Tascam 688 Midistudio Owner's Manual page 7

Understanding the Mixer
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The ASSIGN EEf pag. works just like the MAIN page.
sending any of the four EFFECT RETURNS to any of the
aight GROUPs.
A black dot indicates when a MAIN chan'nel (1·10
only) is muted lturned off)'
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been linked to Groups 1 and 2. (Dual Left to 1, Dual
Right to 2.]
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Some lettings are visible regardless of page: DUAL
LINK and CHANNEL MUTE:
You may have noticed that there is no ·Assign Dual"
screen for inputs 11-20. The DUAL channels 111-20)
cannot be assigned individually. Instead, the dual sec-
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acts as
a stereo 8ubmixer whOse left and right out-
puts can be LINKED to the group outputs for recording.
DUAL LINKs should be turned OFF when you went to use
the DUAL section to monitor some InputJl-that is, hear
them, but not record them.
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are getting their inputs froni the MIC jacks.;: . .
Mixer Routing/Scene Display
To make the 688 MIDISTUDIO easy to
use,
TASCAM de-
signed an electronic switching system that controls and
memorizes all mixer routing into 99 ·scenes·. Recalling a
scene changes the routing of the whole mixer at once,
instead of having to switch each channel individually.
The 688 comes from the factory with Scenes 1-12 al-
ready preset with the most commonly used settings, so
you can get s\lrted just by pressing the UP, DOWN, and
RECALL keys.
What is
routing?
Every control on a mixing console performs 'one ci(three
relatively simple tasks: . .
1. Where FROM-called ·input selection· or ·sourclng·,
2. Where TQ---allled ·assignment". "
3. How MUCH--called level, gain, attenuation, trim,
mute, on/off, etc, etc.
The mixer of the 688 contains 146 different sWitches.
This is more than the
BC~ne
display can show
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there are th~ee "display pages" to each scene:,.; "
INPUT ,page
This is the page that shows the source ("where from") of
each of the 20 channels.of the mixer. ' .
ASSIGN MAIN page
This is the ·where to· display for the MAIN channels'(l-
10). It shows which channels are, assigned.
to
which
of
the eight output groups of the mixer. readv for recording;
These black squares show that MAIN cha'nnels 1-'0
are assigned to Group " ready to be 'recorded on
Track 1:
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