Questions for HD24 users

[flatrockrecordin]

I do primarily remote recording using ADATs. I've been looking over the HD24 manual in the reading room while my rat hole money slowly grows. Now I only have to jot down a song name and a start time, push record, rinse and repeat. Quick and easy.
With the Hd24, will I have to set up "new song" every time, select number of tracks, sample rate, etc. Or can I do all of this in advance? If a band is going to record 10 songs, can I go ahead and set up these songs prior to arriving then just select each for recording?
Also, how many 24 track minutes could I expect from an 80g hard drive?

 

[Track Rat]

I don't believe you can set up a "default setting" as far as track count/bit depth/sample rate, but I've not found it a problem as that only takes less than a minute. And an 80 gig drive will hold hours and hours of 24/48 24 track tunes. A 10 gig drive came with mine and it holdsa a couple of hours.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Flatrock,

You can't setup defaults so to speak, but you CAN go set up all of the songs in advance. My band has been working on an album for a record company for a while now... I recently purchase and HD24 and wanted to copy all the tracks over to it...

so I simply "created" a new song for each one of the songs on the album in advance, so that I would know which ones I had transferred over and which ones I hadn't.

It was easy and worked perfectly, but Track Rat is right... setting up a new song takes all of a minute or so at most.

Velvet Elvis