User Guide

DPS24 VERSION 1.60 ADDENDUM
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IMPROVED V-TRACK OPERATION
The DPS24’s Virtual Track function has been overhauled. Pressing V-TRACK now shows this
slightly amended screen:
New function keys are added to make the assignment of virtual tracks quicker and easier.
The principle behind virtual tracks is that it is possible to swap out recordings that exist on ‘physical’
tracks with a library of ‘virtual’ tracks. In this way, you can record several different versions of a
guitar solo or vocal or whatever and use the best one. For example, you could record a guitar
overdub on Track 4 but you think you might be able to better. But, rather than just record over the
original, you could swap Track 4 out with an empty virtual track and record onto that... you can keep
doing this as many times as you like (well, 232 to be precise: 256 virtual tracks minus the 24
‘physical’ tracks). The new functions make the swapping out of tracks and assignment of virtual
tracks much easier and quicker. The function along the bottom are:
OPTIONS Provides options that relate to the V-Track function (more later).
UTILS Provides various utilities that relate to the V-Track function (more later).
N.TAKE This creates a new take on the selected ‘physical’ track. What it does is find the
first unused ‘virtual’ track, performs an ‘auto-name’ that is based on the ‘physical’
track’s name and swaps out whatever is on the selected ‘physical’ track with the
new, blank take.
NOTE: The N.TAKE function will not swap out tracks if there is no audio on them.
N.UNUSED Automatically finds the next unused ‘virtual’ track and assigns it to the selected
‘physical’ track. It is similar to the NEW TAKE function but without the auto-name
process.
ASSIGN Allows you to manually select a ‘virtual’ track and assign it to the selected ‘physical’
track.
However, since a V.Track can only be assigned to one Physical Track at a time, it
is not possible to assign a V.track that is already assigned to another Physical
track without unassigning it first. You will be prompted if you attempt to assign a
V-Track that is already in use on another ‘physical’ track.