User manual TASCAM 2488MKII

[. . . ] » 2488MK# Digital Portastudio OWNER'S MANUAL D00951210A IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. This appliance has a serial number located on the rear panel. Please record the model number and serial number and retain them for your records. [. . . ] Although the active mark applies to all tracks, if you have a track selected with nothing or little recorded on it at that point, it will be impossible to see or hear anything using this function. 4 Use the Ó and Á keys to zoom out and in respectively horizontally. That is, pressing the Á key will increase the amount of space on the screen taken by a certain amount of time, and pressing the Ó key will make the same amount of time take less space on the screen. The three zoom levels available are: x 1, x 2 at about single-frame accuracy), and x 32 at about 10-sub-frame accuracy (shown below the time display). 9 Skip between marks During playback or when the transport is stopped, press the F FWD or REW key briefly and release it to skip to the next or previous mark. TASCAM 2488MKII 7 - Recorder Using the mark list Every time a mark is stored, it is entered into the list, and every time a mark is deleted, it is removed from the list. To see the list, press the LOCATE key: ª Erasing marks using the list Press the LOCATE key. Use the JOG/DATA dial (or §/¶ cursor keys) to select the mark to erase. Press the DELETE key to erase the selected mark. 1 2 3 NOTE Even when the time display on the home screen is shown in bars and beats, or the MTC time display is selected, the marks' time values are always shown using the absolute time values. Items in the list are always sorted in time order, not the order of the mark point names or numbers. ª Locating using the list Press the LOCATE key. Use the JOG/DATA dial (or §/¶cursor keys) to select the desired mark. The playback position jumps to the selected mark. To locate using the mark list: 1 2 3 ª Titling using the list Press the LOCATE key. Use the JOG/DATA dial (or §/¶ cursor keys) to select the mark whose title you want to edit. Give a title to the mark, using the procedure described in "Titling" on page 15. When you press YES/ENTER to confirm the name, the screen returns to the list. 1 2 3 4 5 Two marks can have the same title (though it may be confusing), but they cannot have the same time value. It is not possible to rename the IN, OUT, TO or FROM marks because they have special functions. TASCAM 2488MKII 7 - Recorder Direct location In this method, you use the cursor keys and the dial to locate to a specified position. There are three modes in which the time can be shown on the home screen: ABS (the absolute time), MTC (MIDI Time Code) and BAR. The BAR time display is based on an internal tempo source map, or such as a standard MIDI file (SMF). In the first two of these modes, you can locate to sub-frame accuracy. There are ten sub-frames in a frame, and the length of a frame depends on the frame rate set up in the sync operations, but is between 1/30 and 1/24 of a second. In the last mode, you can locate to beat accuracy. Direct location (i) For the first two modes (ABS and MTC), the way to locate directly is as follows: 1 2 Make sure the transport is stopped. You cannot perform this direct location when playing back or recording. If the top left of the screen does not show ABS or MTC (that is, it shows BAR), move the cursor to under BAR, and turn the dial counterclockwise until ABS or MTC is showing. Use the left and right cursor keys to move the cursor to any of the following fields: hours (h), minutes (m), seconds (s), frames (s) or sub-frames (no indication on the display, though the value is shown). [. . . ] There are too many songs stored on the current partition (the limit is 250 songs on one partition) for a new song to be created, or a song that has been backed up to be restored. 30 31 Too many takes. Can't continue recording Press [EXIT]. The repeat auto-punch procedure can't continue because more than 99 takes have been recorded. Track already written to disc so only 1 song 32 can be written. 34 Press [EXIT]. Because at least one track is already present on the disc, it is not possible to burn more than one track at once. To burn several tracks at one time (Disc At Once), you must start with a blank disc. Press ENTER. [. . . ]