Tascam HD-P2 Owner's Manual

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1 TASCAM HD-P Owner's ManualOperationPlaying AudioPress the PLAY key and audio at the current locationon the timeline is played back. The HD-P2’s play-back engine is based on a 24 hour day and will playaudio from time 00:00:00.00 to 23:59:59.59. If time-code mode is not enabled, the HD-P2 will stop whenit reaches the end of day (during play or while fastforwarding). It also stops if you are rewinding and hitthe beginning of the day. See the Timecode section forspecific information on its behaviors and settings.To locate to the beginning of recorded audio, holdSTOP and press REW. Hold STOP and press FFWD to goto the end of all recorded audio. The LOCATE Ô/keys, by default, locate to previous or next markersand file start points. For example, after recording isstopped you can press the LOCATE Ôkey to go to thebeginning of the recorded file (assuming no markerswere dropped) and then hit play to review it.HD-P2 Playback ConsiderationsThe HD-P2 playback engine maintains an internal,dynamic edit decision list (EDL) to determine whatfiles are played and when. In default auto-appendmode (no pre-record) each file abuts the previous file.While recording, the media space icon and text in thelower right of the screen change to reflect how muchspace is left. Should the media approach becomingtoo full, a low level warning is displayed. If recordingcontinues, the HD-P2 will eventually run out of space,automatically stop recording, close the file, and dis-play an out of space message.NOTEThe FAT file system only supports file sizes upto 2 GB. The HD-P2 will recognize if a file isreaching this limit, close the file, and start anew file without interrupting the recording.The files themselves will abut within your DAWseamlessly.When played back the most recently recorded (time ofday 9:02) file is given precedence and played insteadof the portions of the first two files recorded at 9:00and 9:01.If the 9:02 file is moved to the trash, then the underly-ing portions of the other two files will play back onceagain.Unless the files need to be located at a specific time onthe timeline it may be easier to keep the auto-appendoption on to avoid confusion. When in doubt you canvisit the Project Files menu and audition individual filesin their entirety.Media Space and RecordingWhen auto-append is off (or when chasing timecode)you can locate the timeline to any point in the 24 hourday and start recording, even if there is audio alreadyrecorded at that time.The HD-P2 always records non-destructively, whichmeans previously recorded files are not modified,requiring the playback engine to know which file toplay back when it reaches that point on the timeline.The rules for the internal EDL are quite simple: filesare ordered by timestamp and creation time. If twofiles span the same period on the timeline, the mostrecently recorded file will be played back.For example these files show the time of day that theywere recorded. The place along the timeline indicateswhere in time (samples from zero) they were recorded.09:00 09:01 09:02Figure 6 – Auto-Append RecordingFigure 8 - Rendered Audio Timeline09:0009:0109:02Figure 7 - Logical Audio Timeline09:0109:0209:00