Tascam HD-P2 Screens and Menus, Monitoring, Audible Alerts, Operational Screen, Screen Icons

HD-P2 Screens and Menus

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Monitoring

The HD-P2 features a headset jack and phones adjust knob. In the Project Menu, Settings page there is an option for choosing the type of headset monitoring. The choices include Stereo, Mono Left, Mono Right, Mono Summed, and Follow Record Mode. The Mono

Summed mode can be useful if you are doing mono recordings sometimes from the left and sometimes the right. Follow Record Mode sets the headphone moni- toring mode to match the project’s channel settings.

Audible Alerts

When the HD-P2 detects low power or low media space it flashes the appropriate icons on the main screen. In some situations, when the screen isn’ t within line of sight or being monitored, you may want to enable audible alerts. This is an option in the System Menu. When enabled and an alert condition

happens, a series of beeps are sent to the audio output jacks and the headset. A short series of beeps indicates a warning while a longer series indicates a more seri- ous problem, which will soon be followed up by the system stopping recording (media space low) or shut- ting down (battery power low).

HD-P2 Screens and Menus

Operational Screen

This is the screen you will see when the HD-P2 is first powered up, and is the main screen for operating and monitoring the HD-P2.

Metering – Instantaneous metering values (playback & record) along with peak decay and clip indicators. The response rate and peak hold times are configu- rable in the Project, Settings menu.

Timeline – Current time in hours:minutes:seconds: tenths/sec in non-timecode mode, hours:minutes: seconds:frames in timecode mode.

Scrub point – Indicates the unit that is changed when the scrub wheel is rotated. This will affect the reso- lution of the Scrub wheel. Change this by pressing

STOP + SELECT.

Current – Current project, file, and marker. File and marker are based on timeline location and will ap- pear/disappear accordingly.

Pre-Record – Percent of the pre-record buffer filled. Pre-record size varies from ten seconds down to five, depending on sample rate. This bar is updated in Monitor mode only when pre-record is enabled.

Settings – Current project settings in effect.

Timecode – On/Off, when On it shows some timecode settings.

	current meter value	peak decay clip indicator
		timeline
		scrub pt
current project
file, mark
prerecord %		project settings
current locator		timecode settings

AC/battery lock clock transport firewire disk space state

Figure 9 - Main Screen Layout

Locator – Current (or last) locator position and name. Pressing both Locate L&R together will relocate the timeline to this locator.

Power – Power source: AC adapter, FireWire, or bat- tery (with level).

Lock – Shown when the HOLD switch is engaged, all other buttons are disabled.

Clock – Time of day clock, used for file creation time. Transport – Icons showing the current transport state.

FireWire – Indicates the HD-P2 is connected to a computer via FireWire, not mounted.

Disk Space – Displays text and graphic of free space on the inserted media.

Screen Icons

The Power and Transport sections of the screen change	Disk icons will blink whenever either approaches a
their icons based on their current state. The Power and	low power or disk threshold, respectively.
	Figure 11 - Power Source Icons
Figure 10 - Transport State Icons

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