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 which involve the transport keys are described 
here.
Return to zero (RTZ)
This allows you to return instantly to the “zero 
point”, (expressed as the absolute time).
To return to zero (from stop, play or record):1Press and hold down STOP.
2Press REW. Playback/recording stops and the 
playback position returns to the zero point.
Last Recording Position (LRP)
This is an extremely useful feature that allows you to 
return instantly to the point where recording last 
started. You can use this in any of the following situ-
ations (these are examples, you may think of others 
for yourself):
 after you interrupt a bad take halfway through the 
recording and want to return instantly to the same 
position to retake
 after a successful take, and you want to return to 
the point where recording started to check the take when you are recording a number of different 
tracks in turn, all to start from the same point 
 after a take, you may want to set the point where 
the take started as a reference location mark
To return to the position where recording last started 
(from stop, play or record):
1Press and hold down the STOP key
2Press F FWD. Playback/recording stops, and 
the playback position returns to the point 
where recording last started.
Jog positioning
To position the playback point precisely, you can 
“jog” the playback position, using the wheel. As you 
move backwards and forwards through the recording, 
you can hear the recorded sound at slow speed, either 
backward or forward, depending on the direction you 
are turning the wheel.
1Position the playback point to the rough posi-
tion where you want the final point to be.
2Press and hold the STOP key and press the 
PLAY key. The display shows a view of the waveform of the currently selected track at the 
current playback position.
3Press the SELECT key of the track that you 
want to view (pressing the 
SELECT key of any 
of the stereo tracks (13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 
21/22, 23/24) alternates between viewing the 
odd- and even-numbered tracks). The display 
changes to the waveform of that track. 
						

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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 sub-frames). The res-
olution is shown below the time display. 
5Use the § and ¶ cursor keys to adjust the 
vertical scale (the way that the volume of the 
sound is shown). 
The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x 8, x 16 
and x 32. Pressing the § key increases the ver-
tical scaling of the display, and pressing the ¶ 
key decreases the scale.
TIP
If you can’t see any waveforms when you first enter this 
display, press the 
§ key to zoom the volume so that 
you can see the quiet passages.
6Use the wheel to move the cursor. You can 
monitor the “jogged” sound of the selected 
track through the monitoring system.
7To move past the edge of the screen and posi-
tion the cursor roughly at the correct location, 
press and hold the 
F FWD or REW keys to play 
all the tracks forwards or backwards at nor-
mal speed. When you release the keys, the 
playback will stop. You can then use the wheel 
to position the cursor precisely.
8Press STOP (or ENTER or EXIT) to return to 
the home screen, with the playback position 
now being the point which has just been set.
NOTE
Because only one track can be jogged at a time, only 
one track of a stereo pair can be heard at a time in this 
mode. If it is difficult to hear the track, you may want to 
monitor in mono (see “Monitoring” on page 27).
Fast forward and rewind
On a tape recorder, you can use the fast forward and 
fast rewind keys to spool through a tape. A disk 
recorder like the 2488 works in a somewhat different 
way.
The forward and rewind keys can be used in the fol-
lowing ways:
During playback When the 2488 is playing back 
material, if you press and hold either the 
F FWD or 
the 
REW key, the playback position moves forward 
or backward (depending on which key is being held 
down) at ten times the normal playback speed (as 
shown by the 
FF x10 or REW x10 in the home display. 
At this time, playback is muted, and the PLAY indi-
cator flashes. 
When you release the 
F FWD or REW key, playback 
starts at the position which has been reached.You cannot perform this operation while recording—
only from playback.
From the stop position When playback is 
stopped, you can press and release the 
F FWD or 
REW keys to start “fast rewind” or “fast forward”. 
While this “winding” is taking place, playback is 
muted.
Holding down the keys for more than one second, or 
pressing the keys repeatedly, changes the “wind 
speed” from ten times (
x10 shown on the home 
screen), to fifty times (
x50) to one hundred times 
(
x100) to one thousand times (x1000).
While the 2488 is “winding” in one direction, press-
ing the opposite key (for example, 
F FWD while 
rewinding) will immediately start location at 10x in 
the new direction.
Recording
To start recording from the stopped state:
1At least one track should be armed (press the 
REC key(s) of the track(s) on which recording 
is to take place). The 
REC keys(s) start to 
flash).
2Press and hold down the RECORD key.
3Press the PLAY key. Both the PLAY (green) 
and 
RECORD (red) indicators light, and the 
flashing 
REC indicator(s) light steadily.
4Stop recording by pressing the STOP key. 
						

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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 flash.
3Press the RECORD key. The RECORD indica-
tor will light, and the 
REC indicators of the 
armed tracks will also light.
NOTE
At least one track must be armed before you start to 
record. It is not possible to enter a “record ready” mode 
and press the 
REC keys of tracks to start recording.
Hands-free recording
You can also use a suitable footswitch (for example 
the TASCAM RC-30P) connected to the 
PUNCH 
jack on the front, to drop into record mode. When a 
track is armed, and playback is taking place, pressing the footswitch will change from playback mode to 
record mode.
When recording, pressing the footswitch will drop 
out of record mode into playback mode.
Dropping out of record mode
When record mode has been entered in any of the 
ways described above, it is possible to drop out of the 
recording mode simply by pressing the 
PLAY key. 
The 
RECORD indicator goes out.
Of course, you can always press the 
STOP key to 
stop recording.
TIP
You can “undo” recordings, (unlike on a tape recorder). 
Even if you accidentally record over a perfect perfor-
mance, the undo function can still retrieve the original. 
See “UNDO and REDO” on page 54 for details.
Rehearsing recording
Sometimes, even with the undo facilities and the vir-
tual tracks of the 2488, it may be useful for you to 
rehearse a take without actually committing anything 
to disk. This is probably most useful in auto punch 
operations (see “Auto punch operations” on page 46) 
but can be useful in other situations as well.
In a rehearsal, the monitoring and other operations 
and recording functions are the same as when record-ing, but the input signal, although passed through to 
the disk track, does not actually go to the disk.
To use the rehearsal mode, simply press the 
RHSL 
key so that the indicator is lit.
When actually “recording” in rehearsal mode, the 
RECORD indicator flashes, rather than lighting 
steadily, to show that the rehearsal is taking place. 
						

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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 ! appears on the home display.
NOTE
You cannot set the IN and OUT points while the repeat 
mode is active (the 
REPEAT indicator is lit).
Locating to the points
Simply press the IN, OUT or TO key to locate to the 
appropriate point. You cannot do this in repeat mode 
or while recording.
Editing the IN, OUT and TO points
When the points have been set, it may be necessary 
to “trim” them, or to slip them backwards or for-
wards a little. 
NOTE
You cannot edit the IN and OUT points while the repeat 
mode is active (the 
REPEAT indicator is lit).
To edit the points:
1Press the IN, OUT or TO key to locate to the 
appropriate point.
2Press and hold the STOP key and press the 
PLAY key. The JOG indicator lights. The dis-
play shows a view of the waveform of the cur-
rently selected track at the IN or OUT point 
(depending on which was pressed).
3Press the SELECT key of the track that you 
want to view. The display changes to the wave-
form of that track.
4Follow the instructions in “Jog positioning” on 
page 39 for zooming and moving the current 
jog position.
5When you have set the point where you want 
the point to be, press the shifted key to set the 
respective point. The display returns to the 
home screen.
Press 
EXIT to return to the home screen with-
out setting the points (remember that 
ENTER 
does not set these points).
Markers
As well as the IN and OUT points, which are used in 
punch and editing, there are also 999 location marks 
available for each song.
These can be inserted, deleted, named and edited 
freely, and they are stored with the song, allowing you to return at any time to a part of the song which 
you have marked as needing attention.
There is also an easy method of directly locating to a 
position without using the location marks, as 
described here:
Direct location
In this method, you use the cursor keys and the wheel 
to locate to a specified position.
There are three modes in which the time can be 
shown on the home screen: 
ABS (the absolute time), 
MTC (MIDI Time Code) and BAR (which represents the time in bars and beats, according to a tempo map 
from the following sources: the 2488’s internal map, 
that of a Standard MIDI File selected for playback, or 
else from the pattern tempo map (see “MIDI” on 
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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 location when playing 
back or recording.
2If the “home” display is not shown, press the 
HOME key. There is an “underline” cursor at 
the top of the screen. 
If the top left of the screen does not show 
ABS 
or 
MTC (that is, it shows BAR), move the cursor 
to under 
BAR, and turn the wheel counterclock-
wise until 
ABS or MTC is showing.
3Use the left and right cursor keys to move the 
cursor to any of the following fields: hours (
h), 
minutes (
m), seconds (s), frames (s) or 10 sub-
frames (no indication on the display, though 
the value is shown). 
4Use the wheel to increase or decrease the num-
ber over the cursor (in the illustration here, 
the cursor is under the “hours” value).
If you increase a value past the maximum (for 
example, if you try to increase the “seconds” 
value over 59), the number will “wrap round”; 
that is, the “minutes” value will increase by 
one, and the “seconds” value will be set to 0.
5When you change a value, the values on the 
top line will start to blink and will continue to 
blink for a few seconds.
6Press ENTER while the values are blinking to 
set the value, or 
PLAY to start immediate play-
back at that value. Also, if you do not press 
any keys or turn the wheel for a few seconds, 
the values stop blinking, and the new time 
value that has been set becomes the current 
playback position.
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.
Direct location (ii) As well as the ABS and MTC 
timings just described, it is possible to locate to a 
“musical” time, when the display shows bars (mea-
sures) and beats, and the 2488 is synchronized to a 
tempo map.
1Make sure the transport is stopped. You can-
not perform this direct location when playing 
back or recording.
2If the “home” display is not shown, press the 
HOME key.
3There is an “underline” cursor at the top of 
the screen. 
If the top left of the screen does not show 
BAR 
(that is, it shows 
MTC or ABS), move the cursor 
under the left field, and turn the wheel clock-
wise until 
BAR is shown.
4Use the cursor keys to move the cursor to 
either of the following: bars (3 digits), or beats 
(2 digits). 
The tempo value cannot be altered here—it is 
set by the tempo map.
5Use the wheel to increase or decrease the num-
ber over the cursor (in the illustration, the 
cursor is under the “bars” value).
If you increase the “beats” value past the max-
imum number of beats on a bar at that point 
in the tempo map, the number will “wrap 
round”; that is, the “bars” value will increase 
by one, and the “beats” value will be set to 1.
6When you change a value, the values on the 
top line will start to blink and will continue to 
blink for a few seconds.
7Press ENTER while the values are blinking to 
set the value, or 
PLAY to start immediate play-
back at that value. Also, if you do not press 
any keys or turn the wheel for a few seconds, 
the values stop blinking, and the new time 
value that has been set becomes the current 
playback position.
Frames
Hours Seconds 10s of sub-framesMinutesBars (measures)Beats 
						

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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 slot it occupied 
becomes available for another mark to be entered,
Location marks are handled in the following way:
Entering location marks Location marks can 
be entered when playing back or recording, in jog 
mode, or when the transport is stopped. They cannot be entered when fast forward or rewind is taking 
place.
There are two ways of entering location marks:
1Press the shifted LOCATE key.
or
1Press the INSERT key.
2When a mark has been entered, the location 
value is entered into the next available slot, 
and the number of this slot (now the number 
of the mark) is shown on the screen on the 
right, below the time line.
Active location marks
When you have entered location marks, as playback 
progresses, and the playback point passes the points 
at which the marks are located, the marks’ titles are 
displayed on the screen. The location mark which is 
shown on screen is referred to as the active mark.
This active mark can be accessed easily for titling, 
deletion and editing, as explained below.
Giving a title to the active location mark 
You can give a title to the active location mark while 
playing back or recording, or while the playback is 
stopped.
1When the active mark’s current title is dis-
played (this will be 
Mark xxx when the mark is 
first set), press the shifted 
TITLE key. 
The pop-up screen appears on the display, and 
you can edit the title as described in “Titling” 
on page 12.
2When you press ENTER after editing the 
name, the new name replaces the old mark 
name.
TIP
You can use the words here to enter location mark titles 
quickly.
Deleting the active location mark You can 
delete the active location mark while playback is 
stopped, but you cannot delete it while playing back 
or recording (a popup message appears briefly if you 
try and you must press 
EXIT to dismiss the message).
1To delete the active mark, press the DELETE 
key. You do not have to confirm the deletion, 
but the words 
Clear mark! appear briefly on the 
display.
2When the active mark has been deleted, the 
mark immediately before the active mark (if 
there is one) becomes the active mark, and its 
title is shown on screen.
NOTE
You cannot undo a mark deletion.
Editing the active mark
This process is sometimes referred to as trimming. 
This is a similar process to the jog positioning of the 
playback point (see “Jog positioning” on page 39), 
except that in this operation, the final position is 
stored as the position of the active mark.You can edit the active mark when playback is 
stopped. You cannot edit the active mark when 
recording or playing back.
1Make sure that the mark you want to edit is 
shown on the home display and that playback 
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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 zoom out and in 
respectively horizontally. This is, pressing the 
Á key will increase the amount of space on 
the screen taken by a certain amount of time, 
and pressing 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 at 
about single-frame accuracy), and x 32 at 
about 10-sub-frame accuracy (shown below 
the time display).
5Use the § and ¶ keys to adjust the vertical 
scale (the way that the volume of the sound is 
shown). The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x 
8, x 16 and x 32. Pressing the § key increases 
the vertical scaling of the display, and pressing 
the ¶ key decreases the scale.
NOTE
If you can’t see any waveforms when you first enter this 
display, press the 
§ key to zoom the volume so that 
you can see the quiet passages.
6Use the wheel to move the cursor. You can 
monitor the jogged sound of the selected track 
through the monitoring system.
NOTE
You cannot move the mark to a position before the pre-
vious mark or after the next mark.
7To move past the edge of the screen, press and 
hold the 
F FWD and REW keys to play the 
tracks forwards or backwards at normal 
speed for a rough position. When you release 
the keys, the playback will stop.
8Press ENTER to accept the new position as the 
location mark value (the playback position is 
now the new position), and return to the home 
screen.
9Press EXIT to return to the home screen with 
the playback position being the point which 
has just been set, but the location mark value 
is unchanged.
Using the location mark list
Every time a location mark is stored, it is entered into 
a list, and every time a mark is deleted, it is removed 
from the list.
You can use this list to select a mark for location, or 
for giving a title to a mark. You cannot edit the time 
value of a mark, or delete a mark using the list.
To see the list, press the 
LOCATE key:
NOTE
Even when the time display on the home screen is 
shown in bars and beats, or the MTC time display is 
selected, the marks’ time values are always shown using 
the absolute time values.
Items in the list are always sorted in time order, not 
the order of the location mark names or numbers.
Locating using the list To locate using the 
location mark list:
1Press the LOCATE key.
2Select the location mark using the wheel (or 
the cursor keys).
3Press ENTER. The playback point jumps 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 it is not a very 
sensible idea to give the same title to more than one 
mark), but they cannot have the same time value.
It is not possible to rename the IN, OUT or TO 
marks—these have special functions, and cannot be 
renamed.
Repeat
You can repeat playback between the IN and OUT 
points by pressing and releasing the 
REPEAT key so 
that the indicator lights.Repeat recording is handled using the auto punch 
facility (see “Auto punch operations” on page 46)
Setting the repeat interval
On a tape recorder repeating a section, there is a 
delay while the tape rewinds. The “instant rewind” of 
a disk recorder can give you no time to prepare your 
fingers, take a breath, etc. ready for the next take.
The 2488 allows you to set a time between reaching 
the OUT point and starting to replay from the IN 
point again: from 0 seconds to 9.9 seconds.1Press and hold the REPEAT key so that a 
popup screen appears.
2Use the wheel to set the interval, and ENTER 
to confirm the value.
Auto punch operations
Punch operations allow you to start and stop record-
ing at predefined points, and these can be automated, 
as described here. 
When auto punch recording begins, playback starts at 
pre-roll point some time before recording is due to 
start, the punch-in point is reached, and recording 
starts. When the punch-out point is reached, record-
ing stops, and playback continues until the post-roll 
point.
In addition, when you perform an auto punch record-
ing, during the pre-roll period, you hear what has 
previously been recorded, together with the signal 
source; during the punch recording itself, you hear 
the signal source alone; and for the post-roll period, you hear the previously recorded material and the 
signal source together.
The 2488 allows all of this to happen in rehearsal 
mode as well as in an actual recording mode. The 
rehearsal mode allows you to simulate the punch 
recording, both to practise the actual take, and also to 
check punch points before recording actually begins.
You can also use the repeat function together with the 
punch operations, allowing you to make repeated 
rehearsals of a punch section, as well as repeated 
takes of the same section (multi-takes) or when 
you’re recording, repeated recordings can be used as 
multi-takes. When you have recorded a section many 
times in this way, you can then choose the best possi-
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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, and the home display 
shows 
AUTO.
NOTE
It is not strictly necessary to have a track armed when 
you first press the 
AUTO PUNCH key, but this is proba-
bly the most logical way to work.
LAST REC This sets the punch-in point to be the 
last point at which recording started (the same as the 
LRP described in “Last Recording Position (LRP)” 
on page 39. The punch-out point is set to be the point 
at which recording stopped (either when recording 
dropped into play mode, or when the transport was 
stopped). Note that this last recording does not have 
to be a punch recording.
IN -> OUT This uses the IN and OUT points as the 
punch-in and the punch-out points. The first of these 
points will be used as the punch-in point, and the sec-
ond as the punch-out point, even if the OUT point is 
before the IN point.
LAST TAKE LOAD This option is only available if 
a punch recording has taken place, and no recording, 
no track editing or undo/redo operations or virtual 
track assignments have been done since then. It 
allows you to select the takes from this punch ses-
sion, in the same way as described later in this sec-
tion.
Checking the punch points
When the punch points have been set, you can press 
the 
PLAY key. The home display shows CHECK, and 
the playback starts at the pre-roll point. It continues 
to the post-roll point.
If the punch positions are not what you want, you can 
press the 
AUTO PUNCH key to turn off the punch 
mode, and reset the punch points as described above.You can also adjust the pre-roll and post-roll time 
using the menu system (see “Recorder” on page 85), 
but you must exit the auto punch mode first by press-
ing the 
AUTO PUNCH key so that the indicator goes 
out.
If you the punch points and pre and post-roll times 
are what you want, you should proceed to the 
rehearsal stage, as described below.
Rehearsing the punch
Although you don’t have to use the rehearsal feature 
(see “Rehearsing recording” on page 41) with the 
auto punch, it’s probably a good idea to rehearse 
most punch recordings a few times before making a 
take.
1With the AUTO PUNCH indicator lit, and a 
track armed, press the 
RHSL (rehearsal) key. 
The indicator lights.
2Press and hold down the RECORD key and 
press the 
PLAY key. 
The display shows TAKE.
Playback starts at the pre-roll point. Both 
the input source and previously-recorded 
material can be monitored.
When playback reaches the punch-in point, 
the monitored signal on the armed track(s) 
is muted. The 
RECORD indicator flashes (to 
show that it is a rehearsal).
When playback reaches the punch-out 
point, the recorded material is added to the 
monitored signal. The 
RECORD indicator 
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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.
Recording the punch
When you are happy with the rehearsed punch mate-
rial, you record the punch in the following way:
1Press the RHSL key so that the indicator goes 
out.
2Press and hold the RECORD key and press the 
PLAY key.
The display shows TAKE.
Playback starts at the pre-roll point. Both 
the input source and previously-recorded 
material can be monitored.
When playback reaches the punch-in point, 
the monitored signal on the armed track(s) 
is muted. The 
RECORD indicator lights 
steadily.
When playback reaches the punch-out 
point, the recorded material is added to the 
monitored signal. The 
RECORD indicator 
goes out.
Playback continues to the punch-out point 
and stops.
If the 
REPEAT indicator is lit, the punch recording 
will continue to repeat (up to 99 times) until you 
press 
STOP, allowing you to select from a list of 
“multi-takes” (see “Checking the take” on page 48).
The time between repeat takes is about one second. 
You cannot change this time.
Checking the take
After a take or series of takes has completed, you can 
make an instant check of the take by following the 
procedure here.
When the take is complete, a screen similar 
to the following appears:
The screen above shows three takes and the 
original track. 
Use the wheel to highlight a take from the 
list, including the original track before the 
punch was started.
Press PLAY to check the highlighted take by 
playing it back (starting at the pre-roll point, 
and continuing to the post-roll point).
If you are happy with the take, you can move 
to the next stage below (“After finishing the 
punch” on page 48.
If you want to record another take, press 
and hold 
RECORD, and press PLAY.
After finishing the punch
When you have finished the punch recording:
1Use the wheel to highlight the take which you 
feel is the best (or if none of them was any 
good, select 
ORIGINAL, which is the unchanged 
version).
2Press to select the selected take (or the original 
version).A pop-up display asks you if you are sure that 
you want to use the take.
3Press ENTER if you are sure, but if you change 
your mind to select another take, press 
EXIT. 
NOTE
You must select one of the takes or the original to exit 
auto punch mode.