Tascam Digital Mixing Console DM-24 Owners Manual

9 – Grouping—Grouping layers
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ing the SEL key to turn the channel into a slave chan-
nel brings up a warning message (
Re-assign fader 
grouping?
), and pressing ENTER reassigns the group. 
Any of the cursor keys may be used as “no” or 
“escape” keys here.If a channel has already been assigned to a group as a 
master, pressing the 
SEL key clears the whole group. 
A popup message appears (
Clear this fader grouping?), 
and pressing 
ENTER clears the group. Any of the...

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a bullet mark added by its number when a subgroup 
is added (groups 6, 7 and 8 in the example screen).
The tree diagram is updated.
Pressing the 
SEL key corresponding to the master 
group brings up a popup message asking if the cur-
rent group should be cleared (
ENTER for yes, cursor 
keys for no).
Attempting to make a “circular group layer”, for 
example making group 5 into a submaster of group 2, 
and then attempting to make group 2 a...

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10 – Monitoring
The DM-24 contains a sophisticated monitoring sys-
tem which allows different mixes to be set up in the 
control room and the studio, as well as an integral 
talkback microphone, lineup oscillator, etc.
Control room monitoring
The control room (CR) monitoring section, which 
also includes two stereo headphone jacks, is located 
to the right of the stereo meters.
Control room outputs
As might be expected, the control-room output sig-
nals are always output...

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the playback from an analog mastering recorder con-
nected to the DM-24.
The setting of these keys may be changed using the 
MONITOR screen. 
With the 
SHIFT indicator lit, press the METER/
FA D E R
 [MONITOR] key to bring up this screen:Use the cursor keys to move the cursor to the three 
selection key icons (
SEL 1, SEL 2 and SEL 3).
Turn the dial to select from the available options: 
AUX 
1
, AUX 2, AUX 3, AUX 4, AUX 5, AUX 6, AUX1-2,...

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Studio monitoring volume
The volume of the studio monitoring outputs is set on 
the same screen as the output selection, using POD 4. The level is adjustable from –∞dB (silence), to 
+10 dB.
Soloing
The solo facilities have been described briefly in the 
module section (“SOLO” on page 22), but are 
repeated here for convenience.
Note that soloing is provided only for the 32 input 
channels. It is not possible to solo aux sends or bus-
ses (use the...

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Depending on the solo type selected, the SOLO key 
(above the 
STEREO fader) and the MUTE key of any 
soloed channel(s) will flash or light:
Inplace solo defeat
The solo defeat option prevents channels selected in 
this way from being muted when other channels are 
soloed. It can be used with a pair of effect returns, for 
instance, so that these effect returns will always be 
added in the inplace mix, together with those other...

10 – Monitoring—Slate settings
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pressed and released quickly, they are latching, but if 
pressed and held, they are non-latching. Indicators 
show the active status of these keys.
Slate settings
The DM-24 allows you to define the “slate”—the 
destination of the talkback microphone.
From the 
MONITOR screen, press the third soft key 
(
OSC/COM) to bring up the oscillator and slate setting 
screens.
Use the 
SLATE panel in this screen to choose which 
aux sends, output...

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24 channels or a screen with channels 25 through 32, 
aux sends 1 through 6 and busses 1 through 8:
The 
SEL Key Follows Fader Layer allows the setup of the 
automatic linking of the selected channel to the 
selected meter layer.
When this option is selected, if a channel is selected, 
the fader layer is changed, and then the fader layer is 
changed back again, the originally-selected channel 
is automatically selected. 
For example, if...

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Channel faders
It is sometimes useful (for instance, in automation) to 
have a view of the fader levels while another fader 
layer is selected.
The 
FADER screen shown here (accessed with soft key 
2), as well as the 
MASTER M/F screen immediately 
above, provides such a view.In addition, the pan settings and fader levels of the 
channels (fader level only in the case of the aux sends 
and busses) can be changed.
The mute settings for...

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11 – Machine Control/Location
The DM-24 is capable of acting as a remote control 
unit for a wide variety of external devices. 
The exact functionality of the machine control 
depends, of course, on the device to be controlled.
The device control is carried out through the DTRS 
control port, the MIDI connections (for MMC), or 
the serial port (
RS-422).
Different devices can be selected for simultaneous 
control by the DM-24, with different devices being controlled in...