Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

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Using the USB connection46 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualAdvanced techniques3 Use the jog wheel to move the selection cursor ( ) to the song to bebacked up. Press ENTER.If you do not haveenough space onthe FAT partition to back up a song,you must connect the DP-01 to aPC and manage the files from thePC.4 You can now use the left and right cursor keys and the wheel to namethe song archive (up to 8 characters) (see “Titling” on page 15) :5 Press ENTER to back up the song to the FAT partition. An error mes-sage appears if there is not enough space.The song is then copied as an archive from the current partition to theFAT partition (with a .001 extension). Messages appear on the screen asthe DP-01 goes through the file archiving process.6 Connect the DP-01 to the computer using the USB cable, and “open”the drive (““Open” and “Close”” on page 45).7 Use the PC operating system to copy or move the song archive fromthe BACKUP directory of the DP-01 FAT partition to the PC.You should notrename the songarchive on the PC as this may “con-fuse” the DP-01 when you come torestore it.z Once the song archive is on the PC, you can “close” the DP-01.z The song archive on the PC can then be backed up to CD-R, etc. Youcan restore it later to the same DP-01 or to a friend’s DP-01, allowingyou to complete the recording at another location, or perform the finalmix where there are better speakers available, etc.Restoring a songThis is basically the reverse of the backup process, allowing you totransfer a song archive from a PC to the DP-01.1 Connect the DP-01 to the PC using the USB cable, and “open” thedrive (““Open” and “Close”” on page 45).2 Use the PC operating system to copy the song archive from the PC tothe BACKUP directory of the DP-01 FAT partition.3 “Close” the DP-01.4 Press MENU and select the BACKUP menu.If there are no songarchive files on theFAT partition, a message is shown.5 Select the SONG RESTORE action and press the key. The displayshows the song archive files on the FAT partitionAlthough the DP-01displays shorter filenames with spaces at the end ofthe name, these spaces are notpart of the actual file name.6 Select a song archive using the jog wheel and press ENTER. The cur-rent song is saved.7 The “real” song name is extracted from the archive and shown:8 Press ENTER to load the archived song as the current song. Appropri-ate messages are shown if there is not enough disk space, etc.