Tascam DA-40 owner manual Skip Play, Single Play

•Block Error Rate mode— the last digits of the display show E----when out of play mode. When playback starts, the error rate for either the A or B track is displayed. The A or B track is selected using the MENU key while the error rate display mode is active.

ABS

0 0H 2 3M 0 8SA 0 0 1 7

•If titles have been recorded on the tape (see 4.8, "Character editing (titling)"), CHAR is shown on the display, and the characters comprising the title are shown on the display (here, the word “TAS- CAM” is used as the title):

ABS

0 0H 2 3M 0 8S T A S C A . M

[24] SKIP PLAY

When skip mode is active, SKIP PLAY is shown on the display. Skip mode means at that when a SKIP ID is encountered on tape, the tape will fast forward until the next START ID is encountered.

[25] AUTO ID

When AUTO ID mode is active, AUTO ID is shown on the display (see 4.4, "ID markers (START, SKIP, END, CHAR and renumbering)" if you are unsure about ID marker types). This means that when recording, a START ID will automatically be written when a “trigger level” signal is detected after a period of silence.

The number of the new START ID is one greater than the last ID successfully read from tape. However, the automatic numbering of IDs will be out of sequence if a START ID is added between existing IDs, or if an ID is written before a valid previously-recorded START ID has been read from tape. Use the renum- ber function to restore the sequence. See 4.4, "ID markers (START, SKIP, END, CHAR and renumber- ing)".

The level which will trigger the automatic writing of a START ID, and the length of the silence to precede it may be set from the menu items (see 3.2, "Auto ID level" and 3.3, "Auto ID time").

When you use the AUTO ID key to turn on the auto ID mode, these values (the level and time) will be shown for one second on the display. For example, the display may show AT-ID 48/2.0, meaning that the trigger level is set to –48 dB and the length of the preceding silence is set to 2.0 seconds.

2 - Parts of the tape deck

[26] ENTER

This key is used to confirm entries made in the menu and EDIT settings.

It is also used, when in EDIT mode (see 4, "SHIFT functions"), to enter the EDIT functions).

When recording subcode (START, SKIP, END IDs and CHAR title information), it is used to start the writing of this information to tape.

[27] MENU

Repeated presses of this key (when the display is not in Block Error mode) cycle through the different options available in the menu. These options are explained in detail in 3, "Menu functions".

[28] LOC 1

Pressing this key will locate the tape to the first mem- ory location (set with this key in shifted mode). If the tape is playing when this key is pressed, the tape will resume playing when the location is reached, other- wise it will stop.

When the key is pressed, the value stored in the first location memory will flash on the right side of the display (frames, program numbers and margin will disappear while the tape is locating, and be restored once location is complete).

If a pre-roll time has been set in the menu, pressing this key will locate to the memory location minus the pre-rolltime.

When search or locate is entered from the tape stopped or in play pause mode, and the PLAY key is pressed while the search or locate operation is taking place, deferred playback will occur when the location point is reached. However, if the PLAY key is pressed when the tape is close to its final operation, you should note that there may be a problem with the deferred playback.

[29] LOC 2

This key functions in exactly the same way asLOC 1

[28]above, except that the second location memory is used rather than the first.

[30] SINGLE PLAY

The single play mode, when active, will play only one program , i.e. when the next START ID is encountered, playback will stop. When single play mode is active, the display will show SINGLE PLAY.

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