Manual

Instant Replay Owner’s Manual page 1
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing Instant Replay. The system provides an unusual combination of mass
storage, direct access to stored audio, and ease of operation, all in a professional quality package.
Key features include:
Storage of up to 1,000 audio Cuts.
Four or more hours of storage, depending on the model.
Assignment of Cuts to 50 front panel Hot-Key presets.
Playlists that sequence a number of Cuts into a stored list
10 Banks – each providing 50 Presets (for a total of 500), plus 10 Playlists.
"Find" function locates a Cut by entering its name or index number.
Familiar tape transport style controls to provide fast and sure operation.
GETTING STARTED
Recordings, Hot-Keys™ and Banks
Perhaps the easiest way to understand Instant Replay is to see how individual recordings relate to
the fifty Hot-Keys and how these relate to the ten Banks.
All recordings exist in a single pool, with a capacity of 1,000 Cuts. Each has a unique name and
Index Number (or ID number), so they are easily distinguished.
When setting up Instant Replay, recordings are individually "mapped" to Hot-Keys. This way,
you have complete control over which sound appears under a particular Hot-Key button. It was
decided that 50 buttons was a good compromise between quick access and having a sufficient
number of sounds available at once.
The 50 Hot-Keys are organized into Banks numbered 1 to 10, for a total of 500 Cuts assigned to
Hot-Keys. Each Bank is like a separate "page"; changing Banks is equivalent to flipping a page,
and presents an entirely different set of 50 Hot-Key presets. Banks are also a convenient way to
organize Instant Replay's relatively large audio collection. The different Banks might contain
sounds for different purposes, or they might be used by different people.
The remaining 500 Cuts are still accessible with the "Find" function, and can be used to replace
an existing Hot-Key preset at any time. For more information on Find see page 3, The "Find"
Function.
Instant Replay's unique feature is that Hot-Keys allow any Cut to be played instantly. Whenever
an assigned Hot-Key is pressed, the corresponding Cut is selected and played at once. It will
immediately end the playback of any other Cut that may have been playing.
This manual uses the word Preset to describe a Cut assigned to a Hot-Key. It doesn't mean the
button itself, but rather a recording that has been assigned to that button.