Tascam DP-02 Owner's Manual

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONSTASCAM DP-02/DP-02CF The operations described here are ones that you may useless often than the ones described earlier in this manual,but you will find useful in your work with the unit.LocationThis section tells you how to jump around to differentparts of a song on the unit.Direct locationThe unit displays the current position at the top of thedisplay as hours:minutes:seconds:frames. There are 30frames in a second.NOTEThe unit can also display the current time in bars andbeats. See “Working in bars & beats” on page 35 fordetails.From the “home screen” when the unit is stopped, turn theDATA dial, so that the top time display blinks.Use the ˙ and ¥ cursor keys to move the underline cursorbetween the different fields of the time shown at the top ofthe screen. In this case, the frame field is selected.To change the value of the underlined field, use the DATAdial. Fields “wrap round”, so going from 59 seconds to 0seconds adds 1 to the minutes, etc. As you turn the DATAdial, the frame field blinks. If you leave the DATA dialuntouched for a few seconds, or if you press YES/ENTER,the display stops blinking.If you want to edit another field, use the cursor keys tomove to that field and then use the DATA dial to get to thetime you’re looking for.Press PLAY (¥) to start playback from the position whosevalue has just been entered.Location marksThe unit can store up to 999 location marks per song! Usethese to mark the start of verses, vocal entry points, etc.To set a location markWhile stopped, recording or playing, press and hold theSHIFT key and press the INSERT key at the point whereyou want the new mark.Marks are shown on the display on the second line of the“home” screen. The mark number you see is the one at orimmediately before the current position In the examplebelow, “M023” indicates the twenty-third mark in theselected song.NOTEMarks are numbered in the order you enter them, notaccording to their position in the song. Mark 999 cantherefore appear in a song before mark 001.To move to a location markPress and release the μ or ≤ keys to move to the previ-ous or next mark in the song. This works while playingback, while stopped or “winding”, but not while recording.ªªAlternatively, press and hold both LOCATE LIST keystogather to show the location mark list:Use the DATA dial or the cursor (§/¶) keys to choose amark (they’re listed in the order they appear in the song)and press YES/ENTER to jump to that mark.To delete a location markStop playback (or recording) and locate to the mark youwant to delete (or a little after). Press and hold the SHIFTkey and press the DELETE key.NOTEYou can’t undo this.To edit a location markIf you made a mistake when you entered a location mark,you can change the time of the mark.T I PThis is sometimes called “trimming”.ªª2 – Advanced techniques