2.0 HARD DISK DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER/REPRODUCER Model DR-554 OWNER'S MANUAL SEVENTH EDITION (Firmware Version 2.1) FEBRUARY 2000 P RO F E SS I O NA L DI G I T A L AU DI O www.360systems.com info@360systems.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual English Spanish CAUTION! To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture. Do not remove the cover. No user serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. Definition of symbols: CUIDADO! Para reducir el riesgo de fuego o choque electrico, no exponga esta unidad a la lluvia o la humedad. No remueva la tapadera y no atente dar servicio. Refiera los servicios requeridos al departamento de servicio.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page i SERIAL NUMBER: FCC NOTICE [Within USA Boundaries] WARNING: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
page ii Instant Replay Owner’s Manual PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS AND UPGRADES 360 Systems reserves the right to make changes and/or improvements to its products, without incurring any obligation to incorporate such changes or improvements in units previously sold or shipped. 360 Systems may issue Technical Support Bulletins from time to time, advising owners of record of product enhancements that become available.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page iii TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 4 GETTING STARTED ............................................................................................................... 2 Cuts, Hot-Keys™ and Banks ................................................................................................... 2 More About Cuts.................................................
page iv Instant Replay Owner’s Manual To Assign A Cut To A Hot-Key............................................................................................... 20 To Select A New Bank .......................................................................................................... 21 To Select the External or Internal Drive .................................................................................. 21 To Create and Edit a Playlist..........................................................
page 2 • • • • • • • Instant Replay Owner’s Manual Storage of up to 1,000 audio Cuts. Twenty-four hours of storage. Assignment of Cuts to 50 front panel Hot-Keys. Playlists that store a sequence of Hot-Keys for manual or automatic playback. 10 Banks – each providing up to 50 Hot-Key Assignments and a Playlist for those Hotkeys. "Find" function locates a Cut by entering its Name or Index Number. Familiar tape transport style controls to provide fast and sure operation.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 3 More About Cuts Each Cut's length is displayed in HH:MM:SS (hours, minutes, seconds) format. For example, 00:01:30 is 1 minute and 30 seconds. If the Cut is less than a second long, the display shows its time in milliseconds (thousandths of a second; 1,000 ms = 1 Second). Once the Cut is assigned to a Hot-Key, the Hot-Key number is also displayed in the lower right corner of the display.
page 4 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual drive after the unit has been used for some time, and many Cuts have been recorded and erased. See Disk Maintenance on page 42. The "Find" Function You can quickly locate Cuts with a high-speed search function called Find. The HOT-KEY buttons double as an alphanumeric keyboard for entering a Cut's Name or Index Number. Press the FIND key and type the Name or Index that you wish to locate, followed by E NTER.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 5 Recording Formats and Sample Rate Conversion There are three recording formats available. The standard format used is 48K AC-2. This uses the Dolby AC-2 encoding system to allow five times the audio storage of 48K Linear format recording. The AC-2 system is of very high quality and is recommended for all but a few applications: • When the Instant Replay will be required to provide a digital output at 44.1 K.
page 6 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual CHAPTER ONE – The Front Panel Instant Replay 1 1 2 2 Q 11 W 12 A 21 3 3 E 13 S 22 4 4 R 14 D 23 5 5 T 15 F 24 6 6 G U 17 H 26 8 8 Y 16 25 7 7 J O 19 K 28 0 10 I 18 27 9 9 P L 20 L 29 30 BANK SELECT PREVIEW LOOP MENU SCROLL ASSIGN HOT KEYS PLAY LIST PAUSE CANCEL SCROLL FIND Z 31 32 X 33 C 34 V 35 B 36 N 37 M 38 - 39 ENTER PEAK LEVEL R 0 -3 -6 -9 -12 -15 -18 -21 -24 -27 INPUT LEVE
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 7 Display Module THE DISPLAY MODULE For most operations, the display shows the Index number, Cut Name, and the running time of the currently selected Cut. The currently selected Bank number is displayed in the lower right corner, followed by the HotKey Assignment of the current Cut. If the displayed Cut is not assigned to a Hot-Key in the current Bank, this number will be 00.
page 8 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual TRANSPORT CONTROL BUTTONS The Transport Controls include STOP, PLAY and R ECORD. They perform in the traditional manner of tape recorders: Stop Immediately ends recording or playback. Stops some sequential operations, such as File Transfer and Copy Bank. Play Starts playback of the currently selected Cut. Note that pressing PLAY initiates playback from the beginning of the selected Cut, even if it is already playing.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 9 Preview When PREVIEW is pressed in Stop mode the main audio outputs are muted, so Cuts played subsequently can be auditioned from the headphone output only. Both the analog and digital audio outputs are muted. If PREVIEW is turned on during playback, the display changes from showing the current Cut and playing time, to showing the ID Number, Name, Length and Hot-Key Assignment of the playing Cut. The Cut will continue playing from both the main and headphone outputs.
page 10 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual TTIIPP:: Cueing up Cuts Silently using Pause Note that while Instant Replay is paused, pressing a Hot-Key displays the Assigned Cut’s title and statistics, but the Cut will not play until PAUSE or PLAY is pressed. Several HotKeys can be pressed in series to see what Cuts are assigned to them, allowing the HotKey Assignments to be reviewed silently. Only the last one pressed will play when Pause is released.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 11 USING PLAYLISTS Creating a New Playlist To create a new Playlist: • Enter Playlist mode by pressing the PLAYLIST button. It will light, and the display will show: LIST IS EMPTY SELECT HOT KEY • Press the H OT-KEY you want to use as the first entry. The display will indicate the Step Number, ID Number, Cut Name, running time and Bank-HotKey assignment. The HOT-KEY flashes to indicate it is next to play.
page 12 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual Manual Step Playlist Characteristics If the Playlist Type is MANUAL STEP, the PLAY button will play the first Cut in the Playlist and stop. When PLAY is pressed again, the next Cut will play. If PLAY is pressed during playback of a Cut, the playing Cut will stop and the next Cut will play immediately. The sequence will continue in this manner until the end of the Playlist, or until the PLAYLIST button is turned off.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 13 Editing the Playlist Note that if PLAYLIST PROTECTION is ON, the Playlist cannot be edited. See page 22. To remove a Cut from the Playlist: • Use the SCROLL ARROWS to find the Cut you want to delete. • Press CANCEL to remove it from the list. • Press Enter to confirm the operation. To insert a new Cut into the Playlist: • SCROLL to the position you desire within the list. • Press the H OT-KEY that corresponds to the Cut you want to insert.
page 14 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual The LEVEL METERS show the current record or playback level. The LEVEL METERS are not affected by the setting of the rear panel OUTPUT ATTENUATOR switch. Input Level Controls The Left and Right I NPUT L EVEL Controls set the levels for recording. Set the levels so that the loudest part of your recording causes the first red segment of the meter to light. When turned all the way down, no sound will pass. Headphone Level Control Sets the level of the H EADPHONE OUTPUT.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 15 CHAPTER TWO – The Rear Panel ANALOG OUTPUT LEFT RIGHT GPI/PLAY AES/EBU DIGITAL IN OUT MODEL # IEC-958 II AES 75 OHM ANALOG INPUT LEFT RIGHT OUTPUT ATTEN ITE EQUIPMENT 115-230VAC, 50-60Hz 1.
page 16 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual Input cables should be wired as follows: XLR Connector Pin Balanced Connection Unbalanced Connection PIN 1 COMMON GROUND PIN 2 + INPUT SIGNAL PIN 3 - INPUT No Connect TABLE OF INPUT AND O UTPUT CONNECTIONS Unbalanced connections should be made by connecting the unbalanced signal output to pin 2 of the Instant Replay and ground to pin 1, with pin 3 left unconnected. Analog Audio Outputs The main ANALOG OUTPUTS are a pair of male XLR-3 connectors.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 17 DIGITAL AUDIO CONNECTIONS AES/EBU Input An XLR-3 female connector is provided for digital input in the AES/EBU format. There is a selectable Sample Rate Converter built in to Instant Replay. When SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER is ENABLED, the input will accept any sample rate from 24k samples/second to 50k samples/second. Use only special AES cable having an impedance of 110 ohms. Limit the cable run to 100 feet. Do not use microphone cables for runs of over 6 feet.
page 18 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual When using Instant Replay as a digital audio source, RECEIVER ECHO should be DISABLED in the FILE TRANSFER MENU. Also, it is not a good idea to use cuts with different sample rates on the same project, as this may cause equipment connected to the digital outputs to click, pop, mute or stop recording when the sample rate changes. The analog outputs are not affected by sample rate changes.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 19 Printer Port This is a standard parallel printer port on a 25 pin "D" connector. Although many printers may be used, 360 Systems has tested the following models: MANUFACTURER PRODUCT NAME MODEL NUMBER CANON BUBBLE JET BJ-200E CANON BUBBLE JET BJ-200EX HEWLETT PACKARD LASER JET 4 HEWLETT PACKARD LASER JET 6L Canon, BJ and Bubble Jet are trademarks of Canon, Inc. LaserJet is a trademark of Hewlett Packard, Inc.
page 20 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual CHAPTER THREE – Command Summary To Use The Menus • • • • • • Press MENU. Use the SCROLL ARROWS to select the desired Menu. Press ENTER to select a specific Menu item. Use the SCROLL ARROWS to select the desired option for that menu item. To adjust the value of the selected item press ENTER. The second line of the display will flash. Use the SCROLL ARROWS to set the value. (Where required, enter it using the keyboard keys).
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual • • page 21 Press the desired HOT-KEY. Repeat to assign another, or press ASSIGN HOTKEY to end. To Select A New Bank • • • • • Press the BANK SELECT button. Press a HOT-KEY from 1 to 10 to select the desired Bank Number, OR Use the SCROLL ARROWS to select the desired Bank. Press ENTER to confirm selection. OR Press the BANK SELECT button to exit.
page 22 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual Record Overwrite - OFF, ON Record Time Limit - NONE, 60 MIN, 30 MIN, 5 MIN (On 16 and 24 hour units this is set to 60 min during factory set-up to speed the Record process.) Record/Erase Lockout - OFF, ON Recording Format – AC-2, 48K Linear, 44.1K Linear Sample Rate Converter – Enabled, Disabled Operations Change Cut Name - Changes name of currently selected Cut. Erase - Erases currently selected Cut. Move - Move currently selected Cut to any unused Index number.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 23 Clear Hot-Key - Scans list of Hot-Key Assignments in Current Bank using SCROLL ARROWS. Pressing ENTER clears the displayed Hot-Key Assignment. Assign Bank - Assigns all available Cuts in a selected range of 50 consecutive Index Numbers to the corresponding Hot-Keys. First select the Cut to begin the range before pressing MENU. When ENTER is pressed in ASSIGN BANK, any Cuts that exist in the range are automatically assigned to a Hot-Key.
page 24 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual CHAPTER FOUR – Using an External Drive Instant Replay 2.0 model DR-554 offers the option of connecting an Iomega Zip 100 Parallel (or PC), Zip 100 Plus drive or Zip 250 Parallel Port (PC). This allows Cuts to be archived, transferred from one unit to another, or brought in from another 360 Systems product such as DigiCart/II Plus or Short/cut.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 25 Format External Disk Before a new disk can be used, it must be formatted. Format is also a fast way to erase all the material on a disk in order to re-use it. Note that the Iomega Tools disks that come with some Zip Drives are not compatible with Instant Replay and will not format.
page 26 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual If you attempt to select an unformatted disk (or a disk formatted for another system), the display will show WRONG DISK FORMAT SELECT INT DRIVE? Pressing ENTER causes Instant Replay to reselect the internal hard drive. The SCROLL ARROW keys allow selection of other options in the second line of the display: FORMAT EXT DRIVE? Pressing ENTER during this display starts the format process.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 27 Copy Bank When copying Banks, both the Hot-Key assignments and the Cuts they are assigned to are copied, as well as the Playlist. Copies are always between the two drives. You have the option of replacing cuts on the destination drive when Index Numbers of cuts being copied match them, or of assigning new Index Numbers to the copied Cuts. Instant Replay automatically reassigns the Hot-Keys to match the new Index Numbers.
page 28 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual Copy Drive copies all the cuts from one drive to the other. Banks and Playlists are not copied. This function is mainly used to get the Cuts from a Zip disk onto the Internal Drive. Copy Drive offers the same options for replacing duplicates as Copy Bank. • • • • Select the Drive to be copied. If desired, Select the first Cut to be copied. (This allows starting from a particular cut when backing up to several Zip disks.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 29 Disk Compatibility with other 360 Systems Products Instant Replay Zip disks are compatible with DigiCart/II Plus*. • Disks made in the Instant Replay can be played in the DigiCart/II Plus. If the disk contains a large number of Cuts, the DigiCart/II Plus will log the disk faster if the Update Directories function in the DigiCart/II Utility Menu is performed. This must be repeated after any recording or erasing of Cuts is performed on the disk by Instant Replay.
page 30 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual CHAPTER FIVE – D-NET File Transfer Operations Introduction D-NET is a new kind of audio network designed by 360 Systems. It uses Instant Replay's digital audio interfaces for high-speed audio transfers, and to backup and restore files for archival purposes.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 31 See the section Replacing Cuts Assigned to Hot-Keys on page 28. Backup/Restore Characteristics BACKUP BANK saves a specific bank to a DAT tape. BACKUP DRIVE saves the contents of the entire drive to a DAT tape. RESTORE FROM BACKUP adds files to the drive from the DAT backup tape, replacing any with the same Cut Index. RESTORE FROM BACKUP does not discard files on disk unless a file at the same Index is successfully read from the DAT tape.
page 32 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual This will not hurt the data on the hard drive, but it will cause the backup tape to appear to be flawed. Loading Multiple Tapes You can load multiple backups with differing material as long as they do not contain conflicting Index Numbers. In the case of a conflict only the last Cut with that Index number remains. You can use the Move function before loading the second backup to resolve Index Number conflicts.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 33 FILE TRANSFER MENUS FILE TRANSFER is a sub-menu selected from the main Menu. It has menu items for file transfer configuration, for selecting transfer of a single Cut or all Cuts, and for performing backup and restore. The FILE TRANSFER menu contains a number of its own sub-menus. At the outer most level, the SCROLL ARROW keys select a specific menu item.
page 34 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual This in turn causes the digital audio transmitter to resynchronize. This is unavoidable; turn off Echo or File Receive when using the Digital outputs. Receiver Input Selects either the RCA or the XLR-3 digital input connector for receiving files. Receiver Name This field specifies an optional name for addressing the receiver during file transfer.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 35 Backup begins and the display shows the current file number and the percent completion for the current file: FILE 1 OF 193 00% BACKED UP Backup will proceed until all files are backed up, and the display will show the total number of files. If STOP or CANCEL is pressed during backup the display changes to: QUIT BACKUP? PRESS ENTER/CANCEL Press CANCEL or STOP and the backup will continue. Press ENTER to stop backup. An ending summary will be displayed.
page 36 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual File Transfer Setup Procedure (First Time Configuration) • • • • • • • • Select the FILE TRANSFER menu. Use the SCROLL ARROW keys to select the FILE RECEIVER menu item. Press ENTER and then use the arrows to select ON to enable receiving of files. Press ENTER again to confirm the selection. If this Instant Replay is going to be used in a network with other units connected to its output, then you must turn on the Echo function.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual • page 37 Enter a Destination Receiver Name using the HOT-KEYS as Alphanumeric keys The name specified as the destination machine may end with a single asterisk character (HOTKEY 40) to indicate that all receivers partially matching the name should receive the transfer. For example, EDITBAY* will transfer to Receivers named EDITBAY 1, EDITBAY 2, EDITBAY 3, etc. A single asterisk in the Destination Name will send to all Receivers regardless of their Receiver Name.
page 38 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual PRESS ENTER/CANCEL • Press ENTER and the transfer will proceed. The display initially shows: PREPARING TO SEND STOP/CANCEL TO QUIT Once the transfer begins the display changes to: FILE 1 OF 1 00% COMPLETED ß FILE NUMBER AND TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES ß PERCENT OF CURRENT FILE COMPLETED If no buttons are pressed, the percentage is updated until an error occurs or the transfer is completed.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 39 Some possible error messages are: COULD NOT OPEN FILE ........ FILE TO SEND COULD NOT BE OPENED DISK ERROR........................... ERROR READING FILE TO SEND FILE IS EMPTY ....................... FILE TO SEND IS EMPTY NO FILES TO SEND ............... DRIVE TO SEND IS EMPTY PART OF FILE MISSING ........ FILE IS SHORTER THAN EXPECTED TOO MANY ERRORS ..............
page 40 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual BAD FILES : • ß 0 FILES DISCARDED DUE TO ERRORS Press ENTER or CANCEL.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 41 Differences from DigiCart/II D-NET Implementation DigiCart/II files in formats other than AC-2, 48K Stereo or 44.1K Stereo will be rejected by Instant Replay. Sending to the Mail Box in a DigiCart/II means sending to the first unused Index Number following the highest used Index in Directory 9 (for Cuts) on Drive 1. In Instant Replay, sending to the Mail Box means sending to the first unused Index following the highest used Index.
page 42 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual CHAPTER SIX – Maintenance and Disk Operations FORMAT INTERNAL HARD DISK The Format Disk option for the internal drive is only available through a special "power-on" sequence. This option will erase the entire contents of Instant Replay's internal hard disk. It is essential to back up the contents of your hard drive using the D-NET File Transfer or Backup/Restore procedures detailed in Chapter 4 before beginning the Format Disk operation.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 43 The Format Disk option for the external drive accessed through the Operations menu. This option will erase the entire contents of the external disk. New removable disks such as Iomega Zip disks must be formatted before they can be used. The EXTERNAL DISK option in the CONFIGURATION menu must be set to ENABLED to perform any operation specific to the External Disk Drive. CAUTION! FORMAT DISK WILL PERMANENTLY ERASE THE CONTENTS OF THE DISK .
page 44 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual DEFRAGMENT DISK As Cuts are recorded and then erased, or overwritten by new recordings of different lengths, disk space will become fragmented into small blocks of free space separated by blocks of audio. Eventually, the available space is broken up into too many small blocks. When this happens, the message “DISK IS FRAGMENTED” can appear when RECORD is pressed. Another sign is the display of MAX LENGTH when going into Record, rather than TIME LEFT.
Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 45 To Defragment the Disk • • Press MENU and use the S CROLL ARROWS to locate O PERATIONS. Press ENTER and use the SCROLL ARROWS to locate DEFRAGMENT DISK. Press ENTER, and the display will prompt: DEFRAGMENT DISK? PRESS ENTER/CANCEL • Press ENTER to proceed, press CANCEL to abort. If you press ENTER, the display prompts: ARE YOU SURE? PRESS ENTER/CANCEL • Press CANCEL to abort, or press ENTER to proceed.
page 46 Instant Replay Owner’s Manual INDEX AC-2 ™....................................................2 Assign Bank ........................................... 22 Assign Hot-Key....................................... 22 Audio Connections digital......................................... 16–17 analog........................................ 14–15 Backup Bank .................................... 32, 33 Backup Drive.................................... 32, 33 Backup/Restore......................................
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