Automatic Punch Point Setting; Setting Punch Points "On The Fly - Tascam DA-98 Owner's Manual

Section 6 – Basic operations
and edited to frame accuracy, either from a cue list
or "on-the-fly" in real time.
The DA-98 provides a rehearsal mode which sim-
ulates the punching process, allowing the artists to
perfect the timing of the new material.
The mechanics of punching on a digital recorder
appear to the operator to be the same as on an ana-
log recorder.
Crossfading, however, is an important and useful
function on digital recorders, to ensure continuity
between original and punched material. In the
case of the DA-98, this crossfade time is adjust-
able from 10 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds
(see 8.4, "Crossfade times").
The mode is essential here: in both
AUTO MON
rehearsal and punch modes, the material prior to
the punch point is monitored off tape. The moni-
toring of armed tracks changes to source while
rehearsals and punching are carried out and then
changes to off-tape again after the punch-out
point.
Pre-roll Punch-in
point point
Pre-roll time
Rehearsal learn
TAPE
Rehearsal
TAPE
AUTO PUNCH
TAPE
Replay check
TAPE
NOTE
Though you can perform punch recording in either the
confidence mode (see 7.2, "Confidence mode") or the
ALL INPUT mode (see 7.1.1, "ALL INPUT [18] and
INPUT MONITOR [29]") , the monitoring in these
modes does not make it easy to perform accurate punch
operations. We suggest that you turn these modes off if
you want to perform punch-ins.

6.6.1 Automatic punch point setting

Whenever recording takes place, the time when
recording begins is automatically stored as a
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Punch-out Post-roll
point point
Post-roll time
SOURCE TAPE
SOURCE TAPE
SOURCE TAPE
TAPE TAPE
punch-in time, and the time when recording stops
is stored as a punch-out time.
This is not usually the way in which you will want
to set the punch points, however. There are several
alternative ways in which you can set these points,
as described below:

6.6.2 Setting punch points "on the fly"

This method demands sharp reflexes (but you can
edit the punch points later as we show below).
1) Press the
AUTO MON
light).
2) Arm the track(s) on which you will be
recording (use
REC FUNCTION
3) Press the (rehearsal) key [9].
RHSL
The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-98 is
in "rehearsal learn" mode.
4) Rewind the tape to before where the punch is to
occur.
5) Start playing the tape (press
You will monitor the off-tape signals.
6) At the point where the punch is to occur, press
.
RECORD
The RECORD key will flash, and the REC FUNC-
TION indicator of any armed tracks will light
steadily.
The INPUT MONITOR indicator of any armed
tracks will light and monitoring will change to
input source recording for these tracks.
At any time when the rehearsal key is lit or flash-
ing, this means that recording will not actually be
carried out, even if the RECORD key and/or the
REC FUNCTION
7) At the point where you want to punch out,
press PLAY.
The REC FUNCTION indicator of any armed
tracks will start flashing again. The RECORD key
will go out.
The INPUT MONITOR indicator of any armed
tracks will go out, and monitoring of these tracks
will return to off-tape status.
key [19] (the indicator will
).
).
PLAY
indicators are lit.