Playing Back An Audio Cd; Creating An Audio Cd; Using Disc At Once - Tascam Digital Portastudio DP-03 Owner's Manual

13 – Using CDs

Playing back an audio CD

1 In MULTITRACK mode, press the CD button to open
the screen.
CD
2 Put an audio CD into the disc tray.
3 Select , and press the F4 (¥) button to
CD PLAYER
open the
CD PLAYER
use the CD-RW drive as a CD player.
This shows the number of the track currently
1
playing back.
This shows the numbers and times of each track.
2
This shows the time elapsed from the beginning of
3
the track currently playing back.
These meters show the level of the audio being
4
played back from the CD.
NOTE
In mode, the MASTER fader cannot be
CD PLAYER
used to adjust the level of the CD signal sent to the
LINE OUT jacks and PHONES jack.
4 Use the DATA wheel to move up and down through
the track list and change the selected track.
5 When the CD player is stopped, press the PLAY
button or F3 (
SELECT
the selected track.
6 When the
CD PLAYER
buttons and the DATA wheel as follows to control
the CD player.
Use to select a track for
DATA wheel
playback
STOP (ª) button
Press to stop CD playback
When stopped, press to start
PLAY (Á) button
playback of the selected track
When near the beginning of
a track, press to skip to the
previous track. When in the
REW (Ô) (TO
ZERO) button
middle of a track, press to skip
to the beginning of the current
track.
F FWD () (TO
Press to skip to the next track
LAST REC) button
Press together to skip to the
STOP (ª) +REW
first track on the CD and stop
(Ô) buttons
playback
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screen, which allows you to
) button to start playback of
screen is open, use the
Press to stop playback and
F2 (ø) button
open the disc tray.
F3 ( )
SELECT
Press to play the selected track
button
NOTE
DATA wheel to select another track
If you use the
•
during playback, the currently playing track will
continue to play. Stop playback once and then start
again to play the selected track.
The search forward and backward functions cannot be
•
used.

Creating an Audio CD

Using the DP-03, you can create audio CDs that can be
played back by ordinary CD players by writing the stereo
master tracks created for songs (see "Creating a stereo
master track" on page 54) to CD-R and CD-RW discs.
Use the following two methods to create a CD.
Disc At Once (DAO)
Use this method to write multiple stereo master tracks
at one time. Since this method automatically finalizes
the disc (see "Finalizing a CD" on page 74), making it
playable by an ordinary CD player, you will be able to
use the completed disc with other CD players right away.
However, after DAO completes, you will not be able to
add any more tracks to the disc that was automatically
finalized.
Track At Once (TAO)
Use this method to write a single stereo master track at a
time to a CD.
Use this way when you want to write tracks to a CD at
different times. TAO does not automatically finalize a CD,
and unfinalized CDs cannot be played back in ordinary CD
players. (Playback in the DP-03 is possible.) After you have
written all the stereo masters to a disc using TAO, finalize
the disc (see "Finalizing a CD" on page 74). You cannot add
more tracks to a CD that has been finalized.

Using Disc At Once

Use Disc At Once when you have selected multiple songs.
Using Disc At Once, you can set the order of multiple
songs as you like. Moreover, you can set the time and add
silent gaps between songs.
NOTE
When using Disc At Once, you can also make multiple
discs with the same contents. When doing so, use
identical discs (same manufacturer, type and capacity).
1 In MULTITRACK mode, press the CD button to open
the screen.
CD
2 Put a blank CD-R/CD-RW or a CD-RW that you want
to erase into the disc tray.