Resetting A Menu Value; Changing Menu Values Fast; Blanking The Screen Display; Function Key Modes - Tascam DA-98 Owner's Manual

Section 5 – Menu operations
field and keep pressing the
would be 30 x 60 x 60 = 10,800 key presses!
To avoid this,, the
LEFT
cursor between the "fields"; in this case, hours,
minutes, seconds and frames.
Regardless of whether one value or several sub-
values have been edited, the changes to the values
are made immediately. The cursor keys can then
be used for navigation again.
In most time-based menus, when the "frames"
field is being edited, the value can be changed
to the number of frames in 1 second
from
(the exact number varies between settings) and
back to .
However, if the cursor is moved to an invisible
"field" to the right of the frames field, increment-
ing the value of the frames field above the number
of frames in a second will increment the seconds
field.
As an example:
1) The menu screen shows: "
when the frame rate is 30fps.
2) Press .
UP
3) The menu screen shows: "
However:
1) The menu screen shows "
2) Press .
UP
3) The menu screen shows: "

5.1.5 Resetting a menu value

Sometimes it is necessary to reset a menu value to
a default value.
To do this quickly, hold down the
press the key (or hold down the
DOWN
and press the key). If the menu value is a time
UP
value in hh:mm:ss:ff format, all the fields will be
reset to zero. If there is more than one independent
field in a menu screen, use the cursor to point to
the value that you want to reset to zero.
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key, but one hour
UP
and keys move the
RIGHT
"
".
".
".
key and
UP
key
DOWN

5.1.6 Changing menu values fast

Sometimes it is useful to be able to change a value
fast (for instance, time values such as minutes and
seconds). To do this, hold down the
key and press the
ENTER
change faster as long as the
down.

5.1.7 Blanking the screen display

There are times when you may want to blank the
backlit screen display (for instance, the light may
be a visual distraction, or you may want to dis-
courage tampering fingers).
1) Press the key, and while holding it
ENTER
down, press
ESCAPE
You can also hold down the ESCAPE key and
press ENTER .
2) The screen will blank, and the back light will
go out.
3) To restore the screen display, press any of the
following: ,
ENTER
keys.
CURSOR
The screen will be relit, and show the top menu.
NOTE
This can be used as an alternative way of returning to
the top menu when you are inside the menu hierarchy

5.2 Function key modes

These keys are often used to jump to frequently-
used menus (see 5.3, "Assigning menus to func-
tion keys"), but their function can be changed, as
described here:
1) Press and hold down the
while holding it down, press the
[14] to enter the
menu.
As an alternative to the method above, you can go
to menu group 7, move the cursor to
and press ENTER .
or
UP DOWN
key. The values will
key is held
ENTER
.
, or any of the
ESCAPE
key [24], and
SHIFT
MEMO 2
key