Tascam DM-3200 owner manual Channel modules, General principles

5 – Channel modules

The channel modules are the “heart” of the DM-3200, corresponding to the channel strips on an analog con- sole. Because they are used so often, and settings have to be made frequently, there are a number of ways of viewing and making the settings for these modules, as explained in this section.

General principles

There are several ways of setting many of the chan- nel parameters.

•The first is by means of the MODULE screens accessed with the MODULE keys (see “Jumping to commonly-used screens” on page 17).

There are four module screens:

DYNAMICS allows the setting of the modules’ com- pressor/expanders (channels 1 through 32, stereo, aux and buss modules) and gates (channels 1 through 32).

EQ allows the setting of the 4-band parametric EQ (channels 1 through 32).

AUX/BUSS allows the setting of the aux sends and the buss assignments.

SETUP provides a way of viewing and setting overall channel parameters.

Various parameters and options are globally available from all module screens (see “Global module set- tings” on page 60).

•The second way of viewing and changing the parameters is by means of the dedicated screens accessed through the screen mode selection keys (see “Basic operational concepts” on page 16) and the POD controls. These screens allow the viewing and setting of the same parameter for many differ- ent modules from the same screen.

•In addition, the encoders may be used to control one parameter (not all parameters may be con- trolled in this way, but commonly-used ones) of all the modules in the current fader layer or to control many parameters of the currently selected module. See “Encoders” on page 20 for details.

The encoder control methods can also be combined automatically with the screen displays. See the options “Encoder Mode Follows Current Screen” on page 34 and “Current Screen Follows Encoder Mode” on page 34 which enable automatic links between the screen and the encoder modes.

NOTE

Many of the screens and parameters described here apply when the DM-3200 is in stereo mode. For differ- ences and additional features implemented when sur- round mode is selected, see “Surround operations” on page 75.

ASSIGN PARAMETERS screen Also note the PARAMETERS screen (available from the ASSIGN key), which allows a number of different settings to be applied to many channels simultaneously.

Figure 5.1: Assign parameters screen

The screen shows the channel modules (labeled 1 through 48), the 16 busses (1 through 16), the eight aux sends 1 through 8) and the stereo buss.

1Use the POD 4 encoder to select phase, gate switching, compression, compressor/expander insert point position (pre or post) or EQ on/ off.

2Use the left/right cursor keys, wheel or SEL keys to navigate around the screen and the ENTER key to turn the following on or off (see later in this section for details of these channel features).

Note that the only feature available for the busses, the aux sends and the stereo buss is the compressor/expander dynamics processor.

•∅—reverse (“pressed”) or normal phase (channel modules only)

•GAT—gate dynamics processor (1–32)

•CMP—compressor/expander dynamics processor (1–32, aux, buss and stereo)

•PRE/PST—pre/post EQ point for compressor (1–32)

•EQ—turns the EQ on and off for that channel mod- ule (1–32)

It is also possible to use the POD 4 encoder to select phase, gate switching, compression, software insert position, compressor position, or EQ on/off as a glo- bal setting, and use the POD 1 key (ALL ON) or POD 2 (ALL OFF) to switch these on or off respectively.

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