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ALESIS M20 REFERENCE MANUAL 1.06 8-1
CHAPTER 8
TRANSPORT CONTROLS AND
BASIC RECORDING
The transport buttons include Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Play, Record, and Eject. The
transport movement may also be controlled by the jog/shuttle wheel, or various built-in
automatic features.
8.1 ABOUT THE TAPE COUNTER
The tape counter, located on the right side of the right display, shows the current tape
location. The Tape Counter button selects the counter mode (the 10-digit location counter is
above the Tape Counter switch). Pushing the switch cycles through three different modes.
• ABS Time references the current tape location to the proprietary sample-accurate
ADAT time code formatted into each ADAT tape.
• Relative references the current tape location to the relative zero location. The
relative zero point is set by entering an absolute time value into the Locate 00
address. That value is subtracted from the absolute time code value when the tape
counter display is in Relative mode.
• SMPTE references the current tape location to SMPTE (i.e., ABS + any SMPTE offset,
as described in section 11.6a).
Note: this is NOT necessarily the SMPTE time code printed onto the T/C track. That
code is displayed in the Reference counter on the left side of the display.
8.2 STOP
Press to stop the tape transport (Stop button lights steadily). The tape stops moving, but
remains threaded around the head drum.
The tape will unthread (i.e., disengage from the head drum) automatically if no transport
movement occurs during a user-definable timeout period (default = 4 minutes; see section
13.9). Stop will flash. To re-thread the tape, press Stop again (it lights steadily). Note that
entering play from the unthreaded position takes slightly longer than when the tape is
already threaded, due to the time required to wrap the tape around the head drum.