6 – Advanced options and operations
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TASCAM Pocketstudio 5
Reference Manual
. Playback starts until the IN point is
reached. Then the playback monitoring stops, and the
RECORD
key flashes until the OUT point is reached.
Then playback from the track starts again, and the
RECORD
key stops flashing.
Three seconds after the OUT point, the playback
point then rewinds to three seconds before the IN
point.
At this point, you may decide that the IN and OUT
points need to be adjusted (maybe you were a little
slow in hitting the keys when you first set them). See
“Naming and editing mark points” on page 30 for
details.
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If the
REPEAT
key is pressed so that it is lit, you can
automatically repeat this rehearsal process as many
times as you want, “hands-free”. You can press the
REPEAT
key to turn repeat or off while the rehearsal is
taking place.
Recording the punch
When you are ready to record, rewind to before the
IN point if necessary (usually the Pocketstudio 5 will
have done this for you).
Press the flashing
AUTO PUNCH
key so that it lights
steadily (if the
REPEAT
key is on, it will turn off).
Press the
PLAY
key. When the Pocketstudio 5
reaches the IN point, the
RECORD
key lights, and
recording starts. Off-track monitoring stops.
When the OUT point is reached, the off-track moni-
toring starts again
Repeat the punch recording for as many times as it
takes to get it right (but you can’t set automatic
repeat). You probably won’t get it right first time, so
don’t worry. Just carry on until you get a take you’re
happy with.
Checking the punch
To check the punch, rewind to before the IN point,
turn off the
AUTO PUNCH
key, and press
PLAY
. You
will hear the lead-in to the punch point, the punched
material, and the material after the punch.
If you are not happy with the punch, you can turn on
the
AUTO PUNCH
key again (the IN and OUT points
will remain), and re-record the punch.
Track bouncing
Like many multitrack devices, the Pocketstudio 5
allows you to bounce tracks (that is, combine
already-recorded tracks with each other so that the
old tracks are then available for further recording) On
the Pocketstudio 5, you can even bounce tracks to
themselves.
The way in which this works is that the MASTER
outputs are “looped back” inside and can then be
recorded on any armed tracks.
This means that you can record more than four tracks
in the Pocketstudio 5.
However, when you are bouncing tracks, you should
take note of the following:
1
Drums +
bass L
MASTER
L and R
2
Drums +
bass R
3
Bass L
(reuse)
4
Bass R
(reuse)
1
Drums L
2
Drums R
3
Bass L
4
Bass R
