Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product MASTERLINK ML-9600 Alesis
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A LESIS MASTERLINK ML-9600 H IGH R ESOLUTION M ASTER D ISK R ECORDER A DDENDUM T O O WNER ’ S M ANUAL F IRST E DITION V ERSION 1.0 A PPLIES TO O PERATING SOFTWARE V ERSION 2.
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Table Of Contents A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Version 2.00 Highlights ............................
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Chapter 1 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 1 I NTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of an Alesis MasterLink! In a continuing effort to provide our MasterLink customers with the utmost in mastering convenience, we are pleased to announce the debut of MasterLink operating system software version 2.
Chapter 1 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 MasterLink software updates occur via a special "MLOS" (MasterLink Operating System) CD- ROM. If you do not have Version 2.00 software, there are several options available to you: • Call 1-800-5ALESIS and choose "Option 1" to have a free update MLOS disc sent to you.
Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 3 N EW P LAYLIST E DIT F EATURES 2.1 S EAMLESS "A DJACENT T RACK " T RANSITIONS In version 1.xx software, two adjacent tracks would always play back with a miniscule amount of silence between them, even if the start time of the second Track was equal to the end time of the first Track.
Chapter 2 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Track Split Confirmation Screen Pressing DOWN/NO while this screen is displayed will cancel the Split operation and return the machine to its previous state. Pressing UP/YES while this screen is displayed will cause the track to be split at the TRACK START pointer.
Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 5 Pressing DOWN/NO while this screen is displayed will cancel the Join operation and return the machine to its previous state. Pressing UP/YES while this screen is displayed will cause Track 2 to be joined to Track 1, removing the inter-Track gap, if one exists.
Chapter 2 6 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Audio File. Subsequent presses of the SKIP button will skip through all of the Audio Files on the hard drive. TIP: To quickly skip to the last Track in a Playlist, hold the PLAYLIST EDIT button and press the SKIP button.
Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 7 Figure 2.7.1 Audio File In Use Warning In Version 1.xx software, the only way to delete an Audio File that was in use was to find every Track in every playlist that pointed to that Audio File and delete each Track.
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Chapter 3 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 9 N EW T RACK DSP F EATURES 3.1 C OPY DSP S ETTINGS New to Version 2.0 software is the ability to copy and paste DSP settings between tracks, even between tracks in different playlists.
Chapter 3 10 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Paste DSP Settings Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will paste all DSP parameters from the temporary RAM buffer into the destination track.
Chapter 3 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 11 Figure 3.4.1 Render DSP Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO will cancel the DSP Render operation.
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Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 13 N EW U TILITY F EATURES In MasterLink Version 2.0 software, the Utility Pages have been expanded from four pages to nine pages, and have been re-ordered for better ease of use. 4.1 T RACK /P LAYLIST /CD L OOP It is sometimes desirable to loop a Track or a CD when playing back audio.
Chapter 4 14 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Figure 4.2.1 Playlist Backup Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO at that point will cancel the Playlist Backup operation.
Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 15 Figure 4.3.1 Playlist Restore Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO at that point will cancel the Playlist Backup operation.
Chapter 4 16 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 4.4 R ENDER P LAYLIST T O D ISK There are some instances where you may wish to render a Playlist to the hard drive, but do not want to immediately burn a CD; for instance, you may wish to audition the rendered image before committing to a CD.
Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 17 Figure 4.5.1 Start and End Time Offset Page The cursor defaults under the "St Offset" field; if you press UP/YES while in this field the "En Offset" parameter will be displayed. To the right of the offset field is the "Offset Amount" field.
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Chapter 6 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 19 N EW CD F EATURES 5.1 M OVE E NTIRE CD T O P LAYLIST MasterLink version 1.0 software gave you the ability to copy Red Book and CD24 tracks directly to a playlist from the internal CD drive one track at a time (covered in Section 7.
Chapter 4 20 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 If the destination Playlist already has one or more Tracks in it, the display will prompt " PList not empty.
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