Tascam Digital Portastudio 788 Owners Manual

7 – Track editing–UNDO and REDO
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Items above the “undo” line are visible and you can 
redo them until you perform another action after the 
undo operation. 
For instance, if you decided that you wanted to have 
another go at repairing the lead guitar bridge…
You could undo all items up to item 7:…and then re-record the guitar bridge. 
After this, though, if you wanted to restore the vocal 
tracks which we’d recorded, you wouldn’t be able to. 
The new recording would...

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8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)
The 788 can use a SCSI-connected CD-R or CD-RW 
drive for mastering and for backing up songs.
We strongly suggest that you contact your TASCAM 
distributor or visit the TASCAM Web site for up-to-
date information regarding the compatibility of your 
CD-R or CD-RW drive with the 788.
You should also make sure that the CD-R and CD-
RW media you use for recording and backing up 
songs meet the requirements specified by the drive.
NOTE
You...

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Mixdown
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Mixdown
As mentioned earlier, you can mix the contents of the 
recorded tracks, as well as inputs from the sub-mixer, 
to the 
STEREO OUTPUTs, which can then feed a 
DAT or cassette recorder, etc.
The 788 provides you with an additional feature, 
allowing you to “pre-master” the stereo mix to the 
788’s hard disk, so that you can audition the mix and 
re-do it if necessary, before committing it to disc.
Once the pre-master track...

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Mixdown
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mands (see “MMC and MIDI functions” on 
page 101).
TIP
While you are recording the master, synchronization and 
the sub-mixer are active, and you can use these features to 
add synchronized MIDI sound sources to the stereo master 
mix.
You can set and edit effect parameters and recall 
effects from the effect libraries while mastering.
It is also possible for you to make assignments while 
mastering, but it is not possible to...

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Recording to CD-R
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Trimming the master
You may sometimes want to trim the beginning or the 
end of a master track after checking it. For example, 
you may have made a perfect mix, except that there is 
too much “dead time” or a cough, fret noise, etc. 
before the start of the track, or there may be too much 
time after the end of the track, as the OUT point was 
not set correctly.
To correct these, without having to do the whole mix...

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4Move the cursor to CD WRITER and press 
ENTER.
The 788 checks the CD-R drive. If there is a 
valid disc in the drive containing at least one 
pre-mastered song, the display shows the 
screen below (a list of the songs which have 
been mastered on the current partition).
NOTE
If a song has been recorded, but has not been mastered, it 
will not appear in the list.
If you want to change partitions, see “Selecting a disk” on...

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Recording to CD-R (multiple tracks)
When recording multiple tracks, the tracks can be 
recorded in any order, and varying lengths of silence 
can be added.
Once a CD has been made in this way, no further 
tracks can be added, as the CD is automatically final-
ized at the end of the operation.
There must be a recordable CD disc in the drive 
before starting this operation.
1Make sure the 788 is in “normal” mode, that is,...

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NOTE
When you come to play back the disc on a CD player, the 
start of the gap will appear as Index 0 on the track following 
the gap, and the start of the track will appear as Index 1. 
Because the gap counts as a part of the track, the total 
length of the track and gap together cannot exceed 70 
minutes.
13When all the gaps have been set, press ENTER. 
A pop-up asks if you are sure. Use the 
YES key 
to proceed with...

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Backup using CD-R
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Backup using CD-R
As well as allowing you to record the final mix to 
CD-R, the 788 also allows you to back up all of a 
song (tracks, virtual tracks, edits, undo history, effect 
settings, etc.) to CD-R.
This is a relatively cheap and portable way of storing 
your work. Even if you produce large songs and use 
smaller hard disk partitions (e.g. 1 GB), this function 
allows you to store the song reliably and safely,...

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NOTE
The backup operation may take some time, as a song may 
have many different parts to it. If you use the 
DELETE 
UNUSED
 function before backing up the song, this 
may save some time and space (“Deleting unused space 
from a song” on page 30).
DO NOT TURN OFF the 788 or the CD-R drive while this 
backup operation is taking place. You will almost certainly 
spoil the disc and may corrupt the song data.CD-R backup...