Tascam 688 Midistudio Owner's Manual page 27

Assigning to Groups
1. Press the ASSIGN MAIN or ASSIGN EFF key.
2. On an ASSIGN page, the routing/arming keys act as
GROUP 1-8 keys, like this:
ASSIGN ASSIGN
3. To turn a mute off, simply press the CHANNEL key
again until the black dot turns off.
linking the Dual to the Group OutpirtJ
You can add the DUAL channels 11-20 into the main
group mix anytime you want to record more than the ten
channels of the MAIN mix.er to a track at once. This can
be done either for the first tracking or at final mixdown.
ASSIGN MAIN OROOP 1 GAOUP 5
DO
GROUP 2 GIIOUP
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DC]
_ 3 GAOUPl
DOD
GAOUP 4
DO
Press the GROUP keys
you want. You can select
multiple groups at once
(all will be flashing).
Press a GROUP key a
second time if you need
to "disarm" It.
1. Press any of the LINK DUAL-GROUP keys. The "Unk·
indicator will appear, along with the groups you have
selected. Any DUAL PAN controls that teed the left
side of the mix will go to odd-numbered groups
n,
3, 5
and 7), and the rIght side feeds groups 2, 4, 6
and 8.
2. To tum the links off, press the LINK key again. When
both links are off, the "LINK. DUAL·GROUP" Indicator
disappears completely.
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SAVING SCENES
3. Press the numbered CHANNEL keys for the channels
you want to assign to the new destinatIon. Black
squares will appear In the channel column, in the row
corresponding to the groups you've chosen. ·MEMORY·
will 8tert blinking.
Note that bocause there are only four EFFECT RE-
TURNS, only the first four CHANNEL keys have any ef-
fect while you are In ASSIGN EFF mode.
4. To tum a group off, repeat steps 2 and 3. The second
time you press a channel key, the groups will turn off.
When you are finished with your setting, proceed to
·Savlng Scenes" below.
You must make your a$Sign, mute or Input selectIon
before pressIng tbe CHANNEL keys, One of the indicators
must be flashing to show you it Is "armed·, If you press
the number keys flrst, it haa the effect of changing the
SCENE to that number. If you accidentally do this, simply
press CLEAR to return to the original status.
Ways to leoye an edit mode:
• Press CLEAR. This will wipe out any changes you
have made and return you to the original scene.
• Press UP or DOWN, then RECALL. this will switch
the
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to a new scene, while keeping the edited
version in the MEMORY buffer for later storage. You
will not be able to edit again until the MEMORY indi-
cator is off (see "Saving Scenes·, below).
Setting Channel Mutes
Unlike the other scene edit modes, you can turn mutes on
and off, from any of the display pages.
1. Press the MUTE tey. ·Chennel Mute· will begin to
flash.
2. Press the numbered CHANNEL key of the channel you
want to turn on or off. A black dot will appear at the
top of the column when a channel is muted. You can
only mute the MAIN channels 1·10; the DUAL channels
do not have mutes.
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Any changes you make to the scene setting-mut88, links,
aasignments or Inputs-are only temporary. You need to
store them to one of the memory loeations, otherwise
they will be lost when you turn the power off.
"MEMORY" Indicator: Right under the two-digit scene
number dIsplay, this indicator shows that you have made
some changes to a scene. You can think of it as a
temporary "buffer· memory, that you can carry UP and
DOWN to other memory locations where they can be
permanently stored.
The MEMORY indicator will;
a) blink when any changes are made to a scene.
b) tum solid when the STORE/COPY key Is pressed.
cl tum solid when UP or DOWN Is pressed.
To
store
or make a copy of • scene:
1. Finish making changes to a scene, or press
STOREJCOPY to copy an unchanged scene into the
MEMORY buffer.
2. Go to the scene number you want to lItore the
memory in. using the CHANNEL number keys, or by
using the UP/DOWN keys.
3. Hold the STORE key and press SCENE/MIDI CH. The
contents
lit
anyl of the scene number will be replaced
by the memory buffer, and the MEMORY indicator will
go out.
To Retum to the original version of • lC8Qo
ThIs can be done only if you haven't done the STORE-
SCENE procedure above.
1. Press CLEAR. The MEMORY indicator will go out, end
the switch settings will return to the original version.
To erase, Kent
1. Recall the scene whose .witch settings you want to
erese.
2. Hold the ClEAR by and pre" the SCENE/MIDI CH
key. The contents of the scone will totally be cleared.