5 – Recording—Automatic track division
TASCAM CD-RW402 Owner’s Manual 35

Adding extra time at the end of a recording

If the material being recorded from an analog source
ends very quietly (it drops below the trigger level for
some time before the actual end of the piece), the
CD-RW402 may enter record ready before the actual
end of a piece. You can allow for this by increasing
the time between the detection of “silence” and the
change to record ready mode.
The minimum value here is 5 seconds, and the maxi-
mum value is 60 seconds (1 seconds increments).
1Press the MENU key (2) and turn the MULTI
DIAL to display RECMENU 2 ?.
2Press the MULTI DIAL.
3Turn the MULTI DIAL until the display shows
SYNC END TM?.
4Press the MULTI DIAL.
5Turn the MULTI DIAL to change the SyncEnd
(increment watch time) value between 5s and
60s (in 1 second steps).
6Press the MULTI DIAL to make the setting and
leave the menu.

“Trimming” the sync

In addition to the extra time shown above, it is also
possible to move the synchronized start and end
backwards and forwards by up to 125 frames either
before or after the received sync start and stop signals
(in case you’re wondering how the CD-RW402 can
start before it receives a signal, it’s not magic—just
clever use of buffer memory!).
1Press the MENU key (2) and turn the MULTI
DIAL to display RECMENU 2 ?.
2Press the MULTI DIAL.
3Turn the MULTI DIAL until the display shows
SYNC TRIM ?.
4Press the MULTI DIAL.
5Turn the MULTI DIAL to change the SYNC_T
(sync trim) value between –125 frames and
+125 frames (in 1 frame steps).
6Press the MULTI DIAL to make the setting and
leave the menu.

Automatic track division

The trigger level, as set above (“Synchronized
recording” on page 33) can also be used to divide
tracks if the A-TRACK (auto track) function is
enabled. When this function is en abled, the unit auto-
matically inserts a track division in the recorded
material when:
•recording digitally from MD, CD or DAT, an incre-
ment signal is detected
or
•increment signals are unavailable (e.g. analog
recording or digital sources other than MD. CD or
DAT) and the sound level has dropped below the
threshold for more than the watch time (see
“Increasing the “watch” time” on page36), and
sound has re-started:
To enable or disable automatic track division:
1Press the MENU key (2) and turn the MULTI
DIAL to display REC MENU 1 ?.
2Press the MULTI DIAL.
3Turn the MULTI DIAL until the display shows
AUTO TRACK ?.
4Press the MULTI DIAL.
level
time
S_LVL
Inc Watch
Time
Track
increment