Tascam Digital Portastudio 788 Owners Manual

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6Use the dial to move the cursor. You can moni-
tor 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 dial to 
position the cursor...

5 – Recorder operations–Repeat playback
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Setting the IN and OUT points
To set the IN and OUT points:
1Locate to the position where the IN or OUT 
point is to be set. See “Setting the playback 
position” on page 50 and “Location opera-
tions” on page 60 for details.
2Press and hold down the 
SHIFT key, and press 
the 
IN or OUT key.
When the 
IN or OUT key has been pressed, 
Set IN ! or Set OUT ! appears on 
the home display.
NOTE
You cannot set the IN and OUT points while...

5 – Recorder operations–Recording
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Recording
To start recording from the stopped state:
1At least one track should be armed (press the 
REC READY key(s) of the track(s) on which 
recording is to take place). The 
REC READY 
indicator(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 flash-
ing 
REC READY indicator(s) light steadily.
4Stop recording by pressing the 
STOP key....

5 – Recorder operations–Assigning virtual tracks
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Rehearsing recording
Sometimes, even with the undo facilities and the vir-
tual tracks of the 788, 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 55) 
but can be useful in other situations as well.
In a rehearsal, the monitoring and other operations 
and recording functions are the same...

5 – Recorder operations–Overdub recording
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three virtual tracks to three disk tracks and use the 
faders to listen to each of them in turn.
Then pick the one that fits best, and you can re-use 
the other two unused disk tracks with new virtual tracks—keep the alternative takes for the future if 
you change your mind later on.
Alternatively, if you want to assemble a track for 
the whole song, you could assign the three different 
takes of the part to three different...

5 – Recorder operations–Auto punch operations
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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...

5 – Recorder operations–Auto punch operations
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Rehearsing the punch
Although you don’t have to use the rehearsal feature 
(see “Rehearsing recording” on page 54) 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...

5 – Recorder operations–Varispeed operations (pitch and SSA)
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After finishing the punch
When you have finished the punch recording use the 
screen below (or similar):
1Use the dial 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 
ENTER 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...

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Pitch
1Press and hold the PITCH/SSA key for about a 
second (see “Key sense time” on page 33) and 
release it. The indicator lights and the display 
changes:
2If the 
PITCH CONTROL section at the 
left of the screen is not active (there is no box 
around it), press the Ó key to move the cursor 
there.
3Use the dial to change the pitch from 
-6.0% 
to 
+6.0% in 0.1% steps. If playback is being carried out while...

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6 – Location operations
As well as the IN and OUT points, which have 
already been introduced for use in punch operations 
(“Auto punch operations” on page 55) and for repeat 
playback (“Repeat playback” on page 51), and which 
are also used together with the TO point for track 
editing (“Track editing” on page 65), 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,...