Alesis 24 Bedienungsanleitung

HD24toolsversion 0.9.0Reference ManualMarc Brevoort© 2006-2007

Choosing your hardwareAs HD24tools software works with a variety of hardware, you may want to take a moment to pick the hardware that suits you best.●

System recommendationsThe HD24tools software should be able to run on almost any system with almost any specification. Most likely, it will work on yo

PrecautionsWhen connecting or disconnecting an HD24 ADAT FST drive, always take into consideration the precautions that apply for your hardware (swit

Installing HD24tools (Windows)The recommended way of installing HD24tools on Windows is by using the graphical installer. The .zip file that you downl

The license agreement is pretty liberal: you are allowed to use the program free of charge and spread unaltered copies of it. You are encouraged to do

The suggested installation directory will be fine for most practical purposes. Unless you have specific wishes about the folder where

Installing HD24tools (Linux)Under Linux, installation should be similar to the installation on Windows. You can extract the setup file from the downlo

Normal operationThis chapter deals with normal operation of HD24connect. This means that in these chapters, it is assumed that you start up HD24connec

Drive infoThe Drive Info tab contains information about the currently selected drive, as well as a directory listing of the contents of the currently

The Free space preview shows an estimate of the available recording time, based on a given sample rate and number of tracks that you can select with

Table of ContentsIntroduction...

Project/Song tabThe next tab is Project/Song.The Project information area shows a dropdown box which allows you to choose the project that you want to

Below the Project info, you will find the Song Info. This area contains various controls that are related to individual songs. By default, it will di

The Edit... button next to the locate point list allows us to edit the locate point that is currently being selected. When this button is clicked, a d

The Go button (next to the Edit... button) will move the transport cusor/tape head to the currently selected locate point. In combin

The RecorderBefore exporting audio, you may wish to audition it. The Recorder tab facilitates this by offering a convenient, familiar interface. The t

The second and third button rows contain Solo and Mute buttons. This allows you to single out tracks while auditioning the song.Under the three button

● The LOOP START button resets the song cursor to Locate point 1 (or sets Locate point 1 after SET LOC is pressed)● The LOOP END button sets the song

Copying audio from HD24 drivesThe Copy to PC tab permits you to select a directory for file export, as well as marking which tracks should be exporte

We select this range by choosing two locate points. Regardless of its value, locate point START is always located before the beginning of the song, wh

WAV files can contain at most around 2 billion samples, which usually is equivalent to around four and a half hours of music. If we try to create a lo

How can you recover audio from this situation?...45'Audio block out of range&a

Copying audio to HD24 drivesThe Copy to HD24 tab offers functionality to copy audio from file to an existing song on the the HD24 drive.The screen s

By default, if you split a multi-channel file into multiple tracks, the channel action selection to the right of the track slot will assign each res

Currently, a few limitations apply in transferring audio to HD24 drives:● Only existing audio can be overwritten. HD24connect will currently not exten

Cross-application AudioIntroduction The Linux version of HD24connect currently supports the Jack Audio Connection Kit. This toolkit, which is

Using JACK under LinuxHD24connect supports both OSS PortAudio and JACK under Linux, and will use whatever is available at the time audio is activated.

HD24 Drive recoveryIntroduction In HD24 ADAT recorder operation, a few situations can occur that may cause data loss- which can not necessarily be bla

Types of recoveryThere are different levels of performing a recovery. This manual will focus on read-only recovery, which means we will limit ourselve

General recovery procedureAssuming you have properly installed HD24tools, there are only a few steps that need to be performed to perform a read-only

● If this is the case, you need to manually select the ADAT HD24 drive with menu choice File -> Recovery -> Select device... whic

● HD24connect will now ask you the following question:Only when you accidentally initialized a non-corrupt HD24 drive, it will be enough to click No.

IntroductionThank you for reading this manual!Thank you for downloading the HD24tools software. This software was designed to help users of the Alesis

Disaster scenariosNow that we are up to speed about drive layout and types of recovery, we can explore some disaster scenarios along with their soluti

4. Do not record anything on your drive between power loss and recovery!How can you recover audio from a drive that suffered a power loss?Follow the g

How can you recover audio from an accidentally initialized drive?Use the general recovery procedure; after manually selecting the drive, when asked &a

Quickformatted the (wrong) drive on the HD24 recorderTo help you prevent mistakes, the HD24 recorder will require you to confirm

'Invalid Format'/'Corrupt Super Block' for no obvious reasonThis is probably the hairiest disaster scenario of them all, because t

● Bring several disks- should one disk give 'Invalid format' while switching songs, you will have another one to continue the session.How ca

'Audio block out of range' errorThis error message will be displayed when a song uses up more audio blocks on disk than its length would imp

'Unexpected End of Song' errorThis error message will be displayed when a song uses up less audio blocks on disk than its length would imply

Other disastersAlthough most disaster scenarios are comparable with previously described scenarios, there may be situations where following the genera

Using HD24hexviewIntroductionHD24hexview is a command-line on-disk hex viewer and editor which has some features that help to make it suitable for wor

About the HD24tools softwareThe HD24tools software was originally developed to fulfill the need of transferring audio data from FST dis

Navigating the diskThere are three ways in which you can navigate the disk. The first is by absolute sector numbers, done with the d command. For exam

Known issuesIntroductionAlthough HD24tools is in a usable state, there are a few small issues and limitations. Hopefully these will be overcome in a f

Key features of the HD24tools softwareThe HD24tools software consists of two main programs; one is HD24connect, the other is

The other program, HD24hexview, is a hex editor. It has the following features:● Directly displaying the on-disk data, permitting fast navigation of

What's new in this last version?New features in 0.9: ● New tabbed GUI● Write support (finally!) allowing writing audio to existing songs; either

Before using the softwareImportant: The software is provided free of charge in the hope that it will be useful, but is provided AS IS wi