User Manual
Master Fader and My Fader Reference Guide
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File Structure
Several pages ago we mentioned that there are two folders on the hard drive, one named “Music” and
the second named “Recordings”. The music folder contains all of the stereo L/R .wav les and the recordings
folder contains all of the multitrack .wav les.
The main dierence, of course, is stereo L/R les [music folder] versus multitrack les [recording folder],
but that’s not the only dierence. The le structure is slightly dierent between the two, too...tutu?
The two images below display the music folder and recording folder. Let’s take a look at the music folder
[top] rst. Notice how all of the .wav les are directly placed in this folder and that there are no subfolders.
To reiterate, these are listed alphanumerically.
The recordings folder, on the other hand, is nothing but subfolders. Ok, ok, perhaps not in the example
shown above. A subfolder is created for each recording. So after performing multiple recordings there
would be multiple subfolders, each named with the name you provided. So, each subfolder contains
a dierent recording made up of at least one .wav le. Longer recordings will yield more .wav les
but we’ll get to that in a second.
Wasn’t our test recording eight tracks? Why aren’t there eight les? Good questions. The DL32R records
to multichannel .wav les that contain between one and 24 channels (or tracks) in a single le. Think of
your standard stereo .wav le you use on the music side; it is similar and contains two channels, left and
right. Well, these are similar, they just can have more channels. By using multichannel .wav les instead
of 24 individual les, one for each track, we are able to get much better performance out of standard
o the shelf hard drives, which is why the DL32R doesn’t require you to invest a fortune in super-fast
recording hard drives.
So how do you listen to it? Simple. Most major DAWs import it perfectly. Simply import it into your
DAW and it will split it into separate tracks. For example, we’ve imported our masterpieces into
Pro Tools awlessly.
If your DAW doesn’t support it, check out Wave Agent from Sound Devices
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which easily allows you
to convert to and from multichannel .wav les.
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http://www.sounddevices.com/products/waveagent/
Recording Folder
Music Folder