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TASCAM 788 Digital PortaStudio
6 – Location operations
As well as the IN and OUT points, which have
already been introduced for use in punch operations
(“Auto punch operations” on page 55) and for repeat
playback (“Repeat playback” on page 51), and which
are also used together with the TO point for track
editing (“Track editing” on page 65), there are also
999
location marks
available for each song.
These can be inserted, deleted, named and edited
freely, and they are stored with the song, allowing
you to return at any time to a part of the song which
you have marked as needing attention.
There is also an easy method of directly locating to a
position without using the location marks, as
described here:
Direct location
In this method, you use the cursor keys and the dial
to locate to a specified position.
As explained earlier in “The time display” on
page 26, there are three modes in which the time can
be shown on the home screen:
ABS
(the absolute
time),
MTC
(MIDI Time Code) and
BAR
(which
represents the time in bars and beats, according to an
internal tempo map (see “Synchronization” on
page 94).
In the first two of these modes, you can locate to sub-
frame accuracy. There are ten sub-frames in a frame,
and the length of a frame depends on the frame rate
set up in the sync operations, but is between 1/30 and
1/24 of a second. In the last mode, you can locate to
beat accuracy.
Direct location (i)
For the first two modes (
ABS
and
MTC
), the way
to locate directly is as follows:
1
Make sure the transport is stopped. You can-
not perform this direct location when playing
back or recording.
2
If the “home” display is not shown, press the
HOME/ESC
key.
3
There is an “underline” cursor at the top of the
screen.
If the top left of the screen does not show
ABS
or
MTC
(that is, it shows
BAR
), press the
Ó
key until the cursor is under
BAR
, and turn
the dial counterclockwise until
ABS
or
MTC
is showing.
4
Use the
Ó
and
Á
keys to move the cursor to
any of the following fields: hours (
h
), minutes
(
m
), seconds (
s
), frames (
s
) or sub-frames (no
indication on the display, though the value is
shown).
5
Use the dial to increase or decrease the number
over the cursor (in the illustration here, the
cursor is under the “hours” value).
If you increase a value past the maximum (for
example, if you try to increase the “seconds”
value over
59
), the number will “wrap
round”; that is, the “minutes” value will
increase by one, and the “seconds” value will
be set to
0
.
6
When you change a value, the values on the top
line will start to blink and will continue to
blink for a few seconds.
If you press the
EXIT
key (or the
STOP
key)
while the values are blinking, the time value
will be reset to the previous value before you
started to edit it.
7
Press
ENTER
while the values are blinking to
set the value, or
PLAY
to start immediate play-
back at that value. Also, if you do not press any
keys or turn the dial for a few seconds, the val-
ues stop blinking, and the new time value that
has been set becomes the current playback
position.
Frames
Hours
Seconds
Sub-frames
Minutes
