Tascam 2488neo owner manual Finalizing the disc, Creating an audio CD using DAO

8 − Mastering and CD recorder

Finalizing the disc

When you have recorded the last CD track on a disc, you must finalize it to make it playable on ordinary CD players. Before finalizing, you can check the recorded CD tracks using the 2488neo’s CD PLAYER function.

The CD-RW drive must contain an unfinalized disc before you start the process.

1Make sure the 2488neo is in “normal” mode (when multitrack recording is possible). On the AUDIO CD menu, move the cursor to FINALIZE and press

YES/ENTER.

2A pop-up screen asks if you are sure. Press YES/ENTER to continue, NO/EXIT to stop the finalize process.

If you continue, the CD session is closed and the finalizing material (Table of Contents or TOC) is written to the disc.

NOTE

You cannot add CD tracks to a finalized disc. You can only finalize a disc once, and you cannot unfi- nalize a disc.

During finalizing, the CD-RW drive’s eject button cannot be used.

Creating an audio CD using DAO

When recording multiple CD tracks at once, you can set the order in which the tracks are recorded.

Once a CD has been made in this way, no further tracks can be added, as the CD is automatically finalized at the end of the operation.

1Insert a blank CD-R/CD-RW disc in the CD- RW drive before starting the following procedures.

2With the 2488neo stopped in a “normal” mode (when multitrack recording is possible), choose CD WRITER from the AUDIO CD menu, and press the

YES/ENTER key.

The unit checks the diskdisc. After confirming that the diskdisc can be recorded to, a list of songs on the current partition that have recorded master tracks appears on the screen.

NOTE

Even if a song has been recorded, it will not appear in the list if a master track has not been recorded.

If you have a song in another partition which you want to add to the list in the current partition, you should copy it from the old partition to the current partition (see “Copying songs” on page 46).

3Use the dial to scroll through the list of songs, and when you highlight a song that you wish to add to the final CD, press the INSERT key.

A check mark appears by the title of every selected song. There is no need to worry about the final running order of the CD at this stage.

4If you have made a mistake in adding a song to the list, you can remove it by highlighting the title and pressing the DELETE key.

5When you have added all the songs to the list that you want to record on the CD, press YES/ENTER.

NOTE

If you have only selected one song, the procedure from now is as if you had highlighted the song and pressed YES/ENTER, as described above. Read that section, and ignore the remainder of this section.

The screen changes to the song order screen (if you want to return to the song selection screen, press NO/EXIT).

6Use the dial to scroll through the list of songs.

7When a song title is highlighted, use the § and ¶ keys to move it up and down in the list. As the song is moved up and down in the list it remains highlighted.

Select further songs for rearrangement using the dial.

8Repeat procedures 6 and 7 as necessary.

9When you have completed the running order, press

YES/ENTER.

The screen changes to the “gap setting” screen. This allows you to set the gap between tracks on the CD (press NO/EXIT to return to the song order screen).

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