Tascam Digital Audio Production Environment SX-1 Reference Manual

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Tr i m
During a mix there may be sections where there are 
good mix moves on a control but the overall level of 
that control needs to be raised or lowered while pre-
serving the existing moves. Trim mode is used to make such relative offsets to 
existing mix moves for the duration of the Trim oper-
ation.
Safe
Any control in Safe will only read existing static or 
dynamic automation, regardless of the Global Mode. 
Moving a control in Safe will not...

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Init Edit
The Initial Status of a control is its value before the 
first dynamic mix move present. Until dynamic mix 
moves are written to a control, there is no difference 
between the Initial Status of a control and its position 
were it set to Static. When dynamic mix moves are 
written to a control, and the controller is in Auto, the controller becomes dynamic. Any change to the mix 
data on such a control takes into account both its Ini-
tial...

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You can adjust any control to change its Initial Status 
at any time. In the case of faders, moving the fader 
element while in Init Edit will change its Initial Sta-
tus to reflect its new setting. In the case of keys and knobs, pressing a key while in Initial Edit will 
change its Initial Status to reflect its new setting. The 
illustration below shows how an Init Edit operation 
on a controller set to Auto would look.
Rehearse Functionality...

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Global Controls
The Global screen houses parameters for defining 
how automation will operate in the current project.
Mix Displays
The SX-1 has the ability to save multiple discrete 
Mixes for a single project. These Mixes contain a 
large amount of data, such as which takes are loaded, 
processing parameters, routing and stereo links in addition to the actual automation data. The Mix tab in 
the 
Automation screen is where these Mixes are 
managed....

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LCD MIX Screen
The MIX screen mirrors the MIX tab from the VGA 
AUTOMATION screen.From the 
MAIN DISPLAY MODES section, press 
AUTO MATI ON and then the MIX soft key to reach this 
screen.
TIP
A project’s associated mixes can also be recalled directly 
from the VGA’s Main Menu Bar just to the left of the 
time readout. 

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Automation Controls
Front Panel Controls
All the automation modes can be entered from the 
SX-1’s front panel as well as through associated 
LCD and VGA screens. However, the front panel 
controls give you direct and immediate access to the 
automation modes without needing to be on an auto-
mation screen.
The keys in this section access all of the mixer’s 
automation States and Modes.TOUCH/KEEP Use the TOUCH/ KEEP key to use 
the Touch function,...

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To operate the touch function:
1Enable write mode.
2Press and hold the 
TOUCH key.
3While holding the 
TOUCH key, use the con-
trol to begin overwriting the existing previ-
ous mix moves for that control.
4Release the 
TOUCH key. The control contin-
ues to write until a new move is written or 
until 
REVERT is pressed.
If a new move is written, the revert action 
follows the settings made on the 
AUTO MAIN 
screen.
REHEARSE/ALL SAFE The REHEARSE/...

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VGA Automation Screen
From the MAIN DISPLAY MODE section, press the 
AUTO MATI ON key to reach the Automation screens 
(if the 
MAIN DISPLAY is set to EXTERNAL—other-wise, use the Alt+5 combination on the PS/2 key-
board). These screens provide control of all the SX-
1’s automation parameters.
TIP
Working with data in the AUTOMATION screen is very sim-
ilar to working with audio or MIDI data in the 
TRACK 
screen. Most of the same editing and...

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Automation Track Area
This area works in much the same way the Tracks 
channels work on the 
TRACK screen. Regions of auto-
mation data can be selected and edited just as they 
can in the 
MIDI Piano Roll and Audio Waveform tabs (for 
more on editing tools and commands, see“MIDI 
Editing” on page 155).
View by Channel Click on the arrow to select a 
channel to view. This allows you to view all the con-
trols for the selected mixer channel. All the...

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Edit Operations (Region/Event select)
When nothing is selected 
Add Library Entry Recall  This operation brings up 
the parameters you edit in order to recall a library 
entry as an automation event. You can define:
•
Library Type: from which library (EQ or Dynamics) 
an individual preset is recalled
•
Algorithm: use this to choose an effect to recall when 
automating the library recall of an internal effects 
processor
•
Load entry: The drop-down...