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CHAPTER3: FEATIJRESANDCONTROLS
7. Displays
MACHINE : Shows which machine
is currently
under
renlote colltrol.
"1" refers to the DA-XX which is ID-numbered
"0" or to
the DA-38 which is ID-numbered
"1" ; "2" to the DA-XX
which is ID-numbered
"I" or to the DA-38 which 1s ID-
numbered
"2" ; and so on. "El"
refers to ~II tmalog
machine
connected
to the remote's
37.pin
EXT
l
(ACCESSORY
1) parallel
port ; "E2" to a TASCAM
analog
machine
connected
to the
15.pin
EXT
2
(ACCESSORY
2) serial
port ; and "E3" to a VTR
connected to the 9-pin EXT 3 (RS-422) port.
LOCK STATUS : When a slave machine
is chasing the
master, the corresponding number blinks rapidly. It blinks
slowly when the slave is parked at the sane address as
the master.
It glows solid when the slave starts playing
sy"c locked to the master.
LCD xrwn
: Shows MENU-selectable
options.
MEMORY POINT : Identifies
the register
into which XI
tape location
is stored, or the register from which it is
recalled into the LOCATE TIME window,
IN and OUT will
light when the respective keys we
pressed after STR and LOCAIE
TIMES (which you ma.y
have entered with the numeric keys or have captured on
the fly with the v key) are stored into tnernory as the
punch-in and out points, If you hold the IN key and press
the OUT key, both the IN and OUT indicators will light
-
and the display will show the difference between the two
time addresses,
PRE- and POSTroll
times axe first entered
with the
numeric keys into the LOCATE TIME window, then they
are stored
into rnetnory
when the respective
keys are
pressed after STR (p.4.13).
START and END points tray either be captured on the fly
with the v key or be specified
with the numeric keys,
Then they are stored into tnen~ory when the respective
keys are pressed after STR.
MEMORY NO. : Identifies the register into which you just
stored a tape location either captured on the fly with CUE
STORE or v, or entered with the numwic keys. For more
information,
see page 4. 6. This display also shows the
register from which a tape location is currently recalled
into the LOCATE TIME window.
TAPE TIME : Shows elapsed time from the beginning of
the tape inserted in the machine currently
under retnote
control, or time code numbers if available on that tape,
The TAPE TIME display a." alternatively
act as a tape
counter,
showing
elapsed
time from an optionally
set
reference point. See page 4.10, "Relative Reference Time
Indication."
ABS and TC : ABS will light to show that the TAPE
TIME
display
is showing
elapsed
time
from
the
beginning of the tape. Or, TC will light when the display
is showing
time code numbers
as read off the tape
inserted to the machine currently under retnote control,
When both indicators (ABS and TC) are turned off, the
TAPE TIME display
is showing
a Relative
Reference
time (p.4 - IO).
LOCATE TIME : Every tape location you capture on the
fly or enter with the nwneric
keys is displayed
in this
window. Tape locations
recalled from memory are also
displayed here.
Each time you select another
machine,
the LOCATE
TIME reading
at that tnotnettt
is stored
in a backup
memory.
That reading
is automatically
read into the
LOCATE TIME window from tnemory when you select
the machine again.
8. GROUP switch
This brings you from one group of menus to another. For
more, see Chapter 2.
9. - and + keys
These keys have multiple uses, depending on menu : they
select options, enter numbers, tnove the cursor, etc.
Pressing the plus key at the same time as the minus key at
the following menu screens :
Machine
Offset, Delay Time, Pitch Control,
Locate
Preroll, and Ret In Event
resets these parameters to the factory preset vahtes.
lO.ESCAPE
key
This aborts
operations
if pressed
when a warning
is
displayed.
The key is also used to store
selections/
numbers at specific menus, as discussed later.
ii.SHlFT
key
Holding this key and pressing the -/+ tnoves the cursor on
some
specific
tnenus
such as the "Locate
Preroll"
(p.4 - 7).
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