Tascam Digital Portastudio DP-03 Owner's Manual

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TASCAM DP-03 41Multitrack recordingYou can record new sounds to different tracks whileplaying back already recorded tracks.Prepare tracks for recording1 Press the REC buttons of the already recordedtracks to disarm recording to them (REC indicatorsOFF).2 Press the REC buttons of the tracks that you wantto record to put them into record standby (RECindicators blinking).Track pan and level settingsUse the track faders and PAN knobs of the alreadyrecorded tracks to adjust their levels and stereo positionsfor monitoring their playback signals while making newrecordings.Input selection and assignmentUse the procedures described earlier in this chapter toassign input sources to tracks for recording.Setting input levelsAfter making the above settings, press the PLAY (Á)button to start playback.Just as though you were recording, you can monitor thesound of already recorded tracks playing back and theinput sources on the tracks for recording, allowing youto check the monitoring balance and volume. Adjust theinput levels suitably as you monitor both playback andinput signals.Record additional tracksPress and hold the RECORD (–) button and press thePLAY (Á) button to start the new recordings to the othertracks while monitoring the playback signalUndoing an operationThis unit allows you to undo an operation or recordingthat did not work as planned or was otherwiseunsatisfactory. Undo can be used on many ordinaryoperations, including editing and recording operations.This unit has two types of undo functions. Single undocan be used with a simple button press, while multi-undoallows you to return to a specific past operation and undothe operations that occurred after it.NOTEThe UNDO/REDO indicator lights when a single undo ormulti-undo has been conductedUndoing the last operation (singleundo)Press the UNDO/REDO [HISTORY] button to return to thestate before the last operation was conducted. After doingthis, the UNDO/REDO indicator lights, showing that redo(see below) is possible.UNDO/REDOindicatorCancelling an undo operation (redo)Press the UNDO/REDO [HISTORY] buttons when itsindicator is lit to return to the state of the last operation.The UNDO/REDO indicator becomes unlit.NOTEIf single undo is used when multi-undo (described below)has already been used to return the unit to a previousstate, it will go one more step backward.If you press the UNDO/REDO [HISTORY] button againto redo, the single undo operation is cancelled, and theprevious multi-undo state is restored. In this case, theoperations undone by multi-undo are still retained inhistory, so the UNDO/REDO indicator stays lit.Undoing a previous operation (multi-undo)1 Press and hold the UNDO/REDO [HISTORY] buttonto open the HISTORY screen.This screen shows the operation history as a list. Eachoperation in the list is called an “event.”The event list starts at the bottom with event number“0” (-START UP-) and proceeds up to the mostrecent event at the top, which has a * next to it.All events in this list that occurred after a selectedevent can be undone at once. This operation is called“multi-undo” because it allows you to undo multipleevents and return to an earlier state.2 Use the DATA wheel to select the event that youwant to return to (all events after the selectedevent will be undone).3 Press the F2 (EXEC) button to execute the multi-undo and restore the song state to just after the6 – Basic Recording