7 − Recorder

Jog positioning

To position the playback point precisely, you can “jog” the playback position, using the dial. As you move backwards and forwards through the recording, you can hear the recorded sound at slow speed, either backward or forward, depending on the direction you are turning the dial.

NOTE

The 2488MKII can locate a position with an accuracy of 1/10 frame. The length of 1 frame depends on the frame rate (24–30 frames per second). At this speed, 1/10-frame accuracy is equivalent to 1/300-second – 1/240-second accuracy.

1Position the playback point to the rough position where you want the final point to be.

2Press and hold the STOP key and press the PLAY key. The transport enters JOG mode and the JOG indicator lights. The display shows a view of the waveform of the currently selected track at the current playback position.

3Press the SELECT key of the track that you want to view (pressing the SELECT key of any of the stereo tracks [13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24] alter- nates between viewing the odd- and even-numbered tracks). The display changes to the waveform of that track.

4Use the Ó and Á cursor keys to zoom out and in respectively horizontally.

In other words, 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 (allow- ing approximately single-frame accuracy in adjust- ment), and x 32 (allowing approximately an accura- cy of about 10 sub-frames). The resolution is shown below the time display.

5Use the § and cursor keys to adjust the vertical scale (the way that the volume of the sound is shown).

The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x 8, x 16 and x

32. Pressing the § key increases the vertical scaling of the display, and pressing the key decreases the scale.

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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.

6Use the dial to move to the desired playback position.

You can monitor the “jogged” sound of the selected track through the monitoring system.

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To move past the edge of the screen, press and hold the F FWD or 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.

7Press STOP (or YES/ENTER or NO/EXIT) to return to the home screen, with the playback position now being the point which has just been set.

The home screen now shows the playback position set with the JOG operation.

NOTE

Because only one track can be jogged at a time, only one track of a stereo pair can be heard at a time in this mode. If it is difficult to hear the track, you may want to monitor in mono (see “Monitoring” on page 36).

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