14 - Using Cds; Using The Cd Drive; Preparations Before Using Cds With This Unit; Types Of Cds That Can Be Used With This Unit - Tascam Digital Portastudio DP-24 Owner's Manual

14 - Using CDs

Using the CD drive

This unit has a CD drive that supports writing to CD-R and
CD-RW discs. In addition to playing back Audio CDs (CD-
DA), the unit's CD drive can also be used for the following
purposes.
Create an Audio CD from the master file.
•
Import tracks from Audio CDs into the current song.
•
CAUTION
When creating a CD from a master file, set to
to create a song.
16bit
Preparations before using CDs with
this unit
When using CDs with this unit, make the following
preparations.
Before using a CD, change the recorder mode to
•
. In modes other than
Multi Track
, you cannot open the
Track
In or
Mixdown Mastering
MIXDOWN/MASTERING button repeatedly until the
unit switches to
Multi Track
mode, press the BOUNCE button to switch
In
Bounce
to the mode.
Multi Track
Open the menu screen before inserting or ejecting
•
CD
a CD.
In order to prevent the sound of the CD drive being
operated during recording, for example, the power
to the drive is disabled when in modes other than CD
mode. For this reason, it is necessary to put the unit
into CD mode in order to load or eject a CD. Even in CD
mode, a CD cannot be loaded or ejected after being
mounted. (Except for
CD
Since CD mounting is canceled in screens other than
menu screen, load or eject a CD in the
CD
screen or screen.
CD PLAYER
84
TASCAM DP-24
44.1kHz
Multi
menu screen.
CD
mode, press the
mode.
menu screen)
menu
CD
Types of CDs that can be used with
this unit
This unit is compatible with 12-cm and 8-cm CD, CD-R,
CD-RW and CD-RW High Speed discs. This unit does not
support CD-RW Ultra Speed or CD-RW Ultra Speed+ discs.
For the functions that can be used with discs and the
types of compatible discs, see "Media Compatibility Table"
on page 91.
Writing to an already written CD-RW
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,
With this unit, you do not need to erase a CD-RW
beforehand. You can use a previously written CD-RW by
erasing it at the beginning of the desired operation.
When creating an Audio CD, the following message will
appear if you load an already written CD-RW disc.
Confirmation message
Press the F2 ( ) button to erase the songs recorded on
Yes
the disc.
If you do not want to erase the CD-RW disc, press the F1
( ) button. The disc tray will open slightly. Pull the tray
NO
out and replace the disc with another one.
CAUTION
If you use Track At Once to write a master file to an
unfinalized CD-RW in Audio CD format (a CD-RW created
by selecting a single master file on the
screen and setting FINALIZE to OFF), the file will be added
without showing the CD-RW erasure warning, and it will
not overwrite existing data on the disc.
MASTER WRITE