Tascam 2488neo owner manual Direct location

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 inter- nal tempo source map, or such as a standard MIDI file (SMF). See “Tempo and MIDI” on page 91 for details of these.

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:

1Make sure the transport is stopped. You cannot perform this direct location when playing back or recording.

2If the “home” display is not shown, press the HOME key. There is an “underline” cursor at the top of the screen. 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.

3Use 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).

Hours Minutes Seconds Frames Sub-Frames

4Use the dial to increase or decrease the number over the cursor (in the illustration here, the cursor is under the “hours” value).

If you increase a value past the maximum (for example, if you try to increase the “seconds” value over 59), the number will “wrap round;” that is, the “minutes” value will increase by one, and the “seconds” value will be set to 00.

5When you change a value, the values on the top line will start to blink and will continue to blink for a few seconds.

6Press YES/ENTER while the values are blinking to set the value, or PLAY to start immediate play- back at that value. Also, if you do not press any keys or turn the dial for a few seconds, the values stop blinking, and the new time value that has been set becomes the current playback position.

If you press the NO/EXIT key (or the STOP key) while the values are blinking, the time value will be reset to the previous value before you started to edit it.

Direct location (ii)

As well as the ABS and MTC timings just described, it is possible to locate to a “musical” time, when the display shows bars (measures) and beats, and the 2488neo is syn- chronized to a tempo map.

1Make sure the transport is stopped. You cannot perform this direct location when playing back or recording.

2If the “home” display is not shown, press the

HOME key.

3There is an “underline” cursor at the top of the screen. If the top left of the screen does not show BAR (that is, it shows MTC or ABS), move the cursor under the left field, and turn the dial clockwise until BAR is shown.

4Use the cursor keys to move the cursor to either of the following: bars (3 digits), or beats (2 digits). The tempo value cannot be altered here—it is set by the tempo map.

Bar Beat

5Use the dial to increase or decrease the number over the cursor (in the illustration, the cursor is under the “bars” value).

If you increase the “beats” value past the maximum number of beats on a bar at that point in the tempo map, the number will “wrap round;” that is, the “bars” value will increase by one, and the “beats” value will be set to 01.

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