Utility Copying; Copying Within A Module - Tascam DM-4800 Owner's Manual

2 – Basic operational concepts : UTILITY copying

UTILITY copying

This screen allows various parameters to be copied
within and between channel modules.
It also allows the protection of various parameters to
stop them being overwritten when they are copied
and pasted between channels.

Copying within a module

The top half of the screen is used to control these
functions, which allow the pan/balance settings and
levels to be copied between aux busses and busses
(including the stereo buss). This may be useful when
setting up a studio monitor mix, for example, and the
levels and pans of the aux sends used for the monitor
mix should initially be set to the same as the chan-
nels.
1 Check either of the two checkboxes (
and/or LEVEL ) to select the settings to be copied.
2 In either of the two boxes associated with
these checkboxes, the top row copies settings
from the aux to buss, and the second row cop-
ies them from buss to aux.
Naturally, it is not possible to select both in the
same box, though it is possible to select
in one box and
AUX AUX -> CH
3 Select the source and the destination parame-
ters as explained here.
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Press the
screen.
You can also use the PARAMETER EDIT SCREEN
key (above the COPY and PASTE keys) to bring up
this screen.
•
•
•
PAN/BAL
•
4 Move the cursor to the on-screen
CH ->
5 Press
in the other.
If neither of the checkboxes is checked when you
press the
key (
UTILITY ALT
Figure 2.25: UTILITY copy screen.
TIP
For pan/balance copying, linked pairs of aux
sends and busses are available, or an
tion is also available. Note that individual aux
and busses are not available.
The buss is available as a destination.
STEREO
The aux sends are selectable individually or as
linked pairs as sources or destinations for level
copying.
Channels are divided into blocks of eight:
9-16 , 17-24 , 25-32 33-40 , 41-48
Individual channels cannot be selected. This
applies to both pan/balance and level copying.
and press . A confirmation popup mes-
ENTER
sage appears.
again to confirm the copy, or a
ENTER
cursor key to cancel.
button, an error message is displayed.
COPY
+ ) to access this
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selec-
ALL
1-8 ,
, 49-56 , 57-64 and ALL .
COPY button