TASCAM CD-01U/CD-01U PRO RS-232C Protocol Specifications
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3. Command Format
3.1. Command Format Overview
Byte 1
Byte 2
Byte 3
Byte 4
Byte 5
Byte 6
Byte 7
Byte 8
…
Byte n
LF
ID
Command
Data 1
Data 2
Data 3
Data 4
…
CR
The codes described here are transmitted in ASCII format (e.g. a command described as “23” is
transmitted as ASCII ’2’ followed by ASCII ’3’).
Uppercase letters are used for letters ’A’ through ’F’.
All commands must be prefixed by a line-feed (LF) character [0Ah] followed by a Machine ID.
All commands are terminated by a carriage return (CR) character [0Dh].
Sample commands
Sample 1: PLAY command (Machine ID=0)
When the controlled device is in STOP/READY mode, this command starts playback.
The PLAY command is [12], and it is transmitted using the following sequence:
ID
Command
ASCII
LF
0
1
2
CR
HEX
0Ah
30h
31h
32h
0Dh
Sample 2:Direct search for track 12 (Machine ID=0)
In order to perform this operation, “DIRECT TRACK SEARCH PRESET [23]” command is used.
The track number is also sent as a parameter (data). This is sent in four bytes, as shown below:
ID
Command
Data
:
12th track
ASCII
LF
0
2
3
1
2
0
0
CR
HEX
0Ah
30h
31h
32h
31h
32h
30h
30h
0Dh
The four data bytes represent, in order, the following digits of the track number: the “tens” digit
(1), the “units” digit (2), the “thousands” digit (0), and the “hundreds” digit (0).
3.2. Machine ID
Machine ID of this device is fixed to [0]. A command with other Machine ID than [0] is ignored.
