Tascam 788 manual Other v2.0 Enhancements

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Section III

Other v2.0 Enhancements

TIME REMAINING DISPLAY BURNING MULTIPLE CDs

v2.0 adds a display in the lower left hand corner of the home screen, telling you how much recording capacity you have available in this song. It accounts for:

1)Free space available in the current drive partition or song file capacity, whichever is smaller. (Remember, a song file cannot exceed 7GB.)

2)Number of tracks armed for record - If no tracks are armed, it calculates space for one track. This is very helpful on large projects or live recordings.

CLONE MASTER TRACK

The MASTER TRACK is the track used for the stereo mixdown of the song when in PREMASTERING mode. (For an explanation of how PREMASTERING works, see the 788 Owner's Manual, p73-75.)

Before v2.0, the MASTER TRACK could only be used for your final mix. It could not be brought back into your song for more processing.

With v2.0, you can now copy the audio on the MASTER TRACK onto regular tracks. This allows you to use the MASTER TRACK for bouncing all 8 tracks in a pass, or simply touch up the mix with a little EQ or dynamics.

To copy the data from the Master Track:

1)Press TRACK EDIT.

2)Select .

3)Turn all the way to the right, until it says .

4)Select the Destination tracks in and press

ENTER.

CD-RW ERASE

The 788 previously did not have a method to merely erase a CD-RW disc. Erasing the disc is not necessary for data back-ups, since that function will overwrite the previous data. However, the Audio CD burning process needs to start from a blank disc. The CD-RW ERASE function (accessed in the CD-R menu) will give you the ability to erase a disc for reuse as an audio CD, or for any other reason.

This function will only work with the approved CD-RW drives... the CD-R only drives can't use CD-RW media.

When you burn an audio CD, you have to select all the songs, the space between the songs, and so on. Then, the 788 will create a disc image. After that, the 788 burns the disc. If you wanted multiple copies, you had to go through the whole authoring process for each copy of the disc.

With v2.0, when the 788 finishes burning a CD, the 788 will prompt you to burn another copy . If you

place a new disc in the tray and select “YES”, the 788 will use the same disc image to burn another copy. You won't have to design the whole CD again, or wait for the 788 to generate another disc image. This is a tremendous time saver.

SHORTCUT - CENTER PAN

To save "tweaking" time, we have added a shortcut for centering the PAN controls on the mixer channels. Pressing SHIFT + FADER/PAN will center the pan on the current mixer channel. (This only works in the main mixer, not the TRACK CUE or INPUT SUBMIX.)

If two channels are linked, both channels will have the pan controls centered.

SHORTCUT - CLEAR METERS

The meters on the 788 can be set to maintain the peak level of a track. This is useful during recording, since you'll know if the track overloaded, or if the levels were too low. To set the meters to

keep the peak level:

1)Press MENU.

2)Select .

3)Select .

4)Set to and press ENTER.

Before v2.0, the only way to clear the meters was to go

back to this menu, set to something other than , and then switch it back. Now with v2.0, you can clear the meters by simply pressing SHIFT + EXIT/NO.

CURRENT SONG DISPLAY

By pressing SHIFT + HOME/ESC, you can see vital information on the current song. This includes the song name, bit depth, free space in the

current partition and remaining song memory.

TASCAM 788 v2.0 Addendum • 7/2002 Edition Other v2.0 Enhancements