Hardata Dinesat Radio

Radio Automation

Quick Guide
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Hardata Dinesat Radio Quick guide

Enjoying Hardata Dinesat Radio

You have installed Hardata Dinesat Radio, and now you are a double-click away from
the most interesting experience in automation systems.

Hardata Dinesat RadioSetup Wizard will guide you through the

installation steps in your workstation, selecting the language
and audio mode- Direct Sound for SoundBlaster, or Wave for
Audioscience, Antex or Digigram cards-.

Now you are watching a classic Dinesat screen. The main window with the buttons to
go to other windows and functions can be distinguished there.

Hour, Temperature and

humidity Display

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Press the time button and you will listen to the current time announced by an
announcer!

Air 1 Window

New RDS system where the

Description and Performer of the
Titles being played out are displayed.

Scheduled Titles List.

Air 2 window also has the RDS

System.

< Random music lists.

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< InstantPlay window displays an audio file list from

which you can pick a title to play instantly out, just
with a click!

Press the F2 key to listen to “Hardata Dinesat Radio, Radio Automation”.

Press the Function keys to shoot the respective files!

And Titles window, where all audio

material recorded in your workstation and
in all positions connected to the audio
network can be accessed.

Use the Category Combo Box to browse through

all categories installed in you local audio server,
and double-click on a title or press Play button to
listen to it.

You will be amazed when you experience AutoPlay, listening to music, artistic and
commercials played back and cross faded automatically, and creating programming
that will sound like a “live” production.

Press Autoplay button in Air 1 window to start automatic operation.

You will see how Hardata Dinesat Radio plays back the scheduled commercial block in
Air 1, then changes to play back music in Air 2, and when it is time for the following
commercial block, it resumes Air 1 window playback.

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This is one of the automatic modes Hardata Dinesat Radio controls. For further
information about the other modes check the Help file included in the system.

You will see two indicators in Air

windows: The red one indicates the
current title on the air, whereas the
green one displays the next title to
be played out.

While it is stopped, you can change the first title by double-clicking on the title you want
to select. While playing back you can change the following title by changing the green
indicator and selecting the next file to be played out.

In manual operation, start playback by pressing the Play button. Playback will finish at
the current block end.

You will see two Play buttons: Green (Play) and Red (Cue). The difference is that the
red button (Cue) only plays back 50% or no more than 30 seconds of the title. There is
no record of this action left in the audit system, and it is used only for previous
listenings.

You can stop playback instantly by pressing the Stop button or you can
press “Play and stop at the end of the title” to play back titles one by one.

Or you can press the FadeOut button to fade on the current fade and stop
playback.

You will see a song and separator list randomly generated following a preset
“format” in Air 2 window. This format can be easily changed by pressing the
Menu button.
Press the Play button in Air 2 window and you will see that it has changed to
a new symbol: the Xfade button. While playing back a title, you can go to the
following with a crossfade by pressing the Xfade button.

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While playing back you can fade over a song to insert a “live” voice by
pressing the TalkOver button. You will hear that the song level will be turned
down softly to a pre-set level, so that the announcer can talk over it. To
resume the original level, press the TalkOver button again.

If you want to insert a recording over a song, select the InstantPlay window with a
click on it and then press the PlayOver button. You will hear that the song fades
out, the selected recording is played back, and the song resumes its original level.

Press the time button and the time will be announced over the song.

We expect you have enjoyed your first experience with HARDATA DINESAT RADIO.
This is a very brief description of its basic operation. We encourage you to browse the
HelpFile and find out all HARDATA DINESAT RADIO functions.

You’ll be amazed!

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