Tascam Pocketstudio 5 Getting Started Manual

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5 – Your first song using the Pocketstudio 516 TASCAM Pocketstudio 5 Getting StartedSetting up the rhythmThe first thing to do is to set the tone generator to the“pattern” setting.1 From the “home” screen, press MENU andthen enter the SYSTEM menu.2 Use the cursor to move to TgMode, and thewheel to select PATTERN.TIPWhile you are in the SYSTEM menu, you may decidethat you want to think in terms of bars and beats, notminutes and seconds. Set the Time parameter toBars/Beats if you want to work this way (see“Choosing the time type” on page 22 of the referencemanual).Selecting the pattern From the home screen,press the MENU key, and enter the PATTERNmenu.Select a category and style to use as a backing.You can also adjust the structure of the song, arrang-ing fills, intro, verses, etc. into the order that fits yoursong, and you can also adjust the chord changesthroughout the song, as well as adjusting the relativelevels, pan positions, etc. of the instruments.See the reference manual describing the use of pat-terns (“Patterns on the Pocketstudio 5” on page 7) forfull details of how to do these operations.Start playback using the PLAY y key.Bring up the TG and MASTER faders to their nomi-nal positions so that the meters show some life, andadjust the headphone volume using the headphonelevel control A until it is comfortable. Do not use theTG or the MASTER faders to adjust the monitoringlevel in the headphones.Adding the rhythm guitarThe first thing to do is to make sure your guitar is intune. Happily, the Pocketstudio 5 contains a tuner—you don’t need other equipment.1 Connect the guitar to the Pocketstudio 5.Make sure the switch on the right of thePocketstudio 5 D is set to the GUITAR posi-tion. Plug your guitar into the Pocketstudio5’s GUITAR IN jack.NOTENEVER plug your guitar amplifier speaker output intothe Pocketstudio 5. If you do, will almost certainly dam-age the Pocketstudio 5 and your guitar amplifier. Youmay have an output marked LINE OUT on your ampli-fier. If such a jack exists, you may use that, but you mustmake sure that the selector switch on the Pocketstudio5 is set to LINE and not GUITAR (even though theinstrument you are playing is a guitar!).2 Assign the GUITAR IN to track 1.Press and hold the INPUT A GUITAR key andmake sure the REC READY lights for tracks 1and 2 flash rapidly (you will be recording ontracks 1 and 2 in stereo).3 Adjust the levels. Make sure that your gui-tar’s pickup volume and tone controls are setto the level you want.NOTENIf you have exceptionally powerful pickups on your gui-tar, you may find that the red OL indicator by theINPUT A key flashes on loud passages. This means thatyou are overloading the input stages of the Pocketstu-dio 5, and you should reduce the input level using theGUITAR/LINE control.Make sure the Pocketstudio 5 is showing itshome screen (“The “home” screen” onpage 10). You’ve already adjusted theMASTER fader, haven’t you?R e c o r d : T r a c k i n gT g M o d e / P a t t e r nT e m p o : - - - - - - -T i m e : A B S ;C t g r y / R o c k 1S t y l e : 6 0 s H r o c kT e m p o : d = 1 0 0A r n g e : P r e s e t . ;