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). REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. 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. [. . . ] Pressing the key increases the vertical scaling of the display, and pressing the ¶ key decreases the scale. NOTE If you cannot see any waveforms when you first enter this display, press the § key to zoom the volume so that you can see the quiet passages. 6 Use the JOG/DATA dial to move the playback position as you like. You can monitor the jogged sound of the selected track through the monitoring system. NOTE You cannot move the mark to a position before the previous mark or after the next mark. 7 To move past the edge of the screen, press and hold the F FWD and REW keys to play the tracks forwards or backwards at normal speed for a rough position. When you release the keys, the playback will stop. Press YES/ENTER to accept the new position as the active mark value (the playback position is now the new position), and return to the home screen. Press NO/EXIT to return to the home screen with the playback position being the point which has just been set, but the active mark value is unchanged. 8 3 Press the SELECT key of the track that you want to view. The display changes to the waveform of that track. 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. Use the MARK LIST to locate, erase, and add titles to marks. Note that this list cannot be used to edit mark positions. 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. [. . . ] Takes recorded before this cannot be restored, so the first selection should be made carefully!Press NO/EXIT and replace the disc if necessary. The distance between the zero point and the Press NO/EXIT, and re-set the OUT point to at OUT point is too short for mastering. A CD track least four seconds after the zero point. must be at least four seconds long. The wrong type of CD for the operation has Press NO/EXIT and replace the disc with the been loaded in the drive. [. . . ]