Tascam 788 manual Locate Points

exits the screen

want, press ENTER/YES. If you changed your mind

and want to get out of the whole thing, just press EXIT/NO and you will be returned to the SONG MENU.

BASIC RECORDER FUNCTIONS

Routing to the recorder is simple. Whatever comes from channel 1 on the mixer goes to track 1 on the recorder. Channel 2 feeds track 2, channel 3 feeds track 3, etc. There is no routing matrix here, which keeps things very simple.

The tracks are armed by the REC READY buttons just above the channel faders. The lights will flash to indicate they are armed for recording, and will go solid when they are recording.

"The Big Buttons"

Don't skip this part! While the primary functions of the big buttons labeled PLAY and REC seem fairly straight-forward, there are some very cool key- combination commands available in there to help you fly through your project with the greatest of ease.

Recording & Editing Functions

starts COPY/ERASE

removes mark for COPY/ERASE

marks the song for COPY/ERASE

COMMAND KEYS

SONG COPY/ERASE

The reason ERASE and COPY show you the song list is because they can process multiple songs at the same time. If you only want to ERASE or COPY one song, simply scroll with the

JOG/DATA wheel to the song and press ENTER/YES. If you want to select multiple songs, dial to the song

you want and press INSERT; a check mark will appear to the left of the

song title. Keep selecting

all the songs you want the

same way. To remove a

check mark from a

marked song, press

DELETE. Once you've

marked all the songs you

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Recording & Editing Functions

that should be clearly pointed out to avoid any confusion over simple items.

Some SONG MENU functions apply only to the current (opened) song and other functions will show you a list of all the songs on the selected drive. For instance, DELETE UNUSED and PROTECT will only affect the song that is currently opened. However, ERASE and COPY will show you a list of songs on the selected drive.

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Silk screened around the main transport keys are a couple of combination functions.

RTZ - Pressing STOP and REW together

functions as Return to

Zero. That will bring you to 00:00:00:00:0 in the time window (the very beginning of the project).

LRP - Pressing STOP and FFWD together will take you to the beginning of your last recorded passage. This is helpful in getting right back to the same point on a punch in, or even for finding your IN point for an edit removing extra space in front of a region. Keep in mind that LRP can go backwards or forwards to the last recording point. Don't let the fact that it is on the FFWD button confuse you.

JOG - Pressing STOP and PLAY together will enter audio jog/scrub mode, allowing you to scrub a track in the song by turning the JOG/DATA wheel. The display will show you the waveform

display of any track to assist in finding a sparse part visually.

If you need to zoom in or out of the waveform, you can use the LEFT and RIGHT CURSOR

keys to select the zoom aspect for time (horizontal). The UP and DOWN CURSOR keys can increase the height of the waveform, offering a better view of softer passages. Pressing STOP will take you back out of the waveform screen.

You can also choose which track you are viewing the waveform of by pressing the select button above that track. In other words, to view the waveform of track 3, press STOP and PLAY to get to JOG mode, then press SELECT over channel 3.

One other item of note - if you use the RIGHT CURSOR key to take you to 32x zoom, you are scrubbing at the subframe level giving you more resolution than the other resolutions which only scrub to the frame.

LOCATE POINTS

Locate points can be used to directly recall a particular time location in the song, allowing faster and more accurate project navigation than the traditional fast forward and rewind. The 788 can store up to 999 locate points for each song, so you won't run short on memory points.

TASCAM 788 Operational Tutorial • 8/2000 Edition