HHB comm HHB MDP500 - Manual (Page 22)

3. The display will repeatedly show the following
messages one after another:
The PORTADISC will playback the audio at the
dividing point repeatedly. If the audio plays from the
correct point, skip to point 5 in this list.
4. It is possible to adjust the divide point in 0.06
second steps by pressing either the FF button or
REW buttons repeatedly. The adjustment range is
from -128 to +127 within a track.
5. Press F2 to confirm.
6. The divide process has been completed and
‘Complete!’ will be shown on the display. The
PORTADISC will now start audio playback from the
divided position. If the original undivided track had a
track name, the track after the divide process will
not have a name.
NOTE – If you want to cancel the divide function in the
middle of the procedure, press either F3 or the STOP
button. You can return the divided track back to its
original status by using the combine function.
This function combines two adjacent tracks into one
track. This is useful when you want to combine short
sections of recorded tracks into one. If you wish to
combine two non-adjacent tracks, you first need to
move them so they are next to each other using the
move function (see next column).
This example illustrates combining tracks 2 and 3:
Track number 1 2 3 4
Track content A B C D
COMBINE
New track content A B+C D
1. During stop mode, press the EDIT button until
‘COMBINE?’ is displayed.
2. Press F1 to select the first track number of the
two adjacent tracks that you want to combine
(track 2 in this example). Then press F2 to set-up.
3. The display will now show the following messages:
one after another:
The PORTADISC will playback the end of the first
track (TRK002) and the beginning of the second
track (TRK003) repeatedly. If you are happy with
the sound played back, skip to point 5 in this list.
4. If the PORTADISC is not playing back the correct
point in the audio, press either F3 or STOP to
cancel the function. Then, start the procedure
again from point 1.
5. Press F2 to confirm.
6. The combining process has been completed and
‘Complete!’ will be shown on the display. The
PORTADISC will now start playing back the audio
from the beginning of the combined tracks. If the
first track before the combine process had a track
name, this will now become the name of the
combined track. The name of the second track will
be deleted.
NOTE – If you want to cancel the COMBINE function in
the middle of the procedure, press either F3 or STOP.
You can return the combined tracks back to their original
status as separate tracks by using the divide function. If
‘Impossible!’ is shown on the display, you cannot use the
combine function with the two tracks you have chosen.
Due to a natural limitation of the MD system, you may
not be able to use the combine function if you have used
it too many times before.
You can move a particular track to anywhere on the disc
simply by changing the track order. The track numbers will
be automatically re-aligned so that all the tracks have
continuous numbers in numerical order.
This example illustrates moving track C to between tracks
A and B.
Track number 1 2 3 4
Track contents A B C D
MOVE
New track contents A C B D
1. During stop mode, press the EDIT button until
‘MOVE >> ?’ is displayed.
EDITING
cont.
PORTADISC MDP500 MiniDisc Recorder
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Rehearsal ! RH
TRK001+000 YES EXIT
Track OK ! RH
TRK001+000 YES EXIT
COMBINE ?
TRK002 YES EXIT
Track OK ! RH
TRK002 YES EXIT
Rehearsal ! RH
TRK002 YES EXIT
MOVE >> ?
TRK003 YES TRK002
COMBINE FUNCTION
MOVE FUNCTION
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