Tascam Digital Portastudio 2488 User Guide

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Tr a n s p o r t  c o n t r o l s
Most of the 2488 controls work the same as a normal 
tape recorder, but there are a few important differ-
ences, as outlined below.
Setting the playback position
The 2488 provides you with a number of ways to set 
the position from which playback starts when you 
press the 
PLAY key. Some of these are described in 
the section on location operations (“Locating to the points” on page 42) The ways of setting the playback 
point...

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4Use the Ó and Á cursor keys to zoom out 
and in respectively horizontally. 
In other words, pressing the Á key will 
increase the amount of space on the screen 
taken by a certain amount of time, and press-
ing the Ó key will make the same amount of 
time take less space on the screen. The three 
zoom levels available are: 
x 1, x 2 (allowing 
approximately single-frame accuracy in 
adjustment), and 
x 32 (allowing approximately 
an accuracy of about 10...

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NOTE
When a track is “armed” for recording (i.e. its REC 
indicator is lit or flashing), the corresponding track indi-cator number in the bottom of the home screen is 
reversed to show this.
In the screen above, tracks 5 and 6are armed.
Recording (ii)
To drop into record mode while playing back:
1Start playing back a song by pressing the 
PLAY key. The PLAY indicator will light.
2Arm one or more tracks by pressing their REC 
keys. Their indicators start to...

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IN/OUT/TO points
The IN and OUT points are used for repeat playback 
(“Repeat” on page 46), for punch operations (“Auto 
punch operations” on page 46)and, often with the TO point, for track editing (“About track editing” on 
page 49).
Setting the IN, OUT and TO points
To set these points:
1Locate to the position where the IN, OUT or 
TO point is to be set.
2Pres the shifted IN, OUT or TO key.When the 
IN, OUT or TO key has been pressed, 
Set IN ! or Set OUT !...

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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:
1Make sure the transport is stopped. You can-
not perform this direct...

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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.
Location marks
As mentioned earlier, the 2488 allows you to set up 
to 999 location marks in each song. These location 
marks are stored in slots which may either be empty, 
or filled with a location point value.
As each mark is entered, its slot is filled (from 1 
through 999). If a mark is deleted, the...

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2Press the TRIM key. The display shows TRIM 
and a view of the waveform of the currently 
selected track at the active mark.
3Press the SELECT key of the track that you 
want to view. The display changes to the wave-
form of that track.
Although the location mark applies to all 
tracks, if you have a track selected with noth-
ing or little recorded on it at that point, it will 
be impossible to see or hear anything using 
this function.
4Use the Ó and Á keys to...

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Using the IN OUT and TO marks Jump to 
these marks simply by pressing the 
IN, OUT or TO 
key, as appropriate. 
Titling using the list 
1Press the LOCATE key.
2Select the location mark to be renamed, using 
the wheel (or the cursor keys).
3Press the shifted TITLE key.
4Give a title to the mark, using the procedure 
described in “Titling” on page 12.
5When you press ENTER to confirm the name, 
the screen returns to the list.
Two marks can have the same title (but...

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Setting the punch points
The 2488 provides three different punch settings.
1With at least one track armed (the REC indi-
cator flashing), and playback stopped, press 
the 
AUTO  PUN CH key:
2Select one of the three options, explained 
below, using the wheel or cursor keys to move 
the cursor, and the 
ENTER key to confirm the 
selection (
EXIT exits this screen without mak-
ing any settings).
3When the selection has been made, the AUTO  
PUNCH
 indicator lights,...

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Playback continues to the punch-out point 
and stops.
Playback continues to the post-roll point and 
stops.
If you press the 
REPEAT key before the rehearsal, so 
that the indicator is lit (as well as the 
AUTO PUNCH and
 RHSL indicators), the rehearsal process will 
repeat until you press the 
STOP key. There is about a 
second’s interval between the post-roll and the 
restarting of the rehearsal at the pre-roll point. You 
cannot change this interval....