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6 – Managing songs and data on your Pocketstudio 5

 TASCAM Pocketstudio 5 

Getting Started 

25

Optimizing a card

When you record or edit a song, the data may not live 
in a continuous block on the card. No damage will 
occur to your data or to the Pocketstudio 5 if you do 
not perform the optimization technique described 
here, but you may find that some operations are a lit-
tle slow if you do not do this.

1

From the main menu, select the 

CARD

 

menu, move the cursor down to 

CARD 

OPTIMIZE 

and press 

ENTER

:

2

Press 

EXIT

 to leave this screen.

TIP

If you find that you have less room on a card than you 
expect, you can use this operation to clean up unneces-
sary data, and create more usable space on your card.

Connecting the Pocketstudio 5 to a computer

1

Make sure that the computer is switched on 
and that you are logged into the computer.

2

With the Pocketstudio 5 turned off and with 
a card inserted, connect the larger (A) end of 
a USB cable to the computer, and the smaller 
(B) end to the Pocketstudio 5.

3

Press 

ENTER/YES

 and hold it down while 

you turn on the Pocketstudio 5. The display 
shows 

USB MODE

. After a short time, the 

contents of the card appear as a disk on your 
computer.

For Windows machines, the Pocketstudio 5 
will usually appear as the first free drive 
available after your hard disk and CD drive 
(probably E:).

On Macintosh machines, the Pocketstudio 5 
will appear as a disk called POCKET_5.

Disconnecting the Pocketstudio 5

Windows 98(SE) 

With Windows 98 SE, simply 

unplug the Pocketstudio 5 from the computer.

Windows Me/Windows 2000/Windows 
XP 

With Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows 

XP, the procedure is a little more complex. 

In the system tray (typically at the 
bottom right of the screen), you see an 
icon picture of a PC card and an 
arrow.

Left-click this icon to show a popup bar:

Click this popup bar to allow the Pocketstudio 5 to be 
removed from the computer. When the panel telling 

you it is safe to remove the Pocketstudio 5 appears, 
unplug the USB cable.

If a panel telling you that it is not safe to remove the 
Pocketstudio 5 appears, do not remove the Pocketstu-
dio 5. Close all programs and windows that are 
accessing the files on the card and try again.

Macintosh 

When removing the Pocketstudio 5 

from a Macintosh system, drag the disk icon to the 
trash, or press 

Command

-

E

 (eject). When the icon has 

disappeared from your desktop, you can disconnect 
the Pocketstudio 5.

Exiting USB mode (any system) 

Turn off the 

Pocketstudio 5, wait a few seconds, and turn it on 
again to exit USB mode.

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Summary of Contents for Pocketstudio 5

Page 1: ... in the literature accompanying the appliance The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated dangerous voltage within the product s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons This appliance has a serial number located on the rear panel Please record the model ...

Page 2: ...an input to a track 14 Track bouncing 14 Routing on mixdown 14 Marks 14 Punch recording 14 Editing data 14 5 Your first song using the Pocketstudio 5 Before you start recording 15 Setting up a new song to record into 15 Setting up the rhythm 16 Selecting the pattern 16 Adding the rhythm guitar 16 Tuning the guitar 17 Adding a guitar effect 17 Adding EQ 18 Saving the song 18 Making the recording 19...

Page 3: ...on the CD ROM which comes with your Pocketstudio 5 To read this manual which is in PDF format you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 0 or the full Adobe Acrobat 5 0 program Your computer may already have this software installed If it does not there is a copy of the Acrobat Reader 5 0 installer provided on the CD ROM You should refer to the electronic manual which of course you can print ou...

Page 4: ...less the power is turned off In order to avoid draining the batteries by mistake always turn off the power on the Pocketstudio 5 before disconnecting the adaptor NOTE There is a hook on the bottom of the unit You should loop the power cord round this hook to prevent the Pocketstudio 5 from becoming accidentally discon nected from the power when you are using it Using batteries When using batteries...

Page 5: ...rophones are set up around the artistes and the performance is recorded directly to a stereo recorder as it actually takes place In multitrack recording the sound is built up a layer at a time tracking usually starting with the rhyth mic instruments and adding others one or two at a later time overdubbing Working with multitrack has the advantage that if the lead vocalist for example makes a mista...

Page 6: ...oring and transmitting using a personal computer Effects Either when recording or when mixing down effects are often added to the dry recorded sound to add life and interest to the recording The Pocketstudio 5 provides you with a wide range of effects which help to give your recordings a pro fessional touch Special guitar and bass based effects are available for input A and vocal type and drum eff...

Page 7: ...rough the guitar line input Turn to the right to increase and to the left to decrease volume 7 MIC LINE input 1 4 jack Connect either a microphone or a line level input 1 4 jack to this input 8 Microphone input level control Use this to adjust the level of the signal fed through either of the microphone inputs or the built in micro phone Turn to the right to increase and to the left to decrease vo...

Page 8: ...to select another type of line input synthesizer CD player etc E Mic selector Slide this switch to the left position BUILT IN to use the built in microphone or to use a microphone such as the supplied headset microphone connected to the microphone mini jack 7 Switch to MIC for a dynamic microphone con nected through the microphone 1 4 jack 9 and to the right LINE to use a line input synthesizer CD...

Page 9: ...cketstudio 5 to assign the sources to the tracks to check these assignments and so on L Faders The four track faders 1 through 4 are used to adjust the playback volume of the four audio tracks The TG fader adjusts the overall volume of the built in MIDI tone generator that s what TG stands for and the MASTER fader adjusts the over all level of the overall signal Pull the faders away to you to redu...

Page 10: ... control to navigate around the screens Navigating around the Pocketstudio 5 The way in which you use the Pocketstudio 5 is straightforward and easy You should learn the basic principles of operating described here Very soon you will find that using the Pocketstudio 5 becomes second nature and you can carry out complex operations without having to think about them The home screen The display is wh...

Page 11: ...no Often to go down a level of menu or to answer yes to an Are you sure question press the ENTER YES key in the center of the wheel as explained above If you need to go up a menu level or to answer no to a question use the EXIT key below and to the left of the wheel However sometimes a sub menu is marked with a symbol at the right of the screen In this case you must use the right arrow Á of the cu...

Page 12: ...effect settings etc and you can name them for future reference To do this use the Ó and Á keys as cursor keys to move the underline cursor left and right along the space for the name Use the wheel to select the characters for the name Select the letters numbers and punctuation to use in the name from the following list After a name has been written you usually move the cursor to the screen positio...

Page 13: ... backwards or forwards depending on the key pressed with playback muted and you can read the current playback position on the display of the top right of the home screen When you release the key the winding continues to the end of the song for forward or to the zero point for rewind Press STOP to stop the wind operation or PLAY to start playback from the current location Pressing and releasing eit...

Page 14: ...e left and right channels of a stereo instrument you can assign these to the 1 2 and 3 4 track pairs not to 1 3 or 1 4 or 2 3 etc Track bouncing The Pocketstudio 5 allows track bouncing setting the playback of two or more tracks as inputs to another track or tracks See Track bouncing on page 26 of the reference manual for details Routing on mixdown When mixing down a multitrack recording all four ...

Page 15: ...uld be at CARD Press ENTER 3 With the cursor at SONG LOAD press ENTER again 4 With the cursor at New Song press ENTER An asterisk flashes briefly at the right of the screen to show that the card is accessed and the display then shows the home screen with SONG2 your new song ready for recording 5 You can now rename the song Press MENU and select the CARD menu press ENTER again Use the cursor keys t...

Page 16: ...tar The first thing to do is to make sure your guitar is in tune Happily the Pocketstudio 5 contains a tuner you don t need other equipment 1 Connect the guitar to the Pocketstudio 5 Make sure the switch on the right of the Pocketstudio 5 D is set to the GUITAR posi tion Plug your guitar into the Pocketstudio 5 s GUITAR IN jack NOTE NEVER plug your guitar amplifier speaker output into the Pocketst...

Page 17: ...he process one string at a time until all strings are tuned NOTE If you do not see any indication on the screen when you play the guitar check that i the guitar pickup is switched on and the guitar volume is correctly set and ii that the GUITAR LINE LEVEL control 5 is also correctly set If the string pitch is midway between two notes for instance between E and Eb both note names are shown alternat...

Page 18: ...ond line of the dis play and turn the wheel until the Source field shows InputA 3 Adjust the bass Move the cursor down to the third line to change the amount of bass boost or cut from 12dB full cut to 12dB full boost in decibel steps and to the fourth line to change the frequency of the bass EQ band from 30Hz to 1 6kHz in 31 steps 4 Adjust the treble Move the cursor down to the bottom of the scree...

Page 19: ... to what you ve recorded and turn it on again when you want to record Remember to turn it off before you record the next track or you ll undo all your hard work so far Adding vocals 1 Now we ll move onto the vocals If you haven t plugged it in already your headset microphone red plug should be plugged into the microphone input jack 9 and the mic line selection switch E should be set to the BUILT I...

Page 20: ...n page 14 when record ing overdubs like guitar solos Also if you want to add extra parts you may want to do some track bouncing See Track bouncing on page 14 and Track bouncing on page 26 of the Refer ence Manual for some details regarding this Mixdown The final stage in recording a song is the mixdown 1 Disconnect the guitar and microphone and set the input volume controls to the mini mum 2 By de...

Page 21: ...ted in the reverb A bare room will sound live with lots of damping but a furnished room will produce a more mellow sound with the treble frequencies filtered out With this setting the lower the value the more live the reverb space will sound Val ues from 1 to 100 Density how complicated the sound is A space with large flat walls will produce a less complex dense sound than a rough walled or irregu...

Page 22: ...computer Read the section on Managing songs and data on your Pocketstudio 5 on page 23 for details of how to connect the Pocketstudio 5 to a computer and transfer files When you have an MP3 file on the computer you can transfer it to any digital audio player capable of accepting 128kbps MP3 files or put it on an Internet Web site so that the results of your hard work are ready for the world to lis...

Page 23: ...ows XP Home and Professional Mac OS 8 5 and greater up to Mac OS 9 0 The Pocketstudio 5 cannot be used with Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 first edition or Microsoft Windows NT any version It will not currently work with Mac OS 9 or above including Mac OS X Managing songs All song management and editing operations are accessed through the CARD menu Naming songs To name the current song ...

Page 24: ...he Pocketstudio 5 will report a number of messages as you put in the new card because there is no data on this unformatted card Don t worry about these messages 2 From the main menu select CARD and move the cursor down to the Card FORMAT option Press ENTER 3 Press ENTER YES to format the card DO NOT press any keys or remove the card while formatting is taking place it only takes a few seconds 4 Af...

Page 25: ...omputer For Windows machines the Pocketstudio 5 will usually appear as the first free drive available after your hard disk and CD drive probably E On Macintosh machines the Pocketstudio 5 will appear as a disk called POCKET_5 Disconnecting the Pocketstudio 5 Windows 98 SE With Windows 98 SE simply unplug the Pocketstudio 5 from the computer Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows XP With Windows Me Window...

Page 26: ...he Pocketstudio 5 your computer an Internet con nection and a mail and browser program To help you and all the other Pocketstudio 5 owners around the world TASCAM has set up a Web page on the main TASCAM Web site www tascam com where you can register your details name contact details the region where you live the instrument s that you play the type of music you enjoy etc and search for like minded...

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