Tascam 788 - Manual (Page 77)

8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Recording to CD-R
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Recording to CD-R (multiple tracks)
When recording multiple tracks, the tracks can be
recorded in any order, and varying lengths of silence
can be added.
Once a CD has been made in this way, no further
tracks can be added, as the CD is automatically final-
ized at the end of the operation.
There must be a recordable CD disc in the drive
before starting this operation.
1 Make sure the 788 is in “normal” mode, that is,
not in the master check mode or mastering
mode.
2 With the transport stopped, press the MENU
key.
3 Move the cursor to CD-R , and press ENTER .
4 Move the cursor to CD WRITER and press
ENTER .
The 788 checks the CD-R drive. If there is a
valid disc in the drive, the display shows the
screen above (a list of the songs which have
been mastered on the current partition).
NOTE
If a song has been recorded, but has not been mastered, it
will not appear in the list.
If you want to change partitions, see “Selecting a disk” on
page 32.
If you have a song in another partition which you want to
add to the list in the current partition, you should copy it
from the old partition to the current partition (see “Copying
songs” on page 29).
5 Use the dial to scroll through the list of songs,
and when you highlight a song that you wish to
add to the final CD, press the
INSERT key.
A check mark (
✔) appears by the title of every
selected song. There is no need to worry about
the final running order of the CD at this stage.
If you have made a mistake in adding a song to
the list, you can remove it by highlighting the
title and pressing the
DELETE key.
6 When you have added all the songs to the list
that you want to record on the CD, press
ENTER .
NOTE
If you have only selected one song, the procedure from
now is as if you had highlighted the song and pressed
ENTER, as described in “Recording to CD-R (track
recording)” on page 75. Read that section, and ignore the
remainder of this section.
The screen changes to the song order screen (if
you want to return to the song selection screen,
press
EXIT .
7 Use the dial to scroll through the list of songs.
8 When a song title is highlighted, use the § and
¶ keys to move it up and down in the list. As
the song is moved up and down in the list it
remains highlighted.
9 Select further songs for rearrangement using
the dial.
10 When you have finalized the running order,
press
ENTER .
The screen changes to the “gap setting” screen.
This allows you to set the gap between tracks
on the CD (press
EXIT to return to the song
order screen)
11 Use the § and ¶ keys to move the cursor to
the gaps between the songs on the CD.
12 Use the dial to set the time in seconds between
songs, from
0.0 seconds (no gap) through
9.9 seconds in 0.1 second steps.