Jog positioning, 7 − recorder – Tascam 2488neo User Manual

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TASCAM 2488neo

7 − Recorder

To position the playback point precisely, you can “jog” the
playback position, using the dial. As you move backwards
and forwards through the recording, you can hear the
recorded sound at slow speed, either backward or forward,
depending on the direction you are turning the dial.

NOTE

The 2488neo can locate a position with an accuracy
of 1/10 frame. The length of 1 frame depends on the
frame rate (24–30 frames per second). At this speed,
1/10-frame accuracy is equivalent to 1/300-second –
1/240-second accuracy.

1 Position the playback point to the rough position

where you want the final point to be.

2 Press and hold the

STOP

key and press the

PLAY

key. The transport enters JOG mode and the

JOG

indicator lights. The display shows a view of the
waveform of the currently selected track at the
current playback position.

3 Press the

SELECT

key of the track that you want to

view (pressing the

SELECT

key of any of the stereo

tracks [13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24] alter-
nates between viewing the odd- and even-numbered
tracks). The display changes to the waveform of that
track.

4 Use the

and

cursor keys to zoom out and in

respectively horizontally.

In other words, pressing the

key will increase the

amount of space on the screen taken by a certain
amount of time, and pressing the

key will make

the same amount of time take less space on the
screen.

The three zoom levels available are: x 1, x 2 (allow-
ing approximately single-frame accuracy in adjust-
ment), and x 32 (allowing approximately an accura-
cy of about 10 sub-frames). The resolution is shown
below the time display.

5 Use the

and

cursor keys to adjust the vertical

scale (the way that the volume of the sound is shown).

The zoom levels here are x 1, x 2, x 4, x 8, x 16 and x 32.
Pressing the

key increases the vertical scaling of the

display, and pressing the

key decreases the scale.

T I P

If you cannot see any waveforms when you first enter
this display, press the § key to zoom the volume so
that you can see the quiet passages.

6 Use the dial to move to the desired playback position.

You can monitor the “jogged” sound of the selected
track through the monitoring system.

T I P

To move past the edge of the screen, press and hold
the F FWD or REW keys to play the tracks forwards
or backwards at normal speed for a rough position.
When you release the keys, the playback will stop.

7 Press

STOP

(or

YES/ENTER

NO/EXIT

) to return

to the home screen, with the playback position now
being the point which has just been set.

The home screen now shows the playback position
set with the JOG operation.

NOTE

Because only one track can be jogged at a time, only
one track of a stereo pair can be heard at a time in this
mode. If it is difficult to hear the track, you may want
to monitor in mono (see “Monitoring” on page 36).

Jog positioning