while one is referencing Master Recording 2 Project 2 Unused Disk Spag n One of the clips referencing Master Recording 4 has been extended at the Tail which is done by moving its Tail Pointer The clip that was accessing Master Recording 2 has been erased leaving no pointers at all to Master Recording 2 A project is spread across a number of disk segments interspersed amongst data from other files The operating system MDR DOS is especially designed so that these segments are always very large avoiding the fragmentation that can occur with hard disks generally Clips maintain pointers head and tail that tell the computer where to start and end playing Master Recordings Editing is all achieved by moving the pointers A copy of a clip is simply another set of pointers to the same Master Recording When all copies of a clip are erased there are no longer any playback point ers to that Master Recording User Manual d M E Page 117 Operations in the Space Menu Dispose removes all clips which are not used at all in the project The space they o
17. C AT C one letter or none AT CAT CHAT not CHEAT NOTE the three examples above showed what would be found with Word set to WHOLE If it was set to PAR TIAL AudioBase would find Records that contain the wildcard string so SCATTER would be found in the first example CATTLE in the second and NEUCHATEL in the third if you had such a thing in your database In fact only wildcards in the middle of a word have any effect in PARTIAL mode User Manual d M B Page 73 Use of Operators Operators are extra symbols used in Search Expressions to create complex Search Expressions A Search Expression is the text you enter in one field prior to searching In general it is made of several Terms joined by operators Here is an example cat amp dog The operator amp pronounced AND means that both terms must be true for the expression to be true In other words to get a match the field in the Clip Record must contain cat AND dog or if Match is in WHOLE mode it must be cat and it must be dog which is of course impossible A table of operators is shown below Key Operator Symbol Example Interpretation Finds M13 AND amp CA amp Starts with CA and contains I CATNIP CALLING not CAT M14 OR CA T Starts with CA or contains I CAT WHIP M15 NOT CA Does not contain CA ACT COT not CAT There are several rules for the placement of operators In most cases the software will automatically prevent yo
18. Saving Changes to a File When you have the file exactly the way you want type lt esc gt ZY This will close the file and save your changes If you want to abandon editing without saving changes type lt esc gt QY To return to the Disk Recorder program type FAME lt RETURN gt The MDR Configuration File This file contains many settings that are used by the Multitrack Disk Recorder program MDR To open it when FAME is running type CFG lt RETURN gt Editing is described in the section above omit the line ED filename lt RETURN3 gt as you have already per formed a shorthand version of it After saving the file you must restart the machine before changes take effect Important The MDR Configuration File contains many things that you should not change If you do some operations of the system may become unstable or not work at all DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING that is not described fully here The following lines may be changed ArmKeyDelay on Normally there is a delay in the reaction time of the Track Keys to allow for the possibility of double click ing Change this setting to off in order to remove this delay useful when using the Track Keys to put individual tracks into record When it is off double clicking does not work FadeDefault 72 Every clip is played with a fade at both ends unless it is butted up to another clip even when you do not specify one The value here is used every time the system powers up
19. The browser will move into the new folder immediately and you will asked to name your BU backup file See below new tapemode folder Native Sets the storage mode of an Exabyte tape allowing you to create tapes that can be read on older tape drives such as the 8200 8205 8200 compressed mode 8500 or 8505 8500 compressed mode Native mode means the most up to date mode that the tape drive can store The cursor must be highlighting the tape drive when the command is entered Press this Soft Key then use the Jogger Wheel or and keys to set the tapemode followed by ENTER Having selected a destination for the backup you will be asked to supply a name for the BU file that will be created A name is suggested by the software based on the date and time when the file was created To change this edit it using the arrow keys backspace and alphanumeric keys Press ENTER when you have the right name Press to start the backup when all desired files are marked unmark JAG Press to mark a File or Folder Marking a Folder marks all Press to unmark a File or Files inside it and those inside Folders inside it down to Folder If a Folder is un as many levels of Folders as have been created If any marked everything inside Project File has attachments to othe
20. adjust upwards to re duce frequency wob ble or downwards to reduce phasiness or reverbiness nm Allows you to choose a processing algo rithm which suits the audio con tent The choices are described next page Page 58 ame User Manual TM Stretching into a Range If you create a range while the Stretch Submenu is selected the menu changes allowing you to fit a clip into the range Scale 50 Allows you to choose between the three Wave Menu func tions Stretch Pitch bs or Varispeed When you press this Soft Key the clip under the cursor is stretched to fit the range Note that this clip may not be coloured red as it may be outside the range The process may also result in the clip being slipped since the start of the range may not be at the start of the origi nal clip Set up the range then move the transport so the cursor is touch ing the original clip then press this Soft Key to start the processing Algorithms Determines the width of the frequency window used for analysis of the audio The best policy is to set this value at 50 halfway through the range then ad just upwards to reduce fre quency wobble or down wards to reduce phasiness or reverbiness Algorithm VOICE 1 Le Allows you to choose a p
21. you may change it temporarily while the system is running The number is set in time units which are equivalent to sample periods at 48 kHz A table shows you the equivalents in subframes at various frame rates Page 120 d M P User Manual DitherOutput 24 This allows you to set the dithering of the digital and analog outputs In most cases this should be left at 24 but if you are outputting to a digital system where only 16 or 20 bits are going to be used you should set the dither accordingly DefaultInputType 1 This will set the input type for newly created projects immedately upon power up Once a project has been loaded or created all new projects created after it will inherit the patching and input type from it The num bers of the different input types can be seen in the file you are editing Note that the mixer also has a default input type and that each Title will overwrite the settings of the inputs to match their state when the Title was saved PlayInhibitThreshold 24 When you are recording a large number of tracks at once FAME may sometimes have difficulty keeping up with the disk playback bandwidth requirements Turning on this function by setting it to the number of tracks you are recording tells FAME not to try to load playback buffers on the tracks you are recording This means when you exit Record there will be no audio loaded to provide playback but this would have happened anyway if you are recording
22. 32 File exchange export see 90 Level display info ssssss 53 File Page M 15 Level Menu ccccccccccccceccccecececcccecececsecsteeeecs 53 Fill command sseeeee 39 Level Fifi tede npa dU 52 elem 17 Listen to input Lee ee ene ee Tee 23 Folders and Files 17 Lock Import Menu s 66 Fragmentation sssseeene 117 Lock to Master sssseeee 99 Free space eesssseeeeneen 82 Loop Jogging es 106 From and TO 33 LOGER es enirere eaan 110 Function Keys ssssssssess 115 Looping buzz tracks 39 G M Gain Structure System 0 26 M1 and M2 Setup e 99 Gap previous or next sss 33 Machine Control iisque Era irae s 94 Gated Recording sssses 54 MaGrOS iere een a een re oe 115 General Purpose Interface 118 Main Sreem saecu imbre stad 12 Getting Started donvenceaies 7 Main Screen illustrated sssss 13 Global clip naming sssssse 29 Managing Disk Space 81 GOTO Command sess 108 Mark number as US NN TIS 33 GPI Types see 114 Marks CIS BINE 11 Grab Men aine tes cheb ene ende 40 Marks use in setting ADD iiia rides elt 33 H Master Recording 10 22 Master Recording Number 31 Hard drive preparation
23. 5 OFF GP is inactive Switch OFF ON GPI is always e g recording ON session in progress SIMPLE Fires at a given Machine starts Time Pulse copy Fire timecode Timecode when the Sets the length of Copiesthevalue Fires GPI immedi GPI fires time GPI remains ON inthe Time field ately for testing May be set toa to the Numeric purposes If Pulse is number of millisec Register where set to HELD the onds or set to HELD it may be used GPI switches on in which case the GPI foranother and off as the key is stays on until the operation pressed and transport stops released RECORD Remainson Warning lights COMMAND Pulse Fire while the tallies indicator TIMECODE Asabove when Asabove transport is in lights for artists If this toggle is set to Timecode is ecole TIMECODE the GPI selected Not remains on whenever the available when transport is inside the Commandis ADR Menu Record range selected If COMMAND is chosen the GPI turns on only while the transport is in Record PREROLL Remainson Indicator lights COMMAND Pulse Fire while the for artists TIMECODE Asabove Asabove tranport is Similar to above prerolling POSTROLL Remains on Indicator lights COMMAND Pulse Fire while the for artists TIMECODE As above As above tranport is Similar to above postrolling ADRREH Remainson Indicator lights for Fire while the ADR artists As above menu is in Rehearse mode ADRREC Remainson Indicator lights Fire while the ADR for artists
24. Audio Freeze Frame Loop Jogging 106 The Jog Menu eese 106 The Jump Keys esses 107 Modified Jump Commands 107 Selecting Names sssss 107 41 The GOTO Command 108 Locating by Name seses 108 Special Feature inisenisi 108 42 Marks encre 109 43 Looping eere re 110 In and Out Points sessssee 110 44 Automatic Dialog Replacement ADR 111 ModS nite eee 111 In and Out Points 0 00 eect teeter eeteees 111 The ADR Menu esee 111 The ADR Menu second level 112 The Old AutoRecord Menu 112 45 The GPI Menu ee 113 GPI Type iuc nitet tcv 113 Choosing a GPI ssseees 113 The GPI Menu eese 113 Electrical Properties 113 46 Macros eene 115 Recording and Naming Macros 115 47 Disk Information 117 Operations in the Space Menu 118 User Manual Page 5 Page 6 User Manual 1 Getting Started 1 Connect a stereo audio source to analogue inputs 1 and 2 They are at the rear of the FAME mainframe Make sure the output from tracks 1 and 2 is not fed back to these inputs via your console 2 Power u
25. Button s gt Takes first external machine on _ Setu Setu M2 Button and off line When used with the p p Takes second external machine on and Blue key it opens a MENU for M1 M2 off line When used with the Blue key setting parameters for Machine 1 T La it opens a menu for setting parameters EE for Machine 2 Setu j Gen Button L e p Disk Switches the timecode generator en Na Disk Button on and off When used with the ES eS Takes the disk recorder on and off line Blue key it opens a menu used to When itis off line it does not locate nor choose outputs for the generator is any sound heard from it The precedence of the machines as Timecode Masters is fixed as follows M1 or M2 gt Disk gt Generator A machine is master when all the machines above it are off line Page 94 d M P User Manual TM Synchronisation Quick Guide Synchronisation is a complex subject in the digital world If you just want to set things up quickly and get down to work here is what to do before you record the first audio in your project 1 Set Sample Rate Digi Menu Start a new project open the Digi Menu and set the Sample Rate at which you want to finally output this project If it does not matter then choose the sample rate at which most of your digital sources are recorded If you don t care either way choose 44 100 2 Set Sync Source Digi Menu If you want the Master Sample Clock t
26. Menu Illustrated 45 The Digi Menu cec dass cata 28 Original Track E 45 House Subrrieni ces e an 28 ci eaS 45 Output Submenu s 28 E X T MA Teo or Ranges c cc c ag The Razor SubMenu on 46 Keyboard Use cecceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeneeeeeees 29 The Razor Submenu Illustrated 4 Automatic Mariinig csoeci ctetu 29 Original Track Layout eene 47 Solo Mute Disable and Safe 30 Splice EE 47 Disabling Tracks es 30 Duplicate rc 47 Tiack Safe este etes 30 Delete eed ee 47 duh MM RUN 34 17 The Track Menu eene 48 ifo MARNE HUMUS 31 Tig ae MENU MIU SMG aisa ia Master Recording Number 31 Original Track Layout ssessssse 49 e O 31 SWAP eene 49 te E CUM UE 31 ODY pasaat a 49 Syne Point ss chassis tierce tct ete tue 31 Numbers meme c E 49 Timecode Referente enn 31 Shadow ee 49 Fade eet 34 18 Fades eee 50 Env MERIT DNE SONO 32 The Fade Menu eeseeeenne 50 BU p uc UU ren 32 Fades With a Range 00 0 51 Names E E E EE E EE 32 More About Fades ssesssss 52 e Crossfades and Channels 52 Entering Data Into Fields 75 Fade Defaults esseesesssss 52 Writing into Multiple Records 75 19 The Leve
27. OFF in the M1 or M2 Setup Menu or lock the sample clock to LTC Master On The former choice gives better audio quality 5 Start Work The disk recorder will play as long as its light Disk is on and will synchronise to either M1 or M2 if one of them is lit You cannot have both M1 and M2 switched on together You cannot change sample rate after the first Master Recording has been made but you can change timecode format and machine control settings as often as you like without changing the timing of FAME s playback User Manual d M m Page 95 33 The MFX Menu This is used to select synchronisation fundamentals timecode format of FAME type of NTSC timecode etc Reopening a project will recall the settings it had when last open Display TC Format NTSC Baud Timecode Choose units for displaying time Time code TC Feet and Frames in 16mm format F F16 Feet and Frames in 35mm for mat F F35 or Hours Feet and Frames at either film speed H F F 16 and H F F 35 Use and or jog Press ENTER to con firm selection All feet and frames measurements are based on a 24 frame per second film speed regardless of the timecode format you have actu ally set Sets the frame format for video sync or chasing timecode Use the and keys or Jogger to choose 24 fps 25 fps NTSC DropFrame DF or NTSC Non Drop Frame ND Press ENTER to confirm your selection Note 29 97 38000
28. Offset So if for example you give a machine a 30 second offset it will immediately locate forward 30 seconds unless it is the Master in which case all the other machines will locate backwards by 30 seconds 2 The FAME will display the time Master minus Master Offset when the Master is online 3 Only positive offsets are allowed so if you want a minus one hour offset put in a 23 hour one Or CLEAR the Numeric Register type the number press the Minus key and then ENTER 4 To capture an offset between a Sony machine and the Disk Recorder first move the Sony machine to a timecode and take the Disk OFFLINE by Disk Now move the Sony machine to another timecode Select the OFFSET Menu then Disk and press the capture Soft Key to produce a new offset for the Disk which keeps it in sync with the Sony machine s current position User Manual d M B Page 101 37 The Generator Setup Menu The Gen Setup Menu is used to enable the functions of the timecode and MIDI Timecode generators Hold down the Blue key while pressing the Gen key3 LTC MIDI A MIDI B MIDI C MIDI D ON OFF OFF OFF OFF The Generator Menu does not work in this software LTC is generated in sync with the Disk Recorder playback whenever the Gen button is lit The MIDI timecode generators do not function Page 102 d M P User Manual 38 The Preroll Menu Each machine in FAME has its own preroll
29. Text File TI Commands Using Text Files 78 Editing the Form 79 AudioBase Glossary Clip Record An item in the database containing the information needed to play its originating clip exactly as it was when published It also contains descriptive information Originating Clip The clip which produced a particular Clip Record when its containing Project was published Field An item of data in a Clip Record Examples are Name Category Sample Rate A summary appears below Editable Fields Fields that you can change Name Category Description User Fields Automatic Fields Fields determined by the originating clip Sample rate Mono Stereo Online Offline etc Search Criteria Information you enter so that AudioBase will find the type of Clip Records you want Found Clip Records The Clip Records that are found by a Search Field Summary Each AudioBase Clip Record contains the following fields Field Name Meaning Editable Visible Name Name of Record Yes Yes Category 16 character field Yes Yes SRate Sample Rate No Yes Format Mono M or Stereo St No Yes Min Sec Duration in Minutes and Seconds No Yes Description 80 character description Yes Yes File Originating Project No Yes Line On or Off Off line means project is not on any mounted disk No Yes User 1 to 4 User nameable text fields Yes Yes AudioBase Number Identifying number No No Clip Data EQ Level Master Recording Pointers etc No No User Manual d M B Page 69
30. attempt to perform these operations will result in the system requesting a password 2 Once you have opened a file using its password all other projects with the same password will be opened without the machine requesting you to supply the password again This may apply to several passwords that have been used in a single session on the machine and the only way to make the machine forget these passwords is to restart it Page 20 d M P User Manual TM Access Modes Levels of Openness FAME operates in a networking environment and therefore must prevent conflicts between users which could compromise the integrity of file data To do this it defines five different access modes which are listed below in order of ascending openness Media Read At this level only the audio data from a Project is being read and nothing is being modified When audio clips are borrowed from other Projects see Importing for details the borrowed from Project is first opened for Project Read see below in order to check the file headers and other information that guarantee the project integrity and is then dropped back to Media Read A project open for Media Read has a book like icon on the File Page display representing it as a Library Project Read At this level the header information is being read and nothing is being modified No other user may modify the project while it is in this state Project Read occurs on first opening a fil
31. bring any clip to the top of the stack of clips at any point In all edit modes the display at the top of the screen shows the names of clips that are layered at the current timecode position on the current track As soon as you enter the Takes menu you may use the Jogger Wheel or the and keys to scroll through the layers that are listed Pressing the pop Soft Key lifts the currently highlighted clip to the top of the stack The action of popping is equivalent to cutting and pasting the clip After popping a clip to the top of the stack the Takes Menu disappears returning you to the mode that was previously selected J O O UJ L Press to bring the currently selected clip to the top layer Notes on Layering of Clips 1 Layering in an FAME Project is done from the very first clip that is created in the project Each clip is given a new layer number when it is created with the most recent clip holding the highest number in the project 2 When a clip is cut or erased its layer becomes vacant and is never filled again If that clip is later pasted from the clipboard to a track it is regarded as a new clip and so it takes the highest layer number thus far assigned That is why a pasted clip always goes on top of other clips at the same position 3 If you wish to m
32. can work with text files in two ways 1 During publication it can take data from a text file and place it into editable fields in the database The fields into which data can be placed are Name Category Description and User fields 2 It can output as part of the publication process a text file containing all the editable information about the clips from the project that was just published This file can be written to your FAME hard disk or can be exported via the Modem Port to another computer The Text File Format When AudioBase outputs a file as part of the publication the format of the first line is as follows Project Project Name Project Identification Number Between each entry there is a tab and at the end of the line there is a carriage return This line is used during subsequent republication to identify the Project to which the Text File refers Each subsequent line represents one clip in the Project It is set out as follows AudioBase Number Clip Name Category Description User 1 User 4 Between each entry there is a tab and at the end of the line there is a carriage return The AudioBase Number is written with a tilde at the beginning to distinguish it from other text It is used to identify a clip in the Project see below How AudioBase Recognises Text When you make your own Text Files you can omit the first line or just the Project identification number and still publish using this file The AudioBase num
33. characteristics and meter scaling These functions are described in other sections of this manual Do not change parameters on this page unless you know what you are doing User Manual d M A Page 11 5 The FAME Recording The Disk Recorder Page is FAME s display medium It consists of a number of different sub pages which are automatically changed to suit functions being performed You can also force the display of a screen that you m Time Line 2 r dide i Disk Light e x un ran These lines indicate a fade If the These four lanes are timing graduations in fade occurs whereclips are overlap hours minutes seconds and frames They i ping then a crossfade between the expand and contract with changing Zoom two clips results scales The finer graduations are not shown unless the Zoom scale gives at least one pixel for each unit of time in that lane The Fairlight logo flashes red when a disk is writing and blue when it is reading NOIT MENU FEF Range Size In modes that use timecode ranges to indicate the active editing area this field shows the size of the current range in timecode units The pictured mode Grab does not use a range Selected Track The track s selected for editing by lighting their Track Keys on the FAME Editing Console are shown with their numbers and track bed in a light colour Unselected Track Tracks that are not selected for editing are shown in dark colours Th
34. factory If you want to change a value remove the asterisk and change the number Then save the file and restart the system Remember it is advisable to consult your Fairlight service centre before doing anything major to this file Page 122 d M P User Manual 50 The System Page This page is used for setting some system parameters To reach it type esc S that is type the esc key then an S Your mouse is used to make changes on this page then save them to disk if necessary Whenever you wish to save the current configuration click on the SAVE icon To get out of the System Page select any mode or one of the other lt esc gt key or Blue key options see pages 2 4 and 6 Print Options Many of the fields on the S Page concern the operation of the printing software These are described fully in the section titled The Print Menu File Display Sorting Allows you to choose the order in which files are displayed on the F Page Meter Settings The Meter Calibration Law sets different curves for the channel meters There are two groups from 1 to 3 has a lower limit of 54 dB and from 4 to 6 has a lower limit of 72 dB Within each group the lower numbered curves devote more meter length to the higher levels You can change the meter calibration law at any time the meters are displayed by typing law number lt RETURN gt where number is the meter calibration law you wish to use Meter Red Level allows you to set
35. go exactly the same as Publish The Text File is created during publication and can be directed to a choice of destinations Before starting the process AudioBase will ask you for the destination You have four choices File Macin tosh PC or Unix chosen by typing the first letter of the choice If you choose File the Text File will be saved to the same hard disk where the Project is located Its name will be the same as that of the Project except for its txt suffix If you choose any of the computer types the Text File will be sent out of the Modem port using Z Modem protocol to any computer that is connected To make this happen you must have your computer connected via a serial cable between one of its communications ports and the FAME Modem port The computer must be running a terminal program and be ready to receive data You will be asked to confirm that this is the case before the command starts Import Importing is similar to publishing a Text File except that first the file is brought in from another computer After issuing the command you will asked to identify which project will be published with this Text File You may choose either Browse to find the file in the usual way Auto to tell FAME that the required identification data can be found in the Text File you are sending in or C to Cancel Once this situation has been clarified you will be asked to choose the type of computer that will be sending the data and to confir
36. have selected a menu parameter which has a numerical value or a series of choices Then they will cycle you through values and or choices For example when selecting Machine type on the Setup menu there is a list of choices The and keys advance you one at a time through this list The Jogger Wheel duplicates the action of the and keys when turned but only when it is available for this purpose i e when Jog is not selected See Jogger Wheel Priority for details Displaying Subframes Timecodes in FAME are all accurate to the subframe one eightieth of a frame But when you type timecodes you may choose to have them rounded to the nearest frame The subframe key is the same as the Clear key in the Numeric Keypad but you hold down the Blue key at the same time as pressing it When you do this the display in the LCD toggles from having subframes in it or not When subframes are not displayed the system assumes that their value is zero for all typed numbers When you edit without typing numbers by moving the transport to the edit point the number is always accurate to the subframe value displayed at the top of the video screen Page 100 d M P User Manual 36 The Offset Menu Each machine on the system can be given an Offset This is the amount by which its timecode position exceeds the FAME Editing Console s displayed time When the disk recorder is offset its position which is shown on the video screen will differ from
37. if a relative drift of more than one frame occurs This will cause a dropout in the audio Conflict of Sync If FAME is being told to synchronise to one of its digital inputs see Digi Menu and also being told to chase LTC there is a natural conflict If ever this condition arises FAME will issue an error message Compatibility with MFX2 and MFX Any project created under MFX2 or MFX can be loaded into FAME where it will be converted to a project with full FAME facilities Backward compatibility is not possible Page 98 d M P User Manual 35 The M1 and M2 Setup Menus MI and M2 are effectively machine control presets In the M1 and M2 Setup Menus you tell the system what kind of machine each preset is controlling To access the Menus hold down the Blue key and select M1 or M2 To put the preset machine on line press M1 or M2 M1 and M2 are functionally equivalent but only one of them can be on line at a time Master Yes No Type LTC A aJ ed Q Option appears only when M1 M2 is an LTC machine If switched on the system Master Clock will be driven by the incoming timecode when M1 M2 is on line Generally it is better to use video or AES EBU as a Master Reference Select the type of machine that will come on line when M1 or M2 is pressed Choices are Sony A or Sony B timecode Master see options below LTC A or LTC B 9 p
38. is exactly how UNDO worked before version 14 2 of the FAME software The Undo Menu Holding down the UNDO key causes a menu to be displayed which allows multiple undoes and redoes 12 13 Freeze Follow undo redo ON OFF ON OFF EEEE Press this Soft Key to progressively undo more levels The number above shows how many Press this Soft Key levels of undo are to progressively possible at the mo redo more levels Toggles Freeze On and Off Toggles F ollow On and When it is On editing does Off When it is On the not advance the UNDO transport will locate each counter This means if you time UNDO or REDO is press the UNDO key it will activated to the timecode take you back to the place Where the Mean TE was in your editing where you when the edit was made ment The number above turned Freeze On Pressing In addition the tracks that shows how many UNDO repeatedly will tog were highlighted at the levels of redo are gle between the last point tme of the edit will be possible at the mo you reached and the fro highlighted again This ment zen point only persists while the UNDO key is held down Notes I Immediately after an edit there are zero levels of REDO available This is regardless of how many UNDOs you made just before the edit 2 After the following operations UNDO is not possible All Space Menu operations Numbers in the Track Menu Changing frame rate when there is a clip straddling midnig
39. is replaced by a reversed version of itself This process creates a new Master Recording The audio from the Head of the clip to the cursor is Cop ied It can be Pasted as de The whole clip is Copied to the seribed above clipboard and the cursor posi tion stored as a sync mark The transport can then be moved to another time and or another track selected then the audio may be Pasted there by press Paste ing the ENTER key The part of the audio that was under the cursor when you Copied will be placed under the cursor at its M new location 0 00000 F ee The audio from the cur sor to the Tail of the clip is Copied Other wise as for Head a gt ae Paste Paste bo User Manual d M E Page 37 Edit Commands with a Range When a range is created the LCD menu changes to show alternative commands The Cut Submenu Overlap range 0 fr LJ WJ lu The contents of the range are erased The whole range is Copied to the Th tents of the clipboard clipboard and the cursor posi ee pasted so that they fill the range If necessary multiple copies of the clipboard are laid with an overlap and crossfade of the length given in the overlap field The sync point saved with the clipboar
40. rate at which the chosen sample rate will be accurately reproduced For User Manual d M B Page 97 example if you tell FAME that the NTSC frame rate is 30 in the MFX Menu and the sample rate is 44 100 it will automatically pull down the sample rate to 44 056 if you feed in timecode at 29 97 If however you change the NTSC field to 29 97 FAME will play at 44 100 at 29 97 frames per second and will pull up to a sample rate of 44 144 when timecode runs at 30 frames per second It is advisable to choose a sample rate at which you want to make the final transfer of the project Then record your material at whichever frame rate is going to be used during that final transfer The importance of this choice is that you do not want to compromise the quality of your final product by using sample rate conver sion at the moment it leaves FAME for the last time You should make these choices at the very beginning of the project and then you may use any other combination that suits your purposes temporarily during the recording and editing process Control of Sony Machines Sony machines are those conforming to the Sony 9 pin transport protocol FAME can either control one of these machines which should be connected to 9 pin Port A or B It is best if that machine is being referenced by the same house sync signal as FAME normally video If this is not possible FAME and the Sony machine are essentially free wheeling and FAME will relocate
41. than the first contains two clip names which must be the same The latter half of the line should contain category and description information from the received database 8 Remove one set of clip names and all other fields such as duration etc supplied in the received data base so that you have on each line after the first the fields listed above under Text File Format in the same order 9 Repeat step 6 from Example 1 This time AudioBase will not ask you to find the Project file because the ID and Name are written into the first line of the Text File Editing the Form The AudioBase Form can be changed from its default setup by editing a file which defines its layout To begin type lt RETURN gt This brings up an OS9 shell or text interface chd dd usr FAME lt RETURN gt ed abase form lt RETURN gt Now you will see a screen layout depicting the fields their names and sizes The first part lists the fields provided by FAME You cannot change their names or sizes and should not interfere with this part of the file The second part shows user definable fields By default the first two are activated and you can change their names from USER 1 and USER 2 to anything you like To edit their names use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the correct place use the BACK or DEL key to remove characters and use the alphanumeric key board to insert characters You can also determine how many characters will b
42. that mode will be latched Then you can make your selections at leisure before selecting another editing or transport mode You can toggle the soloed or muted tracks on or off using the first Soft Key as shown When you toggle the key back ON the FAME remembers which tracks were selected before Note Selecting a track for Muting or Soloing does not make it the current track i D i i M8 m M11 M12 2 Prev Next Any Any One One None C Disab Mute m gt o 5 6 7 8 Mi Import Proj m um S 8 SN 13 14 15 16 ocn Level Fade L ON FOLLOW e meg 4 lt m mm OFF ON 21 22 23 24 Name Track Grab Block m um um um mm SN f Ww Takes Wave Nudge Edit mmm mm Soloing Track 21 Toggles Solo or Mute Causes tracks that on or off preserving are selected in any the selection of tracks editing menu to be soloed Disabling Tracks Disk Recorder tracks can be disabled from playback This differs from muting them in that the audio data from disabled tracks is not fetched from the disk It is though those tracks do not exist This can be useful because you can place clips on disabled tracks providing extra storage or virtual tracks that are not played When you re enab
43. this is set to the official Fairlight ID which is FA But many editors do not recognise this device name because it is too recent and it is then useful to be able to give a device name that is familiar to the editor or other controller To open Sony_ID for editing first QUIT then type ED DD USR SYS SONY_ID lt RETURN gt To change FAME s device name edit the last line in the file OxFA 0xAO Change this ID to the ID for any Sony device that the controlling machine knows All the Sony devices listed in this file have their corresponding ID at the beginning of the line which can be copied over the FAME ID This will not affect the ability of another FAME to recognise it Two modes of operation for each machine may be controlled by entries in the Sony ID file A modifier called jogsh was introduced a few versions ago to fix a jitter problem on the MFX With jogshz1 default the MFX transport is held at constant speed avoiding any jitter on MFX audio output and the 9 pin machine is servoed to follow This may result in quite high jitter on the 9 pins audio tracks With jogsh 0 the 9 pin machine will travel at a constant speed with the MFX following There may thus be jitter on the MFX audio but the 9 pin machine should offer clean audio output This how the MFX used to User Manual d M B Page 121 work before this modifier was introduced Note the default value for jogsh is 1 if you want the ch
44. to patch stereo inputs Releas ing the keys makes the patch and returns the Track Keys flash indicating that they represent inputs Any number of inputs can be se lected simultaneously and the Jogger Wheel the and keys or the Numeric Keypad If you want to type a put going to all selected tracks using the Jog ger Wheel or to selecting tracks upon release they are 1 the and patched sequentially to the negative value press keys Choices selected tracks If there are the Clear key then are ANLG 10 more tracks than inputs the ANLG 44 inputs wrap around to the beginning again allowing multiple sets of the same in puts to be patched to multi AES EBU or SP DIF Mono Stereo This is not selected explicitly but is simply determined by the number of inputs patched to the track When two inputs are patched to a track it will automatically record stereo clips It is possible to have some tracks patched for mono recording and others patched for stereo It is even possible to patch an input to one track in mono and as part of a stereo pair on another track though they cannot be armed at the same time In the disk recorder a stereo pair has the following properties as distinct from any pair of mono tracks 1 Editing is always performed on both sides at once 2 The output numbers are always a consecutive pair User Manual Page 25 ame 3 If a clip overlaps a stereo clip on the preceeding
45. to a spindle A master or slave video machine will be jogged at the same time as the Disk Recorder The audio on the Disk Recorder tracks is played while you jog much like scrubbing tape This can be used effectively for locating edit points The gear ratio of the Jogger Wheel depends on the resolution of the display on the video screen so as you Zoom in and out using the Zoom key the Jogging action becomes finer and coarser respectively This allows you to jog very large distances several hours if you wish or very small ones according to the needs of the moment You can change the behaviour at the different Zoom ranges by changing the Jog Factor see next page Holding down the lt ctrl gt key while Jogging increases the speed by a factor of 4 Playback of audio will not occur if jogging speed is too far above normal play speed If audio is very jerky when jogging select a larger Zoom number Shuttle SHUTTLE is selected by pressing the Blue key with the Jog button The speed of movement through time is proportional to the angle you have turned the wheel as if it was the speed knob on an electric train set Audio playback occurs during Shuttling with the same restrictions as for Jogging Shuttle may be entered directly from Play In this case the shuttle speed will be identical to play speed when first entered and can be trimmed from there In addition the Rewind key will reverse the direction of a forward shuttle insta
46. to lower layers and lift any clip to the top layer File Lower lt Blue gt F Project open and extend Backup Import open Displays a list of files on the current storage device and information about that device Device Upper lt Blue gt D Same as file Displays a box for each storage device on line and configured in the mdr_devices file A fuel guage shows the available storage on the device in blue the size of an open file in yellow and the amount of freespace in an open file in green Marks Upper lt Blue gt M GoTo mark and Edit Marks This display shows a list of marks in numerical order with their names Three columns are shown with the active column in the centre showing timecode positions of the marks When the transport is being moved the marks display scrolls to highlight the latest mark passed by the transport Waveform Upper lt Blue gt W The waveform display shows a list of all the Master Recordings in the project This can be scrolled up and down using the arrow keys on the alphanumeric keyboard It is used for recovering clips that have been accidentally erased See Recovering Lost Clips AudioBase Upper and Lower AudioBase Shows a list of the clip records found by an AudioBase search plus an upper window with more informa tion about one of the clips System Lower lt Blue gt S This is used to change system setup parameters including print characteristics backup device options crossfade
47. to the system with the power OFF Its SCSI address must be different from that of any other disk or tape drive already attached Note its SCSI address FAME supports two different disk file systems The first called RBF Random Block File is the native file system of OS 9 the operating system used by Fairlight It will support devices up to 4 Gigabytes All boot drives must be in RBF format The second type is called FLFS Fairlight File System and was invented by Fairlight to handle devices larger than 4 Gigabytes and up to 200 Gigabytes It must be used for these large devices Power up the system Once FAME has finished its bootup sequence type at the Editing keyboard QUIT lt RETURN gt Y The colour screen will disappear leaving a text interface To initialise a disk in RBF format type diskinit tsXO v 1024 c 128 z lt RETURN gt X is the SCSI address of the drive Upper or lower case is okay You will be asked to verify that you wish to go ahead with this highly destructive operation If you confirm the initialisation takes only a few seconds A reboot is necessary after initialisation To initialise a disk in FLFS format necessary if the drive is larger than 4 GBytes type diskinit tsX0 v 1024 c 128 z w lt RETURN gt The only difference is the inclusion of the w option Formatting Optical Disks Formatting optical platters is exactly the same as formatting hard disks Making a System Disk If you want to have
48. value The actual value used at any time is the largest preroll of any of the online machines This means that you can set the system to slow down to the performance of the slowest starting machine that is currently connected Gen Postroll 1 sec E Preroll J J WW Sets the preroll Sets the preroll Sets the preroll Not active in for M1 for M2 for the Disk this revision Recorder of software Allows you to choose whether you are setting the Preroll or the Postroll which are independent of each other User Manual d M m Page 103 39 Transport Commands SHUT REW FF PLAY STOP REC Play JOG lt lt gt gt 2 r gt Menu Basic Controls The Play Stop Rewind and Fast Forward keys all behave more or less as you would expect When you want to enter record use the Record and Play buttons together The Rewind and Fast Forward keys can be pressed more than once Each extra time gives an increase in speed starting from 16 times play speed These controls will only work if either M1 or DISK is enabled Special Play Commands If you press the PLAY MENU key a menu appears in the LCD which enables special Play commands To use them press the Soft key underneath the command you want Special
49. ADE SOUND ARROW ARROW HIT AU WARP BY AVALANCHE DEBRIS AVALANCHE RUMBLE BABY SCREAMING1 BAB REAMINGe BABY SCREAMINGS KHAND FACE HARD Page 70 d M P User Manual TM The AudioBase Menu Pressing the AudioBase key brings up the following menu AUDITION search edit ON OFF paste aJ aJ G Opens the Search Opens the Edit Opens the File Submenu see be Submenu see below Submenu see below low used for find used for changing data used to enter a ing specific types in Clip Records Project s clips into the of Clip Record in database the database T Toggles Audition On and Off When Audi tion is switched On the Current Record is shown as a clip on the currently selected track and goes into play immediately The transport controls can now be used to move it in the normal way while all other clips in the Project remain stationary Press to place a clip derived from the Current Record into your Project If Audition is On the clip will have its current Play Point placed at the Project cur sor otherwise its Sync Point is placed at the cursor Paste can be used while the transport is in Play More About Paste Pasting a clip is exactly the same as borrowing it in the Import Menu This means that the clip in your project after pasting actually uses a
50. Asabove menu is in Record mode ADRPLAY Remains on while Indicator lights Fire the ADR menuis for artists Asabove in Playback mode BEEPS GPI fires three Cueing for artists Spacing Pulse Fire times leading up Time between beeps As above As above to a programmed recording PREREC GPI fires onceat Streaming lights Pretime Pulse Fire agiveninterval Set a time in frames by Asabove Asabove beforea which the GPI precedes programmed the recording recording MARKS GPI fires when Track starts for Pulse Fire transportreaches CDrecorders Asabove As above each mark in Play or Record CUEMUTE Canbeset Onor Controls whether AHEAD IN PAST Fire Offindependently original track is If toggled ON GPI is Iftoggled ON GP Iftoggled ON Asabove forthe PREROLL heardduringeach ON during the Preroll is ON during the GPI is ON RECORD and stage of the ADR section Record section during the POSTROLL recording Postroll section periods of the ADR Menu Page 114 User Manual ame 46 Macros The Function Keys labelled M1 to M15 can be turned into keystroke recorder players by pressing the Macro key When this key is illuminated each Function key fires a sequence of keystrokes on the FAME There are a further 15 macros accessed by holding down the SHIFT key and pressing a Function Key and another 15 accessed similarly with the CTRL key A group of 45 macros can be saved in a named file and loaded at will so you can have
51. Auto on the MFX Menu This determines whether ranges persist across different editing modes Please see the explanation attached to the MFX Menu Page 34 d M P User Manual 19 The Edit Menu Cut amp Paste The EDIT menu is the most powerful and flexible of the menus in FAME It is used for Cutting and Pasting clips and parts of clips It now has multitrack capability To use the Edit Menu you must first press the Edit Mode key Then 1 Select some audio and cut or copy it to the clipboard 2 Locate to the position where the audio is to be pasted and select the track s where the audio is to go 3 Press ENTER to paste the audio into the tracks This can be done many times as the clipboard remains intact until you cut or copy some new audio to it Selecting Audio Tracks are selected using the Track Keys If there is no range any clips that are touching the cursor centre line will go red indicating that they are selected If there is a range all the audio inside it will be red on the selected tracks Use the From and To keys to create or change a range see below i 2 In this example a range has been created and tracks I 2 and 4 selected The selected audio is shown in red on the n video screen B Cutting or Copying to the Clipboard B Use the Edit Menu Soft Keys to cut or copy audio to the clipboard E 2 The CUT RANGE command is issued The ghost clips LE show the contents of th
52. Feature If you press the Play Menu key and then the Play button the transport will preroll the cur rent position then Play Hold down the Record Key and a menu appears for special record commands If you release the Record Key before making a selection the menu disappears clip a GWG Causes the trans port to preroll the clip under the cur sor drop in at the Head and keep go ing in record Transport prerolls records the exact time occupied by the clip under the cursor and postrolls Transport prerolls the last record it per formed whether it was a manual or pro grammed recording repeats the same drop in and drop out points and postrolls STOP Lr The Transport backs up prerolls and drops in exactly where you pressed the button User Manual Page 105 ame 40 The Jogger Wheel The Jogger Wheel is used for many purposes in operating the FAME system These include transport func tions which are described below and changing of parameter values which is described with the appropriate menus Jog When JOG is selected on the Transport keys circular motion of the wheel moves the system forwards clock wise movement of wheel and backwards anticlockwise movement in time The movement follows your circular movement as if you were directly winding film or tape on
53. Folders under a Folder press lt Blue gt or Jump Left To select the next previous Node on the network press lt ctrl gt lt ctrl gt To select the next previous Unit on any node press lt shift gt lt shift gt To open a File press the Enter key This can only be done in the File view User Manual d M B Page 17 1 The operation of keys in this interface is very similar to that of Windows 95 2 There is no way to open a File other than by pressing the Enter key 3 Locked files have an L indication This usually means that another user has the file open 4 Any navigation moves done with the plus and minus keys e g ctrl gt can also be done with the Jogger Wheel For example holding down the Blue key and turning the Jogger Wheel anticlockwise will open the entire directory tree for the network The Project menu All file operations other than opening are done by moving the navigation point to a Folder or File and then pressing a Soft Key in this menu When there is no file open the menu looks like this delete more LJ GJ CJ The first step in any project You will be prompted for a name before you can continue so type one of Press this Soft Key to de up to 15 characters The current device number is lete a File or Folder You displayed in
54. IP clip e LJ GJ UJ Grabs the Sync Point When you move the transport and press EN mode sync is fixed TER the audio inside the clip is slipped but the Head and Tail re main fixed so the clip will start and end at the usual times but will contain different audio Toggles between Slip mode syne is redefined and Trim Pressing this Soft key selects the re ane ieee ot tne s Pe red clip s for slipping and re clip s under the cursor ime Dp OEE Move to another location wise the same as members the sync point at the and press ENTER and the for Head cursor Move the transport to any head of the clip s will be timecode and press ENTER which moves the clip s to that timecode location The part of the audio that was at the cursor will follow to its new location The clips are offset by the amount the transport has moved placed at the cursor posi tion while the Tail re The clips under the mains fixed cursor can be made to slip to the timecode where they were originally recorded by typing RTB RETURN This stands for Return to Birthday Slip Clip vs Cut amp Paste Slip clip is an alternative to cut and paste since it achieves the same result of repositioning a clip But there are some important differences a The coverage of the clips is not
55. Key and press the first Soft Key When you use the Cut submenu any clip or part of a clip you act upon is removed to the clipboard but with the Copy submenu the clips are copied to clipboard and also retained in their original position The Cut Submenu Cursor Original Clip clip The whole clip is Cut and placed on the clipboard and the cursor position stored The clip ceases to ex as a sync mark The transport can then be ist Not the same as moved to another time and or a new track Cut Clip because it selected then the audio may be Pasted does not put the clip there by pressing the ENTER key The in the clipboard but part of the audio that was under the cursor simply removes it when you Cut will be placed under the leaving the clipboard cursor at its new location unchanged The first part of the clip from the Head of the clip to the cursor is Cut and placed on the Clipboard The last part of the clip from It can be Pasted at a new location the cursor to the Tail of the clip by pressing ENTER is Cut Otherwise as for Head Page 36 d M P User Manual TM The Copy Submenu Cursor Original Clip tail LJ LJ Gu G The clip
56. LIST FILE COUNT SCSI ID LUN REMOVABLE READ ONLY DOS TYPE Node STATUS FILES Last EDIT SIZE SRATE project MT Unit Folder File Folder can be DINGS expanded SE From and To Keys press ENTER Move focus between Folder View and File View Folder view On the left side of the screen the hierarchy of items other than Files is shown in a descending indented structure From an opera tional point of view Domain Nodes Units and Folders are seen in the same way except that only Folders can be created deleted and renamed Henceforth the term Folders will be used to indicate any of these levels in the hierarchy A Folder containing other Folders is shown with a sign Navigation Jun 19 13 15 13 23 48k File view On the right side of the screen one level in the hierarchy is shown in a vertical list This level may contain Folders and Files which are con tained in one highlighted Folder on the left side of the screen At any time while browsing the Directory there is a current navigation point where a file or folder is highlighted This point may be in the Folder view or the File view To cross from the File side to the Folder side and vice versa press the From and To keys To move the navigation point up or down the screen use the and keys or the Jogger Wheel To open a Folder and reveal the other Folders and Files inside it press lt Blue gt or Jump Right To retract all Files and sub
57. Master Recording found in another Project the one shown on the Current Clip Record display If you prefer this clip to be independent type Blue paste hold down Blue while pressing paste and a new Master Recording will be created in your project This is the same as keeping in the Import menu If the Clip Record you are auditioning has a different sample rate from that of your current Project it will play at the same rate as this Project This means its pitch and duration are different from the original A warning to this effect appears on the screen Use the Wave Menu Varispeed Submenu to correct the sample rate More About Audition While Audition is on only the Current Record can be heard The other clips on the screen do not move and are placed there just to show you their layout To regain control of the normal transport turn Audition OFF This will cause the Clip Record to disappear while you relocate the Project in the normal way Turning Audition ON again will start playing the current Clip Record from its Head While Audition is on the Jump Keys can be used to jump to point If you have placed a sync point in the clip before publishing it will also be in the Clip Record see Grab Menu Trim Sync for information about the Sync Point This is an easy way of storing useful sync points in your sound libraries To hear a different Clip Record use the and keys or the Jogger Wheel to scroll the list then turn Audition Off an
58. NPUT display eiit 11 Editing Mode Keys sssessss 8 Input monitoring eese 23 Editing selection ecu 32 Input Submenu illustrated 16 End of Waveform sssesesss 66 Insert silence seseessssss 46 Entering Record ied 26 J Entering Timecode Values 94 100 Equalisation saxseaiienretscsedeetentenversanasentiens 56 dod cos a SEE 104 Erase pointer eee 117 Jog Meilen 106 Export Meri nit actes 90 Jogger Wheel eene 106 Extend oen aed dios 66 JUD aa ecc EE 104 Extend project sius tneda ite teies 20 Jump YS socscaunimodasiticoed coves cainweattetees 107 F Jump to clip name sseess 107 Fade Def on Butted Clips 123 K Fade De fa lta enrian 52 KeSPA 66 Fade MENU cccccecceceeeessessesesstscaeseeeeeeeees 50 Keep all borrowed clips 81 Fade on screen a 12 Keyboard Map alternative ss 8 Fast Forward ssssssssss 104 Feet and frames ssusss 96 L Fields ANY ALL aeee 73 Last date of modification 15 File browsing eeeen 17 EEN E RETRO NEMORE 32 File display esses 11 Layer control eenes 64 File Display Sorting e 123 fo E E A E
59. R TIME A indicates marked ATTACHED LIBRARIES l web2 soB CYEAH WAV mun 4 19 29 495 0Kb Current highlighted choice Select the attached libraries to be backed up Press enter when done Page 86 d M P User Manual TM At the same time a new menu is displayed LAM lt Takes Wave Nudge Edit d 9 C c Mark all the Unmark all the Mark the currently Unmark the currently displayed files displayed files highlighted file highlighted file When you have marked all the attached files you want to back up press ENTER to return to the previous screen Backup Progress Display Once a backup has begun the display shows its progress estimating the time to completion based on the current speed of transfer to the backup device Because multiple source devices are involved and because variable data compression algorithms may be used by the backup device these estimates may not always be accurate Backup occurs in the background allowing other work to continue normally Once the backup has started you may visit other menus and perform other tasks such as editing or recording but whenever the disk recorder needs to get audio from the disk the backup process is stalled Any time you return to the Backup Menu you can see the progress of the backup The backup can
60. Record Commands If you hold the RECORD key down a menu appears temporarily on the LCD which enables special record options non latching Supermode To use them keep holding the key down then press the Soft key under neath the command you want If you release the Record key without pressing any Soft key no action results there is no one touch record in the FAME system Jump Keys The JUMP keys allow you to locate to convenient places quickly Hold the key and select any item from the menu or simply release the key to choose the default the last item you chose from the menu Jog and Shuttle These two transport modes are designed for movement under the direct control of the user Page 104 d M P User Manual TM Special Transport Menus The Play Menu The transport prerolls the location of the last edit i e the timecode where the transport was located when the last edit took place The transport prerolls the Head of the clip under the cursor on the cur rent track If there is no clip under the cursor on the current track it uses the next clip if there is one A clip is a single recording on the Disk Recorder port prerolls the Tail The Record Menu As in Head except the trans Plays exactly the same piece as last time Play Menu As in Head except the transport prerolls the start of the Fadeout Special
61. Source Track and the Target Track For example the Copy command will copy the audio from the Source Track to the Target Track The Source Track is selected on the Track keys before the command is issued and the Target Track afterwards swap numbers AJ UJ Gu G The audio on the Source Track is swapped with the audio on the Target Track The audio on the Source Track has the effect of mask ing the Target Track for the Range only where there are clips This may be used for example in replacing sync dialogue where the post sync is heard in preference to the sync but must be on a different track It saves you the trouble of editing the sync dialogue out for the Range Swaps the numbers of the two tracks and hence their physical outputs and their po sitions in the display This operation is not subject to the UNDO The audio in the Range on the key Source Track is moved to the The audio in the Range on the Target Track Press the Move key and the Track keys will begin to flash prompting you to select the Target Track Making that selection com pletes the operation Source Track is copied to the Target Track Press the Copy key and the Track keys will begin to flash prompting you to select the Target Track Making that selection com pletes the operation After yo
62. WS a lt RETURN gt This stands for Waveform Show ALL Each referenced Master Recording will show you the name of the first clip that references it If you want to return to a display of only the UNREFERENCED master recordings type WS lt RETURN gt User Manual d M m Page 83 29 Bulk File Handling the Backup Menu The Backup Menu provides four file handling commands which all use the same scheme for choosing files The commands are Move moves all the marked files from their current locations to one target directory Copy copies all the marked files from their current locations to one target directory Backup as in copy but a BU backup file is also created listing the files involved and the locations they came from This is stored in the target directory where all the backed files have been copied Restore the reverse of backup restore opens the BU file and uses it to mark the files They can be sent back to their original location or to anywhere else on the system The Backup Menu can work with files anywhere in your system copying and moving them between hard disks and on and off Exabyte tapes All operations operate in the background and are suspended whenever FAME needs to access its hard disks for play or record When backing up or restoring from tapes files cannot be appended to the end of existing tapes so they are always erased as part of the procedure The Main Menu In this menu the choice
63. a lot of tracks simultaneously for more than about 10 seconds This parameter does not normally need to be altered unless you are doing a lot of recording with more than 16 tracks armed BeepsTrackNumber If you are using the ADR Menu and you have set one of the GPIs to BEEPS you will also get audible beeps from one of the outputs This parameter allows you to choose the track that the beeps will output It may be the track you are recording on if you want BeepsVolume Sets the audio level of the beeps Set it to 99 if you do not want any beeps BeepsFrequency Sets the frequency of the beeps in Hertz MinSegmentDuration 0 Sometimes a large amount of editing can result in lots of tiny clips sandwiched between larger ones These clips are played but not really heard and can absorb a lot of disk bandwidth by requiring a single disk seek to fetch only a few inaudible samples By setting this parameter to a non zero number these unnecessary seeks are avoided In addition any files that are being passed to the DaD will play much better if this param eter is set to 16 or more samples The Sony_ID file The Sony ID file tells the system about the characteristics of different 9 pin devices such as how many analog and digital tracks it has and whether it is a fast or slow machine There is one line of importance that you can change When FAME is emulating a 9 pin device it replies to the controlling machine with a device ID Normally
64. a spare bootable hard disk that can be used in case of failure of your main disk type the following chd dd lt RETURN gt This puts you into the root directory of your current system disk where the relevant files are to be found bootgen tsX0 dd bf lt RETURN gt This creates a bootblock on the target drive X is the SCSI address of the drive To install software on a hard drive first you need a release file There may be one on your hard disk al ready To find out type dir lt RETURN gt This searches the directory for all files If the system displays any file something like 15 1 08 gz then that is a release file The numbers should be the same as those of the software version you are currently running this is printed in the FAME Editing Console whenever you QUIT from the FAME application If you do not already have the correct release file for your current system software type xrelease lt RETURN gt Now type upgrade lt RETURN gt The screen will change to show you a list of choices and you should first choose the software version you want out of the listed choices The system will then start the Media Daemon which checks for available devices on the SCSI bus You should then choose the SCSI address of the disk you want to upgrade After the software has run its routine it should restart the system but if not you should do it by typing RESTART lt RETURN gt Y User Manual d M Bg Page 119 49 Configuratio
65. ame but for an ID number or cookie If you copy or backup a file the file ID number is preserved and you will have two files on the system with identical cookies MEX will not know which one to borrow audio from and may reference the wrong file If you wish to create a fresh copy of a file from which to borrow audio or make extensions you must EXTEND the original file and then use Keep All Borrowed rather than simply copy the file 2 If you have subsequently edited the Import project then trimmed and committed the original clip so that part of the waveform you have borrowed no longer exists you will receive the error message End of Waveform each time the system tries to play the clip This will not result in anything worse than not hearing that part of the clip See Space Menu for details about Committing a clip 6 The extend command on the Project Menu which is available on open projects only uses an Import like function to extend a project to another storage device It effectively imports all of the clips from a project into a new one and also copies marks track names etc 7 Opening a Project for Import or even re attaching it later when a Project containing borrowed clips is reopened raises the Library Project to Project Read access mode If the Project is already open for editing Append Write mode by another network user permission to reattach the Project will be denied Page 66 d M P User Manual TM Building a S
66. and erasing Clip B we find that Clip A has been trimmed as before but it can still be extended using the Trim command This is because whenever there is a clip anywhere in the project that references the same Master Recording even partially the Master Recording will not be touched allowing the uncommitted clips to be trimmed out to their fullest possible extent Notes Disposing and Committing create blocks of free space that can be used by the project They cannot however be used by any other project or file because the blocks are inaccessible little islands in the middle of the project Packing shoves all the data down towards the beginning of the file so that it occupies a continuous block and then gives back the empty piece at the end An illustration of this is provided on page 116 To regain the maximum possible disk space highlight the whole project from Mark zero to Mark 999 then Dispose Commit and Pack The first two operations are virtually instantaneous All Space Menu operations are permanent No UNDO When Committing nothing will happen to the Master Recording that a clip is referencing unless the selected range contains all clips that reference it It is a very good idea to dispose often during recording sessions Each time a useless recording is made UNDO it to remove it from sight then dispose The next recording will immediately occupy the freed disk space Committing with Handles set to ALL is a way of r
67. and is not copied into the destination clips off for copying After pressing copy you may change tracks or make a range to include new clips in the copy destination Pressing ENTER causes the copy to occur User Manual d M B Page 57 22 Time Compression and Expansion FAME provides powerful DSP functions which allow you to perform the following functions Stretch Pitch Varispeed changes the duration of a clip without affecting its pitch changes the pitch of a clip without affecting its duration changes pitch and duration in proportion similar to changing the speed of a tape recorder The software will allow you to change pitch or duration from between one quarter to four times the original length or pitch but the sound may not be acceptable at the extreme settings Each time a process is started a new Master Recording is made with the new pitch and or duration A new clip is also created and placed on top of the original If you do not like the sound and UNDO the process the original sound will be present but the new recording is still on the hard disk You should use the dispose command to free up the disk space it is occupying see Space Menu for more information The audio format of the new Master Recordings created by the Wave menu may be chosen on the System Page The Wave Menu The first Soft Key on this menu allows you to choose which of the three DSP processes you wish to use The other Soft Ke
68. anged behaviour the expression JOGSH 0 must be added to the end of any machine s line Also note that some machines will not jog faster than play speed when jogsh 1 e g Sony DigiBeta If the expression STOPSTILL 1 appears at the end of a machine s line then the machine will be given a pause command rather than a STOP command after a Preroll This can prevent some machines from unlacing on STOP e g Sony DigiBeta A sample line in the SONY ID file may now look like this 0x10 0x48 SONY U MATIC SP VO 9800 jogsh O0 stopstill 0 The Sync Configuration File This file contains some settings that are used by the synchronisation system To open it for editing first QUIT then type ED DD USR SYS TCS CFG RETURN This file contains a number of things that you can change But do not touch them unless you know exactly what you are doing because you could stop the system from working properly Fairlight will not take respon sibility for changes made to this file without supervision The explanations in the file tell you what can be changed Most of it is only relevant to the system program mers but there are some Environment Variables which are like Preferences towards the end of the file Each of the lines setting the Environment Variables has an asterisk at the beginning This means the line is not actually being used but a hard coded value for the variable is active The value shown in the line is the one hard coded at the
69. ar 9 18 31 0 49 44ki SAMPLE RATE amk LEEA While backup restore in progress MWH PROJECTS i Mar 9 12 52 REELS 1 n Man 9 forse RELEASE FILES SOUND EFFECTS TEMP PROJECTS TEST GFX 2222 TEST sc4 Highlighting indicates current file being backed up or restored L indicates locked because marked for backup restore Page 89 User Manual 30 The Export Menu The Export menu allows material to be exported from FAME Projects into a variety of formats dubber file WAV export exchange Export n LJ Exports a file to the root of the current disk drive which can Exports a file to the root of the Opens the WAV dr current disk drive which can be py ont submenu Submenu used RA E Ve s read by Fairlight s File Exchange ed for turnin i for out uttin an Dubber product The file will partners The file will be named FAME audio e F pss MS i M neo AXX DL where XXXML where XXX MT is the Wav files Seenext Redbook CD XXX MT is the name of the cur name ot The currently open rentl Proj A LM page over SCSI y open Project Project Opens the CD The CD Submenu The CD submenu allows one track of stereo or mono audio to be written directly to a Yamaha CRW4416S Compact Disc writer note this model changes from time to time please consult your Fairlight distribu
70. ard cessa es 35 More Project Menu Options a 19 The Edit Menu mranma 36 Password Protection ssuuusss 20 The Cut Submenu nnne 36 Multi User File Access 21 The Copy S bmenu a foe a The Clp MUN 22 Edit Commands wiit a Range ssai 38 Tia Code Rasen cione E 22 The Cut Submenu sss 38 Overlapping Clips esses 22 The Copy a r111 1212111 t 39 TNE MACK i e EEE 22 THE IN MANA aaas The Current Track cccsceeceeseeeesseeeeeeeees 22 ins Ihe Grab Menu e 40 Recording crees 23 Slip Submenu e 40 The Arm Menu seen 23 Slip Clip vs Cut amp Paste cucine 40 The Arm Submenu sss 23 1m Submenu xA EE ce V EE Al The Input Submenu 25 Restore Trimmed Audio 41 Metering Input Levels 26 SLIP TRIM hla cc re ca ace M Entering Record oaeiai iaeiiai iinan 26 Grab Menu MWustrated eene Using the FAME Record B 15 The Nudge Menu 43 g the ecord Button 26 Timecode Track sss 26 Range inenteennnnennnnnnnnnennnnennenennnnennnnenntnnennene 43 Piaya aisea eui 26 16 Block Editing 44 Punch in PUNCH OUt ccccccccccccccccceccceeeeee 27 The Dubber SubMenu usssss 44 Automatic Drop in siseses 27 The Dubber
71. ate of all digital outputs will also sync to the digital input which may cause digital synchronisation conflicts downstream from the FAME For example trouble may occur if at the same time as recording your digital input your FAME outputs are feeding the inputs of a digital console If you choose INPUT the digital console will be required to sample rate convert all of FAME s outputs or synchronise with its Master Clock The best solution to digital sync conflicts is to drive all digital devices from a single studio wide word clock signal Then all devices will have identical word rates so whispers never occur and digital interconnections may made with ease In this instance FAME s sync HOUSE option is always used Pull up and Pull down The normal sample rates used by the digital audio industry are 32 000 44 056 44 100 and 48 000 samples per second The normal frame rates are 24 25 29 97 and 30 These last two may cause confusion when used together FAME can alter its sample rates far enough to accommodate the small speed change caused by going from 30 to 29 97 frames per second and back again In other words if you slow down the frame rate from 30 to 29 97 FAME can slow its internal sample rate to match This is called Pull up or Pull down depending in which direction you are taking the speed When you choose a frame rate you are telling FAME what frame rate to expect To put it more scientifi cally you are telling it the frame
72. ay the System Page type lt BLUE gt S You may now use the mouse to choose 9 24 or 48 pin printers You may also set the size of your paper if you want to print two pages of tractor feed paper with no header at the top of the second page set the page length to double Also Printer Head Density Sets more or fewer dots per inch More dots per inch will give you a smaller picture Pixel Density X Axis Controls the number of dots used More dots will give a wider picture Pixel Density Y Axis Similar to X Axis Printer Compression Removes vertical space where nothing is happening i e no clip is starting ending or being labelled The lower this number the more space is removed therefore the more project time will appear on each page When compression is set to zero the maximum space is removed Join Clips This feature is designed to prevent the printing of large numbers of small clips that have been edited together to make a composite sound It works together with the Minimum Gap parameter to print a single shape for many clips When set to ALWAYS it treats clips that are butted together or overlapping as just one clip The name of the earliest clip is used SAME NAME joins butted clips together only if they have the same name Minimum Gap in Frames The Join Clips software will treat clips as though they are butted together as long as they are closer than this minimum gap It also has the effect of qua
73. be stopped at any time by pressing the STOP Soft Key You will be asked to confirm this wish before it is carried out The Restore Submenu In this menu files listed in a BU file are marked for restore and then the operation is started When the original backup was performed all the marked files plus the BU file were placed in a single directory and this is where they must be found in order to be restored First you must browse to a BU file then press the restore Soft Key The video screen now displays the list of files that were backed up at the time the BU file was created and you may move up and down the list in order to mark the files J G n Press to start the Press to mark a file for restore Press to unmark a File restore when all A dialog box will appear ask required files are ing for confirmation This is de marked scribed below User Manual d M B Page 87 Each time you mark a file for restore a dialog appears naming the file and telling you the directory where it was originally located You are now being asked what you want to do and the replies are as follows Okay restore the file back to its original location If there is already a file of that name present you will be asked if you want to overwrite it All okay restore all files I mark to their original locations without as
74. be there when you reopen it You can edit or delete marks at any time by pressing Edit Mark that is hold down the Blue key and press the Mark key Then you get a menu for editing marks Renumbers the marks to con form with their chronologi cal order in the project Use this key to select the mark you want by number Type the number of the mark you Allows you to copy the Removes the se want to edit then press EN TER Or use the and keysor the Jogger Wheel to advance through mark num bers When you first enter the Edit Mark menu the number shown will be the last mark you created or selected Notes time in the Numeric Display to the selected mark You can edit the Numeric Display as much as you like be fore pressing ENTER to copy the time Press this key then you can name or rename the selected mark by typing a name of up to 20 char acters and pressing the ENTER key lected mark from the project 1 Making and naming marks can be done during recording no other form of editing is allowed at that time You can enter the Edit Marks menu press the Mark key to create a mark then immediately press the name Soft Key type a name and press ENTER because the newly created mark is always the current one for naming 3 You can create special Beat Marks for musical uses by typ
75. ber at the begining of each line and the tab separating it from the next part is also optional You can still use the data without this identification How AudioBase Recognises Text When you tell AudioBase to publish a Text File it must match up the file and its contents correctly with a Project It will do this automatically if the information is correct The File For AudioBase to recognise a text file it must have a name of the format XXX txt where XXX is any string of up to 15 characters not including illegal ones space amp N B an underscore is shown as a space on the video screen The system recognises no difference between upper and lower case AudioBase has three ways to associate a particular text file with a particular Project Here they are in order of priority Project Identification number matches the one in the Project e Project Name on the first line matches the Project Name this is unreliable if there is more than one Project in your system with that name AudioBase will choose the first one it finds The name of the Text File is the same as that of the Project not counting the suffixes ditto If none of these conditions is true AudioBase will ask you to choose which Project goes with this text file at the time you start publication Clips AudioBase has two ways to associate the text describing a particular clip with the same clip in the Project Here they are in order of priority The Audi
76. c mark edit menu sss 36 Waveform cccceeececccceeceeeeecaeaeseeeeeeeeeeess 12 Sync Point eene nnn 31 Waveform display sseessssse 11 Sync point for slipping 40 Waveform display amplitude 53 Synchronisation Quick Guide 95 Waveform Show Command 83 System Disk eene 119 Wildcards AudioBase 73 System Page sss 123 Writing 10 C D eiue re donnes 90 T X Talea acess tee eeeeeecc eee 10 31 X Level in fades 50 Takes display sssessss 11 X Ratio in fades sarcen 50 Takes MOriu iiir esit steer 64 Z Takes Screen ssssssssseee 13 Tape Mode Recording i2 nins 24 vorn i NUNT REEL ENTENDER INN 9 106 Threshold idt 54 Zoom range on screen ssssssss 13 Thru monitoring eiennenn 23 Time Compression and Expansion 58 TMINE 12 2 orent nae dee eds 12 Time Reference c ccccccccecceeceeeeeeeeteees 22 Time SUC erecti 58 Timecode 0 0 ceeceeceeeseeeeeceeeeeseeeeeeeeeeseeeaeeees 26 Timecode Arithmetic 100 Timecode chase setup 99 Timecode drift esecek 97 timecode format ssssssss 96 Timecode Generator 102 Timecode Marks
77. ccupied becomes avail able for further recording in this file but not for other projects Project 2 Unused Disk Sp Free Project Space The Dispose Command has removed Master Recordings 2 and 3 because there are no pointers to them Commit removes all the parts of recordings that have been edited out i e are not within the pointers Unused Disk Spac The space thus freed becomes avail able for further recording in this file but not for other projects Project 2 The Commit command has removed sections of Master Recording 4 that were not being referenced by any clips Pack squeezes all the remaining au dio data into contiguous space within the file segments by copying into the free space within the file At the end of this process the free space is right at the end of the file and this is then truncated so that it becomes true free disk space Project 2 Unused Disk Space The Pack command has moved all of the audio so that it occupies the least possible space on the hard disk The extra space that was inside the file is released as free disk space that can be used by any file Page 118 d M P User Manual 48 Preparing Drives for Disk Recording It is assumed that any new hard drive you buy will be preformatted with a suitable sector size To ensure that this is the case only buy drives that have been approved by Fairlight Attach the new disk drive
78. changed so you can slip a clip under another clip whereas you can only paste a clip on top of another b Slip clip can be UNDONE with one keystroke while cut and paste is two actions and therefore cannot be reversed using the UNDO button once Page 40 d M P User Manual Trim Submenu clip LJ LJ L Toggles between Slip Grabs the Sync Point mode sync is redefined Press ENTER at any and Trim mode sync is timecode and the fixed Sync Point will be re located within the clip without anything else changing Grabs both Head and Tail Move the transport to another SMPTE time and press ENTER Both the Head and Tail are moved while the audio maintains the same sync relationship to Time Code This results in a different part of the clip being played but sync be ing maintained Grabs the Tail of the clip Oth erwise the same as for Head Grabs the Head of the clip When you move the transport and press ENTER the Head will be relocated making the Clip longer or shorter but the sync of the clip remains unchanged Restore Trimmed Audio Trim head or tail is important because it is the only way to put back parts of a clip that have been removed by editing SLIP TRIM Toggle A new feature for this menu allows you to choose whether you want SLIP or TRIM to be
79. cme AUDIO MIXER EDITOR Edit User Manual Software Version 15 1 Part Number MANFAM3P Document Number 126 Manual by Andrew Bell Copyright June 1999 Ref MFX Rev15 1 Manual 99 06 THE BENCHMARK IN DIGITAL AUDIO Important Notice The material in this document is copyright to Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd and may not be quoted or reproduced in any form without written permission from the company LIMITED WARRANTY POLICY All the software and hardware provided with or purchased especially for Fairlight products has been tested for functionality Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd will make its best efforts to correct reported defects for future releases subject to technical practicabilities Fairlight ESP will also replace any defective media on which software has been delivered provided that the item to be replaced is returned to the dealer who supported the product within 90 days of purchase Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd makes no warranty or representation either expressed or implied with respect to the system s performance or fitness for a particular purpose In no event will Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd be liable for direct or indirect damages arising from any defect in the product or its documentation Further Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd will not accept any liability for any programs sounds audio recording or sequences stored in or used with Fairlight products including the cost of recovery of such data The warranties remedies and disclaimer
80. comes on when the level has stayed below the threshold for longer than the hold time i e gating will now occur 3 When COMMIT is toggled ON the system will ask you to confirm by pressing the ENTER key before anything destructive happens While the computer is waiting for confirmation you may play the audio to check whether it is okay before pressing ENTER To escape at this point press any soft key or mode key 4 See next page for illustration of the gating parameters Page 54 d M P User Manual Gate Menu Illustrated Original Audio El Example 1 Handles ag a D As A ud id ax NN d vw a a v Py i Ey EN Example 2 Handles pw are UN Ww Y g Hold MN fa M m Page 55 21 Equalisation FAME provides 4 band equalisation on each clip in the project in addition to automated track based equali sation The equalisation settings are stored in the clip and are carried forward when the clip or any part of it is copied split or moved The settings are fixed within each clip so if a change is required the clip must be split at the point where the change is to happen One track at a time may be selected in this menu The EQ Menu The EQ Menu is used to change the equalisation setting of a clip The behaviour of this menu is quite unlike any other in the FAME system as it provides real time fee
81. content The tone You may use the halfway through the range choices are the same Numeric Ke A or the en adjust upwards to reduce as for the Stretch Josper i a 4 or frequency wobble or down submenu which are i To increment or dec Wards to reduce phasiness described on the pre chs or reverbiness vious page rement by whole semi tones use lt Blue plus gt or lt Blue minus gt Press EN TER to start the pitch change process Using the Pitch Submenu with a Range If you have a range set up with the pitch submenu it is possible to change the pitch of all clips that are entirely within the range The procedure is the same as for one clip Page 60 d M P User Manual TM The Varispeed Menu Varispeed does exactly the same thing as changing the speed on a tape recorder the pitch and duration are affected inversely FAME offers two ways of setting up the varispeed ratio one by pitch and the other by duration time This is selected on the Measure Soft Key Varispeed with Time Measurement Mode VARI percent target Allows you to choose be tween the three Wave Menu functions Stretch Pitch or Varispeed Press this Soft Key then en ter the percentage which the varispeeded clip will be of the original clip This can be done using the Numeric Keypad or the Jogger Wheel and and keys The allow able range
82. d On again While Audition is on the Timecode on the video screen displays the elapsed play time of the Current Record but the Project Timecode position does not change Audition uses the normal system Preroll If you Audition a Clip Record with a different sample rate from your Project it will play at the Project sample rate This means its pitch and duration are different from the original User Manual d M Bg Page 71 The Search Submenu Pressing the Search Soft Key brings up the following menu used to enter Search criteria Press the RETURN key to begin the search AUDITION search ON OFF paste options 23200 This kev is lit while the Explained Opens a further submenu for set Search ead ied previously ting AudioBase search options i Explained Pressing it again exits the PAD submenu without execut Opens the Edit preueus Submenu without ing the search doing a search The Search Options Submenu Match Fields START ALL ANY n a This key is lit while Turns options OFF and re the Options Submenu turns you to the main Search is open Pressing it submenu exits Search mode Press to choose whether without executing searching will find Clip any s
83. d is placed at the new cursor position tion stored as a sync mark From there it may be Pasted to a new location by pressing the ENTER key The whole range is back timed i e the part of the audio that was under the cursor when you pressed the range Soft Key Sets the overlap and crossfade will be placed under the cursor at length for the fill command If the its new location overlap is more than half the length of the clipboard then half the length is used instead This diagram shows the range before copying to the clipboard From Point Cursor To Point After copying the clipboard contains only the highlighted audio with the cursor position saved as a sync point aie ome The video screen displays the clipboard outlines showing you what will be pasted in when you press ENTER Page 38 d M P User Manual TM The Copy Submenu Overlap range 0 fr b f fill The contents of the clipboard are pasted to fill the range but every second copy of the clipboard is pasted in reverse first a reverse version of the clipboard must be created This may be used to smooth out fills which bump at the ends The Fill Command 1 The fill command is designed to use with atmospheres and buzz tracks A sect
84. dback of the settings as you change them After you have achieved the sound you want press ENTER to write it into the clip The EQ menu may use a range in which case all clips in the range are changed at the same time Making Parameter Selections Each equalisation band has three parameters you can change They are centre frequency of the band gain cut or boost at that frequency and Q factor sharpness of the band or whether it is a high or low shelf The Numeric Keypad is used to select EQ parameters as shown below BLUE High 7 8 19 1T 2T lt Blue gt lt gt turns a band into a low shelf when its Q is selected High Mid 4 5 6 lt Blue gt lt gt turns a band into a high shelf when its Q is selected 4T 8T LowMid 1 2 3 Low 0 00 Subf ve Clear Freq Gain Q Parameter Display Current EQ parameters are shown at the top of the screen when the EQ menu is active helping you to see what is active and what values are current The layout of the parameter values is exactly the same as the layout on the Numeric Keypad A graph helps you to see what is going on EQ In Out Use the EQ In Out Soft key to toggle the EQ on or off at any time This action will affect the clip under the cursor or all clips in the range if any The on off position of this switch is stored in the clip a
85. diting the Form seeseesssss 79 22 Time Compression and Expansion Pide 58 26 Undoing CIES eres 80 The Wave Menu ee 58 Undo Togggling e 80 The Stretch Submenu ccce 58 The Undo Menu ee 80 Stretching into a Range 59 27 Managing Disk Space 81 Algorithms isisisi 59 Throwing Out Rubbish 81 The Pitch Submenu ccm 60 FRANC e E 81 Using the Pitch Submenu with a Range 60 The Space Menu eese 81 The Varispeed Menu sssse 61 28 Recovering Lost Clips 83 Varispeed with Time Measurement 61 The W Display eene 83 Using a Range sse 62 The Recover Waveform Command 83 Varispeed with Pitch Measurement 63 The Waveform Show Command 83 Usinga Rarige eere estis 63 29 Bulk File Handling the Backup Menu 84 23 The Takes Menu 64 Marking Attached Files sss 86 Notes on Layering of Clips 64 Backup Progress Display 87 24 The Import Menu 65 More About File Management 89 More About Importing ees 66 Warning on Overwrite
86. dy to paste anywhere you like Select track 1 and Jump to the start of the clip there Now select track 4 and press the Enter key You have pasted your clip in at a new position and on a different track User Manual d M m Page 7 Macro Keys When the Edit Macro key is lit these play back user definable keystroke sequences that have been recorded in the Edit Macro Menu There are an extra 15 macros accessed by holding down the lt Shift gt key and another 15 with the Ctrl key These are named lt SM1 gt to lt SM15 gt and lt CM1 gt to lt CM15 gt Macro Master Key Turns Macro keys MI to M ON With Blue key pressed enters Edit 2 The FAME Editing Editing Mode Keys Each Editing Mode key displays a set of choices on the LCD screen to the right relating to disk editing activities To access a Mode written in Blue hold down the Blue key while pressing the Mode key To leave a Mode simply select another M1 M7 M4 N fws M2 n Macro a mode for recording and S olo Mute naming Macros m m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Digi g Import Arm Proj mm Em Am um Uum Um E Track Keys cm EU These 24 keys represent audio tracks x 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 pe ced during editing Some editing menu
87. e Shows the Zoom number from 1 to 16 of the horizontal scale Higher numbers indi cate finer display less time on screen Shows information about the clips pieces of audio on the currently selected track You also see layers of clips that are underneath and cannot be heard This screen is automatically displayed whenever you enter an editing Menu You can also force its display by typing lt Blue gt k Takes Screen D 2 4TScreen Shows four tracks You can select this screen by typing Blue 4 gt The features of this screen are identical to those of the 24 16 12 8 and 1 track displays They are selected by typing lt Blue 0 gt lt Blue 2 gt Blue 1 lt Blue 5 gt and lt Blue 7 gt respectively Unselected Clip Clips must be touching the cursor in order to be selected unless a range is used by the editing mode In either case unselected clips are shown in blue and are not affected by editing commands Track Names Each track can be named in the Name Menu These names are fixed in position on the screen User Manual ame Page 13 6 The Device Explanation of Terms Name of the current 4 Gbyte hard drive Number of SCSI ID and The timecode frame open project if any see by Seagate SCSI items in cur Logical Unit rate for the project Starting a Project address 0 rent direc Number of see MFX Menu tory view current disk Each storage device ha
88. e automatically This consists of the seedname set in the Name Menu above plus a number which is incremented by one each time a clip is created When creating the seedname you can add a number at the end and it will be taken as the starting number to be incremented If there is no seedname set new clips are given a number only If you select the TRACK toggle it is possible to set a seedname for each track As long as TRACK remains selected the track seedname will be used when recording on any track which has one The GLOBAL seedname is used whenever the toggle is set to GLOBAL or when you have not set a seedname for the track in record Legal Characters Use only the following characters in names A Z a Z 0 9 underscore User Manual d M B Page 29 10 Solo Mute Disable and Safe Disk Recorder tracks can be soloed and muted from the FAME Editing Console To choose which tracks are to be soloed or muted hold down the SOLO or MUTE key and use the Track Keys to make your selection Disabled tracks see below will flash indicating that they are not available for soloing or muting When you release the Solo or Mute key FAME will return to the Mode you were in previ ously For example hold down the SOLO button and select Tracks 3 and 4 They are soloed Release the SOLO key and its LED will flash indicating that the Disk Recorder has tracks SOLOED If you prefer press and release the Solo or Mute key and
89. e clipboard B Selecting Destination Tracks B After cutting or copying audio to the clipboard pressing any track key will cancel the previous selection and select a destination pattern based on what was cut or copied You may change that selection before pasting The screen shows you an outline of what is to be pasted After moving location and selecting track 5 Tracks 6 and 8 o EE ES are automatically selected The ghost clips show where them clipboard will go if ENTER is pressed gt Pasting From the Clipboard Press the ENTER key to paste the clipboard contents into the selected tracks If the clipboard contains more tracks than you have selected less than the full clipboard is pasted If you have selected more than the number on the clipboard only the number on the clipboard are pasted After pressing ENTER The ghost clips have become real clips in their new location N B B Other Paste Commands The FILL commands are available in the Edit Menu only when a range is present They are used to paste into a specific range The Blue Paste command creates new recordings made from the contents of the clipboard User Manual d M E Page 35 The Edit Menu The Edit Menu is divided into two submenus called the Cut Submenu and the Copy Submenu The first Soft Key is used to choose which one of these you want to use To set the default submenu when Edit is entered hold down the Shift
90. e clips or parts that can be changed are always shown in red To select the tracks you want use the Track Keys on the left of the FAME Editing Console The selected ones will be lit The clips on the selected track that are affected are chosen in two ways 1 On some menus the clip s that are touching the cursor are the ones that will be affected by the com mands you issue This is true on the Grab and Fade menus 2 Some menus require you to construct a range between two timecodes inside which the audio is af fected This is done using the FROM and TO keys The Track and Block menus use ranges Page 32 d M P User Manual 12 Timecode Ranges FAME allows two methods of choosing what to edit One mode is called clip or object based editing and the other is called range or timecode based editing Some editing menus such as Grab work only in clip mode while others such as Block work only in range mode Many menus can work in either mode sometimes with slightly different commands for each There are also two range modes part mode where any parts of clips included in the range will be affected by edit commands and whole mode where only clips entirely inside the range will be affected Any editing menu will use only one of these modes The redness of the clips always shows what will be affected Setting up a Range A Range is the span between two timecode numbers When using a Range for editing only audio between the two tim
91. e for import and on first re attaching a Project when opening another Project which borrows from it In both these cases as soon as the header informa tion has been read the Project is dropped back to Media Read Marked for Backup When a Project is marked for backup it is at the same level as Project Read because the header information is backed up along with the audio data The Project remains at this level throughout the backup except at the end when it is briefly raised to Append Write see below in order to change the Last Backup date Append Write When a Project is open for recording and editing audio is normally being appended to the file rather than removed Although the edit list may be constantly changed in the most destructive ways the audio data and the Project header information which describes it are generally added to but not changed This means other Projects which depend on the integrity of that information are not affected Modify Write Only a few operations have the ability to change existing audio data or audio header information These include Overwrite recording Commit Dispose and Pack Project Status is raised to Modify Write only during these operations If another user has the Project open permission for Modify Write is not granted and the operation cannot proceed Multi User File Access In a network many users may have access to the same files and sometimes they will want to work with them at the same
92. e graph at the top of the screen Page 50 d M P User Manual TM Fades With a Range When a Range is established the Fade Menu changes its behaviour allowing fades across multiple clips Creates a new Master Recording over the range and sets a fade from its beginning to its end Also splits the clips underneath so that no un expected crossfades occur m aJ b fadein fadeout X Level range range 3 dB Creates a new Master Recording over the range and sets a fade from its end to its beginning Also splits the clips underneath so that no unexpected crossfades occur User Manual Page 51 More About Fades Crossfades and Channels During a crossfade two clips are actually playing one fading down and the other fading up FAME can play crossfades on all tracks at the same time but not for an indefinite period of time Fade Defaults Every clip has a small fade at the head or tail to make it sound smoother This is called the default fade and you can control its length One way is to type FDEF n RETURN where n is the length you want in subframes This method lasts only during the current session and is not remembered by the project or the machine To change it permanently you must edit a Configuration file see Configuration files Notes 1 If one fade lies on top of another starting late
93. e shown on the screen the actual fields can take up to 24 characters The lines listing USER 3 and USER 4 have asterisks in front which deactivate the fields Removing these will activate them but not put them on the screen There is also an area for the titles of these user fields which you may edit The last section contains the screen layout Each line lists the fields that will be displayed A field beginning with F is from the first section while one beginning with U is a user field You may change what is displayed on each line but please remember that only 80 characters will fit on to the screen If you ask for more the extra ones will simply not appear To save the file and return to work type Blue Z or esc Z if you have an old console Blue RETURN oresc If you want to exit without saving type Blue Q or esc Qif you have an old console User Manual d M B Page 79 26 Undoing Edits Undoing an edit means going back to the state the Project was in before you made it Edits can be undone and redone on 64 levels which means you can go back to how things were 64 edits ago if you want Undo Togggling Pressing the UNDO key causes the system to toggle between the current edit version and the last one you had before now If you got from the last one to this one by editing then the key undoes and redoes that edit If you got to this state using UNDO or REDO then the last step in that path is reversed This
94. earch Records that match ANY of Controls the exactness of the search When Match the fields in the search crite is set to START AudioBase searches for Records ria or whether they must starting with the words that you place in search match ALL fields If match is fields For example if you place the letters dog set to ANY the search will in the name field AudioBase will find dogbark find Clip Records that match or dogs If Match is set to PART the same one or more of the fields but search will find words that contain dog like if set to ALL only Clip hotdogs But if Match is set to WHOLE the Records matching all of the same search would find only Records whose fields will be found name is exactly dog Page 72 d M P User Manual TM How to Search for Clip Records To use the Search Form type information into one or more fields then press ENTER and AudioBase will find all Clip Records matching your Search Criteria For example if you type FISH into the Clip Name field and press ENTER all clips named FISH will be listed at the right of the screen If Match is set to START all clips whose names start with FISH will be listed You may enter data into any field If you leave a field blank all Clip Records will match it it s like saying you don t care what is contained there If you enter data into more than one field the search may be instructed to find Records which match ALL of the fields or ANY of the field
95. ecified intervals User Manual Page 9 ame 3 How the Disk Recorder Works When we record in FAME the audio is turned into digital data and stored on hard disk together with the other recordings we have made It also appears as a clip on the screen which is a reference to the Master Recording we just made Immediately after our fourth recording we can see the Master Recording on the hard disk and its referencing clip on the track where we went into record The clip references the Master Recording by pointing at the audio to be played in this case the whole Master Recording Project 2 When we edit the audio we do it by changing which part of the Master Recording we are point ing at We call these pointers the Head and Tail of the clip Here we have split the original clip so that the first part is on a different track In fact we now have two clips which point at different parts of the Master Recording On the first one we have also removed part of the Tail which has moved the Tail pointer to an earlier part of the audio Project 2 Unused Disk l d The Head and Tail pointers can be moved by editing at any time allowing us to cut pieces off the clip or replace parts that were previously removed A clip can be thought of as an instruction to the computer to play a certain Master Recording at a particular time within the given pointers
96. ecodes is affected The Range keys From and To are used for setting ranges Simple Method To set a Range press and release the FROM TO keys at the start end of the Range you wish to edit If there is no range at the moment you may press just one of these keys and use the Jogger Wheel to drag out a range You may issue edit commands at any time while dragging out a range Using Range Menus The following description applies equally to the To key Holding down the From key causes a menu to appear described below At the same time the graphics show the existence of a range with its end at the cursor Pressing the Soft Keys affects the range end position as follows project mark head GJ GJ GJ G This Soft Key does not latch the menu The time of the Project Head i e Mark 0 is adopted as the Range Start and you have the same options as for the prev gap Soft Key Pressing this Soft key latches the Menu you can let go of the From Key and adopts the time in the Numeric Reg ister as the range start You can now type in or edit a timecode number and press ENTER For details on edit This Soft Key does not latch the menu ing Timecodes see Entering The From Menu finds the nearest Timecode Values This has the same effect previous moment of silence between as pre
97. ed tracks switching to input between the In and Out points If Record is selected the transport does one pass from Preroll to Postroll dropping into Record between the In and Out points then switches into Playback and does a second pass from Preroll to Postroll Then it returns to the Preroll position If Playback is selected the transport does one pass from Preroll to Postroll then returns to the Preroll position Note The GPI Menu provides contact closures which can be set to work with the ADR Menu User Manual d M A Page 111 The ADR Menu second level early Rec Out in OPEN m keep playing J b Returns to the previous level of the menu Allows recording to be started Toggles between two states en early If pressed during preroll PROG where the programmed May be initiated anywhere in the cy the transport enters Record im time is used to terminate the re cle Has an effect equivalent to infi mediately then the Record cy cording and OPEN where the nite Postroll with playback continu cle proceeds normally In recording is not terminated auto ing after the recording has finished PLAYBACK modethiskeyhas matically but waits until manu Ytl manually interrupted Applies no effect but in REHEARSE ally stopped The toggle remains only tote curren
98. eir Track Keys are not lit up Fea Mena Audio Waveform Displays a graphic of audio amplitude versus timecode The data for this graphic is gener ated as the audio is loaded from disk just prior to being played As soon as you locate the transport to a new place the audio for that Selected Clip timecode location is loaded and the wave forms quickly appear The selected clips are shown in red If you are working in a Menu with an Cursor editing range the parts of the clips in Also known as the Play Head or Now Line side the range on selected tracks are Indicates the current timecode position of the shown in the same red colour In all disk project Audio clips play as they pass this cases red indicates that the clip s will line be affected by the next edit command In edit modes without ranges the clips selected for editing are always the one s touching the cursor Page 12 d M P User Manual TM and Editing Screen want by pressing the Blue Key with certain keys on the Numeric Keypad Several of the screens are shown or described in the next five pages The Disk Recorder display page is always shown when the system is turned on Current Time This field shows the timecode posi tion of the current disk project SAMPLE FATE s AHE HJH SEC Clip Names Each clip is named as itis recorded and can be renamed in the Name Menu These names scroll as the clip moves across the screen Zoom rang
99. elay the onset of recording until locked While in record mode individual tracks can be placed in and out of record by arming and disarming them using the Track Keys in the ARM submenu Timecode Track It is not necessary to record a timecode track on the Disk Recorder It stays in sync with the machine control ler by counting the samples of recorded audio that are played and comparing this with the amount of elapsed time since play started Playback Use the Play button to hear what you have recorded All the tracks that are not armed will play while you are recording allowing overdubbing Page 26 d M P User Manual TM Punch in Punch out While playing start recording by pressing the Record and Play buttons together To drop out of Record press the Play Stop Jog Rewind or Fast Forward buttons Each time you enter Record you will create a new clip on each armed track These clips are placed over any other clips that they encounter on the same tracks The monitoring switches from recorded material to live as you enter Record exactly as though you were erasing the existing audio But in fact you are preserving all that has been recorded and you may bring any of it back later on Automatic Drop in Pre determined Drop in and Drop out points may be activated using the Machine Control section of the FAME Editing Console See the section entitled Automatic Recording for details User Manual d M m Page 27
100. elf There is no direct way to choose a particular input Twenty Four Track Meters This display shows the output levels of every physical output of the system Whenever a track is armed the meter shows you the input to that track Small red rectangles tell you which input s are patched to each track When a track is playing a stereo clip the right side of the clip appears on the next high est output and the meters show this accordingly Patch Display This display shows you the inputs which are patched to each track as well as the type of input selected and the gain setting for each input Grid showing the type of inputselected outof ANLG 10 ANLG 4 AES EBU or SP DIF Page 16 ame User Manual B Starting a Project A piece of work on the Disk Recorder is called a Project When you wish to begin recording a Project must be open By pressing the Project key you can see the directory of files in the system and access file management functions The Directory The Directory is arranged in a hierarchy as follows Domain a network group consisting of servers and clients Node a machine on the network which could be a server or a client Unit a SCSI storage device hard disk magneto optical platter or tape drive Folder a directory on a disk Folders may be nested to many levels inside each other File a Project file or other useful file in the system Domain FOLDERS PATH
101. emoving the parts of the clips that are not heard but preserving the Master Recordings entirely This can be used for example when a stack of clips have been placed on top of each other to simplify the edit structure down to one layer effectively without losing any recorded audio data Page 82 d M P User Manual 28 Recovering Lost Clips Sometimes the tragic happens A clip is accidentally erased and we don t realise until later so it s too late to UNDO the erase Worse still there are no other clips that reference the particular Master Recording so it is not even possible to copy another clip and place it where we think the erased clip was As long as we know that the Master Recording is still on the disk which it will be unless we have used the dispose command since we erased the last clip referencing the master recording we can recover from our accident The W Display To see a list of all the unreferenced master recordings type lt Blue gt W The top section of the video display changes to show a list of master recordings or waveforms as they are known by the software which have no clip referencing them You can scroll the list up and down by pressing the lt add gt and lt sub gt keys on the alphanumeric keyboard You are looking for one of the unreferenced master recordings and you have at least one clue which one it is and that is the Birthday which tells you the timecode at the start of the original recording
102. f the 9 pin machine s behaviour Chase Run Arm Tk 1 4 n Chooses which tracks on the selected machne can be armed using the track keys Choices are Al 4 analogue tracks of which one may be the timecode track DA1 24 the first 24 digital or analog tracks or DA25 48 a second bank of 24 tracks These selections are not always as obvious as they might seem e g some DAT machines use A1 and A2 while others use DAI and DA2 When M1 or M2 is selected as an LTC Machine the option of Master On Off becomes available If Master is ON the system sample clock is locked to the LTC input When it is off the sample clock is locked to House Sync while the transport still reads and chases the timecode input User Manual ame Page 99 Entering Timecode Values Most functions of the system can be accomplished without typing timecodes simply by capturing current positions But it is often useful to issue commands with specific timecodes The Numeric Register The Numeric Register is located in the top half of the LCD beneath the Master Timecode Display It is used to store and edit timecode numbers prior to making use of them Timecodes may be typed into the Numeric Display using the Numeric Keypad copied into it using the down arrow key and some soft keys trimmed using the and keys or the Jogger Wheel and finally entered into a parameter with the ENTER key Details below Time Many me
103. for Import it will not be able to be opened for Import again Many of these problems are alleviated by the use of AudioBase because it provides the ability to audition and borrow clips using Media Read access only User Manual d M B Page 21 The Clip What you are creating when you record is called a Master Recording you could be creating up to 24 at a time It starts when you drop into record and it ends when you drop out You are also creating clips which are displayed on the tracks you are recording Each clip is a reference to the Master Recording instructing the computer to play it at that timecode and out of that output Later you may edit this clip and this will be fully described in the section Editing Time Code Reference Each clip has a time code reference built into it that causes it to remember the right time to play Unlike a tape machine which must record all of the silence in between the useful audio the Disk Recorder only stores the useful audio and the time that it should be played Overlapping Clips You can record many clips on the same track even if they overlap The track can only play one clip at a time however and this will be the most recent one you recorded or copied to any piece of track during crossfades the top layer and the next one down are both played It is useful to think of the clips as being stacked on top of each other as they are recorded with only the topmost o
104. ft Key Now release both of these keys and you ll see the last used name in the upper LCD with a flashing square to its right Use the alphanumeric keyboard to add or delete characters from that name or Clear it and type another You may insert wild cards using the Soft Keys any any number of characters any one any single character or one or none any single character or no character You can find names that contain both of two strings by inserting and amp between them or either of two strings with an or I between them amp is evaluated before Note Upper and lower case characters are not distinguished If you have searched for a name in the GoTo menu the same name will appear in the Jump to Clip Names menu allowing you to move quickly through all of the names that match your request User Manual d M Bg Page 107 41 The GOTO Command GO TO is used to locate to SMPTE times Marks remembered timecode points or named clips It is a Supermode which means that you will be returned to the mode you were in before the GoTo command GoTo commands are terminated with the ENTER key if you want to locate or with the Play key to preroll the selected point and go into play immediately mark P Allows you to locate to the time in the Numeric Display Edit it first if you wish then press ENTER to go there or Play to preroll and start playing The TIME key is al ways lit when you enter the GO TO
105. g a name of up Global and Track to 18 characters and pressing based autonaming the ENTER key See below for de tails The clip to be named is the one on Name the currently highlighted the current track positioned under track by typing a name up to 15 the cursor it will be coloured red The seedname is used as characters and pressing EN Press Soft Key then type a name up the beginning of an auto TER You can then choose an to 24 characters and press ENTER matic name A number will other Track Key and type its You may then move immediately be appended to this name name and ENTER on to another clip and name it If a and incremented each time range exists all the clips within it a new clip is recorded See will be named with one command below for more details Use of Ranges If a range has been created all clips that are wholly inside it can be named with one command Keyboard Use As soon as you press one of the naming Soft Keys the current name of the thing you have selected will be shown in the upper LCD This allows you to use it again or copy it to another item You can use the Backspace key to erase the last character Having pressed the clip Soft Key it stays armed so as soon as you move the transport over another clip you can enter the name into it perhaps after changing one or two characters This applies to the track Soft Key also Automatic Naming When new clips are created by recording they are given a nam
106. gate points This takes about half real time Threshold Hold Handle gate 40dB 25 fr 4 fr J GJ GJ uu Press this key to If Commit is toggled on when the Gate command is issued you will be of erform the eate This number is the d eee once non amount of time that the fered the choice of gor have set the param level must stay below mitting the edits per eters to the right the threshold before formed by the gate icd gating takes place This This number is a mand If you confirm the prevents gating from length added to the Commit by pressing EN cutting the audio into head and tail of all TER the erased material 2l too many pieces Baed eps lo yon Wall be permanently tes This is the level be can use to retain the moved from the disk low which audio will slow attack or decay be gated out of the audio below the threshold level Notes I The gating information gained during recording is based on the threshold and hold values set at the time of the recording If you change those values and then issue the gate command the audio will be re scanned 2 When you have armed tracks for recording and the meters are displayed a traffic light display shows you the gating activity A green light shows that the level is above threshold A yellow light appears when it drops below and finally a red light
107. gative number is to be typed first type lt Clear gt lt gt then the number then ENTER Note Trims the value of the current parameter up and down on selected clips tracks Press the Soft Key then type a number use the Jogger or the and keys to change the number then press EN TER to make the change All the same parameters affected by the Set Soft Key can be changed us ing the Trim Soft Key but the changes are rela tive to the current set tings Pan is only visible when Stereo Mix is ON It affects the pan position of the selected audio in the stereo mix If MODE is set to TRACK the pan value affects the whole track If MODE is set to CLIP only the currently selected clips are af fected By default clips have Pan set to OFF and are controlled by the Pan value for their Track If a clip has a value for Pan this overrides the Track setting Pan values are positive if right of centre and negative if left Info is visible when DISPLAY mode is selected When it is ON each clip shows its level 1f non zero and its bit depth The selected clips are split into two at this point If a range has been created clips are split at both ends I To set the level for just part of a clip first use the SPLIT command to break it into the right sized pieces then set the appropriate levels 2 To create a ramp between different levels in one clip first copy the section
108. h a number of steps in achieving synchronisation in play mode 1 Read the position reference and start loading up the corresponding audio on all active tracks 2 When ready start playing but with the outputs muted Use variable speed to reduce the error between the FAME position and the Position Reference until it is very small 9 Switch to the Motion Reference for continued playback The system is said to be locked once this switch is made and the audio is unmuted 4 Warn of error status if the sync error increases if a reference signal is lost etc Digital Synchronisation Conflicts When you are recording a digital source it must be synchronised to the same Master Clock Reference as FAME or an overflow too many samples or underflow too few samples may occur at the input This causes a characteristic periodic form of digital distortion called a whisper A whisper sounds like a brief glassy or metallic buzz and occurs about once every few seconds depending how fast the samples are overflowing or underflowing One way to guarantee digital synchronisation is to choose the digital input signal itself as the Master Clock Reference for FAME This is done in the Digi Menu by selecting INPUT under the Sync Soft Key or AUTO under the Inp Sync Soft Key This latter source of timing will only be used when a digital input is armed with the normal HOUSE sync used at other times A side effect is that the word clock r
109. h confi dence that all the audio needed to reproduce this project is carried within it Warning Packing is dangerous If anything goes wrong you will lose the project forever You are advised to back up the project before packing User Manual d M Bg Page 81 More About Committing Commit is complex Here are some examples intended to clarify its workings 1 A 30 second recording has just been made and then the first ten seconds are trimmed off Now we go the Space menu and press commit while the cursor is touching this clip with Handles set to zero The effect will be to remove the first ten seconds of audio data with that disk space becoming free If Handles was set to 2 seconds only the first 8 seconds of data would be removed Attempting to enlarge the clip using the Trim command on the Grab menu will fail because there is no more data in the Master Recording A 30 second recording has been made and this time the last 15 seconds of the resulting clip Clip A are covered by pasting another clip Clip B on top Now we go to the Space menu move the transport so that Clip A is touching the cursor and press Commit Now erase Clip B and it can be seen that the part of Clip A that was underneath Clip B has been removed This part of the data on disk has also been removed minus the Handle This time we do the same thing but we make a copy of Clip A on another track After committing the original Clip A
110. his will write the same value into the corresponding field of every Found Record For example if you want to change the name of category EFFECTS to SFX first search for all clips whose category is EFFECTS Then press the edit Soft Key move to the category field press the Clear key and type SFX Now type Blue ENTER or Blue RETURN to change all the Found Clips in this way Scrolling While Editing While editing you can scroll from one Clip Record to the next using the and keys or the Jogger Wheel if it is free If you have started typing into a field and then scroll the list the field will remain premanently as you left it just as when you move the cursor to another field When you scroll the list to a new record you can recall what was typed into the last field by pressing the swap Soft Key This is a way of copying a single value into any the same field of any record you like For example you want to place the word SFX into the category field of many records You type it into the first record then press the key until another suitable Clip Record comes into the window Press the swap key then continue pressing until another suitable Clip Record arrives User Manual d M Bg Page 75 The File Submenu Pressing the File Soft Key brings up a menu allowing a number of options connected with publishing projects If you choose publish purge or export the screen changes allowing you to browse and choose a project for acti
111. ht timecode 00 00 00 00 Keep in the Import Menu 3 After Audition in the AudioBase Menu REDO is not possible Page 80 d M P User Manual 27 Managing Disk Space After recording for some time you may fill the hard disk you are working on If you wish to continue record ing you may extend to another hard drive and continue see Project menu or throw out some rubbish from your work so far Throwing Out Rubbish You may have a large amount of audio that was recorded but is not being used It has either been erased trimmed from the clips or is being covered by other clips on the same track At any rate it is not now audible If we need some space to do more recording and are sure that some of the audio is not needed we can get rid of it to create that space This is done on the Space Menu which is shown below For a pictorial explanation please see the diagrams on page 116 Range The Commit command may operate in a timecode range which is set up using the FROM and TO keys If no range is specified the clips under the cursor on the selected tracks are affected The Space Menu keep Handles dispose commit pack borrowed 2 sec Frees the disk space When using keep bor occupied by all The project is packed rowed extra audio may be completely into the smallest pos brought in f
112. ic Keypad this is normally not possible because it is being used to select parameters While typing numbers enter the display field from the right and move left as you add more numbers To enter a negative number type lt Clear gt lt gt then the number Press ENTER to adopt the value Notes l While you are changing parameter values with the Jogger Wheel the actual sound is updated every 25 sec Turning the Wheel faster increases the steps between values 3 There is no limit to the frequency range for each band so you can have your low frequency higher than your high frequency if you want 4 Use lt Blue gt lt gt or lt Blue gt lt gt while the Q for a band is selected to make that band into a high or low shelf 3 When you are using a range it is possible to change one or more bands for the entire range while leaving other bands as they were So for example the clips might have different settings for LOW EQ but the same setting for HIGH EQ Copying EQ Settings You may copy settings from one clip to others by first pressing the copy Soft Key while the source clip is touching the cursor if there is no range this clip will be red if there is a range the clip may be inside or outside the range The parameter display shows the parameter values for the copied clip and the menu changes as follows Low Low Mid High Mid High Toggles each band on or off for copying When Toggles the level function on or off a b
113. in Rem gives you control over any Sony 9 pin transport It is always the causes FAME to chase the timecode coming in either port A or B FAME emulates a Sony 9 pin machine and can be controlled from the Sony B port this port is commoned to both sex connectors When Sony A or Sony B has been chosen as the Type of machine the following options become visible Type Sony A Lace Lock 30 sec Unlace ON When Unlace is ON the REW and FF commands send shuttle at maximum speed This keeps the picture on the heads during rewind or fast forward for some machines which would oth erwise unlace e g Sony 9800 When Unlace is OFF the machine is given a REW or FF command which will cause the tape to unlace in some machines In other machines how ever e g BetaCam SP these com mands do not unlace the tape but give a very fast shuttle in the desired direction LTC Master OG When issuing a Go To command to the machine if the distance over which it is to be shuttled is greater than this time the machine is given a REW or FF command regardless of whether Unlace is ON or OFF Setting this time to zero guarantees that the slave will be given a GOTO When set to Chase FAME watches the timecode from the 9 pin machine and relo cates if it jumps When Run is selected FAME locks up and continues to play with House Sync until Stop is pressed regard less o
114. ing the following IBM number tempo beats lt RETURN gt where IBM means Insert Beat Marks number is the number of bars required tempo is in beats per minute and beats is the number of beats per bar lt RETURN gt is the Return key in the alphanumeric keyboard Beat marks are placed at the beginnings of all bars starting from the current timecode and are named barl bar2 etc They can all be deleted by typing DBM lt RETURN gt delete beat marks 3 Whenever mark is selected on a Soft Menu or the Edit Marks menu is entered the Marks display is shown on the video screen You can also display it at other times by typing Blue 9 or esc M When the transport is in motion the marks display automatically scrolls to show the last mark reached 4 Marks are not the best way to create edit points on the fly if the edit is to be done immediately The best way is to use the From and To keys see Edit Menu User Manual ame Page 109 43 Looping Looping means playing through a section rewinding to the beginning and playing again continuously To make a Loop play press the Loop key To set the start and end times for the loop enter the SET LOOP menu by holding down the Blue key while pressing the Loop key Now the From and To keys can be used to set new loop points if you only set one end of the Loop the previous time for the other end will be retained In and Out Points The From and To keys and their menus are used t
115. interested in If you had M1 or M2 on line it is switched off When you find a clip or a set of clips that you think might be useful in the current project use the Menu on the following page to copy them into your current project Import may use a Range otherwise it will select the clip s under the cursor Using a range you can Import the whole of one project into another User Manual Page 65 ame browse borrow keep Jt n Returns to the previous menu As b F ird Creates a temporary offset in gt DITON S EXCApr tMar BIB GB the Disk Recorder so that its The selected clips are copied into the ETATON creates DEW Master Re current position is in syne with current project accessing Master Re cordings of the clips in the origi the current position of Ma cordings in the Library project If only nal project using fresh disk chine M1 or M2 depending one track is active when you press BOR space This is useful if the Li which was online when you ROW you will be asked to select a des brary may nor stay on the disk entered the Import Project tination track In this case pressing the for the remainder of the PESSA Also puts M1 or M2 on line Track key completes the operation especially wow if USINE Met This allows you to try the clip Clips are placed at the timecode where movable o
116. ion file after creating it Press this Soft Key to set or change the password of the currently open file A dialog appears requesting a password to be en tered then asking for confirmation After this the cursor moves to a panel allowing the public access of the file to be set See below for details on public access To remove an existing password enter a blank box in the password dialog box Password Protection Any FAME project may have a password which restricts access to the material When there is no password one can be applied by anyone who opens the file There are three levels of access available to a file with a password one of which must be chosen when the password is created These are Public any user can open the file and change any part of it A password is not requested upon opening the file Read Only any user can open the file and play the audio but cannot change anything A password is requested when first opening the file and if none is supplied read only permission is granted Extending the file will then create a new unpassworded file extension which can be edited as required without changing the original file If the correct password is supplied when opening the file then full write delete rename and move permission is granted Private no user can open the file at all without supplying the correct password Notes 1 Even a file which has Public Write access cannot be deleted renamed or moved Any
117. ion of audio may be used over and over similar to looping Fill now works on multiple tracks at the same time 2 The fill command uses the same sync point that is normally placed in the clipboard at the point where you cut or copied to it and places it at the position of the cursor when you press the fill Soft Key This helps to avoid having the same sound at the beginning of every filled section Simply pressing the fill key at the end of the range where you just typed the To key will ensure a random offset of the begin ning of the sound since in general all ranges will be of different lengths 3 Itis advisable to use the longest piece you can find filling It always sounds less looped and causes fewer disk seeks If this is unavoidable use the Bounce command on the Block menu to create a longer clip of the same sound User Manual d M m Page 39 14 The Grab Menu The Grab menu is used for Slipping resyncing and Trimming resizing We GRAB some part of a clip such as the Head the Tail or the whole clip move it somewhere and DROP it using the ENTER key This can be done so that the audio slips as you move the tranport Slip commands or so that it remains in sync Trim commands You can also cause a clip to return to its original timecode position or Birthday See box below The Grab Menu allows multiple track selection so you can slip or trim many clips in the same move Slip Submenu TRIM ESL
118. is 25 to 400 Press ENTER to begin processing the audio Press this Soft Key to enter the duration you would like the clip to be The initial value shown in the upper LCD is the current duration of the clip so you can use the Jogger Wheel or and keys to change the number or type a new one on the Numeric Keypad Pressing the target Soft Key repeatedly brings up target durations corresponding with some useful ratios such as 24 to 25 and 44 1K to 48K and these can be further edited When you have the desired number press ENTER to start the processing Press to toggle between TIME and PITCH as the measure of varispeed ratio User Manual Page 61 Using a Range If a range is set up the Varispeed submenu will allow you to fit a clip to the range The menu changes as follows Mode fit VARISPEED range J GJ G Allows you to choose between the three Wave Menu func tions Stretch Pitch or Varispeed When you press this Soft Key the clip under the cursor is varispeeded to fit the range Note that this clip may not be coloured red as it may be outside the range The process may also re sult in the clip being slipped since the start of the range may not be at the start of the original clip Set up the
119. is level While the clip is fading the effects of the fades are added to the level EQ Every clip has a 4 band equaliser built in to its structure You can change EQ settings any time Name A clip may have a name up to 24 characters long This is given to it in the Name Menu Many clips can have the same name Project Layer Each clip occupies a unique layer which is used to determine which clip will overlap when two enter the same timecode and track The layers are assigned chronologically so the most recently created clips have the highest numbers Summary of Editing Commands All editing is achieved by altering clip parameters as follows Editing Menu Command Name Editing Action Edit Cut clip Removes selected clip s places a copy of them on the clipboard ready for pasting Cut head or tail Moves head or tail pointer to reduce the size of the clip places the removed piece on the clipboard Copy As in cut but pointers to original clip are unchanged Enter key Places a copy of the edit clipboard at the current timecode position on the top project layer Grab Slip Change timecode reference Trim Move head or tail pointer Fade Fade Head or Tail Moves fade in or fade out point Level Level Set or Trim Change clip audio level Nudge any Change timecode reference Take Pop Change project layer Block Track any Change multiple parameters Selecting Clips for Editing When you edit only clips on the selected track s will be affected Th
120. is made of which file management activity to begin backup restore Eject the media if any in your removable media drive To do this the cursor must be located on the device in the File Page The name Open the restore Open the move of the device is SCXO where X is submenu submenu the SCSI address of the device Open the backup submenu Open the copy submenu Page 84 d M E User Manual TM The Backup Submenu In this menu files are marked for backup and then the operation is started During marking the Directory Browser is displayed so that files from any hard disk can be found and marked Having pressed the backup Soft Key the first thing to do is select the destination for the backup If this is to be your Exabyte tape device browse so that the cursor is located on its reference in the File Page Alternatively you may select any Folder on a hard disk to be the backup destination or even create a new folder for the backup The following menu gives the command options MI LAT L7 Space B Up Level Fade CHDNS S P 8 Name Track Grab Block X L Takes Wave Nudge Edit NS _ 2 Return to the main menu Press to create a new folder Type a name for the new folder then press ENTER
121. is part of the alphanumeric keyboard To clear all fields in the search form type SHIFT CLEAR To remove the word to the left of the cursor type SHIFT DEL or SHIFT BACK depending which key board you have To move to the beginning end of a field type CTRL LEFT ARROW CTRL RIGHT ARROW To retire advance one word at a time through a field type SHIFT LEFT ARROW SHIFT RIGHT AR ROW Cycling through Values Some fields have a restricted set of values such as Sample Rate or Format When you have entered these fields pressing the Up or Down arrow will cycle through the possible values in that field You can also type an actual field value or use the first few numbers only specifically 48 for 48000 44 for 44100 and 440 for 44056 In the case of Mono and Stereo you only need to type M or S Capturing Current Values The up arrow or down arrow can also be used to recall the value of the current Clip Record into the correspond ing field of the Search window This can be useful if you want to find all other Clip Records with fields the same as this one This feature only works if the field is currently blank Using Wildcards in Searches M10 to M15 are used to enter wildcard characters into the Search Form The Macro key must be switched OFF Key Wildcard Symbol Examples Interpretation Finds M10 Any CAT Starts with CAT CAT CATTLE not SCATTER M11 Any One CAT One letter then CAT SCAT not CAT or CATTLE M12 One None
122. it are saved to disk permanently If you press RETURN on the alphanumeric keyboard the field you are editing is saved to disk but the cursor remains there edit AUDITION ON OFF J lu Opens the search Exits the Edit submenu without Submenu with saving changes to out saving the the current field current field to disk Explained previously delete eJ Deletes entries from the visible list or from the database Hav ing pressed the Soft Key you will be asked to confirm whether you want to delete this item from the Record List i e what you can see at the moment or from the database itself whether you Toggles the contents of the field you are editing between what you have newly typed into it and what was there before you started typing much like UNDO REDO want to delete all Found Clip Records from the database or Cancel Entering Data Into Fields Exactly the same keys are used to move between fields and enter data into them as are used in the Search Menu These are described in section 24 5 3 above Writing into Multiple Records Sometimes you want to write the same value into a field in many records at the same time To do this write the value into this field in one record then type Blue ENTER or Blue RETURN T
123. k If no such clip is placed there the precount will be zero 6 A CD write cannot be stopped except by switching off the CD writer The disc will be destroyed dis A CD must all be written in one pass There is no way to append information to it 8 In order to ensure that written audio is identical to edited audio the CD track should be prepared with the Default fades in the system set to zero This is achieved by typing FDEF 0 lt RETURN gt in the MFX command line The WAV Export Page The WAV Export function may use either the red clips under the cursor or if a range is present clips that are wholly included Real time audio features such as EQ level and fades are ignored only the raw waveform data is exported When the WAV Export Soft key is pressed a display appears with choices for export desti nation name etc To move between text fields use the M8 key for previous and the M9 key for next the macro key must be OFF during these commands PROJECT ls 37 SAMPLE RATE Bee DEVICE scan FOLDER rice naneli AEAT O Trk Clip No O Other Sets the destination drive If desired you can add a Determines how the WAVE files will be Use the up and down directory name where you named Use the left and right arrows to arrows to move between would like these WAVE files to move between choices If Other is the available drives on be placed chosen another field appears allowing your system you to enter a new file name of
124. k a File or Folder If a Folder is un marked everything in side it is unmarked whether it is currently marked or not A File s attachments are un marked at the same time as it is but if they have also been explicitly marked in their own right they remain marked The Move Submenu The operation of this submenu is exactly the same as for the Copy Submenu The only difference is that the files at the original location are deleted after the ones at the destination have been successfully created Please note that when the destination for the move is on the same hard disk as the source no actual media copying takes place simply a change in the disk s directory structure More About File Management Warning on Overwrite If you mark a file that already exists on the destination device the software will warn you You may choose to continue with this course of action or unmark the file If you continue the file carries an O flag for Overwrite The Backup Display Entering the Backup Menu while Backups are taking place shows the progress of your backup restore copy or move D x BACKUP MENU Backup and PRO IECT UNIT fio scio VOLUME Figs VENDOR SIR RESI FREE SPACE FREE TIME MCLEE ay PATHLIST ARCHIVE UNIT R amp D vmfxi7sco1Q MARK TEST b MT 7mfxl sc4 1x31 TRANSFER AMOUNT TRANSFER RATE TRANSFER TINE scie 33 2Mb 1438 Kb Sec 00 00 23 LIBS GRLORE LISTENABLE FILES Last EDIT size SRATE a MT M
125. king PickUnit allows the file to be restored to a different location Having typed P to choose this option the browser allows you to move to any Folder on the system except the Folder where the BU file is located While visiting other Folders you may delete any files you choose this feature is provided so that you may remove other files in your chosen destination that might have the same name as this one Press the Okay Soft Key to confirm the destination for this file and resume marking other files Sometimes a disk from where some of the files were originally backed up is no longer on the system or it is too full to allow the marked files to be restored there When this happens you are prompted for another destination for the files Note that the same directory structure in which the original files were housed will be created on the destination device Restore occurs in the background allowing other work to continue normally Any requirement for the system to play or record however will cause the restore to be stalled and to continue after playback has been stopp The Copy Submenu In this menu files are marked for copy exactly like backup and then the operation is started During marking the Directory Browser is displayed so that files from any hard disk can be found and marked Having pressed the backup Soft Key the first thing to do is select the destination for the backup If this is to be your Exabyte tape device browse so that
126. l Menu 53 Scrolling While Editing 75 Range itn esci tem eel Reva Weeds 53 The File Submenu ueesssss 76 Track Selection esee 53 Republishing a Project 76 Mode Selection eeesessss 53 Publishing with a Text File 77 20 The Gate Menu 54 The Text File Format ccccccccsessecsseseesseees 77 Gating During Recording 54 How AudioBase Recognises Text 77 Gating After Recording sss 54 Ihe Elle ci eiit eere ieer ota 77 Gate Menu Illlustrated 55 Clips ieu eee 77 21 Equalisation eeeeeeeeeeenne 56 Commands Using Text Files 78 The EQ MODE snae uteri utt titt 56 Publish a Text File eee 78 Making Parameter Selections 56 EXDODU Sensei uie rei trees 78 Parameter Display 56 Import ereemeeennenenneennennennennnnnnnnnennennnnnennns 78 EQ IMO T aamin aoea nra 56 Strategies for Using Text Files 78 Changing EQ Settings 56 Example 1 sssssseee 78 NOIBSU centes ame erede te eerte 57 Example 2 eeeeenenen 79 Copying EQ Settings es 57 E
127. le tracks there is a delay of a few seconds while they are reloaded To disable tracks hold down the Blue key while pressing MUTE Then the currently enabled tracks will be lit up and the disabled ones will be flashing You may now toggle the status of any track Double pressing any track key will make it the only enabled track Holding down one Track key and double clicking on another will fill in the tracks between Track Safe It is possible to make a track safe so that nothing on it can be moved nor can anything be added to the track by recording or editing To make a track Safe press the Safe key Blue Solo and select the tracks to be made safe You may come back to this menu any time and make them unsafe again Page 30 d M P User Manual 11 Editing The Clip Editing in FAME is achieved by performing operations on Clips First we will explain the way a clip is struc tured A clip is born when we record or by being copied from another clip It contains information about the following Master Recording Number This is a piece of audio stored on disk It is never altered by editing A clip plays by referencing part or all of a Master Recording Many different clips may access one Master Recording The process of editing may change which part of the Master Recording is accessed by the clip or at what timecode this happens but does not change the Master Recording at all Head The Head is a pointer
128. long with the settings of the EQ parameters Changing EQ Settings Before you have selected any parameter to change the EQ Menu looks like this EQ in out To make a change press the edit Soft key or any key on the Numeric Keypad You may now change the selected parameter using the Jogger Wheel or the and keys The parameter display shows you the values currently stored in the clip and the menu changes to this Page 56 d M P User Manual OLD edit number level BNEW J LJ GW G amp G Once you have started editing parameters this Soft Key Allows you to set a level Press to toggle the entire EQ for flashes indicating that the EN as part of the EQ It can this clip on or off If you press TER key must be pressed to be used as compensa ENTER while the EQ is off this adopt the changes Before do tion for the level is saved with the clip ing so you may select other changes caused by EQ parameters using the Numeric settings and is switched Press to toggle between the sound Keypad and change their val in and out with the as you have changed it and the ues with the Jogger Wheel or Equaliser way it was before you started ed and keys Press this Soft iting the EQ parameters Key while it is flashing to abort the changes and escape Press to enter a value using the Numer
129. lues 73 32 Machine Control 94 Capturing Current Values 73 Synchronisation Quick Guide 95 Using Wildcards in Searches 73 33 The MFX Menu eene 96 Use of Operators eseseseeee 74 34 Synchronisation Detailed Explanation 97 Searching the Current Project 74 How FAME Synchronises 97 The Edit Submenu sssss 75 Digital Synchronisation Conflicts 97 Page 4 User Manual e Pull up and Pull down 97 484 Preparing Drives for Disk Recording 119 Control of Sony Machines 98 Formatting Optical Disks 119 Conflict of Sync esses 98 Making a System Disk 119 Compatibility with MFX2 and MFX 98 49 Configuration Files 120 35 The M1 and M2 Setup Menus 99 Before Changing a Configuration File 120 IEEE CIERRE 99 Editing a Configuration File 120 Entering Timecode Values 100 Saving Changes to a File 120 The Numeric Register ssss 100 The MDR Configuration File 120 HI C
130. lways selected as part of the locate dog amp bark Current naming cri 2 teria any Adds a wild card to the name in the upper LCD shown as the punctuation marks above the labels any one one or none and Allows you to add an other string Name will Allows you to add an other string Name will means any number of characters means any be shown only if both be shown if either of the one character means any one character or no strings are in it strings is in it character Page 108 User Manual ame 42 Marks Marks are remembered timecode points that you insert into the project as easy finders or as labels To make a mark press the Mark Key at any time The current SMPTE time is captured and the new mark is given the next available number You can create up to 998 marks in any project numbered from 1 to 998 and there are special marks zero which is the earliest point in the project and 999 which is the latest You do not need to set these marks the system works these out automatically You may not explicitly change the name or position of these two special marks as the system is responsible for updating their position Note marks 0 and 999 are never moved inwards only outwards so if you erase the last piece of audio in your project mark 999 will not move to an earlier timecode Marks are remembered by the project so they will all
131. m that your computer is ready to transmit data After confirming you should start the transmission from your computer After the transfer is complete AudioBase will attempt to match it to the appropriate Project and if successful the publication will proceed as usual Afterwards the imported Text File is removed from your hard disk Strategies for Using Text Files Example 1 Sometimes you might want to put a CD Library or other stored sounds into FAME and there may be some database information supplied already In this situation you will need a computer running some kind of software that handles databases or tables For the sake of this description we will describe the use of Microsoft Excel on a PC 1 Record the sound into FAME Using the Gate function or by editing divide the recording into individual sounds Name the clips exactly as on the supplied database Load the information from your supplied database into an Excel file AR wo Make sure that the data is arranged in successive cells in the order Name Category Description User 1 User 4 the user fields may contain any kind of information you like but they cannot contain more than 24 characters 6 Load a terminal program on the PC and get it ready to send the file you just saved Go to the AudioBase menu and press the File Soft Key Now press Import and when FAME is ready send the Text File from the PC Page 78 d M P User Manual TM 7 After FAME has
132. machine 1 2 3 Setup Disk usually a video deck on and iet Gen off line Press with the Blue 2 y COM key to set this machine s pa 0 00 tnn Enter Zoom Jump Jump ma ud 24T dii b Disk Button Takes diskrecorder on and off line While offline it will not respond to transport com mands From and To Keys Gen Button Enter Key Used to create ranges for edit Enable and disables the Undo Key Used to terminate com mand sequences or con firm destructive actions Jogger Wheel Used for Zooming changing parameter values in Soft Menus transport Jog and Shuttle and in creasing or decreasing the Numeric Register timecode Priority of the thing to be affected is in the order just stated operations and start end times for Looping Auto Recording etc Single press and release means From or To Here Hold key down for LCD soft menu items to appear press Enter to confirm choice Reverses the most recent edit change in position length or track of a clip or clips Press ing again toggles the edit done orundone Hold down for mul timecode generator Press with the Blue key to set generator s parameters Zoom Key tiple UNDO Used to change the time scale across the video screen Hold Zoom key Jump Keys down and turn Jogger Wheel press or or type a number from 1 8 hours across the screen to 17 6 frames across Move the transport to next or previous Points clip starts and ends timecode Marks or by sp
133. many sets of macros for different purposes saved on disk ready to use Recording and Naming Macros To record or name macros press EDIT MACRO i e hold down the Blue key and press MACRO An LCD menu will appear and a Function key or combination with SHIFT or CTRL will be displayed together with its name Gf it has one the word vacant if it has never been named or recorded or the word macro if it was recorded but not named If you wish to change the selected Function key combinaton type a different one learn name erase run file Opens up a second layer of Soft Menu Press this key to record the selected macro Confirm by pressing ENTER and the system takes you back to the exact state you were in Clears the selected macro before You may now type any series of key and its name leaving it va strokes including alphanumeric keys and any cant Requires ENTER as macro combinations no Jogger Wheel turns confirmation While you are recording all of the functions you record are actually performed and a beep on each key confirms that you are recording Perform the selected Macro Useful if you Clears the name written in have used the Edit keystrokes Fress BLUE MACRO agaimi titer the upper half of the LCD if Macros menu to minate recording there is any and you may search for macros by The Macro key iself may be turned off or on as e
134. marks in the project only on currently selected tracks Hold down a Jump button and select from the menu or just press and release to repeat the last type of jump you made Variable clip point 103 fr name or fade point Jump to next or pre i i vious mark Choose your own Jump Jump to next or pre length by typing Variable vious point Head keep holding the Jump Sync Point or Tail of Jump Jump key down then jog to dis a clip on the current play any number up to 999 Track s See The frames Then release the Clip B Jump key to go there Backwards Forwards Jump to the next or pre earlier in time later in time Jump to next or previ ous point or fade point end of fade in or start of fade out See next entry for definition of point vious clip with a given name on any track Its track is also double clicked To change the given name see below Modified Jump Commands Holding the Blue key while Jumping will locate the transport to the start or end of the Range if one exists Holding the ctrl key while Jumping will locate to the next or previous mark despite the selection in the menu Holding the SHIFT key while Jumping will locate to the next or previous point despite the menu selection Selecting Names To change the given name first hold down the Jump Key and strike the clip name So
135. menu Choose a mark by number then press ENTER to go there or Play to preroll and start playing Each time you type an ad ditional digit the dis play shows you the mark corresponding to the last three digits you typed You can use this feature to browse through sev eral marks before act ing on one of them m Copies the SMPTE time you last went to using the GO TO command into the Numeric Display TIME is then selected au tomatically so you can press ENTER or PLAY immediately or edit the number first Locate a clip by its name See below for details Special Feature You can locate to any of the first 24 marks in a shorthand way Simply press GOTO then the Track Key corresponding to the Mark you want to locate Locating by Name Selecting the clip name Soft Key brings up a list of names in the lower section of the video display screen At first this is the names of all clips in the project As you type letters into the LCD the list changes to show only names which start with what you have typed You can use wild cards like the ones shown below to widen or narrow the search for names Use the and keys or Jogger Wheel to move up and down the list of displayed names and press ENTER to go to the highlighted one or Play to Preroll and play that clip The track where the clip was found is a
136. n Files FAME uses a number of files to store setup information These are normally set to sensible values at the factory but in some cases you may need to change them The Configuration files are stored in OS9 partitions on the boot drive that is the drive with SCSI address zero The names of the files which are given below include the disk partition and all elements of the directory tree that is needed to access them Note Some options are only taken into account when the machine boots up Therefore to ensure your changes take effect restart the machine by switching it off and on Before Changing a Configuration File It is always necessary to access the operating system in order to edit a configuration file and therefore to QUIT from the disk recorder application if you use a Mac or PC you will be familiar with the idea of quitting from an application it is exactly the same inside FAME First type QUIT lt RETURN gt Y and wait for the hash prompt to appear Note commands are written here in UPPER CASE and bold but the system is not case sensitive so you can type them any way you like Editing a Configuration File Type ED filename lt RETURN gt where filename is the name of the file you want to edit Now you can move the cursor around the file using the arrow keys To add text move the cursor to the desired location and start typing Text is always inserted never overwritten To remove text use the DEL or BACK key
137. n the Fly Normally tracks are armed before you put the system into record but it is possible to arm them while the system is in record The track goes into record immediately If the input patching for the track is not unique i e it will try to record an input that is already being recorded on another track the first track disarms Record Over When OVER is selected the recording process replaces audio that is written to disk This is immediately destructive and cannot be UNDONE Only one clip per track is ever replaced the one under the cursor when you put the track into record or the next one along that track the point where recording starts may therefore be different for each track When the end of the clip is reached recording stops on that track if the clip has been trimmed at the end for this would mean overwriting audio data that cannot be seen User Manual ame Page 23 Record Tape at that moment If on the other hand the clip is opened out to the full extent of the original recording then recording will continue with the Master Recording and the clip both increasing in length When TAPE mode is selected the recording process chooses for each track whether to create a new recording or replace an existing one depending on the situation where record is entered It also depends on the value of the window parameter which only appears when TAPE mode is selected If recording is commenced where the
138. ne being visible to the tape head This is illustrated below Clips are recorded or pasted on top of earlier clips We hear only the top layer white portions The same group after one clip has been trimmed revealing the audio underneath The Track A track in the Disk Recorder behaves something like that on a tape recorder But it is not the same A track is simply a piece of time on to which you may record or paste clips All the clips on a track go to the same output The Current Track Throughout this manual reference is made to Current Track s They are the ones you have selected for recording or editing Selecting tracks for any purpose is always done on the Track Keys and the current Track is always the last one you selected The video screen changes when necessary to show the group of tracks that includes the current track Selected tracks are shown with their numbers and backgrounds in lighter colours than unselected tracks Page 22 d M P User Manual 9 The Arm Menu Opens two submenus ARM for arming tracks and INPUT for patching inputs to tracks Recording The Arm Submenu While the ARMING submenu is active the Track Keys can be used to arm and disarm the tracks INPUT ARM Toggles the type of re cording Choices are NEW which creates a new clip on each armed track when you enter record OVER
139. nge setting eseeeesssess 33 Range Size on screen 12 Range used in editing 38 Razor Dubber sessesseseee 44 Ready to record arm 23 RECOM More Pp ERE 104 Record Gain ssssssssessee 25 Record Menu commands 105 Record Over 23 Hecotditig 5 2 2 23 2 3 8 06 2224 23 Recover Waveform Command 83 Recovering Lost Clips 83 pio 32 Redbook CD scrani ia 90 Reference sssssssseeeeeenes 10 Referencing tracti dete ae 31 Regain disk space ssss 82 Rehearse mode ssssssss 111 Remove AudioBase records 76 Renaming Files sess 19 Replace trimmed audio 41 Reposition tracks on screen 48 Republishing a Project 76 Restore Fll s eii iteterren iterat 84 Restore Trimmed Audio 41 Return to Birthday 40 83 Rewind E E E 104 Rubbish Rem val scicca 81 S AUC aani a A 30 Sample rate choice usssssse 28 Sample rate conversion varispeed 61 Sample width choice s 28 Te gtjolo lore E 106 Search AudioBase
140. nter a new one of up to 34 nire part of the recording Note that all macros characters Press the ENTER begin with the Macro key ON or RETURN key to finish load save save as unload file J GJ GJ Displays the names of macro files Save the currently Return to the first in the upper LCD Scroll through loaded macro file back Save the currently macro Soft Menu the list of names with the Jogger to disk including any loaded macros as a new Wheel and press ENTER when the changes file type a name for the file you want is displayed new file of up to 15 char Remove the Currently acters and press EN loaded macros from TER memory Notes 1 Macros are faithful but dumb playing back the keystrokes exactly as you recorded them with no knowledge of the consequences For example toggles such as ON OFF on the Auto Record menu will User Manual d M Bg Page 115 choices concerned with loading and saving Macro files be switched to their opposite state regardless of what it currently is 2 Several macros can be queued up in a row by pressing keys before the others have finished A macro can be recorded into another macro When this happens it is recorded in expanded form i e as the series of keystrokes that comprise it not as a single keystroke so subsequent changes to it will not affect any other macros In the same way a macro can be recorded into itself
141. ntising the print output so that events starting within a window of this gap will appear to start at the same time Timecode Format Click on this field to choose which timecode fields will be printed Printer Characteristics FAME s printer output supports only serially connected Epson compatible machines of the 9 pin or 24 pin protocol Example EPSON LQ1170 with IF C82305 or C82307 serial interface card Baud rate 19200 8 bits 1 stop bit no parity DTR handshake Pin Connections Switch Settings interface cards Fairlight 9 pin Printer 25 pin C 82305 C82307 Pin 2 Pin 2 SW 1 1 on SW 1 1 on Pin 3 Pin 3 SW 1 2 on SW 1 2 on Pin 4 Pin 5 SW 1 3 off SW 1 3 off Pin 5 Pin 7 SW 1 4 off SW 1 4 off Pin 8 Pin 20 SW 1 5 off SW 1 5 off All other pins unused SW 1 6 off SW 1 6 off SW 2 1 on SW 2 1 on SW 2 2 on SW 2 2 on SW 2 3 off SW 2 3 off SW 2 4 on SW 2 4 on SW 2 5 off SW 2 6 off User Manual d M m Page 93 32 Machine Control FAME controls two machines M1 and M2 plus the disk recorder and generates timecode at all frame rates The buttons shown below are used to set up and control these machines MFX Menu gt Used to set system frame rate time display format and NTSC rundown MFX lt V Preroll Menu po Used to set prerolls times for au Offset Menu tomatic recording and playback Preroll Used to set offsets for M1 M2 Offset _ Disk and Gen M1
142. ntly and Fast Forward will do the reverse Audio Freeze Frame Loop Jogging A variation on jogging allows you listen to an audio loop which plays up to the Master Timecode position with the width set on the LCD menu see WIDTH previous page The loop plays at normal play speed allowing you to hear some kinds of edit point more easily When used with a serially controlled master video machine loop jogging has the extra advantage that the frame being looped is the exact one that is shown by the video machine This is called audio freeze frame The Jog Menu To choose the kind of jogging you want hold down the Jog key and select from the momentary menu that appears on the LCD LOOP Width Factor Dimmer BLINEAR 24 fr 4 08 dB m ES Toggles between Sets the width of the Increasing this number gives you a faster This number sets the loop jogging Au jogging loop using jegging speed at the existing zoom scale attenuation of the au dio Freeze Frame the and keys or It represents the zoom scale at which jog dio when loop Jog and normal jog jogger then press ging at play speed is comfortable ging is on ging ENTER Pressing Zoom and Jog at the same time sets this number equal to the zoom number Page 106 d M P User Manual The Jump Keys The Jump keys allow you to move in either direction by convenient amounts or to important land
143. nus have a TIME option When this is selected the system is ready to accept a timecode into the active parameter This is always copied from the Numeric Display by pressing ENTER Copy Add or Subtract Master Time The Master Timecode can always be copied captured into the Numeric Display by pressing the down arrow key to the right of the LCD screen Pressing Blue Plus or Blue Minus will add or subtract the current Master time from the Numeric Display Copy Last Value In some menus there is a LAST option on the Soft Keys This will copy the last Timecode used for the param eter to the Numeric Display and you can enter or trim it there as described below Entering a Value The ENTER key is used to copy a Timecode from the Numeric Display to the parameter you are setting The TIME option on the Soft Keys must be selected it usually is automatically Trimming Numbers After a number has been copied to or from the Numeric Display the first number you type on the Numeric Keypad will clear the Numeric Display and successive numbers will roll on to the Display from the right If you press the or key the number you have typed will be added or subtracted from the number that was cleared just before Pressing or before typing any numbers increases or decreases the current value by one frame or by one subframe if subframes are selected for display The and keys are always available for trimming timecode numbers except when you
144. o lock to an external source set Sync to whichever signal is your best clock source in order the best are AES EBU Word Clock Video Make sure the sync signal is connected This will govern FAME s digital sample rate so stability of this signal has a direct effect on audio quality If you are not synchronising to anything choose Internal 3 Set Frame Rate MFX Menu Set the TC Format to whichever type of timecode you are going to use or whatever video frame rate you are going to input If your choice is drop frame DF or non drop frame ND you must also select whether the frame rate will be 29 97 NTSC colour television or 30 4a Control a Sony Machine M1 or M2 Setup menu If you wish to control a Sony video machine set up the M1 or M2 button to represent this machine This is done in the Setup menu for that button hold down the Blue key and press the Button See the M1 and M2 Setup Menu for details Once it is set up use the button to put the Sony machine online and offline Make sure that the video machine is locked to the same sync source as you chose in item 2 normally this is video sync 4b Chase Timecode M1 or M2 Setup menu If you wish to synchronise to linear timecode without machine control set up the M1 or M2 button to repre sent your timecode source Then use the button to switch between chasing and running free While chasing timecode you have the choice whether to trigger then switch to House Sync turn Master
145. o set up the In and Out points for automatic recordings The use of these keys is described in the section Editing with a Range To start looping press the Loop key To stop Looping press any other transport key If you use Auto Record while looping it must be activated again for each loop Page 110 d M P User Manual 44 Automatic Dialog Replacement ADR FAME provides an environment for automatic recordings with the minimum of effort Modes There are three modes for this menu and it is always in one of them They are Rehearse Record and Playback The behaviour of the commands depends on which mode is current In and Out Points The From and To keys and their menus are used to set up the In and Out points for automatic recordings The use of these keys is described in the section Editing with a Range The ADR Menu RECORD REHEARSE PLAYBACK cycle preroll Opens a second level Puts ADR into of menu with special Rehearse mode commands If pressed while in Re Locates to the Preroll hearse Mode puts ADR into Record Mode Otherwise tog gles between Record and Playback modes position and stops Causes the transport to move with behavour depending on mode If Rehearse is selected the tranport loops continuously between Preroll and Postroll with the arm
146. oBase number in the Text File matches one in the Project File The Clip Name in the Text File matches one in the Project File this is unreliable if there is more than one Clip in the Project with that name AudioBase will choose the first one it finds User Manual d M B Page 77 Commands Using Text Files Publish a Text File After pressing the Publish Soft Key you are invited to browse and select a file If you select a Text File it is incorporated into the publication process First AudioBase will look at the Text File and see if it matches a Project File on one of your hard disks If it does the publication proceeds automatically If a match cannot be made AudioBase will ask you to select the Project which you do by browsing and then pressing ENTER During publication AudioBase tries to match text entries with clips in the Project Wherever a match is made a Clip Record is made from the clip and the data from the Text File is inserted into the appropriate fields If there are clips in the Project that are not matched by anything in the Text File they are inserted into the database with no editable data except their names If there are lines in the Text File that are not matched by clips in the Project they are ignored Export The difference between Export and Publish is that Export also outputs a Text File after publication You may choose a Project or a Text File as the target of the command and the first part will
147. om range or any selected When used with the Blue Key selects track in a Soft Menu parameter in a Soft Menu displays as follows When used with the Blue Key 1T 1 track display lt Blue 7 gt toggles subframes off and on in 4T 4 track display lt Blue 4 gt the Numeric Register and all Keyboard Maps 8T 8 track display lt Blue 5 gt other LCD timecode displays This keyboard has an alternative key mapping 12T 12 track display lt Blue 1 gt which looks more like the old FAME Editing Con 16T 16 track display lt Blue 2 gt sole To download it type 24T 24 track display lt Blue 0 gt FAMEload dd usr FAME mfk2 raw lt RETURN gt Page 8 User Manual ame Console Solo and Mute Keys Hold down key to display soloed or muted tracks on the Track Keys then Disable Key Used to disable tracks from playback Differs from muting in that disabled tracks cannot be immediately switched on because they are not being loaded from disk and chang ing the selection of disabled tracks will cause buffers to be AudioBase Keys When the AudioBase program isrunning these keys are used for special functions such as setting Search Criteria When the Macro Master key is lit however they behave like normal Macro keys Miscellaneous Mode Keys Each of these keys displays a set of choices on the LCD screen relating to various functions To access a Mode written in Blue hold down the Blue key while pressing the Mode key To leave a Mode sim
148. on the currently open project is always the first to be highlighted allowing you to choose it immedi ately Pressing the ENTER key starts the process publish export import purge J W amp m Imports a text file from an Press this Soft Key other computer and uses it as then choose a part of the publication proc Removes all database Clip Project or Text File ess See Publishing with a Text Records derived from the se to be published File for details lected Project Press the Soft Press ENTER to Key choose a Project file to be start the publication purged then press ENTER process Publishes a Project or Text File and produces a text output file at the same time This can be automatically exported to another computer if required See Publishing with a Text File for details Press the Soft Key choose the target Project or Text File then press ENTER Notes 1 Clips borrowed from other Projects including as a result of paste or extend are not published 2 If there are two or more clips with the same name in a project they will appear separately in AudioBase when it is published You will be able to give them different descriptions and categories if you wish 3 If you perform any Space Menu operations on a project dispose commit or pack it must be repub li
149. one character then any number of characters including none i e at least one character Searching the Current Project AudioBase can be switched to search the currently open Project instead of the clip database It does not matter whether it has been published or not To enter Project mode type lt SHIFT Soft Key 1 gt That means hold down the Shift key and press the first Soft Key Once in Project mode AudioBase will stay there until you repeat lt SHIFT Soft Key 1 gt The AudioBase Menu and the Search submenu change to show the new status While in Project mode none of the editable fields are shown This is because the screen is displaying clips in the Project and they contain none of the Category Description or User Fields For the same reason it is not possible to enter the Edit Submenu while in Project mode At the end of the Found Records list you will find a list of Master Recordings that are not being accessed by any clips This can happen for example when you erase a clip but do not dispose of the Master Recording see Space Menu for details of disposing You may audition and paste from any of these Master Recordings Page 74 d M P User Manual TM The Edit Submenu Pressing the Edit Soft Key brings up a menu used for editing Clip Records in the database You may now move the cursor to any editable field using M8 and M9 and type new information into it As soon as you leave a field any changes you have made to
150. or both ends of UNREFERENCED sible area of disk re borrowed clips This allows recordings e g leasing the remainder the clips to be expanded clips that have been for general use This later using material that was erased or record may take some time trimmed off originally ings that were un because the audio on Above 99 seconds the dis done the hard disks will be play shows ALL meaning moved around bring in all of the original Master Recording Commit performs two actions acting on all clips that are touching the cursor on selected tracks or all clips in the range if you have created one Firstly it removes all the clips and parts of clips that cannot be heard usually because they are covered by other clips Secondly it frees the disk space that has been left unreferenced be cause of the editing of the affected clips but if the Handles field is set to a non zero value commit leaves at least that much extra audio at the extremeties of the Master Recording so that the ends can be pulled out later See next page for further information All clips which have been borrowed from other projects see the Import Menu for de tails are kept into the current project This means that references to Master recordings in other projects are removed and a new copy of the referenced audio is brought into the current project This has the effect of making the current project independent of any other and can be backed up wit
151. ound Library It is very convenient to have Sound Effects arranged in special library projects so that they can easily be imported as needed into your current project Here are some hints Ju Divide your library into separate small projects by useful categories This has two benefits a you will be able to fit the whole sub library project on to a single hard disk b you will be able to manage the library easily and quickly on backup tapes because you will only be saving and restoring the sections of immediate interest 2 Name all the clips distinctively so that you can find them easily with the GOTO clip names function Place alternatives in sequence along a track so that you can play them all in quick succession Use Marks to allow quick location to groups of sound effects Multiple WAVE Import Pressing the WAV soft key brings up a form used to specify searches for WAVE files on the hard disks in your system To edit the form use Macro Keys 8 and 9 with Macro switched off to move the cursor to the previous and next fields respectively When the form is complete press ENTER to begin the search Determines which disk drive and optional subdirectory is the place to begin the search Use the up and down arrows to switch between the drives in the FAME system If you want to add a subdirectory to the search criteria type a forward slash after the disk drive name and then the name of the subdirectory ju 1 ENTER ORT MENU Xx
152. our first recording this will avoid problems later Page 96 User Manual 34 Synchronisation Detailed Explanation FAME can track the position and motion of external transports such as a Video Tape Recorder timecode striped audio tape or a timecode generator The disk recorder will play in time with the Master Timecode source so that sound and picture coincide 1 Position This is an absolute location reference to a sequence of pictures or audio It is used to determine whether the disk recorder is playing the right part of its project For video position reference is usually provided by 9 pin Sony protocol from an RS 422 port For audio tapes LTC is normally used though 9 pin is also a possibil ity 2 Motion The motion of an external machine is a measure of its speed and the disk recorder must move at the same speed to remain in sync This translates into producing the correct number of samples every second which is called the Master Clock rate This can be locked to a Digital Word Clock a video signal an AES EBU timimg signal by the internal crystal a timecode source or a Digital audio source which is being recorded If the Position Reference and Motion References are not the same it is possible that they will drift apart over time This will be shown by a warning at the top of the FAME video screen which indicates when an inconsist ent timecode frame was encountered How FAME Synchronises FAME goes throug
153. ove a clip without changing its layer number use the SLIP command in the GRAB menu This only has the effect of changing the timecode sync of the clip If you slip a clip to the same location as another clip the one with the highest layer number will appear on top Page 64 d M P User Manual 24 The Import Menu Importing means bringing audio from another project or from a WAVE file into the currently open project The other project may be a sound library or any other project that contains a sound you need We can bring in the audio in two ways by borrowing it i e by making reference to it from our current project or by keeping it i e making a fresh copy of the audio in the current project Press the Import key If you have already imported audio from another FAME project during this session FAME immediately opens that project If not the following menu is displayed browse borrow keep This soft key comes on by de fault allowing you to access FAME Projects or single WAVE files Press ENTER to open any FAME file those with the MT suffix This is described below under Open ing FAME Files for Import Press this soft key to find and import multiple WAVE files See Multiple WAVE Import on the next page for procedure that follows This key can only be used for This key can only be used for
154. p the FAME It will always boot up with the Project Menu active The light under the Proj key on your FAME Editing Console will confirm this 3 Along the bottom of the LCD display there is a row of words the Project Menu and below these Soft Keys that do what the words suggest Press the new Soft Key to create a new Project for recording 4 Name your project by typing My First on the keyboard and pressing the lt Enter gt key You have now created a new project called My First and you are ready to record 5 Press the lt ARM gt key to the left of the LCD display The Soft key choices change to those of the Arm Menu We will use this to set up a stereo analogue recording on track 1 6 Press the first Soft Key labelled ARM INPUT This changes the Soft key choices to a second level of the Arm Menu which is used to patch inputs to recording tracks Press Track Key 1 and then the patch Soft Key This will allow us to patch audio inputs to Track 1 Press Track Keys 1 and 2 at the same time to patch inputs 1 and 2 to Track 1 7 Press the Type Soft Key and use the and keys located above the Numeric Keypad to change the choices until you see Analog 4 in the LCD display Press the ENTER key to lock in your choice 8 Press the ARM INPUT Soft Key again to return to the first level of the Arm Menu and press Track Key to arm that track make it ready to record 9 The video screen now displays input meters at
155. ply select another Master Time press them to change reloaded Shows the timecode position of the current master machine selection M9 Next M8 Prev M10 Any M11 M12 M13 Any One One None And Numeric Register Used for timecode entry and arithmetic Or M14 M15 Not Soft Menus and Keys Each disk or transport mode has a menu of choices which are activated by the Soft Key directly below Transport Controls Apart from the usual controls there is a Jog Shuttle key for location and bos XR m audio scrubbing and the Play Menu while striking key which gives you a choice of other keys if special play commands item printed in E m Record is entered by pressing Play Blue ig Te and Record together quired Holding down the Record key shows GET REW FF erm STE HEC Play amenu of special record commands JOG lt 2 5s s gt Menu Holding down the Jog key shows a menu of setup parameters for jog gt BLUE ging a M2 Button 7 8 9 E Preroll Edit Edit Takes second machine on P d a 9 Offset Loop Mark and off line Press with the _ L Blue key to set this ma 4 5 6 Setup Setup g chine s parameters AT 8T hs J EN M1 Button Takes first external
156. printing dubbing chart of the se lected range Determines how page num bers are shown If you choose Selects the baud X of Y it will printed like rate for the printer this Page 3 of 13 This in volves an extra scan of the edit list and so it takes longer for printing to start Allows a choice of the output port Both PRINTER and MO DEM ports available for use and are labelled on the rear of the machine Notes Dubbing chart printing always takes a range 2 Dubbing charts print only the selected tracks The durations of clips on the non selected tracks are however taken into account so you can print 12 tracks in one pass and the other 12 in another pass and the two prints will join side by side to make one large display This may spread your dub chart more than desired so to prevent this from happening deselect and disable the tracks that you do not want involved in any way in the print process 4 To stop printing type ctrl Q Then press the Kill Que Soft Key 2 Any Epson compatible printer can be used but FAME uses a serial protocol so some printers such as the Canon Bubble Jet range require a serial interface board to talk to FAME 6 To split the name of a clip include an ellipsis in its name The first part will print at the top of the clip and the second part at the bottom Page 92 d M P User Manual TM Setting Printer Characteristics To change printer characteristics displ
157. ptical storage devices against picture before you the original project is parked or at the as a sound library borrow or keep it and also to Master Timecode if Lock is used sync library sounds to picture directly More About Importing You cannot perform any editing or Recording on a project while it is open for Import because selecting any other Mode Key will return you to the original project 2 If there are clips in the Library that have themselves been borrowed from a third project they cannot be played from the Import menu but can nevertheless be re imported 3 If you have borrowed a clip from a project which is no longer resident on any hard disk in your system you will receive an error message when opening the project CAN T ATTACH etc and every time the system tries to play that clip Inactive Waveform The clip itself will be shown with a dotted line instead of audio waveform and you will be able to see which file it came from originally by looking in the upper part of the screen For a list of all missing Library Projects type lt Blue gt L When restoring the missing project to your system you may put it back on any disk drive and the software will find it If instead you wish to remove the imported clip from your current project erase it and then do a dispose on the project See Space Menu next section for details 4 When looking for the correct file to play the imported clips the machine does not look for a project n
158. r files i e clips have it is unmarked whether it is been borrowed from them a window will appear showing currently marked or not A all attached files and allowing them to be included in the Files attachments are un backup see Marking Attached Files below Projects marked at the same time as marked as attachments have a special icon to show this it is but if they have also they may also be marked explicitly in their own right The been explicitly marked in currently open Project cannot be marked for backup Nor their own right they remain can any file on the current archive unit marked User Manual d M B Page 85 PROJECT EHE SAMPLE RaTEEEIUURGER UNIT VOLUME FIG While marking files for backup restore FREE SPACE FREE TIME THL ARCHIVE UNIT 4mfxi sciBZMARK TEST b MT mfxi sc4 TOTAL FILES MARKED TRANSFER AMOUNT TRANSFER RATE TRANSFER TINE idi m Tick indicates marked for backup or restore Mar 9 12 52 3 11 44ki 12 52 5 34 44k1 E indicates expandable to include attached files A indicates marked by attachment to another Project file Marking Attached Files If a Project file you mark has borrowed audio from other files FAME will display a list of the files from which they are borrowed allowing you to mark them as well SAMPLE RATE VOLUME BE VENDOREES 4 DISK SIZE REE SPACI FREE TIME UNIT amp IE R F E PRTHLIST ARCHIVE UNIT TRANSFER RHOUNT TRANSFER RATE TRANSFE
159. r than the underlapping clip s fade out point both of the fades are performed normally without any induced crossfade effect This occurs only while there is overlap between the two clips so it is not a good idea to extend the underlapping clip past the end of the overlapping fade Ze Trimming the end of a clip where a fade occurs will result in a fade with the same Timecode point inside the clip but starting or ending at the new Head or Tail 3 When a clip Level other than 0 dB is applied the Fade will reach the applied level see the Level Menu 4 If you try to create a fade that overlaps a fade at the other end of the clip the other fade will be pushed towards its end of the clip so that there is room for both fades without overlap amp 5 It is possible to interrupt a fade by placing another clip on top of it This can be used to create ramped level changes 6 If a crossfade is positioned so that one of the clips is not as long as the fade requires part of the fade will be cut off To prevent this select the CROSSFADE FROM ZERO option on the System Page EN CROSSFADE FROM ZERO l OFF ON Y Fade defaults do not usually occur at butt edits between clips To turn them on enable the Fade Def on Butted Clips option on the S Page Page 52 d M P User Manual 19 The Level Menu The Level Menu allows you to se
160. range then move the trans port so the cursor is touching the original clip then press this Soft Key to start the processing n Press to toggle between TIME or PITCH as the measure of varispeed ratio Page 62 User Manual TM Varispeed with Pitch Measurement Mode Semitones VARISPEED 3 01 aJ G Press this Soft Key then enter the pitch change for the clip This is expressed as semitones and cents one hundredths of a semitone You may use the Numeric Keypad or the Jogger Wheel and or keys To increment or decrement by whole semitones use lt Blue plus gt or lt Blue minus gt Press ENTER to start the pitch change process Allows you to choose be tween the three Wave Menu functions Stretch Pitch or Varispeed Using a Range Press to toggle between TIME or PITCH as the measure of varispeed ratio If you have a range set up with the varispeed submenu it is possible to change the speed of all clips that are entirely within the range The procedure is the same as for one clip User Manual d M m Page 63 23 The Takes Menu The Takes Menu allows you to control the layering of clips During recording or editing clips are often placed on top of others or have sections overlapping You can use the Takes Menu to
161. received the file it will ask you to find the Project with which to publish the Text File Select the Project where you recorded the CD and press ENTER Example 2 The task here is exactly the same but this time we will allow FAME to create a text file which is then merged with the supplied database information l Record the sound into FAME 2 Using the Gate function or by editing divide the recording into individual sounds 3 If you want the clips named in the Project name them exactly as on the supplied database If you will only ever access the sounds through AudioBase there is no need to name the clips as long as they have been recorded or edited into the same order as they appear in the supplied database 4 Go to the AudioBase Menu press File then Export Choose PC as the export type making sure the PC is running its terminal program and is ready to receive The Project will be published and the Text File will be transferred to the PC J Once the file is on your PC load it into Excel as a text only file with tab delimiters You will now be able to edit the Clip Record information 6 Load the information from your supplied database into the same Excel file To do this will require first loading it into a different Excel file then copying the information across to the first file T Arrange the information so that the data from the received database lines up with the data from AudioBase This would mean that each line other
162. rocessing algo rithm which suits the audio content The choices are described below An algorithm is a method used in software to achieve a desired result Because time compression is com plex there are many ways of doing it and many settings for the operating parameters FAME has six varia tions to allow for different types of source material VOICE 1 use for male voice spoken or sung or low pitched monphonic instruments VOICE 2 use for female voice spoken or sung or high pitched monphonic instruments POP 1 use for highly percussive music or other sound POP 2 use for music or other sound with medium percussive content CLASSIC 1 use for music or other sound with long tones and medium percussive content CLASSIC2 use for music or other sound with long tones and low percussive content User Manual Page 59 ame The Pitch Submenu Mode Semitones PITCH 10 23 Allows you to choose between jhe three Press this Soft Key then Wave Menu funcions enter the pitch change for Stretch Pitch or the clip This is expressed as semitones and cents one hundredths of a semi Determines the width of the Allows you to choose frequency window used for a processing algo analysis of the audio The best rithm which suits the Varispeed policy is to set this value at 50 audio
163. s allow selection of multiple tracks while Am E um m um um Oum m mm 6 some allow only a single track Details can be found in the Edit Mode Sum 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 js s mary on the inside back cover ra Si To select a range of Track Keys hold LJ E m E mE iem El Em down one key and double click on another this will select the range be Takes Wave tween them Similarly double click Nudge Edit ing on a single key selects it exclu EH m Rei icd Eri ii LJ ES ui sively Alphanumeric Keyboard EM EM I Itl I I Usedto name disk recorder items clips i tracks projects Also used to type commands in the OS9 R T Y U Oo P operating system not described in this manual RETURN key is also used to clear F G H J K L error messages from the status line on the video screen second from top lt ctrl gt and q together are used to stop operations in progress where this is C V B N M A Return possible such as backup EDL Con form etc Space Home End Back Shift Key gt v Holding down this key causes upper case characters to be typed Double pressing the key turns on CAPS LOCK and repeating this action turns it off Numeric Keypad and Keys Types numbers into the Numeric Register Clear Key Used to increment and decre the Zoom range or any selected parameter Enters ZELOES inthe Numeric Key ment the Numeric Register the on a Soft Menu Pad ormany selected parameter Zo
164. s depending on the status of Match in the options submenu For example you enter WIND in the clip name field and LOUD in the description field When Match is set to ALL the search will find all clips with WIND contained in their names which also have LOUD contained in their descriptions You might want to set Fields to ANY when you are looking for any reference to a concept For example you might enter DOG into both the name and description fields and find all Clip Records containing DOG in either field When searching in the Description field each word in the field is considered separately AudioBase will find search each word and return all Records where one or more words match the criteria For example you place the letters dog in this field when Match is set to PART AudioBase returns a Record if any word in the descrip tion contains dog when set to WHOLE it returns a Record if any word in the description is dog Entering Data into Fields The FAME Editing Console keyboard is used to type characters into the currently selected field The M keys at the top of the FAME Editing Console are used for many database functions To make use of them you must have the Macro key switched off e To move the cursor to the next field press M9 To move the cursor to the previous field press M8 To empty a field completely use the CLEAR key on newer consoles this is part of the Numeric Keypad while on older consoles it
165. s a number from 1 to 6 plus a backup device which may be number 7 E EMEN Nux File Mana You can name each device when initialising it PROJECT De KRAME RATE if you wish see Preparing Disk Drives for EONS N Work AN UNIT RES YOLUME Manufacturer of disk drive VOLUP L DISK SIZE Total size in Megabytes each megabyte is approxi REE SPACE mately 10 seconds of mono audio at 44 1 kHz Unused disk space M MEgADYtES ONO ON N N N Unused disk space in minutes and sec WEB N ScSI YD LUM RE onds of mono audio at 44 1 kHz FILES STATUS FILES pro ject MT Name of domain or working group of systems Name of network node which may be an FAME system a server or another computer Unit or hard disk disk drive attached to system Folder or directory on a disk drive REC RELEAS TEMP Projects are named on the Project Menu or renamed on the Name Menu The MT at the end of the name indicates a multitrack file or project Other file types you may see are MK files macro files omf files OMF ex port files WAVE files and more Page 14 d M P User Manual and File Pages Complete loca Indicates if Indicates if Indicates the device disk tonor pathlist the diskisre the device is file system This could of currently se movable write pro be RBF the OS 9 file lected file e g Mag tected system FLFS or MDR neto Optical DOS proprietary drive Fairlight file sy
166. s above are exclusive and take prec edence over all others oral or written express or implied to the extent permitted by law in the geographical area of the product s use No employee of Fairlight ESP agent distributor or employee of an agent or distributor is authorised to offer any variation from this policy Copyright 1999 Fairlight ESP Pty Ltd Unit 2 1 Skyline Place French s Forest NSW 2086 AUSTRALIA Telephone 61 2 8897 9999 Fax 61 2 8897 9900 meN o NOD 10 11 Contents Getting Started 7 Project Layer ssr sedernas raian 32 The FAME Editing Console 9 Summary of Editing Commands 32 How the Disk Recorder Works 10 Selecting Clips for Editing 32 FAME Editing Screens 11 312 Timecode Ranges 33 The FAME Recording and Editing Setting up a Range ssssssssss 33 L mM A 13 Simple Method ss 33 The Device and File Pages 15 Fil e men MANN x Starting a Projector mcs i7 T The Edit Menu Cut amp Paste n as gelesen 17 Selecting Audo BOND yey 35 INAVIGANOM se ercis HE 17 Cutting or Copying to the Clipboard ucc From and To Keys 17 Selecting Destination Tracks 35 CC ee 17 a NS ye irene 99 The Project menu HAMM 18 Pasting From the Clipbo
167. s according to your specifications If any are found they will be displayed below and the following screen appears To issue a command on all listed files type the first letter of one of the listed commands RF ta tg M Translates all files from WAVE Returns to the previous screen file format into FAME audio format and brings this data into the project This could be useful if the audio is going to be played on a Fairlight Digital Audio Dubber DaD When importing multiple WAVE files a clip is created for each file These clips are arrayed down the selected tracks and if there are more clips after that they are placed at the tails of the already placed clips Page 68 d M P User Manual 25 AudioBase AudioBase is a clip database which allows you to search for sounds on all devices in your system audition them and bring them into your current project To put sounds into the database a normal Project is Published When this happens all clips in that Project become Clip Records in the database which can later be turned back into clips by Pasting into any open Project AudioBase is a large topic Here is a mini Table of Contents for this section of the Manual Glossary 69 Field Summary 69 Audiobase Screen 70 AudioBase Menu basic 71 The Search Submenu T2 How to Search for Clip Records 73 Use of Wildcards 173 Use of Operators 74 The Edit Submenu 75 The File Submenu 76 Publishing with a
168. shed as some Clip Records may no longer point at the right audio data Republishing a Project If a project has been published before publishing it again will affect Clip Records whose originating clips have changed The following description refers to changes that have been made to the project between publishing and republishing Editable data refers to data in the Name Category Description and User fields that has been added or changed using the Edit Submenu since original publication Automatic data means data that is inherent to the clip such as Sample Rate Project Duration etc Change Result after Republication Erase clip Gone from database Create new clip Added to database under current clip name Copy clip Sound 1 without changing its name Two Clip Records called Sound 1 with the same editable and automatic data Split Clip Two Clip Records called Sound 1 with the same editable data different duration Copy clip Sound 1 to Sound 2 Two Clip Records with the same editable data except for their names same automatic data Rename clip Clip Record gets new name otherwise the same Page 76 d M P User Manual Cut and Paste clip Clip Record unchanged Trim clip Clip Record unchanged except for duration Change level or EQ Clip Record will audition or paste with new values Dispose Commit or Pack project No visible or audible effect clip pointers may have changed Publishing with a Text File AudioBase
169. shows all the information about which input is patched to which track and what choices have been made on each of the inputs This display is shown whenever the Input Submenu of the Arm Menu is selected You can also force its display at any time by typing lt Blue gt P The Meters show you the audio level at each output It is automatically displayed whenever you enter the Arm menu and you may force its display at any time by typing lt Blue gt A MENU mol MD D onl el o 0 N List of tracks by name When you first create a project these will be named Track 1 Track2 etc but youcan give them your own names using the Name Menu Grid showing the input s patched to each track Note that the same input can be patched to many tracks but only one of them can be in record at a time When two inputs are patched to the same track it means that stereo clips will be created when the track goes into record Note To change the settings for an input you must open the Input Submenu a 6 6 a 1 1 This track has been se lected so that its inputs can be changed It is possible to select any number of tracks for this purpose Note that the inputs that are currrently patched to this track are also se lected SAMPLE RATE Shows the gain cur rently applied to each input List of inputs num bered 1 to 24 of the Arm Menu and then choose a Track which has that input patched to its
170. single WAVE files these have a WAV suffix Pressing the soft key will cause all track keys to flash and you are asked to indicate which is the target track for this sound Press any track key and a clip is placed at the current position This clip borrows audio from the WAVE file which means the audio data remains in the WAVE file instead of being part of the project file This is useful for conserving disk space but the WAVE file must remain present somewhere on the system in order for the project to play it Note there is a total limit of 25 borrowings per project single WAVE files these have a WAV suffix Pressing the soft key will cause all track keys to flash and you are asked to indicate which is the target track for this sound Press any track key and a clip is placed at the current position Keeping the audio means copying it into the project which makes it inde pendent of the orginal WAVE file Opening FAME Files for Import After you have browsed to an FAME Project file and pressed ENTER on the menu above that project file is opened in Media Read mode after a brief period of Project Read see Access Modes for details This project is referred to as a Library from which sound clips may be borrowed or kept While this Library is open you may move around the project in the normal way and play clips Whichever track s you select are automatically soloed making it easy for you to hear the clips you are
171. ssing the time clips on the current track and adopts Soft Key except that the it as the Range start At this point you previous Range end from can press other keys to continue mov before entering the menu ing the Range start will be adopted Now it Release the From Key at any time to Pressing this Soft Key latches can be edited in the usual accept the current Range start the menu adopting the cur ways before pressing EN Press the prev gap Soft Key again rent Mark as the range start TER to find a further previous gap Press any other Soft Key and switch subst or select one with to its functions If this latches the the Jogger Wheel or and menu the ENTER key will be needed leys and press ENTER to complete the sequence l Press either Jump Key to move the Range start You may now type in a mark User Manual d M B Page 33 lt C iaae oD From Point Cursor To Point While a Range Menu is latched 1 2 3 4 5 You can use the Jogger Wheel to move the end of the Range You can use the Jump keys to move the end of the Range The video display highlights the Range that will be created if you press ENTER The Numeric Register shows the current value of the Range end that is being changed Pressing ENTER establishes the range and takes the system back to the previous editing mode Automatic and Manual Ranges Ranges can be set to Manual or
172. stems or Sample rate of audio in NTFS Windows NT file current project see Arm system only on servers Menu or other PCs C TheDevice Page N This page shows information about the stor age devices attached to the currently se lected node machine The page is auto matically displayed whenever you open or close a project or begin a file copy or backup procedure You can also force its gt display at any time by typing lt Blue gt D lt ParMUisT S I J I i UN KEROURELE RERD ONLY Dos frre Lasr EDIt size SRATE Jun 19 13 15 13 28 48k TheFilePage This page is split into sections showing the network structure in which machines are placed and information about one of the storage devices including the files it con tains One file is highlighted making it ready for opening copying or whatever function you have in mind You may scroll the high lighted bar up and down the screen choos ing a file to be acted on by the next com mand This display is shown whenever you are open ing afile deleting etc You can force its display at any time by typing lt Blue gt F Shows the last date SiZe of files given in hours minutes and seconds for FAME Project files those with suffix MT on which the file was altered Shows the sam pling rate of the audio in the file User Manual ame Page 15 7 The Patch and Meters Display The Patch Display
173. t ooo eei 38 AT Screen 13 9 DIN SEUD irrien 99 A Access Modes esee 21 ADR OMGLHU siint ene 111 AES EBU output esssesess 28 AGONI iecit aede oou ns nem eee 59 Alternative keyboard mapping 8 Apperid Wiite certet rette 21 Armi display oenn 11 Arm Menus s esce nee enean n 23 Atmung MARS ce eec t etes 23 Attenuation of clips sssssse 53 Audio Freeze Frame eccere 106 Audio Waveform esses 12 AudioBase eiii ttc 69 AudioBase Form Editing 79 AudioBase keys esee 9 AudioBase publish 76 AudioBase purge records 76 AudioBase text export 76 AudioBase text import 76 Audition clips dde mettre tenen 71 Audition clips AudioBase 71 Auto NAMN ssa 29 Auto Update DL File 123 Automatic Dialog Replacement 111 Automatic display change 11 Automatic Drop in seeeeeess 27 AutoRec Menu eee 112 B Backup Menu eee 84 Backup Options etica 123 Beat Marks 109 Birthiday caido 40 83 Bit depth choice sssesssssss 28 Bit depth display info 53 Block menu
174. t If two fades lie on top of each other only the fade on top will act and the clip underneath will crossfade as illustrated above The Fade Menu Autoln tail 4 fr Causes a fade from x dB at the Head of the clip to the clip level at the cursor Select a number of frames up to 99 to be Causes a fade from the Auto fade in time the clip level at the then hit ENTER to ex cursor to x dB at ecute the fade in the Tail of the clip Select a number of frames up to 99 to be the Auto fade out time then hit ENTER to execute the fade out AutoOut 4 fr Sets the level at the mid point of new fades where both clips have the same loudness In theory this should be set to 6 for perfectly in phase audio and to 3 for com pletely randomly phased audio You can also set the value outside these limits to achieve desirable fade in and fade out contours X Ratio It is possible to move the mid point of the fade earlier or later in time To do this hold the SHIFT key and press this Soft Key Its label will change to X Point and you can enter the position of the mid point as a percentage of the duration of the crossfade Notes k Auto In and Auto Out can be performed together 2 You can use the mouse to shift the point of equal level right and left within the duration of the fade Just click anywhere inside th
175. t Key If takes only a few sec required you may create a New Folder by press onds regardless of ing this Soft Key typing a name and pressing File size Enter Then open it by browsing and press Okay to make it the destination Folder Now you must Allows any File or Folder supply a name for the copy by editing the one in to be renamed Edit the cur the upper LCD Press ENTER to start the copy rent name in the upper Note that if the machine you are copying from or LCD and press Enter Do to is in Play at the time the copy will be held off mains Nodes and Units until the machine stops and will be held off cannot be renamed here again each time the machine goes into Play The currently open Project can only be renamed in the Name Menu User Manual d M m Page 19 When a Project is open the Project menu looks like this close extend password This removes the open project from view saving it first This makes a copy of the open project but accesses all of the audio from the original file as though it was imported see The Import Menu This is used to ex tend a file to another disk drive when you have filled the one you are on or to make a copy of the edit list so you can try radical changes The command syntax is exactly the same as for Copy Extend takes only a few seconds and opens the extens
176. t an amount of attenuation for each clip The range is from 99 dB to 99dB zero is the default when a clip is first recorded The clip fade in and fade out rise to and fall from this level Range Many clips can be altered at the same time using a range This is created using the FROM and TO keys as described in the section on Editing with a Range When using a range only clips that are entirely within the range are affected Track Selection Any number of tracks may be chosen by pressing their Track Keys Mode Selection When CLIP is selected the Set and Trim parameters alter the level of the currently selected clip s When DISPLAY is selected the Set and Trim parameters affect the vertical size of the waveform display When TRACK is selected only possible if Stereo Mix is ON Set Trim and Pan affect monitoring of the selected tracks in the stereo output These settings cease to have any effect when Stereo Mix is switched OFF n Sets the value of the current parameter on selected clips tracks depending on the MODE setting this could be CLIP level DISPLAY ampli tude or TRACK monitor level This may be a negative or posi tive number After pressing this Soft Key you will see the cur rent value below the Set label Type the value you want or use the Jogger or and keys then press ENTER to set the param eter value If a ne
177. t cycle atter which mode it switches the recording active until changed which things go back to normal track to input immediately means that all recordings with OPEN selected must be manu ally terminated The Old AutoRecord Menu FAME has had an AutoRec Menu for many years and many people and external programs use it on a regular basis So it has been kept in the FAME Editing Console and can be accessed at any time To access the Old AutoRec Menu hold down the Shift key and press the AutoRec ADR Mode key The menu will change and this will be remembered by the console next time it powers up ON run E OFF m Press to initiate automatic recording The transport will preroll record through the In and Out points then postroll and stop When toggled ON the transport will enter Record if the In timecode is reached and will exit record if the Out time is reached This is useful for recording in LTC chase mode and for creating automatic drop in or drop out only Note The Old AutoRec menu has its own separate In and Out times from the new ADR Menu Page 112 d M E User Manual 45 The GPI Menu GPI means General Purpose Interface sometimes known as GPO General Purpose Output It refers to 8 contact closure lines at the rear of the machine which can be used to trigger even
178. the FAME Editing Console position which is normally shown in the upper right of the LCD There are two ways of entering offsets One is to specify a machine s offset and the other is to specify its desired postion A toggle in the menu allows you to choose which you prefer In this menu the upper portion of the LCD shows the current position or offset of all the machines in the system XX XX XX XX Disk XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX Gen XX XX XX XX Preroll Offset a UJ Uu uu Choose any machine s then set its offset or its desired timecode position by Toggles between displaying editing the Numeric Register then pressing ENTER and changing machine off The LCD Menu also changes temporarily to give you the options shown sets or positions below restore capture T Restores the machine s offset to the Makes the offset equal to the current posi value it had before it was selected tion relative to the FAME s Master time for changing effectively UNDOing display The device being offset must be an offset change OFFLINE during this process or it would always locate to its existing offset 1 The Position of any machine when on line is defined as FAME position plus
179. the cursor is located on its reference in the File Page Alternatively you may select any Folder on a hard disk to be the backup destination or even create a new folder for the backup The following menu gives the command options new folder J GJ n Press to create a new folder Type a name for the new folder then press ENTER The browser will move into Return to the main menu the new folder immediately and you may start mark ing files Page 88 d M P User Manual Press to start the copy when all desired files are marked E Press to mark a File or Folder Marking a Folder marks all Files inside it and those inside Folders inside it down to as many levels of Folders as have been created If any Project File has attachments to other files i e clips have been borrowed from them a window will appear showing all attached files and allowing them to be included in the backup see Marking Attached Files on an earlier page Projects marked as attachments have a special icon to show this they may also be marked explicitly in their own right The currently open Project cannot be marked for backup Nor can any file on the current archive unit unmark m Press to unmar
180. the default choice when you enter the menu To change from one to the other hold down the SHIFT key and press the SLIP TRIM toggle Soft Key The menu will change and this will be remembered by the console next time it powers up User Manual d M Bg Page 41 Grab Menu Illustrated In each illustration the first diagram shows the situation at the moment a Soft Key is pressed and the second diagram shows the results of moving the cursor and pressing the ENTER key Slip Clip Cursor Cursor Clip slips maintaining its sync relationship to the Cursor dete ecito Slip Head Cursor E aged Cursor Head slips to the Cursor position while the Tail remains fixed ropaje Slip Sync Cursor Heo wen Cursor Audio maintains sync with the Cursor while the Head and Tail remain fixed ropata Trim Head Cursor Low odapeo Cursor Head moves to Cursor position but audio sync is fixed Clip may be shortened or lengthened ipai Cursor aspe etta Cursor Head and Tail move with Cursor but the audio sync remains fixed Trim Clip Page 42 d M P User Manual 15 The Nudge Menu The Nudge Menu is used to slip clips forward or backward in time by a fixed small amount This can be done while playing if desired so you can use it to synchronise tracks on the fly In this case there will be a short inter
181. the level at which the meter elements are coloured red You can also change this at any time the meters are displayed by typing red number lt RETURN gt where number is the audio level where the meters are to turn red You may include the minus sign or not just as you prefer Crossfade from Zero This is used when you have set a crossfade that is longer than one of the clips in the overlapping region When ON is chosen the short clip will fade in such a way that it will reach a level of minus infinity at the edge of the clip even if the crossfade is not at an end When OFF is chosen the clip will fade in the normal way as dictated by the crossfade parameters and then it will stop playing at its end with the level still up Fade Def on Butted Clips This option allows you to decide whether fade defaults are used at butted clips It is generally a good idea to leave it switched off if the audio is continuous across your edits Auto Update DL File Allows you to have FAME create a Dubber file automatically whenever a project is closed Options are NEVER ASK you will be prompted each time a project is closed or ALWAYS Wave Menu Audio Format Allows you to choose whether Wave menu operations Time stretch etc produce new Master Recording in the original format of the clips being processed or in the current system bit depth User Manual d M Bg Page 123 Index e Symbols SOUR OS E nd atreeetnasecesden eadieaniet oes 92 4 point edi
182. the top with track 1 shown armed Play some of your source material into FAME If necessary go back to the Input submenu and change the input type to Analog 10 or adjust the gain using the gain Soft Key 10 Cue the source material and begin recording by pressing Play and Record together 11 You can now see the audio clip and its waveform as it is recorded to the left of the cursor on the FAME video display 12 Press STOP and use the left Jump key to locate to the beginning of the clip Press PLAY and listen to a bit of what you recorded 13 Disarm track 1 by pressing its track key and now arm track 3 Go back to the Input submenu and this time patch only the right side of your stereo input to track 3 by pressing patch and then Track key number 1 Record for some distance along track 3 At the same time as making a mono recording on track 3 you hear what was recorded on track 1 coming out of outputs 1 and 2 14 Stop and disarm track 3 by pressing its track key Now select the Edit Menu by pressing the Edit key Press the Jump key that points in the direction of the beginning of your clip on track 3 You will be located to the start of the clip press a second time if necessary 15 Now ensure that the little black triangle that chooses between CUT and COPY on the LCD is on CUT it always is when you first enter this menu Press the clip Soft Key You have just cut the clip and it is on a clipboard rea
183. the upper LCD and you can change it will be prompted for con Press this key add using the Numeric Keypad if you wish to start your firmation and in the case other functions See next new project on a different device Press ENTER to of a Folder you will be page create the new project If there is a project open prompted again if the when you press this key it will be closed before the Folder contains Files new one is opened Note names should contain only the following characters A Zi a Z 0 9 _ underscore Although FAME will allow entry of some other characters you are advised NOT to use them as they may cause problems in exchange with other computer systems Page 18 d M P User Manual TM More Project Menu Options new folder copy rename Creates a new Folder underneath the currently selected one i e the one where the Navigation Point is You The Move sequence must supply a name for the new Folder is exactly the same as then press Enter the Copy sequence except that the origi nal file is removed If the destination Folder is on the same stor age device as the File the Move command Goes back to the first level of the Project Menu Initiates the copy sequence First you must se lect the destination directory for the copy by browsing and pressing the Okay Sof
184. time The following chart shows which access modes may co exist Access Mode Coexists With Modify Write None Append Write Media Read only Marked for Backup Media Read only Project Read Media Read only Media Read Append Write Backup Project Read Media Read Media Reads may co exist in any number meaning that a Project may sustain for example any number of users at Media Read level i e borrowing clips from it and also one user at up to Append Write level who may be recording and editing If any user is currently attached to the Project by borrowing the user who is editing it will not be able to perform overwrite recording committing etc Another constraint is that in order to initiate a Media Read a user must first pass briefly through Project Read in order to check the header information This cannot be done while another user has the Project open for Append Write since the second user might be changing the header information at the very moment that the first one is reading it So if a user is editing a Project no one else can attach to it although any users who were already attached to it before it was opened for editing will be able to maintain their attachments The action of opening a Project for Import also causes it to briefly enter Project Read even if it has already been opened and closed previously during this session This means that if another user has opened the Project for editing since the first time it was opened
185. to the same input Repatching It is not possible to repatch an input to a track while the track is in record Metering Input Levels The input levels to the armed tracks are shown as vertical bargraphs at the top of the screen These are seen on the Video Display Unit as soon as you enter the Arm Menu For tracks that are not armed for record meters show the playback levels The behaviour of the meters can be changed so that the background colour changes to warn you when a certain input level has been reached This is done by setting the METER RED LEVEL field on the System Page type lt Blue gt S then use the mouse to change the value of RED or type RED level lt RETURN gt where level is the desired audio level with or without a minus sign The meter scaling can also be changed This is done by setting the METER LAW which affects the range of the meter and its linearity Meter LAW can be changed on the System Page type Blue S or by typing LAW n lt RETURN3 gt where n is a number from 1 to 6 Entering Record Using the FAME Record Button With the setup for recording complete start recording by pressing the Play and Record buttons at the same time The Disk Recorder will not enter record until it has locked to the synchronising signals in the system This takes a short time after entering Play longer if you are running in sync with a video machine If you try to enter record earlier than the system is ready it will automatically d
186. tor if model unavailable A range is set up to indicate the start and end of the Compact Disc which cannot exceed 75 minutes in duration The following controls are available on the submenu real write J J k Ejects the CD Starts a test write This will go through the entire write proce Writes the audio to the from the drive dure checking everything works but will not actually burn a CD at twice real speed CD Useful for saving media if uncertain about the result Rules for writing to CD 1 All sample rates are supported Regardless of the Project sample rate the output to CD will be at 44 100 Hz 2 EQ level settings and crossfades between the clips on the track are not performed as the audio is written to CD The clips are played as though they were butt edited together and EQ is ignored 3 CD tracks are defined by consecutive clips with the same name Silences may appear between these clips without starting a new track Where a clip has a different name to the one before it a new track will be started 4 Index markers can be created by placing normal FAME Marks at the appropriate timecodes Marks 0 Page 90 d M P User Manual TM and 999 will not produce index markers 5 To set the Precount to a track place a clip named PCOUNT all upper case as the last clip of the preceding trac
187. track the right hand side of the stereo clip is not heard Gain Structure 1 To get Unity Gain through the system with Analog inputs set Gain to zero and set Type to Analog 4 2 The maximum analog input level with Unity Gain is 24 dBu More than this will cause overload of the Analog to Digital Converter If your audio source is lined up to give 4dBu output at 0 VU this will correspond to 18 on the meters of FAME Maximum output level is also 24 dBu which occurs when the waveform amplitude is at maximum 0 dB on the FAME meters These values may be changed by altering resistor values Please see your Fairlight distributor if you want to do this FAME2 users please note that maximum output in FAME2 was 14 dBu 3 To get Unity Gain through the system with Digital inputs set Gain to zero and Type to AES EBU or SP DIF 4 The Gain field causes boost or cut of the input signal in the same domain digital or analog as that signal Track Source You have a choice of what to monitor on armed tracks during Play You may monitor what is recorded on the tracks already select TRACK or you may listen to the input to the tracks select SOURCE In either case the monitoring will automatically switch to input when record is entered and during Stop Rewind etc Jog mode always monitors Track never Source Arming Restrictions Sometimes Arming a track disarms another track This occurs when there is already a track armed that is patched
188. track is empty of clips a new Master Recording is created If recording commences where there is an existing clip its Master Recording is overwritten using the same rules as for OVER The window parameter allows a gap up to 999 frames between the recording entry point and the next clip if recording is commenced inside this gap recording is held off until the head of the next clip Page 24 d M P User Manual TM The Input Submenu The Input Submenu is used to choose inputs for the tracks as well as the type and gain of each input In this submenu the Track Keys are first used to select which tracks are having their inputs patched Once the patch or group button has been pressed the Track Keys are used to patch inputs to the selected tracks patch group 4 GJ minus and then the number Press to select the type of in Press to patch inputs to se lected tracks Track keys will flash indicating that they now represent inputs Press one key to patch that input to all selected tracks Press to assign multiple in puts to multiple tracks in mono only The tracks are selected before pressing this Soft Key All the Track Keys ple tracks Press to change the gain on the inputs to the selected tracks This can be done with or any two keys together
189. ts external to the machine GPI Type GPIs switch at specific timecodes or upon certain events Each GPI is given a type which determines what type of event triggers it Use the GPI Menu to set the type and other parameters Choosing a GPI The first 8 Track Keys represent the 8 GPIs when the GPI Menu is active Only one can be selected at a time The GPI Menu The first Soft Key is always labelled Type The other Soft Keys depend on what has been selected as the Type This information is presented in tabular form on the facing page Electrical Properties GPI outputs 1 to 8 are pins 2 to 9 of the 9 pin connector labelled GPO at the rear of the machine Pin 1 is a common ground When ON each GPI output is shorted to ground When OFF it is open and can be connected via a resistor to the desired trigger voltage Supply voltage up to 30V Resistor Customer Device e g Relay Current up to 40 mA Pin 1 always connect to ground of external device GPI Circuit Note when a GPI is set to the BEEPS type FAME can also output audio beeps from one of its channels This is controlled from a configuration file called mdr_cfg which is discussed in a later section of this manual called Configuration Files User Manual d M E Page 113 GPI Types Type Description Some Uses Soft Key 2 Soft Key 3 Soft Key 4 Soft Key
190. u from placing operators in illegal positions Two operators cannot follow each other unless the second one is NOT Neither AND nor OR can begin an expression AND is applied before OR For example if the expression DOG amp CATIMOUSE is placed in the Name field in WIDE mode it will find a Clip Record with the name cats and dogs but not one called cat and mouse NOT is applied before AND or OR For example the expression DOG amp CAT in WIDE mode will find cat but not dog or dogs and cats When NOT occurs in the middle of an expression it is assumed to be AND NOT unless you place it after an OR For example DOG CAT in WIDE mode means contains DOG and does not contain CAT Placing an operator at the end of an expression makes it operate on BLANK that is to say on the emptiness of the field For example placing OR at the end means OR EMPTY so in addition to the Clip Records found by the terms before the OR operator Clip Records for which this field is empty will match Placing NOT at the end means AND NOT EMPTY so blank is specifically excluded Placing OR NOT at the end includes all records where this field is not empty which makes this a rather nonsensical expression Placing AND at the end finds only Clip Records for which this field is empty also not much use Entering NOT as the entire field means NOT EMPTY there are other ways of signifying not empty such as which means
191. u press any Soft Key a message will appear on the screen asking you to select the destination track You should now press the Track Key of your desired destination track and the operation will then happen User Manual Page 48 d M P TM The Track Menu Illustrated Original Track Layout ux The track in the foreground is selected Swap 3 DDDDD Y A e 2 i T Fy 5 eioo0690 D DDDDD Saer a AAAAA S CCCCC BBBBB Within the Range the audio from the source track is swapped with the target track ze Copy DDDDD Numbers The source and target tracks change places on the screen this is not really an edit Shadow CCC GIA EEDA AR AE Po tiete BSP EE BBBBB Within the Range wherever there is audio on the source track it is removed from the target track Page 49 User Manual d M E 18 Fades Each clip can be given a fade in and fade out These are performed in the digital domain before the audio is converted back to an analogue signal at the output When the fade of one clip crossfade between the two clips occurs Wa AN Ww is placed over another clip a Press the Fade key and select the track s on which you want to fade clips The clips to be faded are the ones on the selected tracks which lie directly underneath the cursor The Fade menu achieves the fade in and or fade ou
192. udioBase text export 69 Database text export sssusss 76 Database text import sss 76 Default fade ree 52 Delete block ssesesssss 46 Device display 2 1 ete 11 Device Page seeseeeee 15 Digi Menu eec eres 28 Digital Output choice 28 Directory of Files sessuusss 17 Disable EE 30 Disk Activity Light ssar Sessies 12 Disk Information sessssss 117 Disk Recorder Page 12 Disk Segment sssssssss 117 Displaying Subframes 100 Dispose sese 81 118 CISPOSC b ated 81 DOMAIN EET 17 DSP Algorithms icc 59 Dub charts sssssseese 92 E Edit AudioBase 75 Edit Macro eii etit tenes 115 Page 124 f Ia User Manual Edit Mark eere cs 109 Import Menu eese 65 Edit Ment nine einen Ba 35 Inactive Waveform ssessesss 66 Edit with range esses 38 Info level and bit depth 53 Editing itcr 31 Initialising drives ssssssss 119 Editing a Configuration File 120 Input Control sese 25 Editing illustrated 35 I
193. up to characters Press the ENTER key to start the WAVE export process Note If there are multiple clips with the same name in the range being exported the system will complain when Clipname is chosen as the source of the file name Each one will successively cause a request to overwrite the previous one or choose a new name If Other is chosen and you have entered a new name for the files numbers will be appended to each successive file to distinguish the names User Manual d M m Page 91 31 The Print Menu The Print Menu allows you to print dubbing charts based on the layout of the clips in your current project To set your printer configuration go to the Setup page type lt esc gt S Changes to this page are made only with the mouse Details next page When FAME prints a dubbing chart the length of each clip is not necessarily shown in proportion to its duration this is set using Compression see next page Instead it depends on the space needed to display all the clip information start timecode name and end timecode plus the space needed to show other clips that start or end while the first one is playing If many clips start or end during a clip s playback that clip will be very long in the printout Print Page BAUD Port Chart X 38400 PRINTER J LJ s Press to start printing a Stops
194. uption to the playback while the edit list is re compiled Range Range is optional on the Nudge menu You may set up a range of timecodes using the FROM and TO keys as described under Editing with a Range You may also select any number of tracks to be affected The Nudge Menu will affect all clips that are wholly contained in the highlighted range and on the selected tracks If you have no range set up then only the clips under the cursor on the selected tracks will be nudged LJ LJ O G Nudges the se lected clips for Sets the amount of the variable wards in time by nudge which is operated by the one frame following two Soft Keys Can be a number of subframes from 1 to 99 Use the Jogger Wheel and the and keys to set the amount then press ENTER Nudges the selected Nudges the selected Nudges the selected clips backwards in clips backwards in time clips forwards in time time by one frame by the amount shown by the amount shown under Variable under Variable Notes 1 When Nudging the clips in a Range the software automatically moves the Range so that all the clips remain inside it after being nudged 2 The Nudge Menu has an alternative mode in which the audio is slipped within the clip but the bounda ries of the clip remain at their current timecode positions This is known as Nudging S
195. which overwrites the audio already stored on disk or TAPE which is a combination of both See below for details Notes Record NEW Monitor TRACK Handle 0 fr Ready MODE LJ kJ Toggles the monitoring of armed tracks Choices are TRACK you hear recorded ma terial whilst in Play Shuttle or Jog or IN PUT you hear input on armed tracks all the time Stores up to 30 frames of extra audio at the start of the recording This does not appear in the origi nal clip but may be un covered using the Trim Head command in the Grab Menu The extra material can only be recorded if the machine has been in Play for at least the length of the handle Sets the operating mode of the arm menu If se lected to Ready the track keys select which tracks are armed for record If selected to Thru the track keys select which tracks are in Input mode This means that the track playback is disabled and the audio at the input is heard A track cannot be in Thru and Ready at the same time It takes which ever mode was selected last Arm Many Tracks Any number of tracks can be armed at the same time as long as your system contains enough channels to play them You may patch one input to as many tracks as you like but only one track at a time can record it The system will prevent you arming two tracks if they have the same input Arm o
196. whose level is to be changed using the Edit Menu then paste it back on top of its source Change its level as desired then use the Fade Menu to create fades at either end of the clip This will cause it to crossfade with the source clip underneath which will be playing at the original level oie 3 It is possible when using the Level Menu to push the level of a clip over digital maximum Check meters User Manual ame Page 53 20 The Gate Menu The Gate Menu allows you to remove silence in a clip by erasing ranges where the level is low It has a number of parameters that allow you to achieve exactly the result you want Like any editing function gating is non destructive meaning that you can UNDO it but a special form of the commit command is included in this menu for more information about committing see the Space menu Gating During Recording Whenever you record a new Master Recording the system stores the information about levels that it will later use to execute the gating function This allows you to perform gating instantly on newly recorded audio If the memory is assigned to storing gate points runs out scanning may be required see below Gating After Recording If you gate a clip whose Master Recording was not done in the current session or if you gate using param eters changed from the time of the original recording the computer will scan the Master Recording to find the
197. x Import r E d d es e MT J O Folders _ FILENAME Eee 17 saliPLE RATE gam Mono O Stereo Potente rommar nrw sec _ SAMPLE RATE fiiit LEa Determines whether subdirectories of the search start point will be searched or not Move to this field and use the up and down arrows to You may narrow the search by specifying a match string that finds a restricted set of files All the AudioBase search Allows you to search for files with only one sample rate This field is automatically set to your current project sample rate To change it use the left and Allows you to limit the search to only mono or only stereo files Use the left and right arrows to change the settings Moving past the left of all toggle the switch on and off If you choose to search subdirectories the search may take much longer characters may be used see chapter on AudioBase for details right arrows Moving past the left of all sample rate buttons turns them all off meaning there is no limitation and files of all sample rates will be found buttons turns them all off meaning that both mono and stereo files will be found User Manual ame Page 67 Borrows all files in the list Note no more than 26 borrowings may occur for any project Keeps all files in the list This involves copying the audio data into the current project After pressing ENTER the system will search for WAVE file
198. y Output Submenu The House Submenu is used to choose the type of digital outputs coming from the system Chooses whether dig ital outputs are AES EBU or SP DIF Press the button to toggle be tween these choices Switches on Copy Protection only available if SP DIF is selected If on the audio output can only be copied once BOUTPUT HOUSE AES EBU ON Format Protect When switched on causes all tracks to be mixed to stereo and sent to outputs 1 and 2 In this mode all mono clips are panned centre and stereo clips are panned hard left and right time during a Project Stereo ON OFF n Allows the audio level of all outputs to be re duced or increased in the digital domain In some cases this will result in reduced audio resolu tion LCR Mix stores its own setting for Pad Page 28 ame User Manual Naming The Name Menu is used to give names to clips tracks or the whole Project Clips can also be automatically named Press the NAME Mode key The LCD gives you a menu as follows TRACK project track clip seedname HMGLOBAL iI WW uu La Rename the currently loaded project by pressing this Soft Toggles between Key then typin
199. ync To get into Nudge Sync mode hold down the Shift key while pressing the Nudge Mode Key This action is repeated to go back to Nudge Clip mode A label in the upper LCD tells you which mode the system is in User Manual d M B Page 43 16 Block Editing Block Editing is used for operations on multiple tracks and always uses a range A range is always started as soon as you enter the menu When you use a block editing command many clips may be trimmed slipped split or created but you need take no account of this The Disk Recorder software will do all the housekeep ing for you The Block Menu has two modes selected with the Razor Dubber switch The default mode upon entering the Menu can be changed by holding down the Shift Key and pressing the first Soft Key In Razor mode all of the choices cut Time as well as audio In Dubber mode only audio is affected This is fully explained below To fix the target of a block editing command you must select the tracks to be edited and the Range time over which the edit operates see Editing with a range page 25 The Block menu does some operations that are the same as the Edit menu but there is one very important difference the Block menu always cuts or copies through all the layers in a track while the Edit menu only cuts or copies layers that appear on the top i e audio that you can hear The Dubber SubMenu RAZOR BDUBBER erase
200. ys change according to this choice The Stretch Submenu Move the transport so the clip to be stretched is under the cursor In the stretched clip the exact audio that was under the cursor before stretching will end up in the same place providing mid syncing Mode STRETCH percent Allows you to choose between the three Wave Menu functions Stretch Pitch or Varispeed Press this Soft Key then enter the percentage which the stretched clip will be of the original clip This can be done using the Numeric Keypad or the Jogger Wheel and and keys The allowable range is 25 to 400 Press ENTER to begin processing the audio target Press this Soft Key to enter the duration you would like the clip to be The initial value shown in the upper LCD is the current duration of the clip so you can use the Jogger Wheel or and keys to change the number or type a new one on the Numeric Keypad Pressing the tar get Soft Key repeatedly brings up target durations corresponding with some use ful ratios such as 24 to 25 and 44 1K to 48K and these can be further edited When you have the desired number press ENTER to start the processing Algorithm VOICE 1 n Determines the width of the frequency win dow used for analysis of the audio The best policy is to set this value at about 50 then

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