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Portastudio iPad Application
User's Manual
What's in the Main Window
When you launch Portastudio you will see the main screen:
1. Record ("REC") Hold this button while pressing Play to record a track
2. Play Plays back what you've recorded. If you haven't recorded anything, pressing play
has no effect.
3. Rewind ("REW") Move to the beginning of the song.
4. Fast Forward ("FF") Move to the end of the song
5. Pause Stop playback until Pause is pressed again.
6. Stop Stop playback or recording
7. Counter Displays your song position, 000 being the beginning of the tape
8. Song Name The name of your song, as set in the Cassettes screen
9. Input Gain Raises or lowers the level of the microphone that will recorded to a track
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- Page 1 Portastudio iPad Application User’s Manual What's in the Main Window When you launch Portastudio you will see the main screen: 1. Record ("REC") Hold this button while pressing Play to record a track 2. Play Plays back what you've recorded. If you haven't recorded anything, pressing play has no effect.
- Page 2 10. Input Assign Specifies which track you will record on, 1 through 4. 11. Input Safe Removes the Input Assign so that you can't record accidentally 12. Cassettes Opens the Cassettes window, where you can create new songs and rename them.
- Page 3 What's in the Cassettes Window Portastudio uses the Cassettes library to load and save your songs. 1. Cassette Name Touch this field to bring up the iPad keyboard and name your song 2. Cassette Choose one of the 20 cassettes to select it for loading saving or deletion. 3.
- Page 4 To Record a Track 1. Press one of the Input Assign buttons, 1 through 4 2. Test the microphone. (If you are using the built-in iPad microphone, you can still plug in a pair of headphones for monitoring.) 3. Adjust the Input Trim so that you're recording somewhere around 0VU on the track's meter 4.
- Page 5 Q: Does the Portastudio app support audio interfaces plugged into the iPad? A: The iPad does work with a few class-compliant audio interfaces through the Apple Camera Connection Kit. (No TASCAM interfaces work this way.) Since Apple doesn't officially support this feature, we can't officially support it either. However, some testers have gotten it to work.
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