Question on Tracking

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Hi all, newbie here, just got my hd24 and love it so far, although I have only done test recordings as I am learning my way around it. However, it seems to be everything I wanted, which is essentially a plug n play recorder ;)

Question though: Once you activate 8 tracks to record a new tune, you cannot go back and later activate another 8 tracks for a total of 16, right? You pretty much have to know how many tracks you'll need and set that up from the outset....?

Thanks!
 
I've learned with the HD24 to just go ahead and "activate" more tracks than I need so, if you're thinking of using 16 tracks, go ahead and activate all 24. You can always leave them out later and if you want to try multiple takes without erasing previous ones, you've got the room to move. Just my opinion.

You are right though, you can't add more tracks to the song once the song is created.
 
If you have the Fireport, you can transfer the eight tracks to your pc then create a new song with more tracks on the HD24, then transfer the tracks on your PC back to the HD24 on that new song.

The suggestions from Chris are very good too.
 
Fishmed_Returns said:
If you have the Fireport, you can transfer the eight tracks to your pc then create a new song with more tracks on the HD24, then transfer the tracks on your PC back to the HD24 on that new song.

The suggestions from Chris are very good too.
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You can do it without the fireport. It's faster with it but not completely necessary.
 
Fishmed_Returns said:
If you have the Fireport, you can transfer the eight tracks to your pc then create a new song with more tracks on the HD24, then transfer the tracks on your PC back to the HD24 on that new song.
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You can do that directly on the HD24, using just the cut and paste functions. See page 61 in the manual.

BTW, I've mentioned this here before, but if you are an HD24 owner, you should definitely be a member of the HD24 group on Yahoo Groups. There are almost 1200 members there, so it is an incredible resource of HD24 knowledge.
 
Thanks guys. Re the yahoo group, just joined...I'll be hitting that up for info too.
 
Gilliland said:
You can do that directly on the HD24, using just the cut and paste functions. See page 61 in the manual.
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I haven't had success in copying multiple tracks to a new song. Is this a track by track process?
 
chris-from-ky said:
I haven't had success in copying multiple tracks to a new song. Is this a track by track process?
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I've never had any reason to try it. According to the manual, you can select multiple tracks to copy from the source song, then select multiple tracks to paste into in the target song. See pages 59 to 61. It sounds pretty straightforward. I'll have my HD24 out tomorrow, I'll try it if I find a few spare minutes.
 
Yep, it is quite straight forward, (although quite slow, it chugs compared to moving equivalent sized files around on an everyday PC) and it does seem to require an extravagant amount of buffer space to complete the operation. I experimented cutting and pasting about 20 minutes of an 8 track song to a new 16 track song when I first had the machine... the disk was only about 30% full and yet after cutting all the tracks it told me it didn't have enough buffer to complete the operation! so at that point I had no tracks at all, but the 'undo' put everything back to how it was.

The machine is a rock solid recorder, it does exactly what it says on the tin... so I'm only using it as a recorder. I bump the number of tracks to be recorded up to 16 or 24 and after a session the files come straight off and onto my PC via the fireport for editing and mixing.

(I would consider putting the edited files back onto the HD24 for mixing if I had a digital mixer and outboard compression gear etc... oo that would start to feel like the real thing then :p )
 
Cazzbar said:
I experimented cutting and pasting about 20 minutes of an 8 track song to a new 16 track song when I first had the machine... the disk was only about 30% full and yet after cutting all the tracks it told me it didn't have enough buffer to complete the operation! so at that point I had no tracks at all, but the 'undo' put everything back to how it was.
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Yup, my experience was very similar, indeed.
 
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