Advanced Song Management; Copying Songs; Deleting Unused Data - Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

Advanced song management

Advanced song management

Copying songs

The DP-01 disk is divided into "partitions" (see "Disk management"
on page 40). You can use different partitions for different purposes:
old songs/new songs, or instrumentals/vocal numbers, for example.
This function allows you to copy a song to another partition.
1
From the menu, select the
SONG
2
Highlight a song and press
3
Use the jog wheel to select the "target" partition that the song will be
copied to. As you scroll through the partitions, you will see the avail-
able free space figure change, so you will always know if there is
enough space for the song.
4
Press when you've selected the target partition.
ENTER
You are asked if you want to copy the song (
Press to copy the song, or
ENTER
5
The DP-01 then provides you with a progress report as it carries out
the copying operation. When it is finished, you see the copy screen
again.

Deleting unused data

Because a DP-01 song is not just the parts you hear, but possibly
unused audio parts (see "About track editing" on page 50), there
may be parts which have been cut out or that you want to delete so
you don't waste hard disk space.
You can delete the unused data from the currently loaded song.
1
From the menu, select the
SONG
2
Press to delete the unused data, or
ENTER
operation.
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action:
COPY
.
ENTER
Are you sure?
to cancel the operation.
EXIT
action:
DEL/UNUSED
EXIT
tion procedure described in "Eras-
ing many songs at one time" on
page 22 to copy many songs at
once.
the disk has three "native" parti-
tions.
).
Only do it if you are sure you do not
want the unused parts.
to cancel the
You can also use
the multiple selec-
When the DP-01
leaves the factory,
This operation can-
not be undone.