Tascam DP-24SD Owner's Manual

Also see for DP-24SD: Troubleshooting supplement

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TASCAM DP-24SD 335 - Song ManagementProtecting songsIf you protect a song, editing, recording and erasing of that songis prevented.1. When the recorder is stopped, press the MENU button toopen the MENU screen.2. Use the JOG/DATA dial or the CURSOR (5/b/g/t)buttons to select (green highlight) SONG, and then pressthe F4 (t) button.The SONG LIST screen appears.3. Select the (blue highlight) song you want to protect andthen press the F2 (4) button. To protect multiple songs,select all songs you want to protect.NOTETo remove the check mark 4 from a check box, press the F2(4) button again while the song is selected (blue highlight).4. Next, press the F4 (t) button to open the correspondingsub-menu. Use the JOG/DATA dial or the CURSOR (5/b)buttons to select the PROTECT item from the sub-menu,and then press the F4 (t) button.The song protect function is enabled for the selected song.5. When the song protect operation is completed, the pop-upwindow disappears and the display returns to the SONGLIST screen.NOTE• In a song list used to copy, erase or perform other functions,a lock icon will appear next to protected songs.• If you try to perform a prohibited operation (edit, record,erase) on a protected song, a Song Protectedmessage will appear and the operation will be canceled.• To remove the protection from a song, follow the sameprocedure above.Deleting unnecessary audio data froma songIn addition to audio data for a track, a song may also contain"unused" audio data.When a track is overwritten in this unit, the overwritten audiodata is not erased, but remains on the SD card. Audio data thathas been completely overwritten is "unused" audio data.You can delete such "unused" audio data by following theprocedure below.New guitar solo overwriting the old oneOld guitar solo (deleted)New guitar solo overwriting the old oneNew guitar solo overwriting the old oneOld guitar solo (not deleted)Old guitar solo (not deleted)As shown in the illustration, if old audio data is not completelyoverwritten by new audio data, old audio data cannot bedeleted."Unused" old audio data in any virtual track that has not beenassigned to a physical track can also be deleted. (See “Virtualtracks” on page 48.)Follow the procedure below to delete "unused" audio dataand create room on the SD card for additional storage (thisoperation cannot be undone).1. When the recorder is stopped, press the MENU button toopen the MENU screen.2. Use the JOG/DATA dial or the CURSOR (5/b/g/t)buttons to select (green highlight) SONG, and then pressthe F4 (t) button.The SONG LIST screen appears.3. Select (blue highlight) the song which contains unnecessaryaudio data and then press the F2 (4) button. To erasemultiple songs, select all songs you want to erase.NOTETo remove the check mark 4 from a check box, press the F2(4) button again while the song is selected (blue highlight).4. Next, press the F4 (t) button to open the correspondingsub-menu. Use the JOG/DATA dial or the CURSOR (5/b)buttons to select the item DELETE UNUSED from thesub-menu, and then press the F4 (t) button.A confirmation message appears.5. Press the F2 (YES) button.The unnecessary audio data is deleted from the song(s).When the erase operation is completed, the pop-up windowdisappears and the display returns to the SONG LISTscreen.