Tascam Digital Audio Production Environment SX-1 Reference Manual

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In this section we are concerned with the controls on 
the right hand side of this tab:
The 
Mixdown Enable button enables Mixdown mode. 
Pressing this button sends the machine into record 
all-safe, meaning that nothing can be recorded on any 
of the slots. 
Notice the Record button at the top of the VGA dis-
plays an “M” to let you know you’re in Mixdown 
mode:If the transport is moving and Record is pressed, the 
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In Surround Mode – what changes?
If the mixing console is set to one of the surround 
modes, the behavior of Mixdown mode is changed 
slightly, in that the audio bounced down to the Mix-down file originates from the surround mix busses, 
not the L/R Buss. 
On the VGA
In surround, the VGA Global tab looks like this: You will notice that the Take names reflect which 
speaker/surround buss the file relates to. The Mix-
down file...

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Working With the CD Burner
The CD Burning program on the SX-1 can create 
both Red Book audio and ISO 9660 CDs. You will 
find that it has a number of unique features, some of 
which are not available in most other burning 
programs.
When creating Red Book audio or ISO 9660 data 
CD’s, you can access the burning program by press-ing the MASTER key in the MAIN DISPLAY MODES 
section. 
At the top of the VGA screen you will see...

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time. As you add files, you will notice that a Total Files 
and a 
Total Size readout will update with each addition. 
When you have assembled all of the desired audio 
files for your ISO data CD, give the CD a name by 
entering one in the 
CD Name field to the right of the 
Files register. Once you have named the CD with your 
PS/2 keyboard, press the 
Burn CD button to the right of 
the 
CD Name field. A progress bar will...

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Important! The Take Start Time and Take End Time 
fields address which part of the Take is played on this 
CD Track. For instance, if you had created and 
loaded a Mixdown pass that started at 00:48:00:00 
and ended at 00:52:00:00:in the original session, 
leaving these fields blank would result in a CD Track 
fifty-two minutes long. As well, the audio for that 
track would not begin until the 48th minute. This is 
obviously...

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Drives and the SX-1
The SX-1 comes with one internal IDE hard drive - 
segmented into two virtual hard drives or partitions – 
one for audio and one for the system software. These 
partitions are seen by the SX1 as separate drives 
(because they have separate formats), and can be 
managed as such (meaning that you can manage files 
on one partition without affecting the other). As well, 
the machine comes with UltraWide SCSI...

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What is happening when the SX-1 is recording
The SX-1 has a very fast hard disk engine, which is 
nearly as capable of punching in and out of record as 
fast and as many times in thirty seconds as you are. 
This performance is a result of the manner in which 
the SX-1’s hard disk recorder deals with audio data.
Recording passes are written to disk in real time, 
after passing through RAM buffers. The speed of the 
disk...

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being copied. If those audio files already exist on 
the destination volume, they will not be copied. 
This saves time and disk space.The preceding description is the same for a project 
being Restored from a Backup.
Explanation of Disk Cleanup and Low Level Format
After a number of projects have been created and 
backed up on your drive, and a number of projects 
have been deleted, a number of orphan files will exist 
on...

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Backing Up
To ensure that your projects do not become damaged 
or lost, it is important to back up your working ses-
sion drives on a regular basis (say, at least every 20 
hours—or whenever you have done a significant 
amount of work that would be impossible to recre-
ate). This guarantees that if something does happen 
to your project files, you will have a backup copy 
that contains a good portion of your work.
See the...

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VERIFY Check this box to enable data verification 
on backup and restore operations.
Backup Volume In this field, you select the vol-
ume you would like to back up to (or the volume 
where the project files that you want to restore 
reside).
Backup Project In this window, you select the 
project files that you want to restore.
“CD” icon Ejects media in the CD-RW drive.
ERASE This command erases the selected backup 
volume. In...