Tascam Digital Portastudio 788 Owners Manual

6 – Location operations–Direct location
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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 (measures) and beats, and the 788 
is synchronized to a tempo map.
NOTE
This method of location only has any meaning when the 
788 is synchronized to a tempo map (see “Synchroniza-
tion” on page 94). If the 788 is not synchronized to such a 
tempo map, bars and beats in this screen...

6 – Location operations–Location marks
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Location marks
As mentioned earlier, the 788 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...

6 – Location operations–Using the location mark list
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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 50), 
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...

6 – Location operations–Using the location mark list
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There are two ways in which the list can be viewed; 
by title (
TITLE) and by time value (TIME), as 
shown by the tabs on the top of the screen.
Use the Ó and Á keys to change between the two 
views:
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.
The IN, OUT and TO location...

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7 – Track editing
About track editing
One of the most useful features of a disk-based 
recorder such as the 788 is the ability to edit material 
easily. When working with a stereo tape recorder in 
the past, the usual editing method involved a white 
pencil, a razor blade and sticky splicing tape. This 
was not an easy process, and was very difficult to 
undo if there were any mistakes,
The 788 allows you to edit songs, copying and mov-
ing material from one part of a...

7 – Track editing–COPY -> PASTE
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COPY -> PASTE
This function takes the section of a track or tracks 
marked by the IN and OUT points, copies it, and 
places it at the TO point on the chosen track or 
tracks. 
The original source is left unchanged.
The copy operation overwrites anything which is 
already recorded at the destination. The destination is 
the same length as it was before the operation.
You can copy the section more than once in one oper-
ation.
You can change...

7 – Track editing–MOVE -> PASTE
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MOVE -> PASTE
This function takes the section of a track or tracks 
marked by the IN and OUT points, and moves it to 
the chosen track or tracks, starting at the TO point.
After the operation, the selected section of the source 
between the IN and OUT points is replaced by 
silence.
This operation overwrites anything which is already 
recorded at the destination. The destination is there-
fore the same length as it was before the...

7 – Track editing–OPEN
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OPEN
This function “opens up” a silent gap between the IN 
and OUT points on the chosen track or tracks.
The source and destination are the same, and after the 
operation, the track is split at the IN point, with the material which followed the IN point now moved to 
follow the OUT point. The result is therefore longer 
than the original.
There is only one value that you can change:
Src. Trk Select an individual track (1 
through 
8), a pair of...

7 – Track editing–CLONE TRACK
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CLONE TRACK
This copies a track or pair of tracks to another track 
or pair of tracks. The IN and OUT points do not have 
any meaning here.
There are two values that you can change:
Src. Trk Select an individual track (1 
through 
8), or a pair of tracks (1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 
7/8).
Dst. Trk This sets the destination track or 
tracks to which the source track is cloned. What you 
can select here depends on what you have selected 
for the source...

7 – Track editing–UNDO and REDO
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Undoing and redoing actions
1Press the UNDO/REDO key and a list of the 
operations that you have done since the start of 
the song is shown on screen:
The first action (
START UP) is numbered 
0, and all the actions after this are then num-
bered in order. They are named: 
RECORDING, AUTO PUNCH, 
COPY->PASTE, etc.
2Use the dial to scroll through the list until the 
cursor highlights the action to where you want 
to undo. 
3Press 
ENTER, to...