Yamaha D24 Owner's Manual - Page 94

90 Chapter 9-Editing Tracks Erasing Tracks The Track Erase function is used to erase the contents of a track. 1 Press the [EDIT] button. The EDIT indicator lights up. 2 Use the JOG/DATA dial to select "TRACK EDIT," and then press the [ENTER] button. 3 Use the JOG/DATA dial to select "ERASE," and then press the [ENTER] button. "EDIT ERASE-TR nn" appears on the display ("nn" being the number of the track to be erased). 4 Use the JOG/DATA dial to select the track you want to erase. You can select individual tracks, track pairs, or all tracks: 1-8, 1/2-7/8, or ALL. To erase a virtual track, assign it to a main track first, and then erase the main track. 5 Press the [ENTER] button. "TRACK ERASE-ARE YOU SURE" appears on the display. 6 Press the [ENTER] button to erase the selected track, or the [CANCEL] button to cancel. The selected track is erased. When the erase operation is complete, "FINISHED" appears on the display and the UNDO/REDO indicator lights up, indicating that it can be undone. See "Undoing a Recording or Edit" on page 35 for more information. To erase another track, press the [ENTER] button to return to step 4. 7 Press the [EDIT] button to leave edit. The EDIT indicator goes out. In the following example, track 2 is erased. Track Erase TR: 2 Main tracks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 When a track is erased, although they can no longer be accessed, its sound files remain on disk as unused files, taking up disk space, and reducing the time remaining for additional recording. To delete these unused files and recover the disk space, use the Optimize function. See "Recovering Disk Space" on page 172 for more information. D24-Owner's Manual