Tascam 2488 User Manual

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4 – RecorderTASCAM 2488 User’s Guide 452 Press the TRIM key. The display shows TRIMand a view of the waveform of the currentlyselected track at the active mark.3 Press the SELECT key of the track that youwant to view. The display changes to the wave-form of that track.Although the location mark applies to alltracks, if you have a track selected with noth-ing or little recorded on it at that point, it willbe impossible to see or hear anything usingthis function.4 Use the Ó and Á keys to zoom out and inrespectively horizontally. This is, pressing theÁ key will increase the amount of space onthe screen taken by a certain amount of time,and pressing the Ó key will make the sameamount of time take less space on the screen.The three zoom levels available are: x 1, x 2 atabout single-frame accuracy), and x 32 atabout 10-sub-frame accuracy (shown belowthe time display).5 Use the § and ¶ keys to adjust the verticalscale (the way that the volume of the sound isshown). The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x8, x 16 and x 32. Pressing the § key increasesthe vertical scaling of the display, and pressingthe ¶ key decreases the scale.NOTEIf you can’t see any waveforms when you first enter thisdisplay, press the § key to zoom the volume so thatyou can see the quiet passages.6 Use the wheel to move the cursor. You canmonitor the jogged sound of the selected trackthrough the monitoring system.NOTEYou cannot move the mark to a position before the pre-vious mark or after the next mark.7 To move past the edge of the screen, press andhold the F FWD and REW keys to play thetracks forwards or backwards at normalspeed for a rough position. When you releasethe keys, the playback will stop.8 Press ENTER to accept the new position as thelocation mark value (the playback position isnow the new position), and return to the homescreen.9 Press EXIT to return to the home screen withthe playback position being the point whichhas just been set, but the location mark valueis unchanged.Using the location mark listEvery time a location mark is stored, it is entered intoa list, and every time a mark is deleted, it is removedfrom the list.You can use this list to select a mark for location, orfor giving a title to a mark. You cannot edit the timevalue of a mark, or delete a mark using the list.To see the list, press the LOCATE key:NOTEEven when the time display on the home screen isshown in bars and beats, or the MTC time display isselected, the marks’ time values are always shown usingthe absolute time values.Items in the list are always sorted in time order, notthe order of the location mark names or numbers.Locating using the list To locate using thelocation mark list:1 Press the LOCATE key.2 Select the location mark using the wheel (orthe cursor keys).3 Press ENTER. The playback point jumps tothe selected location mark.