Tascam 788 - Manual (Page 26)

2 – Getting started–The “home” display
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TASCAM 788 Digital PortaStudio
The “home” display
There is one special display which is always avail-
able with the touch of one key—the
HOME/ESC key.
This “home” display provides the following
information:
• A large display of the time counter (see below)
• Track/monitor meters and the recording source
• The title of the currently active location mark
• A space for messages
• The record ready status of the tracks (in this exam-
ple tracks 3 and 4 are ready for recording)
The time display
When the home display is shown, moving the cursor
to the left field on the top line of the display allows
you to use the dial to change the time mode shown in
the top line of the home (and other screens) between
the following options:
• Absolute time
• MIDI Timecode
• Bars and beats and the current tempo (when work-
ing with a tempo map)
Entering and editing titles
The 788 allows you to use titles up to 12 characters in
length that you choose to identify songs, virtual
tracks, location marks, library settings, etc. (the titles
of location marks can be up to 10 characters long).
It is probably much easier for you to remember a vir-
tual track title such as
Good solo than
V.TRACK 97 , or a real song title rather than
SONG 12 (of course, if you prefer to use titles
like V. TRACK 97 , or Mark 006 to
Bass hook , you’re always free to leave things
that way!).
You can set and edit a title for the following items in
almost every screen where you select or store them:
• Location marks (except the IN, OUT and TO
points, which are a special case)
• Songs
• Virtual tracks
• Mixer scenes
• Mixer routing tables
• Effect settings
The way in which you enter titles, and edit existing
titles is as follows:
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