360 Systems Instant Replay2 User manual

NETWORKED DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER-PLAYER
WITH EDITING
Model DR-600
OWNER'S MANUAL

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Warn ng Symbols
THE FOLLOWING WARNING SYMBOLS ARE USED ON THE PRODUCT IN THIS
MANUAL:
ENGLISH ATTENTION: REFER TO OWNER’S MANUAL FOR
IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
FRANÇAIS ATTENTION: VEUILLEZ VOUS RÉFÉRER AU MODE
D’EMPLOI POUR UNE INFORMATION IMPORTANTE.
ITALIANO ATTENZIONE: FATE RIFERIMENTO AL MANUALE PER
INFORMAZIONI IMPORTANTI.
ESPAÑOL ATENTCION: FAVOR DE REFERIR AL MANUAL DE
OPERACION POR INFORMACION IMPORTANTE.
ENGLISH WARNING: ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD.
FRANÇAIS AVERTISSEMENT: DANGER DE CHOC ÉLECTRIQUE.
ITALIANO AVVERTIMENTO: PERICOLO DI SHOCK ELETTRICO.
ESPAÑOL ADVERTENSIA: PELIGRO DE CHOQUE ELECTRICO.
Safety Compl ance
Instant Replay II Plus complies with the following safety standards:
• UL 19 0, Standard for Safety of Information Technology Equipment, Including
Electrical Business Equipment.
• EN 609 0, Standard for Safety of Information Technology Equipment, Including
Electrical Business Equipment.
EU Declarat on of Conform ty
Type of Equipment:
Professional Use Audio Equipment.
Conforms to the Following Standards:
EN 103-1 (Emission) (1997) Electromagnetic compatibility – Product family standard for audio,
video, audio-visual and entertainment lighting control apparatus for professional use.
EN 103-2 (Immunity) (1997) Electromagnetic compatibility – Product family standard for audio,
video, audio-visual and entertainment lighting control apparatus for professional use.
IEC9 0 2nd Edition, Amendment 1 (1992), Amendment 2 (1993) and Amendment 3 (199 ); Safety of
Information Technology and Business Equipment.

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FCC Compl ance
This equipment complies with part 1 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in
accordance with the owners manual, may cause interference to radio communications. Operation of this
equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user will be required to
correct the interference at his own expense.
This device will accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired
operation. The user is cautioned that changes made to the equipment without the approval of the
manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. It is suggested that only shielded
and grounded cables be used to ensure compliance with FCC rules.
Not ce
This Class A digital apparatus meets all requirement of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment
Regulations.
Français:
Cet appariel numérique de la classe A respecte toute les exigences du Reglement sur le matériel
brouilleur du Canada.
Company Address & Sh pp ng Informat on
Fre ght and ma l may be sent to 360 Systems at the follow ng address. Please call for a Returned Mater al
Author zat on (RMA) number before return ng equ pment or parts.
360 Systems
Customer Service
313 Agoura Rd
Westlake Village, California 91361-4613 USA
Telephone [phone], 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Pac f c T me. Fax: [phone]
Ema l: [e-mail] V s t our web s te at www.360systems.com
CAUTION!
Instant Replay contains a hard disk drive. While today’s hard disks are very reliable,
they are vulnerable to shock. Handle with care. Please exercise care not to drop or
bump Instant Replay – damage to the internal hard disk may result. Be sure power is off
before moving the unit.

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Product Improvements And Upgrades
360 Systems reserves the r ght to make changes and/or mprovements to ts products, w thout ncurr ng any obl gat on to
ncorporate such changes or mprovements n un ts prev ously sold or sh pped.
360 Systems may ssue Techn cal Support Bullet ns from t me to t me, adv s ng owners of record of product
enhancements that become ava lable. Techn cal Support Bullet ns may also be requested through 360 Systems
Customer Serv ce department by telephone at [phone] or Facs m le at [phone]. However, we
cannot contact you f you do not return your Warranty Card. Please take a moment now to f ll out your Warranty
Card and e ther ma l or fax t to 360 Systems. You may also reg ster your warranty w th us by telephone.
Trademarks And Patents
360 Systems, 360 Systems Instant Replay, and D g Cart are trademarks of 360 Systems
Software conta ned n th s product s copyr ghted by 360 Systems, M croware Systems Corp.
Des gns ncorporated n th s product are the subject of current or pend ng U.S. and fore gn patents.
L m ted Warranty
Instant Replay s warranted aga nst defects n mater al and workmansh p for a per od of one year
from date of or g nal purchase. Th s warranty ncludes parts and labor.
Th s warranty excludes un ts that have been mod f ed, repa red by unauthor zed personnel, or
damaged by abuse, mproper operat on, d rt, or stat c electr c ty.
360 Systems assumes no l ab l ty whatsoever for real or consequent al damages, loss of prof ts,
nconven ence or any other losses due to non-operat on of the Instant Replay.
360 Systems' sole l ab l ty under th s l m ted warranty shall be the repa r or replacement of defect ve
product or components. Products be ng returned under warranty shall be sent to 360 Systems or one
of ts fore gn serv ce centers, fre ght prepa d n the or g nal or equ valent packag ng.
Printing history:
Software 2.1 February 2000
Software 2.3, October 2000
Software 3.47 April 2007
Copyright 199 -2007 360 Systems
Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 1 – OVERVIEW................................................................................ 8
F RONT P ANEL C ONTROLS ..................................................................................... 8
Hot-Keys ................................................................................................ 9
Transport Control Buttons..................................................................... 9
STOP.................................................................................................. 9
PLAY ................................................................................................. 9
RECORD ........................................................................................... 9
LOOP ................................................................................................. 9
PAUSE ................................................................................................... 9
Metering and Level Controls ............................................................... 0
Function Buttons.................................................................................. 0
BANK SELECT .................................................................................... 0
ASSIGN HOT-KEYS ............................................................................ 0
PREVIEW ............................................................................................ 0
Setup and Configuration Buttons......................................................... 0
MENU .................................................................................................. 0
CANCEL ..............................................................................................
Scroll Up/Down Arrows.......................................................................
FIND....................................................................................................
ENTER .................................................................................................
CHAPTER 2 – BASIC OPERATION ................................................................ 12
Powering on Instant Replay................................................................. 2
Connecting Instant Replay to External Audio Equipment ................... 3
Recording a Cut................................................................................... 4
Limiting the Record Time of a Cut....................................................... 5
Playing a Cut ....................................................................................... 6
Pausing a Cut ...................................................................................... 6
Erasing a Cut....................................................................................... 7
Assigning a Cut to a Hot-Key .............................................................. 7
Using Hot-Key Banks........................................................................... 8
Replacing Cuts with Existing Hot-Key Assignments............................ 8
Locating a Cut using FIND ................................................................. 8
Viewing the Sample Rate and Word Length of a Cut........................... 8
Previewing a Cut ................................................................................. 8
Looping a Cut ...................................................................................... 9
Adjust ng Output Ga n on a Cut....................................................... 19
Using the Record Sample Rate Converter ........................................... 9
Converting 24 bit material to 6 bits ( Dither ) ................................... 20
Using the Sample Rate Converter and Dither at the same time........... 20
Using the Playback Sample Rate Converter ........................................ 2
CHAPTER 3 – E DIT ING CUTS ......................................................................... 22
Using Head and Tail Trim ................................................................... 22
Setting the Head Trim.......................................................................... 22
Setting the Tail Trim ............................................................................ 23
Sett ng the Pre-Roll before Sett ng the Ta l Tr m............................. 23
Now Set the Ta l Tr m...................................................................... 23
Fade In ............................................................................................. 24
Fade Out........................................................................................... 24
CHAPTER 4 – USING PLAYLISTS ................................................................. 26
Creating a New Playlist ....................................................................... 26
Editing a Playlist ................................................................................. 27
Changing the Playlist Playback Order “On-the-Fly” ......................... 27
Playing a Playlist................................................................................. 28

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CHAPTER 5 – USING THE NETWORK.......................................................... 29
Introduction ......................................................................................... 29
About WAV files................................................................................... 29
File Naming Conventions .................................................................... 30
Supported FTP Clients......................................................................... 3
Initial FTP Setup.................................................................................. 32
Connecting to Instant Replay using FTP ............................................. 33
Connecting to Instant Replay using a DOS Client............................... 34
Downloading a file from Instant Replay to your host:......................... 34
Uploading a file from your host computer to Instant Replay.............. 35
Deleting a file from Instant Replay ...................................................... 35
Renaming a file on Instant Replay....................................................... 36
Transferring Files with Flash FXP ...................................................... 37
Connect to Instant Replay.................................................................... 37
Upload/Download files ........................................................................ 38
Renaming or Deleting a File using Flash FXP.................................... 39
CHAPTER 6 – MACHINE SETUP MENU’S.................................................... 40
EDIT Menu .......................................................................................... 40
RECORD SETUP................................................................................. 40
NETWORKING Menu .......................................................................... 40
OPERATIONS Menu............................................................................ 40
HOT-KEYS Menu................................................................................. 4
CHAPTER 7 – THE REAR PANEL .................................................................. 42
E LECTRICAL P OWER ........................................................................................... 42
Power Switch ....................................................................................... 42
Fuses.................................................................................................... 42
A UDIO C ONNECTIONS ......................................................................................... 43
Audio Inputs......................................................................................... 43
Audio Outputs ...................................................................................... 43
Headphone Output............................................................................... 43
D IGITAL A UDIO C ONNECTIONS ........................................................................... 43
AES/EBU Input .................................................................................... 43
IEC 958 Type II Input .......................................................................... 43
Digital Audio Interfacing..................................................................... 44
Digital Audio Output ........................................................................... 44
AES/EBU Output ................................................................................. 44
IEC 958 Type II Output ....................................................................... 45
NETWORK C ONNECTIONS ................................................................................ 45
Network Port........................................................................................ 45
CHAPTER 8 – M AINTENANCE AND D ISK O PERATIONS ...................................... 46
F ORMAT TING THE I NTERNAL HARD D ISK ......................................................... 46
To Format the Internal Hard Disk....................................................... 46
INDEX ............................................................................................................... 47

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INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchas ng Instant Replay. The system prov des a un que comb nat on of mass
storage, d rect access to stored aud o, network access and ease of operat on, all n a profess onal
qual ty package. Key features nclude:
Storage of up to 1000 Aud o Cuts
At least 100 Hours of Storage
Ass gnment of Cuts to 50 front panel Hot Keys
Playl sts that play a sequence of cuts manually or automat cally
16 and 24 b t WAV support
Head and Ta l ed t ng
Var able fade n and fade out
FIND funct on for locat ng cuts
Fam l ar tape transport style controls to prov de fast and sure operat on
Network Connect v ty for upload ng, download ng renam ng and delet ng Cuts.

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CHAPTER 1 – OVERVIEW
FIGURE 1 - FRONT PANEL LAYOUT
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
Instant Replay's front panel controls are shown n F gure 1. Most of the buttons nclude an nd cator
l ght to show when they are n use. They are funct onally grouped as follows:
Hot-Keys
Transport Control
Meter ng and Level Control
Funct on Buttons
Setup and Conf gurat on Control
These controls are descr bed br efly n th s sect on.

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Hot-Keys
There are three pr mary uses for Hot-Keys:
1. Tr gger ng playback of ass gned Cuts
2. As an alphanumer c keyboard
3. Bank select on, us ng the top row of keys
The ma n array of 50 buttons are Hot-Keys numbered 1 through 50. A Hot-Key's pr mary funct on s
to tr gger playback of a Cut ass gned to t. Hot-Keys l ght up whenever the r ass gned Cut s play ng.
In the Bank Select mode, the numbers 1 through 10 on the top row select the correspond ng Banks
numbered 1 through 10. The banks are l ke pages of Hot Keys. They extend the number of cuts that
can be ass gned to Hot Keys to 500 ( 50 Hot Keys t mes 10 Banks ) and also prov de a method for
organ z ng cuts.
Transport Control Buttons
The Transport Controls nclude S TOP , P LAY , P AUSE and R ECORD . They perform n the trad t onal
manner of tape recorders.
STOP
STOP Immed ately ends record ng or playback. STOP w ll halt some sequent al operat ons, such as
Network Transfers.
PLAY
PLAY Starts playback of the currently selected Cut. Note that press ng P LAY n t ates playback
from the beg nn ng of the selected Cut, even f t s already play ng. The except on s when P
LAY s
used to d sengage P
AUSE .
RECORD
RECORD Places Instant Replay n Record Ready mode. ( Instant Replay w ll enter record when the
P
LAY button s pressed.)
LOOP
L OOP causes a Cut to repeat endlessly unt l e ther S TOP or L OOP s pressed. S TOP ends playback
mmed ately. Press ng L
OOP ex ts from the Loop mode, and allows the current Cut to cont nue
play ng to ts end. Press ng LOOP wh le runn ng a Playl st w ll cause the ent re Playl st to loop.
PAUSE
P AUSE nterrupts playback of a Cut. When pressed aga n, playback w ll resume.

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Meter ng and Level Controls
Level Meters
The L EVEL M ETERS show the current record or playback level.
Input Level Controls
The Left and R ght I NPUT L EVEL Controls set the levels for record ng. Set the levels so that the
loudest part of your record ng causes the f rst red segment of the meter to l ght. When turned all the
way down, the nput w ll be muted. The level controls do not apply to d g tal record ng from the
AES/EBU nputs.
Headphone Level Control
Sets the level of the H EADPHONE O UTPUT .
Funct on Buttons
BANK SELECT
The 50 Hot-Keys are further organ zed nto 10 Banks. Th s allows 500 Cuts to be programmed nto
Hot-Keys. When you press the B
ANK S ELECT button, t l ghts and the top row of Hot-Keys flash.
The d splay changes to show the Number and Name of the current Bank; the number of Hot-Key
Ass gnments t conta ns; and an nd cat on of the presence of a Playl st n the Bank. Press ng Hot-
Keys 1-10 w ll d rectly select the correspond ng Bank.
ASSIGN HOT-KEYS
The A SSIGN H OT -K EYS button l ghts when pressed and the d splay prompts for select on of a H OT -
K
EY . Press ng a H OT -K EY mmed ately ass gns the Cut shown n the top l ne of the d splay to that
H
OT -K EY , overwr t ng any prev ous ass gnment.
PREVIEW
When P REVIEW s pressed n Stop mode the ma n aud o outputs are muted, so Cuts played
subsequently can be aud t oned from the headphone output only. Both the analog and d g tal aud o
outputs are muted.
Setup and Conf gurat on Buttons
MENU
Press ng the M ENU button w ll br ng up all conf gurable tems. As w th most menus n equ pment of
th s type, these are organ zed as nested menus. Once a menu opt on s selected, press ng E
NTER w ll
allow you to select a value for that opt on. Press ng M
ENU a second t me w ll ex t to normal
operat on. See Chapter 6, “Mach ne Setup Menus” for a l st ng of menu opt ons.
Note: In this manual, MENU navigation is shown using arrows to indicate a new menu
level. For example, MENU->CONFIGURATION->PLAYBACK SAMPLE RATE
Is telling the user to press MENU, scroll to the CONFIGURATION option, Press
ENTER, then scroll to the PLAYBACK SAMPLE RATE menu item.