Locating A Specified Time Directly; Locating A Specified Bar/Beat Directly; Location Marks; Setting A Location Mark - Tascam DP-32 Digital Portastudio Owner's Manual

(measure-beat) at the top of the Home screen. The tempo
is also displayed.
The display is based on the absolute time. In
ABS
mode, you can locate a position in frame units. The
current position of the recorder is shown as a time (hours:
minutes: seconds: frames) at the top of the Home screen
(30 frames per second).
You can specify a time in this time display area and move
the transport to that point.

Locating a specified time directly

In mode, you can locate a specified time directly
ABS
using the following procedure. Direct location this way is
not possible when recording.
1. Press the HOME button to open the Home screen.
2. appears to the left of the counter on the Home
ABS
screen.
If does not appear, press the METRONOME
ABS
button to open the
METRONOME
Use the CURSOR (5/b) buttons to select the
item, and then use the JOG/DATA dial
BAR DISP
to set it to . This will cause
OFF
Home screen.
3. Turn the JOG/DATA dial to change the time (the
speed that the time changes corresponds to the
speed that the dial is turned).
4. After setting the desired time value, press the PLAY
(7) button to start playback from that time.

Locating a specified bar/beat directly

In BAR mode, in the same way that you can locate a
specified time directly in ABS mode, you can locate a
position by specifying a time in bars and beats using
the following procedure. Direct location this way is not
possible when recording.
1. Press the HOME button to open the Home screen.
2. appears to the left of the counter of the Home
BAR
screen.
does not appear, press the METRONOME
If
BAR
button to open the
METRONOME
Use the CURSOR (5/b) buttons to select the
item, and then use the JOG/DATA dial
BAR DISP
to set it to . This will cause
ON
Home screen.
3. The value cycles automatically when they reach the
highest or lowest value in a field.
When set to 4/4, if the beat field exceeds
example, the bar value will increase by one, and the
beat field will return to
01
In the same way, when you turn the JOG/DATA dial
to lower a value and the beat value passes through
01, the bar value will decrease and the total value will
change in succession. When set to 4/4, for example, if
the value drops below
01
ABS
screen.
to appear on the
ABS
screen..
to appear on the
BAR
, for
04
.
when the cursor is located
7 - Recorder Functions
under the beat field, the bar value will decrease by
one, and the beat field will return to
4. After setting the desired measure/beat, press the
PLAY (7) button to start playback from that beat.

Location marks

This unit allows you to set up to 99 location marks in each
song. For example, you could mark the intro, vocal entry
points and the starts of verses.

Setting a location mark

When stopped, recording or playing back, press the
MARK SET button at a point where you want a location
mark.
A mark number ( ) appears on the Home screen
MARK xx
( is the mark number).
xx
The displayed mark number is the mark at the current
position or the mark that is placed closes before the
current position. A flag icon is also shown above the
timeline.
NOTE
The marks are numbered in the order that you enter them.
They are not numbered according to their positions in the
song. Therefore, could appear before
MARK 05
in a song, for example.

Skipping to location marks

Press the F FWD (,) or REW (m) button to skip to
the next or previous mark.
NOTE
Marks are skipped to in time order, not in numerical order.

Deleting a location mark

You can delete marks when the recorder is stopped.
1. Press the F FWD (,) or REW (m) button to move
to the mark that you want to delete.
2. Press the MARK SET button to delete the location
mark.
NOTE
This operation cannot be undone. Make sure you want to
execute it.
.
04
MARK 01
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