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    A LESIS MASTERLINK ML-9600 H IGH R ESOLUTION M ASTER D ISK R ECORDER A DDENDUM T O O WNER ’ S M ANUAL F IRST E DITION V ERSION 1.0 A PPLIES TO O PERATING SOFTWARE V ERSION 2.00  2000 A LESIS C ORPORATION[...]

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    Table Of Contents A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Version 2.00 Highlights ................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 How Do [...]

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    Chapter 1 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 1 I NTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of an Alesis MasterLink! In a continuing effort to provide our MasterLink customers with the utmost in mastering convenience, we are pleased to announce the debut of MasterLink operating system software version 2.0. Version 2.0 software is packed with[...]

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    Chapter 1 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 MasterLink software updates occur via a special "MLOS" (MasterLink Operating System) CD- ROM. If you do not have Version 2.00 software, there are several options available to you: • Call 1-800-5ALESIS and choose "Option 1" to have a free update MLOS disc sent to you. • Cont[...]

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    Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 3 N EW P LAYLIST E DIT F EATURES 2.1 S EAMLESS "A DJACENT T RACK " T RANSITIONS In version 1.xx software, two adjacent tracks would always play back with a miniscule amount of silence between them, even if the start time of the second Track was equal to the end time of the first Track. Thi[...]

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    Chapter 2 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Track Split Confirmation Screen Pressing DOWN/NO while this screen is displayed will cancel the Split operation and return the machine to its previous state. Pressing UP/YES while this screen is displayed will cause the track to be split at the TRACK START pointer. Because MasterLink defaults to 0[...]

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    Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 5 Pressing DOWN/NO while this screen is displayed will cancel the Join operation and return the machine to its previous state. Pressing UP/YES while this screen is displayed will cause Track 2 to be joined to Track 1, removing the inter-Track gap, if one exists. TIP : If you are previewing a Join an[...]

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    Chapter 2 6 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Audio File. Subsequent presses of the SKIP button will skip through all of the Audio Files on the hard drive. TIP: To quickly skip to the last Track in a Playlist, hold the PLAYLIST EDIT button and press the SKIP button. After releasing the PLAYLIST EDIT button, one more press of the SKIP button w[...]

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    Chapter 2 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 7 Figure 2.7.1 Audio File In Use Warning In Version 1.xx software, the only way to delete an Audio File that was in use was to find every Track in every playlist that pointed to that Audio File and delete each Track. New to version 2.0 software is the ability to override the warning and automaticall[...]

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    Chapter 3 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 9 N EW T RACK DSP F EATURES 3.1 C OPY DSP S ETTINGS New to Version 2.0 software is the ability to copy and paste DSP settings between tracks, even between tracks in different playlists. All of the Track DSP parameters are copied and pasted at once, including Track Gain, Compression parameters, EQ pa[...]

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    Chapter 3 10 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Paste DSP Settings Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will paste all DSP parameters from the temporary RAM buffer into the destination track. This process leaves the RAM buffer intact, so multiple pastes are possible without having to re-[...]

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    Chapter 3 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 11 Figure 3.4.1 Render DSP Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO will cancel the DSP Render operation. Pressing UP/YES in this screen will render all DSP paramete[...]

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    Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 13 N EW U TILITY F EATURES In MasterLink Version 2.0 software, the Utility Pages have been expanded from four pages to nine pages, and have been re-ordered for better ease of use. 4.1 T RACK /P LAYLIST /CD L OOP It is sometimes desirable to loop a Track or a CD when playing back audio. New to Versio[...]

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    Chapter 4 14 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 Figure 4.2.1 Playlist Backup Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO at that point will cancel the Playlist Backup operation. Pressing UP/YES at the prompt will [...]

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    Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 15 Figure 4.3.1 Playlist Restore Page Pressing the DOWN/NO button in this page will have no effect. Pressing the UP/YES button will prompt you with an " Are you sure? Y/N " message. Pressing DOWN/NO at that point will cancel the Playlist Backup operation. Pressing UP/YES at the prompt will[...]

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    Chapter 4 16 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 4.4 R ENDER P LAYLIST T O D ISK There are some instances where you may wish to render a Playlist to the hard drive, but do not want to immediately burn a CD; for instance, you may wish to audition the rendered image before committing to a CD. Version 2.0 software gives you the flexibility to rend[...]

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    Chapter 4 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 17 Figure 4.5.1 Start and End Time Offset Page The cursor defaults under the "St Offset" field; if you press UP/YES while in this field the "En Offset" parameter will be displayed. To the right of the offset field is the "Offset Amount" field. Pressing CURSOR RIGHT will[...]

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    Chapter 6 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 19 N EW CD F EATURES 5.1 M OVE E NTIRE CD T O P LAYLIST MasterLink version 1.0 software gave you the ability to copy Red Book and CD24 tracks directly to a playlist from the internal CD drive one track at a time (covered in Section 7.2 of the MasterLink User's Manual). In addition, version 2.0 [...]

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    Chapter 4 20 A LESIS ML-9600 R EFERENCE M ANUAL 1.00 If the destination Playlist already has one or more Tracks in it, the display will prompt " PList not empty. Proceed? " Pressing DOWN/NO will cancel the CD move operation. Pressing UP/YES will begin to copy the entire CD into the destination playlist, with the first CD track placed afte[...]