Using Cf Cards; Before You Start Using A New Cf Card; Checking How Full The Card Has Become - Tascam Pocketstudio 5 Getting Started Manual

6 – Managing songs and data on your Pocketstudio 5

Using CF cards

The 32 MB card which is supplied with your Pocket-
studio 5 allows you to record up to 10 minutes of 4-
track material (as well as allowing you to produce the
stereo mix for these tracks).
Although you can back up cards to the computer
quickly and easily using the USB connection, as
described below (and then reuse the cards), you may

Before you start using a new CF card

Before you use a new CF card with the Pocketstudio
5, it must be formatted.
NOTE
When you format a card on the Pocketstudio 5, it
doesn't just format the card, but it also adds the folders
described in "Pocketstudio files" on page 26. For this
reason, you should always format a new card on a Pock-
etstudio 5, not a computer.
To format a card:
1 Take out any existing card from the Pockets-
tudio 5 and replace it with the new card. Note
that the Pocketstudio 5 will report a number
of messages as you put in the new card,
because there is no data on this unformatted
card. Don't worry about these messages.
2 From the main menu, select
move the cursor down to the
option. Press
FORMAT
C a r d F o r m a t
S u r e ? > > [ E N T E R ]

Checking how full the card has become

To get an idea of how much space remains on the
card:
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, and
CARD
Card
ENTER .
sometimes want to expand the capabilities of your
Pocketstudio 5 by purchasing another CF card with
more capacity. You can use CF cards up to 128 MB
in size.
Note that it is currently not possible to use the CF-
size hard disk drives which are available.
3 Press to format the card.
ENTER/YES
DO NOT press any keys or remove the card
while formatting is taking place (it only takes
a few seconds.
4
After formatting, the Pocketstudio 5 asks if
you want to create a new song on the card. In
most cases, you will want to create a new
song, so answer
YES
new song will be called
5 When the screen returns to the home screen,
you can start remove the card or start press-
ing keys on the Pocketstudio 5.
Press to leave the screen without for-
EXIT
matting.
6 When the card is formatted, you must copy
at least the pattern file
your computer's CD-ROM to the Pocketstu-
dio 5. See "Connecting the Pocketstudio 5 to
a computer" on page 25 and "Pocketstudio
files" on page 26 for further details.
1 From the main menu, select the
menu, move the cursor down to
and press
SPACE
C a r d S p a c e
K K K o o o o o o o
U s e d :
S p a c e :
2 Press to exit from this screen.
EXIT
( ) to this. The
ENTER
SONG1 .
from
PATTERN.001
CARD
CARD
:
ENTER
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