User Manual

Master Fader and My Fader Reference Guide
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So we mentioned you might see more than one le in each recording subfolder. In the recordings folder
image on the previous page, you see 5. When would that occur? In order to achieve maximum compatibility
with DAWs and other pieces of hardware, we must ensure that the .wav les we produce are less than 2 GB. It
takes a very long time to get to 2 GB when you are recording a stereo .wav le but what about for a 24 chan-
nel wav le? With that many channels all in one le, 2 GB comes after just around 10 minutes of recording.
So what happens when you cross that limit? Well, the DL32R is smart and just before that happens, it stops
recording one le and instantly (and without any data loss) starts recording another. We call this gapless
recording. So in your song’s folder, a 50 minute 24 channel recording would end up as 5 separate .wav les.
Now as we said, there is no audio loss and as these les are played back on the DL32R it seamlessly switches
from one to the next and if we didn’t just tell you this, you might never know this was even happening. It
does mean that you need to use Snap or Shue for each le when importing into your favorite DAW to get
them to butt up together one after the next.
Lastly, what if you want to take your own multichannel les and put them on a hard drive for playback on
the DL32R. Easy. Just create the multichannel les in your DAW or use the WaveAgent application mentioned
earlier. Now you need to be careful and replicate the same le structure the DL32R uses for recording. In the
Recordings folder, add a subfolder named after your song. Then in that subfolder put the multichannel .wav
le and give it the same name as the folder followed by “_1”. If there are multiple les that will use gapless
playback, name them similarly with “_2”, “_3” and so on. If done correctly, when connected to the DL32R
these les should show up in the list just as if you had recorded them with the mixer.