Tascam Digital Multitrack Recorder DA-98 Owners Manual

Section 11 – External control  
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1) Go to menu group 6, move the cursor to Rec
Dly
 (Record Delay) and press ENTER:
2) Use the 
UP and DOWN keys to select the record 
delay in frames.
This is the time that the DA-98 should delay 
between receiving a record command and actually 
starting to record. 
This value can be between 
0 and 9, or defaults 
to
Auto. The value of the Auto setting depends 
on the emulation selected, as shown below:
The delay is calculated in the following way: the...

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2) Use the UP and DOWN keys to select between 
100 and 8.
To determine whether your controller is sending 
(a) locate commmands or (b) fast wind com-
mands, enter a locate operation from the remote 
controller. 
If a true location command is being sent, the 
screen display will show the location point for a 
few seconds and only the fast forward and rewind 
keys will light. If the second type of command is 
received, the display will not change, and the...

Section 11 – External control  
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2) Use the UP and DOWN keys to select between 
enable and disable.
If you choose disable, the track referred to by 
the controller’s command signals as “analog 3” 
will be the audio track designated as “analog 3” in 
the 
Track Mapping menu above. If you 
choose enable, the DA-98’s timecode track will be 
mapped to the track referred to by the controller’s 
command signals as “analog 3”.
11.1.8 Remote track arming
You may sometimes want to disable the...

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tracks) is given below. Note that the sequencing 
software must be able to transmit MMC com-
mands and also to sync to MTC for this to be 
effective:
The sequencer is set up to transmit MMC com-
mands, and is set so that it synchronizes to 
SMPTE/MTC. 
When a “transport” command is given from the 
sequencer, the appropriate MMC command is 
transmitted to the DA-98. When the DA-98 has 
located and starts playback (or recording), the 
MTC is transmitted...

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Section 12 – Menu and parameter reference
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12 – Menu and parameter reference
12.1 Menu groups
This section provides a quick guide to the menus and their functions, providing a list of menus in each menu 
group, the parameters available in each menu, and the values that each parameter can take (default values are 
underlined). There is also, wherever appropriate, a reference to the section of the manual which describes the 
function.
Please note the 12.2, “Menu item index” which...

Section 12 – Menu and parameter reference  
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12.1.2 Menu group 1
12.1.3 Menu group 2
Menu itemParameter(s)Va l u e sReference
Punch-in PointTime value Defaults to 00:00:00:006.6, “Punch-in and 
punch-out”
Punch-out point
Pre-roll Post-
roll
Pre-roll time
Post-roll time00m05s through 59m59s
00m03s
 through 59m59s
6.6.4, “Editing the 
pre-roll and post-
roll times”
Crossfade TimeMilliseconds10 ms through 200 ms in 10 ms steps 8.4, “Crossfade 
times”
DitherType of ditheroff, Rectangular,...

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12.1.4 Menu group 3
12.1.5 Menu group 4
Menu itemParameter(s)Va l u e sReference
Machine IDMachine ID for 
synchronization1 through 169.2.2, “Setting 
machine ID”
Machine OffsetTime value to 
frame accuracyDefaults to +00:00:00:00
±02:00:00:00
9.3.1, “Setting 
machine offset”
Time ModeTime referenceABS, TC10.1.3, “Selecting 
TC or ABS timing”
Control
ProtocolTy p e  9Pin, MIDI, Bus, off11.0.1, “Selecting 
the control source 
(protocol)”
Remote...

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12.1.6 Menu group 5
a. If the ABS-Ofs (Absolute timing with offset) option is selected, the bottom line of the display changes to allow 
direct entry of the desired offset value.
Menu itemParameter(s)Va l u e sReference
TC Frame ModeFrame Rate30 D F, 30 ND F, 29.97DF, 
29.9 7 NDF, 25 F, 24 F
10.3, “Selecting the 
frame rate”
Output TC TimingOutput refer-
enceAnalog, Digital10.4.4, “Timecode 
output timing”
Output TC SourceSource of time-...

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12.1.7 Menu group 6
12.1.8 Menu group 7
Menu itemParameter(s)Va l u e sReference
Emulation
DeviceDevice namePCM-7050, BVH-3000, BVU-
950
, BVW-75, PCM-800, BVH-
2000
, DVR-10, TASCAM
11.1.2, “Emulation”
Record DelayTime in frames0 through 9 frames or Auto(the number 
of frames depends on the selected emulation)11.1.3, “Record 
delay”
Track MappingTrack maps Various mappings of DA-98 tracks to analog/
digital. Default is DA-98 tracks 1 through...