Tascam DA-45HR owner manual Margin Reset, Display, Skip Play

[22] CHAR

If characters have been recorded on the tape as a tape or program title, pressing this key will allow the tape deck to display these characters, scrolling across the display, as the START ID containing the title is played back. They will be replaced by successive title contents as they are read from tape. If characters are read from a START ID, the CHAR indicator will light in the display to indicate this. If no characters have been recorded on the tape, pressing this key will have no effect.

[23] MARGIN RESET

Pressing this key resets the margin (available head- room) to its lowest level of 40dB. Note that in some display modes, there is no visible effect when this key is pressed.

The margin is measured in 1 dB increments between 40 dB and 20 dB and in 0.1 dB increments between 19.9 dB and 0 dB.

If the time display is in the 4-digit tape counter mode, pressing this key will reset the tape counter.

[24] DISPLAY

Regardless of the current counter mode set by [21], this key is used to display other information. The options available, which are accessed by repeated presses of this key, are:

•Program number and Margin mode— where the current program number and margin in decibels are displayed:

PNO	MARG
ABS
0 0H 2 3M 0 8S0 7	6 .	3 dB

•Frames mode— where frames are displayed as well as hours, minutes, and seconds. The frames used are “digital audio” frames, i.e. there are 100 frames in every three seconds; 33 in the first sec- ond, 33 in the next, and 34 in the third. The pattern then repeats itself.

ABS

0 0H 2 3M 0 8S _ 3 2F P 0 9

•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

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•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

[25] 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.

[26] 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. How- ever, 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 renumber function to restore the sequence (see 4.4, "ID markers (START, SKIP, END, CHAR and renumbering)".

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").

[27] 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, "Advanced 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.

[28] 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".

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