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For ultimate control with the Portacapture X8, let’s take a look at Manual mode.
This mode offers users the most flexible experience as we can see by looking at the user interface.
Here we see the Home screen, the Input screen and the Mixer screen.
By touching the menu icon at the top left of the screen then Input Select,
we have the ability to assign any of the X8’s various inputs to different track selections.
From the input screen we can touch the microphone icon to control parameters
such as Stereo Link, Auto Gain, Low-Cut filter, Noise Gate,
Limiting and Compression, EQ and Phase Invert.
We can also switch the input from Low Gain to High Gain
as well as make fine adjustments to the input gain.
From the mixer screen we’re able to set the levels of tracks going to the master
as well as the Pan of each channel.
Playback on the Portacapture X8 is simple too.
From the launch display we’ll scroll to the Browse icon,
which is represented by a folder with a musical note in it, and enter the Browse menu.
A list of all our Portacapture X8 recordings is displayed.
And we can play any of those by touching the play icon next to their names.
However we can do much more than just playback a file from here.
We’ll select the file we want to playback and will be brought to a menu of actions we can take.
By pressing Select, the recording will open in the app it was recorded in.
From here we can create alternate mixes of our recordings.
This is great for creating rough mixes on the go or even to solidify a final mix for our project.
Our mix balance will be contained within the playback screen
and won’t have any effect on our file, when we access it through the manual app from the Launcher screen.
“Play” will take us to this screen where we have some additional options that allow to
to jump through the recording in 10 second intervals,
skip through to different marks that we may have dropped in,
loop a section, or change the speed of the playback as well as the key.
“File Information” gives us all the metadata about the recording
such as the general recording information like date, file format and file size, the names
of each individual track contained in the recording, and microphone settings for each input.
We can delete the recording by selecting “File Delete”.
The file can be protected by selecting “Change Protect”.
This locks the file and can then be unlocked by selecting “Change Protect” again.
“Rename” brings up a keyboard and allows us to rename the file.
We can quickly access all the marks in the file by selecting Mark.
“Divide” lets us split up the file into different files.
And finally “Normalize” which raises the overall volume of the recording to a higher level.
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