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TASCAM 2488 User’s Guide
8 – MIDI
The MIDI module inside the 2488 is a GM-compati-
ble MIDI tone generator (TG) which can be used
either to play Standard MIDI Files (SMFs) or drum patterns as a backing for the audio tracks recorded on
the 2488.
The instruments in the tone generator can be mixed
(volume, pan position, etc.)
Internal module mode
To change between the MIDI file playback mode and
pattern playback mode:
1 From the SYNC/MIDI menu, select and press MIDI
PLAYER .
2 Use the wheel to select either SMF (file player)
or PATTERN or OFF ).
3 You can also turn MIDI OUT either ON or OFF .
NOTE
This allows you to use the 2488’s playback facilities to
drive external MIDI devices, whose audio outputs can
then be recorded through the audio inputs of the 2488.
SMF
The Standard MIDI File format provides a common
file format allowing MIDI songs to be transferred
between different sequencers and sequencing soft-
ware, etc.
These files may be transferred from a personal com-
puter attached to the 2488 via USB using the proce-
dure described in “USB import (SMF files)” on
page 68.
When an SMF is read from the FAT partition in this
way, it becomes the active SMF, as shown in the
SMF
PLAYER screen, which is also used to load the SMF:
There is only one parameter that can be changed on
this screen, the
SPEED , which is expressed as a per-
centage of the original speed (since an SMF can
include tempo changes, expressing this in BPM is not
very useful).
The screen shows how many bars (measures) are in
the SMF, and also the MIDI channels used by the
SMF (these are the numbers from
1 through 16 at the
bottom of the screen. Active MIDI channels are
shown in inverse.