API Audio 1608 Automation - Manual (Page 76)

Designed as a safety feature, “Auto Safe” automatically resets all channels in WRITE to UPDATE
whenever timecode is stopped. It helps prevent accidental erasure of moves from forgetting to
take channels out of WRITE after moves have been recorded and restarting timecode playback.
10.3 Bridge Gaps
After recording moves and playback is stopped, faders, mutes, and inserts will normally “revert”
to their previously recorded positions at the location where timecode was stopped. With “Bridge
Gaps” engaged, those “reverts” are flagged as speculative.
If the media is rewound, playback is started before the stopping point, and then played through
the stopping point, the “reverts” will playback as they normally would.
If instead you start playback from the stopping point or fast forward by an arbitrary amount and
start playback, those speculative reverts will be discarded and all intervening data will be written
over, as if timecode had never stopped at all. The positions and modes when timecode was
stopped will “bridge the timecode gap” be applied over the gap and recording will continue from
the restart position.
The speculative reverts will become permanent if you rewind to an earlier timecode location and
start playback. The system will operation as if “Bridge Gaps” was not engaged.
In other words, the positions of faders in WRITE will be “held” or “remembered” when timecode is
stopped. If timecode is restarted at that point or a later timecode address, those positions will be
applied between the stopping point and the later starting point. Recording will be resumed at the
point where timecode was restarted. The net result is the “gap” between the previous stopping
point and later starting point is “bridged” or filled-in with the positions the controls where in at the
stopping point.
“Bridge Gaps” only affects faders, mutes, and inserts in WRITE when timecode stops
“Bridge Gaps” must be engaged before timecode is stopped for this function to be activated.
Bridge Gaps: Allows control positions and modes at the point when timecode is
stopped to be applied to a later location, if timecode is started at a later
location without rewinding.
 Transport must be stopped and restarted at a later location without
rewinding
 “Bridge Gaps” can be engaged at any time, by selecting its button on
the Status Page
 “Bridge Gaps” will turn yellow when engaged