Bouncing Tracks (Ping-Pong) - Tascam 688 Midistudio Owner's Manual

Advanced Operations Guide: Bouncing Tracks (Ping-Pong)
The recording capability of the 688 MIDISTUDIO is not
limited to eight tracks. You can "bounce· or combine
tracks you have recorded to an empty track, and then
replace the original tracks with new material. A bounce
is like a mixdown, except you are recording to one of the
tracks of the 688 instead to an external recorder.
The following diagrams depict the process.
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Prepar. the recorder
5. P..... the RECORD FUNCTION switches for tracks 7
and
8.
Th'ose lights should start to blink. All other
RECORD FUNCTION switches and'lights should be off.
6. Rewind the tape to the beginning of the song.
Set recording leyels
7. Set the main faders to their nominal position.
8. Press
PLAY.
Slowly increase
the GROUP 7-8
MASTER fader until the GROUP meter reads around 0
dB.
Jf
you are adding live sources to the mix, play
them and adjust the level. Get the mix you want. If
you wish, you can add effects to the mix.
9.
Rewind the tape to the start of the selection.
Bouncing tracks
1-4 onto treck 8
Track 1·4
available for
recording new
parts
Bouncing new
tracks 1-4 onto
track
7
Bounce the tracks
10. Pre" PLAY and RECORD. Tracks 7 and 8 will record
a copy of what is on tracks 1-4, plus any live
instrument you add to the mix.
Also, while you are bouncing, you can add live sources to
tho combination of the prerecorded tracks. Any mixer
channel that is not being used for Tape
can
be used to
add a new part.
Using these techniques, It
IS
possible to get up to 28
·passes· onto tape, without re-recording any part more
than once. Thanks to the quality of the 688's recorder
section, it's hard to tell the difference between original
and bounced tracks, if you follow the proper steps.
In this example, we will combine material from tracks 1-4
plus
ill
live synthet;!:l:er onto Tracks 7 and
8
in stereo.
11. At the end of the aelectlon. press STOP and ...wlnd
to the beginning. Do not change the settings of any
controls yet.
Usten
to
playback
12. Press the RECORD
FUNCTION switches 7 and 8 to
prevent accidental erasure of the tracks. Their LEOs
will go out.
13. Press PLAY to hear the result. Make sure that any
CUE MONITOR lEVEL controls other than 7 and Bare
off (fUlly left).
PraDue the mIxer
1.
If you are using factory preset scenes, go to Scene
09
and press RECALL The screens should look like this:
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- _ . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
_ , 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- ' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
_ . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- ' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Reoellt bouncing
Once you are totally satisfied with the mix on track 7 and
8, you can record new material on tracks 1·4, then
bouncing them onto tracks 5-6 the Same way you
bounced onto track 7-8. Of course, this will erase the
"flrst generation· tracks, but you have
8
"second genera-
tion· copy on track 7-8.
2. Check to make su... that neither INSERT nor MIX is
on above the shuttle knob and, in the MONITOR switch
row, the CUE MONITOR swftch only Is on.
3. Bring up the CUE MONITOR LEVEL controls 7 end 8.
Tum all other CUE MONITOR LEVEL controls off (fully
leftl. During a bounce, it's important that you don't
hear anything In the mix except the mix feeding the
tape recorder.
4. Plug the synthesIzer Into any Input feeding the main
mixer (in the preset, MIC (L!NE Al INs 7-10).
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