Teac HS-4000 User Manual

HS-4000

4 Channel Audio Recorder

OWNER'S MANUAL

D01134001D

IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR
BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE
PERSONNEL.

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within equilateral triangle, is intended to
alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s
enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to
persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to
the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the
literature accompanying the appliance.

For European Customers

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WARNING: TO PREVENT FIRE OR

SHOCK HAZARD, DO NOT EXPOSE THIS

APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE.

For U.S.A.

TO THE USER

This equipment has been tested and found to comply
with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part
15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protection against harmful interference when
the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in
accordance with the instruction manual, may cause
harmful interference to radio communications.
Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely
to cause harmful interference in which case the user
will be required to correct the interference at his own
expense.

CAUTION

Changes or modifications to this equipment not expressly
approved by TEAC CORPORATION for compliance could
void the user's authority to operate this equipment.

Disposal of electrical and electronic equipment

(a) All electrical and electronic equipment should be disposed

of separately from the municipal waste stream via collection
facilities designated by the government or local authorities.

(b) By disposing of electrical and electronic equipment

correctly, you will help save valuable resources and prevent
any potential negative effects on human health and the
environment.

(c) Improper disposal of waste electrical and electronic

equipment can have serious effects on the environment
and human health because of the presence of hazardous
substances in the equipment.

(d) The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

symbol, which shows a wheeled bin that has been crossed
out, indicates that electrical and electronic equipment must
be collected and disposed of separately from household
waste.

(e) Return and collection systems are available to end users.

For more detailed information about the disposal of old
electrical and electronic equipment, please contact your
city office, waste disposal service or the shop where you
purchased the equipment.

WARNING

This is a Class A product. In a domestic environment, this
product may cause radio interference in which case the user
may be required to take adequate measures

In North America use only on 120V supply.

This appliance has a serial number located on the rear
panel. Please record the model number and serial number
and retain them for your records.

Model number

Serial number

TASCAM HS-4000

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CE Marking Information
a) Applicable electromagnetic environment: E4

b) Peak inrush current: 14 A

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

1 Read these instructions.

2 Keep these instructions.

3 Heed all warnings.

4 Follow all instructions.

5 Do not use this apparatus near water.

6 Clean only with dry cloth.

7 Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in

accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

8 Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators,

heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including
ampliers) that produce heat.

9 Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized

or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two
blades with one wider than the other. A grounding
type plug has two blades and a third grounding
prong. The wide blade or the third prong are
provided for your safety. If the provided plug does
not fit into your outlet, consult an electrician for
replacement of the obsolete outlet.

10 Protect the power cord from being walked on

or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience
receptacles, and the point where they exit from the
apparatus.

11 Only use attachments/accessories specified by the

manufacturer.

12 Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or

table specied by the manufacturer, or sold with the
apparatus. When a cart is used, use caution when
moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid
injury from tip-over.

Do not expose this apparatus to drips or splashes.

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Do not place any objects filled with liquids, such as

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vases, on the apparatus.

Do not install this apparatus in a confined space such

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as a book case or similar unit.

The apparatus draws nominal non-operating power

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from the AC outlet with its POWER or STANDBY/ON

switch not in the ON position.
The apparatus should be located close enough to the

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AC outlet so that you can easily grasp the power cord

plug at any time.
The mains plug is used as the disconnect device, the

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disconnect device shall remain readily operable.

Products with Class I construction are equipped with a

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power supply cord that has a grounding plug. The cord

of such a product must be plugged into an AC outlet
that has a protective grounding connection.

If the product uses batteries (including a battery pack

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or installed batteries), they should not be exposed to

sunshine, fire or excessive heat.
CAUTION for products that use replaceable lithium

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batteries: there is danger of explosion if a battery is

replaced with an incorrect type of battery. Replace only
with the same or equivalent type.

Caution should be taken when using earphones or

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headphones with the product because excessive sound

pressure (volume) from earphones or headphones can
cause hearing loss.

RACK-MOUNTING THE UNIT

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Use the supplied rack-mounting kit to mount the unit in a
standard 19-inch rack, as shown below.

Remove the feet of the unit before mounting.

13 Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or

when unused for long periods of time.

14 Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel.

Servicing is required when the apparatus has been
damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or
plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects
have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has
been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate
normally, or has been dropped.

CAUTION

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Leave 1U of space above the unit for ventilation.

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Allow at least 10 cm (4 in) at the rear of the unit for
ventilation.

TASCAM HS-4000

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

By changing the positions where the rack mount ears are
attached to the unit, it is possible to install the unit into a rack so
that its front panel is about 4 cm inside the front of the rack.

Remove the three screws that attach the rack mount ears from
each side and then use the screws to reattach the ears as shown
in the illustration below.

For China

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Contents

1 − Introduction .............................................. 9

Features .................................................................................. 9

Included items .....................................................................9

Conventions used in this manual ..................................9

Intellectual property rights ............................................. 9

Precautions for placement and use ............................10

Beware of condensation .................................................10

Cleaning the unit ...............................................................10

Cleaning the display ..................................................10

About CF cards ...................................................................10

Precautions for use ....................................................10

Media that has been confirmed for use

with this unit ................................................................10

2 − Names and functions of parts ................ 11

Front panel ..........................................................................11

Rear panel ............................................................................13

PARALLEL connector .................................................14

RS-232C connector ....................................................15

RS-422 connector .......................................................15

Home Screen ...................................................................... 16

In timeline mode ........................................................16

In take mode or single playlist mode ..................20

Dual playlist mode .....................................................22

A/B MIXED playlist mode .......................................23

On-air mode ................................................................. 24

3 − Preparation .............................................25

Inserting and removing CF cards ................................25

Inserting CF cards .......................................................25

Removing CF cards ....................................................25

Security screws ...........................................................26

About the display ..............................................................26

Adjusting the display angle .................................... 26

Adjusting display and indicator brightness ......26

Cautions related to display use .............................26

Turning the power ON and OFF ...................................27

Setting the time of the built-in clock .........................27

Lock function ......................................................................28

Recording times ................................................................29

Connecting headphones ........................................34

Online function ..................................................................35

Recording operation limitations .................................35

5 – Projects ....................................................36

Project organization ........................................................36

File formats ..........................................................................36

Monophonic and polyphonic modes .................36

Folders where files are saved in mono mode ..36

PROJECT screen ................................................................. 37

Project selection screen ...........................................37

Session selection screen ..........................................37

AES31 file selection screen .....................................38

Take selection screen ................................................38

Playlist selection screen ........................................... 39

Project operations ............................................................39

Creating new projects ..............................................39

Editing the project name ........................................40

Changing a project name later ............................. 41

Editing the name of the first session ...................41

Loading projects ........................................................41

Rebuilding projects ...................................................42

Erasing a project ......................................................... 42

Session operations ...........................................................43

Creating new sessions ..............................................43

Loading sessions ........................................................ 43

Rebuilding sessions ...................................................44

Copying sessions ........................................................44

Erasing sessions .......................................................... 45

Switching project screens ..............................................46

6 – Overview of operation modes ...............47

Timeline mode functions ...............................................47

Take mode functions .......................................................47

Playlist mode functions ..................................................48

Single mode .................................................................48

Dual mode ....................................................................48

A/B MIXED mode .......................................................48

On-air mode functions ....................................................49

Selecting the operation mode .....................................49

4 – Basic operation .......................................30

CF card preparation .........................................................30

CF card selection ........................................................ 30

Formatting a CF card ................................................30

Creating a new project .............................................32

Setting the master clock .................................................33

Setting inputs and outputs ...........................................33

Setting the inputs ......................................................33

Setting reference levels ...........................................34

7 – Timeline mode ........................................50

Preparing to record ..........................................................50

Basic preparations......................................................50

Creating a new project ............................................. 50

Creating new sessions ..............................................50

Arming tracks for recording ...................................51

Recording mode settings ........................................51

Setting the file format ..............................................52

Other recording settings .........................................52

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Making a recording .......................................................... 52

Locate to the recording start position ................52

Recording ......................................................................52

Stopping recording ...................................................52

Retaking a recording .................................................52

Playback................................................................................53

Project/session selection ......................................... 53

Setting input monitoring ........................................53

Setting the online function ....................................53

Locating to playback starting points .................. 53

Playback .........................................................................53

Call function ................................................................. 53

BWF-J cue points (timeline mode) .......................54

Importing and exporting AES31 editing

information .........................................................................54

Importing AES31 editing information ................54

Exporting AES31 editing information .................55

Saving timelines .........................................................56

Importing all takes ..................................................... 56

Changing the timeline starting timecode ...............57

Editing timelines ...............................................................57

Selecting a region to copy, cut or delete ...........58

Setting editing start points ....................................58

Setting editing end points ......................................58

Clearing editing start and end points .................58

Selecting tracks for editing ....................................59

Copying the data of a selected region (Copy) .59

Cutting the data of a selected region (Cut) ......60

Erasing the data of a selected region (Erase) ...60

Dividing data at a selected point (Divide) .........61

Inserting data from the copy buffer (Insert) .....61

Pasting the copy buffer data at a set point

(Paste) .............................................................................62

Inserting/pasting data from a select file

at a set point (Ins/Paste File)...................................62

Inserting silence in a set region (Insert Mute) ..64

Setting fade ins and outs for designated

regions

(Fade IN/FadeOut) ......................................................64

Removing fade ins and outs

(Remove Fade IN/Remove Fade Out) ..................65

Setting the playback level of a designated

region (Level) ...............................................................65

Undoing the previous edit (UNDO) .....................66

Redoing an edit (REDO) ...........................................66

Bouncing ..............................................................................67

8 – Take mode ...............................................68

Preparing to record ..........................................................68

Basic preparations......................................................68

Creating a new project ............................................. 68

Creating new sessions ..............................................68

Arming tracks for recording ...................................69

Recording mode settings ........................................69

Setting the file format ..............................................69

Other recording settings .........................................70

Making a recording .......................................................... 70

Recording ......................................................................70

Stopping recording ...................................................70

Retaking a recording .................................................70

Playback................................................................................70

Project/session/take selection ..............................70

Setting input monitoring ........................................71

Setting the online function ....................................71

Playback .........................................................................71

Call function ................................................................. 71

BWF-J cue points (take mode) ...............................72

Using the flash start function

in playlist mode ..........................................................72

Take operations .................................................................72

Changing the start time of a take.........................72

Using @ with take names ........................................73

Copying takes ..............................................................74

Deleting takes .............................................................74

Sorting takes ................................................................75

Moving takes ...............................................................75

Editing take names ....................................................76

9 – Playlist mode ...........................................77

Playlist operations ............................................................77

Loading project/sessions ........................................77

Creating a new playlist ............................................. 77

Importing JPPA PPL files .......................................... 78

Changing a playlist name later ..............................79

Loading playlists .........................................................80

Deleting a playlist ......................................................81

Editing a playlist (adding, clearing and editing

entries) ..................................................................................81

Entry list screen ...........................................................81

Assign File screen ....................................................... 83

Assigning a take to an entry ...................................85

Entry number page allocation...............................87

Clearing entry assignments ....................................88

Editing entry titles ......................................................88

Editing the playback start

and stop positions .....................................................89

Quickly switching to the region between

BC$STANDBY and BC$END marks ........................89

Using the numeric entry screen to edit the

playback beginning and ending positions .......90

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Editing entry starting timecodes ..........................91

Editing fade in/out lengths and levels ................92

Using rehearsal playback functions ....................92

Saving a playlist ..........................................................93

Naming a playlist and saving it .............................93

Creating a JPPA PPL file from the loaded

playlist ............................................................................94

Playing back playlists .......................................................95

Project/session/playlist selection ......................... 95

Selecting the current player ...................................96

Setting the online function ....................................96

Playlist playback .........................................................97

Using the call function .............................................97

BWF-J cue points (playlist mode) .........................97

Using the flash start function ...............................97

Flash start key display colors on the TASCAM

RC-HS32PD remote control in A/B MIXED

mode .............................................................................97

10 – On-air mode ..........................................98

Selecting files for on-air playback ...............................98

Playback areas in on-air mode ....................................98

Using the ON AIR button to switch between
rehearsal/confirmation playback and actual

playback modes ................................................................99

On-air playback ..................................................................99

Conducting credits playback ........................................99

Using the call function ....................................................99

BWF-J cue point (on-air mode) .................................. 10 0

Changing the sampling frequency .......................... 100

Precautions when using on-air mode .................... 100

11 – Internal settings .................................. 101

Menu screen .....................................................................101

Recording settings (REC SETUP) ................................101

REC MODE page .......................................................101

FILE FORMAT page ...................................................101

OPTIONS page ...........................................................102

Playback settings (PLAY SETUP) ................................ 103

GENERAL page (PLAY SETUP screen) ............... 103

CONTROL page ........................................................ 103

Sync and timecode settings (SYNC T/C) ................. 104

CLOCK page .............................................................. 104

SYNC page ................................................................. 104

T/C page ...................................................................... 105

SETUP page (SYNC T/C screen) ........................... 106

I/O page ...................................................................... 106

Remote settings (REMOTE SETUP) ........................... 106

GENERAL page (REMOTE SETUP screen) ........ 106

PARALLEL page .........................................................107

RS–232C page ........................................................... 108

RS–422 page ............................................................. 108

ETHERNET page ...................................................... 108

Mixer settings (MIXER SETUP) .................................... 109

INPUT page ................................................................ 109

MONITOR MIXER page............................................110

SETUP page (MIXER SETUP screen) ....................110

Output signal block diagrams ............................. 111

Level meters settings (METER SETUP) .....................112

System settings (SYSTEM SETUP) ..............................112

PREFERENCES page .................................................112

REFERENCE LEVEL page ........................................ 113

ANA Ref LVL ADJ page ........................................... 113

Backup/Startup page ............................................. 113

CLOCK ADJUST page ............................................... 114

Version display and optional functions

(VERSION/OPTION) .........................................................115

VERSION INFO page ............................................... 115

WAV LOCK page .......................................................115

Managing CF cards (CF MANAGE) .............................116

Operation mode selection (OPERATION MODE)

Folder structure ............................................................... 117

File names ................................................................... 117

.. 116

12 – Mark and locate functions .................. 118

Mark functions ................................................................. 118

Adding marks ............................................................ 118

Using keys to locate to marks ..............................118

MARK LIST screen .................................................... 119

Locating to marks ....................................................119

Viewing mark list information .............................119

Erasing marks ............................................................120

Editing mark positions ...........................................120

Editing mark names.................................................121

Manual locate function ................................................. 121

13 – Other functions ................................... 122

Confidence monitoring ................................................122

Confidence monitoring operation

conditions ...................................................................122

Online functions ..............................................................122

Enabling the online function ...............................122

Switching the online playback mode ...............123

Outputs during online playback .........................123

Flash start function.........................................................123

Setting the flash key function .............................123

Selecting the flash start page ..............................124

Flash start playback .................................................124

Standby playback (only with RC-HS32PD

connected) .................................................................124

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Operation using a computer keyboard ..................124

Setting the keyboard type ....................................124

Using the keyboard to input names ..................124

List of keyboard operations ..................................125

Network functions (FTP/Telnet/VNC) ......................125

FTP (file transfer protocol) ....................................125

Remote control by Telnet ......................................127

VNC (virtual network computing) ......................127

WAV LOCK function (paid option) ......................128

14 – Timecode synchronization ................. 131

Playback synchronized with timecode ...................131

Timeline mode ..........................................................131

Take mo d e ..................................................................131

Playlist mode .............................................................131

On-air mode .............................................................. 131

Recording synchronized with timecode ................131

Timeline mode ..........................................................131

Take mo d e ..................................................................131

Playlist mode .............................................................131

On-air mode .............................................................. 131

Basic operation ................................................................132

Timecode offset ..............................................................132

Rechase ...............................................................................132

15 – Importing files recorded by other

devices ......................................................... 133

Preparation before importing ....................................133

Using imported files on this unit ...............................133

16 – Troubleshooting .................................134

17 – Messages .............................................135

18 – Specifications ......................................146

General .............................................................................. 146

Inputs and outputs ........................................................ 146

Analog audio inputs and outputs ..................... 146

Digital audio inputs and outputs ...................... 146

Control inputs and outputs ..................................147

Audio performance ........................................................147

Other specifications ....................................................... 147

Dimensional drawings ................................................. 148

Block diagram...................................................................149

TASCAM HS-4000

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1 − Introduction

Thank you very much for purchasing a TASCAM HS-4000 4
Channel Audio Recorder. Please read this manual thoroughly
before using the unit so that you understand correct operating
procedures and can use its functions fully. We hope that you
enjoy using this unit for many years.

Please keep this manual so that you can read it at any time. A
digital copy of this manual can also be downloaded from our
website (http://tascam.com/)

Features

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CompactFlash cards are used as recording media (Ultra
DMA compatible)

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Two CompactFlash card slots allows two cards to be loaded
and recorded to simultaneously using dual player mode
(planned for a future firmware version upgrade)

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4-track simultaneous recording is possible at up to 96 kHz,
24-bit sample rates

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Confidence monitoring allows simultaneous playback
of the signal as it is being recorded (when recording two
tracks at up to 44.1/48 kHz,)

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Simultaneous playback of four tracks, including two stereo
pairs (dual playlist mode)

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Three operation modes: timeline, take and playlist

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In timeline mode, linear recording and playback like a tape
recorder are possible

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In take mode, playback and flash start of takes are possible

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In playlist mode, takes can be added to a list and played
back in list order or activated using flash start

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In single playlist mode, playback of up to 4 tracks is possible

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In dual playlist mode, 2 stereo tracks can be independently
played back and controlled

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Using the ONLINE key, online playback and monitoring
playback are possible

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Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) file recording

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Flash start is possible using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD, RC–SS20
(both sold separately)

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In addition to using the remote controllers that are sold
separately, flash start is also possible using PARALLEL
control or a keyboard

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Auto cue, auto ready and incremental play functions

•

Importing and exporting AES31 editing information in
timeline mode are possible

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Playlist mode (compatible with JPPA flash start playlist file
loading)

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JOG/SHUTTLE function

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Intuitive operation is possible using graphical interface on
TFT color touchscreen

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4 channels of XLR analog balanced inputs and outputs

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2 stereo pairs of XLR AES/EBU digital inputs and outputs

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2 channels of XLR analog monitoring outputs

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Headphone output

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XLR time code input and output

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BNC media reference (NTSC/PAL black burst signals, and
HDTV Tri-level signals) and word clock input and output/
thru

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Compatible with 48 kHz pull-up/pull-down operation

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Copying files to connected USB memory is possible
(planned for a future firmware version upgrade)

•

LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) functions allow file transmission,
remote control and observation over a network (planned
for a future firmware version upgrade)

•

Parallel remote control is possible

•

RS-232C serial remote control is possible (planned for a
future firmware version upgrade)

•

RS-422 (9-pin serial protocol) serial remote control is
possible

•

Rack mounting (2U) is possible

Included items

This product includes the following items.
Take care when opening the package not to damage the items.

Keep the package materials for transportation in the future.
Please contact the store where you purchased this unit if any of

these items are missing or have been damaged during transpor­tation.

• Main unit (HS-4000) ................................................................................ 1

• Power cord set .......................................................................................... 1

• Rack-mounting screw kit ...................................................................... 1

• Security screws ......................................................................................... 3

• Warranty card ........................................................................................... 1

• Owner's manual (this manual)............................................................ 1

Conventions used in this manual

In this manual, we use the following conventions:

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Keys, jacks and other parts on the main unit and external
devices are indicated like this: MENU

•

“CompactFlash card” is abbreviated as “CF card.”

•

Additional information is provided as necessary as tips,
notes and cautions.

TIP

These are tips about how to use the unit.

NOTE

These provide additional explanations and describe special
cases.

CAUTION

Failure to follow these instructions could result in injury, damage
to equipment or lost recording data, for example.

Intellectual property rights

•

TASCAM is a trademark of TEAC Corporation, registered in
the U.S. and other countries.

•

CompactFlash is a US registered trademark of SanDisk
Corporation.

•

Other company names, product names and logos in this
document are the trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective owners.

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1 − Introduction

Any data, including, but not limited to information, described
herein are intended only as illustrations of such data and/or
information and not as the specifications for such data and/
or information. TEAC Corporation disclaims any warranty that
any use of such data and/or information shall be free from
infringement of any third party’s intellectual property rights
or other proprietary rights, and further, assumes no liability
of whatsoever nature in the event of any such infringement,
or arising from or connected with or related to the use of
such data and/or information.

This product is designed to help you record and reproduce
sound works to which you own the copyright, or where
you have obtained permission from the copyright holder or
the rightful licensor. Unless you own the copyright, or have
obtained the appropriate permission from the copyright
holder or the rightful licensor, your unauthorized recording,
reproduction or distribution thereof may result in severe
criminal penalties under copyright laws and international
copyright treaties. If you are uncertain about your rights,
contact your legal advisor. Under no circumstances will TEAC
Corporation be responsible for the consequences of any
illegal copying performed using the recorder.

Precautions for placement and use

•

The guaranteed operating temperature range of this
product is 5º - 35º C (41º- 95º F).

•

Do not install in the following types of places. Doing
so could degrade the sound quality and/or cause
malfunctions.

• Places with significant vibrations or that are otherwise
unstable

• Near windows or other places exposed to direct sunlight

• Near heaters or other extremely hot places

• Extremely cold places

• Places with bad ventilation or high humidity

•

Make sure that the unit is mounted in a level position for
correct operation.

•

In order to promote the emission of heat, do not place
anything on top of this product.

•

Do not place this product on top of a powered amplifier or
other equipment that emits heat.

Beware of condensation

If the unit is moved from a cold to a warm place, or used
immediately after a cold room has been heated or otherwise
exposed to a sudden temperature change, condensation could
occur. Should this happen, leave the unit for one or two hours
before turning the unit on.

Cleaning the unit

Wipe the unit with a soft dry cloth to clean it. Do not use any
benzine, paint thinner, alcohol or other chemical agents. Doing
so could damage the surface of the unit or cause fading.

Cleaning the display

Slightly wipe the display with a soft dry cloth that does not shed
dust (e.g. a cleaning cloth). Avoid wiping with a stiff cloth or
rubbing with force. Doing so could damage the surface of the
LCD. Do not use benzene, thinner, manicure remover, alcohol or
similar substances.

About CF cards

Precautions for use

CompactFlash cards are precision devices. To prevent damage to
the card or the slot, please observe the following cautions.

•

Do not leave a CF card in an extremely hot or cold location.

•

Do not leave a CF card in an extremely damp location.

•

Do not allow a CF card to become wet.

•

Do not place any object on top of a CF card, or twist or
bend it.

•

Do not subject a CF card to strong impact.

•

Do not insert or remove a CF card during recording,
playback, data transfer or other operations that access a
card.

Media that has been confirmed for use with this unit

This unit uses CF cards for recording and playback.
We recommend using genuine TASCAM CF cards, but use of

other CF cards that are available commercially is possible.
Microdrives cannot be used with this unit.
The capacities and performance of your HS-4000 will vary based

on the speed and abilities of the Compact Flash (CF) media used.
Older and some cheaper Compact Flash (CF) cards use slower
memory components and little internal buffering which results
in poor recording performance. Newer CF cards, particularly
those made for high-precision DSLR cameras, not only perform
reading and writing faster, but also come in larger storage size.

A list of CF cards that we have confirmed to work with this unit is
provided on our website (http://tascam.com/).

If a CF card is used that has not been confirmed, this unit might
not operate correctly.

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Front panel

2 − Names and functions of parts

1 POWER switch

Use to turn the power on and off.
This switch has a cover to prevent misoperation.
Open the cover from below to access and operate the

switch.

2 USB connector

By connecting a USB flash drive, for example, you can back
up data from a CF card and save files to the card.

(Support is planned in a future firmware version upgrade.)
By connecting a USB keyboard, you can input the names of

projects and sessions, for example.
By default, the unit is set to use Japanese keyboards, which

have a different layout from US keyboards.
To use a US keyboard, change the setting on the

PREFERENCES page of the SYSTEM SETUP screen. (See
“PREFERENCES page” on page 112.)

NOTE

Do not disconnect USB flash memory when using it to copy
files.

You can connect and disconnect USB flash memory at all
other times.

You can connect and disconnect USB keyboards at any time.
This unit is not compatible with USB hubs and other devices

with USB hub functions.

3 SLOT 1 and SLOT 2 indicators

The indicator for the currently selected CF card slot lights.
When recording or copying, it blinks rapidly.
When no CF card is inserted in the current slot, it blinks

slowly.

CAUTION

Do not remove a CF card from a slot when its indicator is
blinking rapidly.

4 CF card slot (SLOT 1/SLOT 2)

Insert CF cards here.(See “Inserting and removing CF cards”
on page 25.)

5 HOME key

Press to open the Home Screen. Press the MENU key while
pressing and holding the HOME key to open the LOCK
SETUP screen. (See “Lock function” on page 28.)

Turn the DATA dial while pressing and holding the HOME
key to adjust the brightness of the color display, the PAUSE,
REC, PLAY and ONLINE keys and the JOG (SHUTTLE), SLOT 1
and SLOT 2 indicators.

Push and turn the DATA dial while pressing and holding the
HOME key to adjust the brightness of only the color display.

6 MENU key

Press to open the MENU screen.
Press the MENU key while pressing and holding the HOME

key to open the LOCK SETUP screen.(See “Lock function” on
page 28.)

7 Color display

This 3.5-inch TFT color display has a 320 x 240 resolution.
It shows various types of information and is used for

numerous operations.

8 DATA dial

Turn this to use as a DATA dial and press it to use it as an
ENTER key. When setting parameter values, press while
turning to change them in large increments. (coarse mode)

When a pop-up window is open, this works as an OK or
CLOSE button.

Turn the DATA dial while pressing and holding the HOME
key to adjust the brightness of the color display, the PAUSE,
REC, PLAY and ONLINE keys and the JOG (SHUTTLE), SLOT 1
and SLOT 2 indicators.

Push and turn the DATA dial while pressing and holding the
HOME key to adjust the brightness of only the color display.

9 STOP [RETAKE] key

Press to stop recording or playback.
Press this while pressing and holding the SHIFT key to retake

the recording (erasing the last recorded take).

0 PLAY key/indicator

When stopped or in playback standby, press this key to start
playback. This key lights during playback.

Press this key when in recording standby to start recording.
In timeline mode, press the PLAY key while pressing and

holding the REC key to start recording from that point. Both
the PLAY and REC keys light during recording.

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q PAUSE key/indicator

Press this key when stopped or during playback to put the
unit in playback standby. This key lights when in standby.

Press this key while recording to put the unit in recording
standby. Both the PAUSE and REC keys light when in
recording standby.

w REC key/indicator

When a recordable CF card is installed and the unit is
stopped in timeline mode, press this key to put the unit
into recording standby. Both the PAUSE and REC keys light
during recording standby.

In timeline mode, press the PLAY key while pressing and
holding the REC key to start recording from that point. Both
the PLAY and REC keys light during recording.

e ONLINE key/indicator

Press to turn online playback mode on/off.
The indicator lights when on and is unlit when off. (When

in dual playlist mode, the indicator lights depending on the
status of the selected player.)

This key has a cover to prevent misoperation. Open the
cover from below to access and operate the key.(See “Online
function” on page 35.)

r PHONES knob/jack

Connect stereo headphones to this standard stereo phone
jack.

This jack outputs the signal from the internal monitoring
mixer.

Use the PHONES knob to adjust the headphones output
level.

CAUTION

Before connecting headphones, turn the PHONES knob to
the minimum volume. Failure to do so could cause sudden
loud noises to occur, which might damage your hearing or
equipment.

t KEYBOARD connector

Connect a PS/2-interface keyboard that is IBM
PC-compatible. Use it to enter, for example, project names
and session names.

By default, the unit is set to use Japanese keyboards, which
have a different layout from US keyboards. To use a US
keyboard, change the setting on the PREFERENCES page
of the SYSTEM SETUP screen. (See “PREFERENCES page” on
page 112.)

y PROJECT key

Press to open screens related to projects. The last used
project screen page (project selection, session selection,
AES31 file selection, take selection or playlist selection)
opens.(See “PROJECT screen” on page 37.)

u EXIT/CANCEL (PEAK CLEAR) key

Press to cancel input or item selection.
When a pull-up or pull-down menu is open, press to close it.
On the Home Screen, when no pull-up/pull-down menu

is open, this key functions as a reset button for peak hold
marks shown on the level meters

When the MENU screen or project screen is open, press this
to return to the Home Screen.

On other screens, press this to return to the previous screen.
When a pop-up window is open, press this to cancel an

operation.

i CALL [CHASE] key

Press to locate to and pause playback at the call point, which
is where playback last started from playback standby.

Press this key while pressing and holding the SHIFT key to
turn synchronization with timecode ON/OFF.

o LCD TILT button

Press this button to unlock the color display.
To adjust the angle of the color display, press this button to

unlock it and pull its bottom forward.
To put the display away, press this button to unlock it and

push the bottom inward.

p m[ ] and ,[ ] keys (search)

Press one of these keys to search.

m[ ] key: search backward
,[ ] key: search forward

Press one of these keys while pressing and holding the SHIFT
key to search at high speed.

a .// [MARK .//] keys (skip)

Use these keys to skip between regions, takes and entries.
While pressing and holding the SHIFT key, use these keys

to move between marks. After moving, the same playback
state resumes (stopped/playback standby/playback).

s MARK key

Press this key to add a mark at the currently located time.
A maximum of 99 marks, including automatic marks, can be

added to each session/take. (See “Mark functions” on page

118.)

d SHIFT key

When stopped/in playback standby/during playback:

•

While pressing and holding this key, press the. key to move
to the previous mark and resume the previous playback
state.

•

Press the / key while pressing and holding this key to
move to the next mark, and resume the same playback
state.

•

Press the m [ ] or , [ ] key while pressing and
holding this key to search at high speed.

•

Press the JOG (SHUTTLE) key while pressing and holding
this key to activate the shuttle operation mode.

•

Press the STOP (RETAKE) key while pressing and holding this
key to retake the recording (erasing the last recorded take).

•

Press the CALL key while pressing and holding this key to
turn synchronization with timecode ON/OFF.

f JOG (SHUTTLE) key and indicator

Use to enable use of the JOG/SHUTTLE dial.
Press this key to enable the jog operation mode of the JOG/

SHUTTLE dial. When this mode is enabled, this indicator
lights.

Press this key while pressing the SHIFT key to enable the
shuttle operation mode of the JOG/SHUTTLE dial. When this
is enabled, this indicator blinks.

Press this key again to disable either mode.

g JOG/SHUTTLE dial

When in jog operation mode, turn this to change the
playback position by a corresponding amount.

When in shuttle operation mode, turn this to adjust the
playback speed according to the degree of rotation.

If you return to the original position when in shuttle
operation mode, the transport status is restored to how it
was before shuttle playback was begun.

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2 − Names and functions of parts

h ANALOG LINE IN 1–4 connectors

These XLR connectors are balanced analog line inputs.
(1:GND, 2:HOT, 3:COLD)

j DIGITAL LINE IN 1–2 connectors

Use these balanced XLR connectors (1 and 2) for digital
audio input in AES3-2003/IEC60958-4 (AES/EBU) or
IEC60958-3 (S/PDIF) format.

Sampling frequencies of 88.2 and 96 kHz are transmitted at
double speed.

The built-in sampling rate converter can handle 32–192 kHz.

k MONITOR ANALOG OUT L/R connectors

These are left and right balanced analog XLR monitoring
output connectors (1: GND, 2: HOT, 3: COLD).

These output monitoring signals (the audio output from the
internal monitoring mixer).

l RS-232C connector

This is a D-sub 9-pin RS-232C serial control connector.
Use it to connect an external controller.

NOTE

The RS-232C connector will be made functional in a future
firmware version update.

It cannot be used at the same time as the RS-422 connector.
(See “RS–232C page” on page 108.)

; PARALLEL connector

Connect an external controller, for example, to this 25-pin
D-sub parallel control connector.

z AC IN connector

Connect the included power cord here.

x ANALOG LINE OUT 1–4 connectors

These XLR connectors are balanced analog line outputs.
(1:GND, 2:HOT, 3:COLD)

In dual playlist mode, player A outputs from connectors 1
and 2, while player B outputs from connectors 3 and 4.

c DIGITAL LINE OUT 1/2 connectors

These XLR connectors are balanced outputs for digital audio
in AES3-2003/IEC 60958-4 (AES/EBU) format.

Sampling frequencies of 88.2 and 96 kHz are transmitted at
double speed.

In dual playlist mode, player A outputs from connector 1,
while player B outputs from connector 2.

v REMOTE connectors

Connect a TASCAM RC-HS32PD remote control (sold
separately) here.

CAUTION

This is not an Ethernet connector (LAN, etc.). Never connect
this to a network using an Ethernet cable.

Doing so could damage this unit or equipment in the
network.

b RS-422 connector

This is a D-sub 9-pin RS-422 serial control connector.
Use it to connect an external controller, for example.

NOTE

It cannot be used at the same time as the RS-232C
connector. (See “RS–422 page” on page 108.)

n TIMECODE IN connector

This XLR connector is a balanced input for SMPTE timecode
input.

m TIMECODE OUT connector

This XLR connector is a balanced output for SMPTE timecode
output.

, WORD/VIDEO IN connector

This is a BNC-type word clock an video reference signal
input connector. Use it to input a word clock signal (44.1kHz,
48kHz, 48kHz pull-down, 48kHz pull-up, 88.2kHz or 96kHz)
or a video reference signal (NTSC/PAL black burst signal,
HDTV Tri-level signal).

Use the switch to set whether or not to terminate with 75Ω.

. WORD/VIDEO THRU/WORD OUT connector

This is a BNC-type word clock (through/output) and video
reference signal through/output connector.

Use it to output a word clock signal (through, 44.1kHz,
48kHz, 48kHz pull-down, 48kHz pull-up, 88.2kHz or 96kHz
output) or a video reference signal (IN connector signal
through).

Use the THRU/WORD OUT switch to set the signal output.

/ 75Ω OFF/ON and THRU/WORD OUT switch

Use this switch to make the following settings.

o Whether or not the WORD/VIDEO IN connector has

termination resistance (75Ω)

o The WORD/VIDEO output THRU/OUT setting (OUT is

only for WORD)

! ETHERNET connector

Use this Ethernet connector for network connection to
conduct file transfer and external control of this device.

@ GROUND terminal

When using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD remote control (sold
separately), depending on the operating environment, the

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color display might flicker or noise might be heard when
monitoring.

If this occurs, use the GROUND terminal. (Please prepare a
wire to use with the GROUND terminal.)

PARALLEL connector

The PARALLEL connector on the rear panel allows external
control of this unit.

The pin assignments are as follows.

Timeline / Take /

Pin

Playlist [Single] /

No.

1 GND GND GND

2 PLAY PLAY A FLASH 1 I

3 STOP STOP A FLASH 2 I

4 RECORD (Reserved) FLASH 3 I

5 SKIP FWD SKIP FWD FLASH 4 I

6 SKIP BWD SKIP BWD FLASH 5 I

7 (Reserved) STOP B STOP I

8 FADER START FADER_START A FADER_START I

9 TALLY_BC_STOP TALLY_PAUSE B TALLY_BC_STOP O

10

11 TALLY_RECORD (Reserved) RESERVED O

12 TALLY_STOP TALLY_STOP A TALLY_STOP O

13 TALLY_PLAY TALLY_PLAY A TALLY_PLAY O

14

15 PAUSE PAUSE FLASH 6 I

16 (Reserved) PLAY B FLASH 7 I

17 AUX1, FF AUX1, FF FLASH 8 I

18 AUX2, REW AUX2, REW FLASH 9 I

19 AUX3, MARK AUX3, MARK FLASH 10 I

20 (Reserved) A/B SELECT FLASH_PAGE I

21

22

23 TALLY_ONLIN TALLY_ONLINE A TALLY_ONLINE O

24

25 +5V *3 +5V *3 +5V *3

I: Command input for transport control
Internal circuit, +5V pull-up
Operates with low commands of 50 msec or more
O: Command output, for tally output
The internal circuit is open collector (10Ω output

Low command output when operating
20 V dielectric strength, 35 mA maximum current
*1: With an RC-SS20, this is assigned to the CF.
*2: With an RC-SS20, this is assigned to the CD indicator.

On Air

TALLY_PAUSE
/ TALLY_BC_
PAUSE

REMOTE_
SELECT,

H or Open

TALLY_BC_
STANDBY

TALLY_CF1 /
TALLY_BC_CM

TALLY_CF2 /
TALLY_BC_END

impedance)

Playlist [Dual, A/B

MIXED]

TALLY_PAUSE A

REMOTE_SELECT,
H or Open

TALLY_PLAY B

TALLY_STOP B

TALLY_ONLINE B

TASCAM
RC-SS20

PonMode

TALLY_PAUSE
A / TALLY_BC_
PAUSE

REMOTE_
SELECT, L

TALLY_BC_
STANDBY
TALLY_CF1 /

TALLY_BC_CM
*1

TALLY_CF2 /
TALLY_BC_END *2O

I/O

O

O

O

*3: 50 mA maximum supplied current

When REMOTE Select (pin 14) is set to high, it functions
according to the operation mode and can be used as an
ordinary parallel controller.

When set to low, flash start mode is enabled. In addition,
depending on the high/low setting of the Flash Page (pin 20),
the key assignments are as follows.

Pin 14 Pin 20 Flash start take

Low High 1-10

Low Low 11-20

tally_BC_xxx: Use the menu setting to turn output ON or OFF.

(When connected to a TASCAM RC-SS20, set output to OFF.)
tally_BC_STOP/CM/END: 250msec pulse output
tally_BC_STANDBY/PAUSE: level output

When this unit is set to dual or A/B MIXED playlist mode and
REMOTE Select (pin 14) is set to high (dual or A/B MIXED
Playlist), use pin 20 (A/B SELECT) to select player A/B (Hi is player
A, Lo is player B).

The following pins affect the selected player.

Pin 5 SKIP FWD

Pin 6 SKIP BWD

Pin 15 PAUSE

Pin 17 AUX1

Pin 18 AUX2

Pin 19 AUX3

The following example is of a connection that uses a fader to
start and stop playback of this device.

I

For details about the AUX 1-3 (pins 17-19) function assignments,
see“PARALLEL page” on page 107.

NOTE

When controlling this unit with an external device that
is connected to the PARALLEL connector, by simultane­ously inputting PLAY and RECORD signals while this unit is
stopped, you can start recording immediately. In addition,
by simultaneously inputting PLAY and RECORD signals
during playback in timeline mode, you can start overwriting
the recording.

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RS-232C connector

The RS-232C connector on the rear panel can be connected to
an RS-232C connector on a computer to allow control of this
unit from that computer.

Make settings related to communication on the RS–232C page
of the REMOTE SETUP screen. (See “RS–232C page” on page

108.)

NOTE

The RS-232C connector will be made functional in a future
firmware version update.

Please contact TASCAM customer support for information
about this unit’s RS-232C command protocol.

RS-422 connector

You can control this unit remotely by connecting the RS-422
connector on its rear panel to a controller or editor compatible
with SONY P2 protocol (RS-422).

Make settings related to operation on the REMOTE SETUP screen
RS–422 page. (See “RS–422 page” on page 108.)

NOTE

Please contact TASCAM customer support for information
about this unit’s protocol compatibility.

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Home Screen

Press the HOME key to open the Home Screen.

In timeline mode

5 Time mode indicator (button)

This shows the current time display mode.
Touch this area to change the time display mode.

1 ONLINE status indication

When the online sending mode is ON, the
red icon appears.

When the online sending mode is OFF, the

icon appears unlit.

2 Repeat status indication

When repeat playback is ON, the green
icon appears.

When repeat playback is OFF, the icon
does not appear.

3 Confidence monitoring status icon (button)

This icon shows the status of confidence monitoring.

Confidence monitoring active

Confidence monitoring unavailable*

Confidence monitoring OFF

*This appears when confidence monitoring is on, but
cannot be used due to limits on the sampling frequency or
number of recording tracks.

Touch this button to open the REC MODE page of the REC
SETUP screen where you can set confidence monitoring.
(See “REC MODE page” on page 101.)

NOTE

This button only appears in timeline and take modes.

4 Time counter display (button)

The time displayed is the elapsed time, the remaining time
or the timecode time. Touch this area to open a pull-down
menu where you can change the time display mode. To
close the pull-down menu, touch the time counter or one
of the mode buttons in the menu, or press the HOME key or
EXIT/CANCEL key.

The time elapsed from the beginning of
the timeline is shown.

The timecode for the timeline is shown.

6 Timecode status button/indicator

When accurate timecode is input and
recognized correctly, the TC indicator
appears green.
When timecode is not recognized correctly,
the TC indicator does not appear.

Synchronized playback status is shown when playback is
synchronized to timecode.

The CHASE indicator appears green
during synchronized operation with
external timecode or the internal
timecode generator (selectable)
The CHASE indicator appears unlit

§

Touch this area to open the SYNC T/C screen. (See “Sync and
timecode settings (SYNC T/C)” on page 104.)

when not being operated in synchroni­zation with timecode or when synchro­nization is lost.

7 Audio synchronization status button/indicator

When synchronized with a master
clock, the SYNC indicator appears
green.

§

Touch this area to open the SYNC T/C screen. (See “Sync and
timecode settings (SYNC T/C)” on page 104.)

When not synchronized with a master
clock, the SYNC indicator appears unlit.

8 Transport status indicator

This icon shows the current transport status.

Playing back or jogging playback (forward)

Jogging playback (reverse)

Playback standby

Stopped

Searching backward

Searching forward

Searching backward (high-speed search)

Searching forward (high-speed search)
The number shown when searching

backward (shuttle operation) changes with
the current speed: x2, x4, x8, x16, x32.

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The number shown when searching
forward (shuttle operation) changes with
the current speed: x2, x4, x8, x16, x32.

Recording

Recording standby

Touch this area to open the PLAY SETUP screen.

9 Session name (button)

This shows the currently active session name. A “*” appears
when the session has not been saved after editing (including
the addition and removal of session editing marks).

Touch this area to open a pull-down menu.

START TIME EDIT button

This opens the START TIME screen where you can set the
timeline mode starting time. This can only be selected when
stopped.

REBUILD button

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased
from the unit using FTP.

This can only be selected when stopped.

SAVE button

This saves the contents of the timeline.
This can only be selected when stopped.(See “Saving

timelines” on page 56.)

EXPORT AES31 button

This outputs (exports) the session as an AES31 file. This
can only be selected when stopped.(See “Exporting AES31
editing information” on page 55.)

IMPORT ALL TAKES button

Touch to import all session takes.
This can only be selected when stopped.(See “Importing all

takes” on page 56.)

0 Track numbers and record function and input

monitoring indicators

The indicators at the left end of the level meters show
the status of record arming and input monitoring. The
background colors of the indicators mean the following.

REC OFF REC ON

MON OFF

MON ON

q Level meters

The input signal level for a track is shown if input monitoring
for it is set to ON or if it is armed for recording and not
playing back. Each track also has an overload indicator at its
right end that appears red when the input overloads.

During playback, the playback level of a track is shown if
input monitoring is set to OFF.

When the input source is set to a digital input, but there is
no input signal or if the input signal differs from the internal

setting, the channel meter display area appears gray and
one of the following messages appears. (The “x” indicates
the channel.)

Display Meaning

D-INx NO SIGNAL No input signal

D-INx UNLOCK

D-INx NOT AUDIO

D-INx Cbit ERROR

The following settings can be made for the display of the
level meters on the METER SETUP screen from the MENU
screen.

o Metering point
o Peak hold time
o Release time
o Overload indicator peak level
o Reference level line display on/off

You can also touch these areas to output just one pair of
channels (1-2 or 3-4) for monitoring (solo function).

The level meters and track numbers for the soloed channels
appear highlighted in yellow.

The level meters for the channels that are not soloed appear
shaded. Touch the same channel pair again to stop soloing
them.

Input signal is not synchronized
with the system
Cbit information of the input
signal is not audio
Other input signal Cbit infor­mation differs from the actual
operation mode

D–IN1 UNLOCK shown

w Time display area

When the time display mode has been set to show a
timeline with four equal divisions, four times are shown.
This area has 4 equal divisions, showing 4 time points on the
timeline.

The values match the time display mode.

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e Mark display area

Timeline marks appear here.
The values match the time display mode.

BC$CM mark

BC$END mark

BC$FILE mark

BC$PAUSE mark

BC$STANDBY mark

BC$START mark

BC$STOP mark

IN mark

OUT mark

Other types of marks

r Track display area

This shows the regions in each track.
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 are shown in order from top to bottom.
The number of tracks shown is as set using the "TIMELINE

Rec Tracks" item when creating a project or session. For
projects/sessions in which"TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to
"2trx2", only the line separating channels 2 and 3 appears
wider.

If the EDIT MODE button is ON and the Bounce I/O pull-up
menu is open, a yellow frame appears around the selected
track. Region fade-ins, fade-outs and cross-fades are shown
in blue.

Regions are shown by color according to status as follows.

EDIT MODE: ON

EDIT MODE:
OFF

Unselected region White Grey

Unselected fade region Blue

Selected region

Selected fade region

Selected silent part

Region being recorded Red Red
Region where level is

being adjusted

Light
blue
Dark
blue
Darker
blue

- - Yellow

Bounce I/O
pull-up menu
open

Dark
grey
Light
blue
Dark
blue
Darker
blue

y Recording media display (button)

This shows which of the CF card slots is being used and its
remaining recording time.

The background of the media that is currently being used
appears green during playback and red when recording.

If there is no media in the CF card slot, No Media appears on
a light gray background.

If the CF card has no projects or sessions, No Project appears.
When an unformatted CF card is inserted, UNFORMAT

appears.
When a CF card is inserted in the CF card slot that is not

being used during recording, UNMOUNT appears. When
recording is stopped, the usual screen is shown.

If the total number of entries, including files and subfolders,
inside a session folder exceeds about 5000, recording
becomes impossible and Rec Limit is shown. For details, see
“Recording operation limitations” on page 35.

Press this area to open the CF SELECT screen.(See “CF card
selection” on page 30.)

u Monitoring mixer overload indicators

If the left or right monitoring mixer channel overloads, the
background of the corresponding L or R becomes red.

i Zoom rate

This shows the track area zoom ratio and extent of the area
displayed.

Turn the DATA dial to the right to zoom in (reduce the
displayed area) and turn it to the left zoom out (increase the
displayed area).

o Timeline cursor

This cursor shows the position of recording or playback. It is
always shown in the middle of the screen.

p REC/MON button

Press this button to open a pull-up with REC and MON
buttons that allow you to enable recording and input
monitoring for the tracks.

The values match the time display mode.

t EDIT button

Touch this to turn ON/OFF the edit mode, which allows
you to divide, erase and cut parts of regions.(See “Editing
timelines” on page 57.)

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Record arm buttons (REC buttons)

These buttons arm tracks for recording.
The signals of tracks that are armed are recorded during

recording. In addition, audio signals from the audio input
connectors are input to the tracks that are armed for
recording when recording or in recording standby.

Input monitoring buttons (MON buttons)

These buttons enable/disable input monitoring.
When enabled for a channel, sound input through the

assigned input connector is always input.

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a BOUNCE I/O button

Touch this button to open a pull-up with buttons related to
bouncing.

Bounce button

Touch this button to bounce. In the following circumstances,
this button appears gray and cannot be used.

o When both starting (IN) and ending (OUT) points have

not been set

o During playback or recording
o When "TIMELINE Rec Tracks"is set to "2trx2" and no

track is selected

SET IN button

Touch to set the current position as the bounce starting (IN)
point.

SET OUT button

Touch to set the current position as the bounce ending
(OUT) point.

CLEAR button

Touch to discard the currently set bounce starting (IN) and
ending (OUT) points.

For details about these buttons, see “Bouncing” on page

67.

s NEXT TAKE NAME button

Touch this button to open the NEXT TAKE NAME page where
you can set the name that will be given to takes or files
recorded in the future.

First half of take names

The first half of the take name can be set to either the User
Word or the Session Name (default).

CAUTION

The first half of the take name can only be changed when
the unit is stopped.

“User Word” mode (button)

Use the user word for the first half of the take name.
Press the EDIT button to open the screen where you can

change the user word. (This works the same as the screen for
editing project names.)

“Session Name” mode (button)

Use the session name as the first half of the take name.

Second half of take names

The second half of the take name is comprised of one alpha­betical letter and a three-digit number.

Press the EDIT button to open the screen where you can
change the letter.

You can change the three-digit number with the + and –
buttons. You can also touch the numerical part to highlight
it in yellow and use the DATA dial to change the number.

In the following cases, “---” appears and the value cannot be
changed.

o No project or session is loaded
o The selected CF card is unavailable
o When the numerical part of the file name of the

current take is 999

CAUTION

•

The Next Take Name setting is saved with each project. If
you change projects, the setting of the loaded project is
used.

•

The number in the second half of the take name can also
be changed during playback or recording. (The first half of
the take name and the letters in the second half can only be
edited when stopped.)

NOTE

If the first half of the take name or the letter in the second
half is different, a take that has the same three-digit number
in the second half can be created.

d INFO button

Touch this button to open an information display that shows
the current settings of the unit and information about the
loaded file.

The upper section shows the current settings of this unit.
Touch this area to open the SYNC T/C screen.
The lower section shows information about the currently

loaded session. Touch this area to open the project screen.
The name of the previous mark most recently passed or at
the current time is shown on the right. When the name of a
mark other than an automatic mark is shown, touch this area
to open the MARK NAME editing screen.

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f Mark List button

Touch this button to open the mark list. (See “MARK LIST
screen” on page 119.)

g Manual Locate button

Touch this button to open the MANUAL LOCATE screen. (See
“Manual locate function” on page 121.)

In take mode or single playlist mode

REMAIN

This shows the remaining time until the end of the take or
entry.

ELAPSED/REMAIN

The elapsed time is shown in the time counter area and the
remaining time is shown at the right end of the time bar as a
negative number.

REMAIN/ELAPSED

The remaining time is showing the time counter area and
the elapsed time is shown at the right end of the time bar.

In take mode

NOTE

When in single playlist mode, the REC/MON and NEXT TAKE
NAME buttons are not shown.

h Take/entry number

The number of the currently selected take or entry is shown.
When in recording standby, this shows the file name that

will be given to the next recorded take.
When in recording standby, this shows the file name that will

be given to the next recorded take. Take numbers are added
in the order that the takes are recorded in the session.

j Time counter display (button)

The time displayed is the elapsed time, the remaining time
or the timecode time.

Touch this area to open a pull-down menu where you can
change the time display mode.

To close the pull-down menu, touch the time counter or one
of the mode buttons in the menu, or press the HOME key or
EXIT/CANCEL key.

k Time mode display

This shows the current time display mode.

ELAPSED

This shows the elapsed time from the beginning of the take
or entry.

TOTAL

This shows the elapsed time from the beginning of the first
take in the session or the playlist.

T.REM (total remaining)

This shows the remaining time until the end of the last take
in the session or playlist.

T/C

This shows the timecode of the playback take or entry.

l Time bar

This shows the current playback position. What is shown
depends on the time display mode.

Time display

mode

Meaning Bar display

The current playback
position relative to
the length of the take
or entry is shown.
The current playback
position relative to
the total length of all
takes in the session
or the entire playlist
is shown. (Divisions
between takes or
entries are shown by
vertical white lines.)

Elongates from left
end to right end
Shortens from left
end to right end
Elongates from left
end to right end
Shortens from left
end to right end

Elongates from left
end to right end

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When recording in take mode, a red progress bar repeatedly
extends from the left end to the right end in a cycle of about
5 seconds.

; Take/entry name (button)

This shows the name and mode icon of the currently active
take or entry.

When in recording standby, this shows the file name that
will be given to the next recorded take.

The two types of file mode icons are as follows.

Monophonic mode

Polyphonic mode

When in playlist mode, a “*” appears in the icon if the playlist
has not been saved after editing (including the addition and
removal of entries).

Touch this area to open a pull-down menu.

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In take mode

TAKE List button

This opens the take selection screen (TAKE screen). At this
time, even if you press the session name display area, the
SESSION selection screen will not open.(See “PROJECT
screen” on page 37.)

CIRCLE @ TAKE button

Touch this to add or remove “@” at the beginning of the
current take name.(See “Using @ with take names” on page

73.)

REBUILD button

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased
from the unit using FTP.

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In single playlist mode

ASSIGN FILE button

This shows the ASSIGN screen where you can assign files.
(See “Assign File screen” on page 83.)

ENTRY LIST button

This shows the entry list (ENTRY) screen. (See “Entry list
screen” on page 81.)

ADJUST ENTRY button

This opens the ADJUST ENTRY *** screen where you can
edit an entry. (See “Editing entry titles” on page 88.), (See
“Editing the playback start and stop positions” on page

89.), (See “Using the numeric entry screen to edit the
playback beginning and ending positions” on page 90.)

REBUILD button

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased
from the unit using FTP.

SAVE button

This saves the current playlist. This can only be selected
when stopped. (See “Saving a playlist” on page 93.)

SAVE AS button

This adds a name to the current playlist and saves it. This can
only be selected when stopped. (See “Saving a playlist” on
page 93.)

EXPORT PPL button

This creates a JPPA PPL file from the current playlist. This can
only be selected when stopped. (See “Creating a JPPA PPL
file from the loaded playlist” on page 94.)

z Level meters

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

As on the Home Screen in timeline mode, you can touch this
area to use the solo function.

x Time display area

What is shown depends on the time display mode.

Time display

mode

Left end Right end

00:00:00:00

Total take or entry
length

00:00:00:00

Total time of session
or playlist
Starting time of
session or playlist

Total take or entry
length

00:00:00:00

Total session or
playlist length

00:00:00:00

Ending time of
session or playlist

During recording and recording standby, however, times
and dividing lines are not shown.

c Flash Page number and knob

This shows the Flash Page number. Touch this area to enable
selection (yellow background), and turn the DATA dial to

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2 − Names and functions of parts

change the page number (turn right to increase and turn left
to decrease).

v Current time cursor

This cursor shows the position of playback.
This scrolls horizon tally relative to the time counter time.
It is not shown during recording (take mode only).

b Mark name

This is the name of the mark at the current time or the
nearest preceding mark.

When the name of a mark other than an automatic mark
is shown, touch this area to open the MARK NAME editing
screen.

n REC/MON button

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

m NEXT TAKE NAME button

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

Dual playlist mode

Touch this area to open a pull-down menu where you can
change the time display mode.

To close the pull-down menu, touch the time counter or one
of the mode buttons in the menu, or press the HOME key or
EXIT/CANCEL key.

! Time mode indicator (button)

This shows the current time display mode.

ELAPSED

The time elapsed from the beginning of the entry is shown.

REMAIN

The time remaining until the end of the entry is shown.

ELAPSED/REMAIN

The elapsed time is shown in the time counter area and the
remaining time is shown at the right end of the time bar as a
negative number.

The left side is Player A, which can be used to play playlist A, and
the right side is Player B, which can be used to play playlist B.
Operation of both Players A and B is the same.

Items %–* in the center are shared by both players.

, Transport status indicator

This icon shows the current transport status.
Touch this area to open the PLAY SETUP screen.
These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline

mode.

. ONLINE status indicator

When the online playback mode is ON, the

icon appears.

When online playback mode is OFF, the

icon appears with green letters.

/ Time counter (button)

The time displayed is the elapsed time or the remaining
time.

When online playback mode is ON, the background appears
red.

Otherwise, this is the same as on the Home Screen in
timeline mode.

REMAIN/ELAPSED

The remaining time is showing the time counter area and
the elapsed time is shown at the right end of the time bar.

TOTAL

The time elapsed from the beginning of the playlist is
shown.

T.REM (TOTAL.REMAIN)

The time remaining until the end of the playlist is shown.

T/C

The timecode time of the playing entry is shown.

@ Time bar

This shows the playback position of the currently playing
entry or playlist. Otherwise, this is the same as on the Home
Screen in take mode.

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# File or title name (button)

The currently active playlist entry number is shown inside
the icon.

Blank: CF card not available or loading

000 No entry

Three-digit number:

The name of the currently active entry is shown to the right
of the icon.

If the title has been set for the corresponding entry in the
playlist, that title is shown.

A “*” appears in the icon if the playlist has not been saved
after editing (including the addition and removal of entries).

Touch this area to open a pull-down menu.

The number of the currently selected
entry

ASSIGN FILE button

This shows the ASSIGN screen where you can assign files.
(See “Assign File screen” on page 83.)

ENTRY LIST button

This shows the entry list (ENTRY) screen. (See “Entry list
screen” on page 81.)

ADJUST ENTRY button

This opens the ADJUST ENTRY *** screen where you can
edit an entry. (See “Editing entry titles” on page 88.), (See
“Editing the playback start and stop positions” on page

89.), (See “Using the numeric entry screen to edit the
playback beginning and ending positions” on page 90.)

SAVE A+B button

This saves the current playlist. This can only be selected
when stopped. (See “Saving a playlist” on page 93.)

SAVE AS (A) or SAVE AS (B) button

Use this to name and save the currently selected player’s
playlist. This can only be selected when stopped. (See
“Saving a playlist” on page 93.)

EXPORT PPL button

This creates a JPPA PPL file from the current playlist.
This can only be selected when stopped. (See “Creating a

JPPA PPL file from the loaded playlist” on page 94.)

* MON A+B button

This turns the function that allows the simultaneous
monitoring output of both players A and B on and off.

When ON, the button is highlighted in blue and meters for
both players are highlighted.

When first turned OFF, monitoring is disabled for both
players.

( Monitoring mixer overload indicators

If the left or right monitoring mixer channel overloads, the
background of the corresponding L or R becomes red.

) Audio synchronization status button/indicator

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

Q Timecode status button/indicator

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

W Flash Page number and knob

This is the same as on the Home Screen in take mode.
However, touching this in the unselected player will, in

addition to enabling flash page selection, also assign the
transport keys, ONLINE key and JOG/SHUTTLE dial on the
front panel to the corresponding player.

E SELECT button

Touch this button on a player to assign the transport keys,
ONLINE key and JOG/SHUTTLE dial on the front panel to the
corresponding player.

A/B MIXED playlist mode

$ Level meters (button)

The playback level is shown.
Touch this area to enable monitoring of a playlist. When

selected for monitoring, the area around the meters appears
yellow.

When an input overloads, the corresponding L or R appears
red.

% Mark name

This is the name of the mark at the current time or the
nearest preceding mark.

Otherwise, this is the same as on the Home Screen in take
mode.

^ Mark List button

Touch this button to open the mark list for that player.
These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline

mode.

& Manual Locate button

Touch this button to open the MANUAL LOCATE screen for
that player.

These are the same as on the Home Screen in timeline
mode.

This is mostly the same as in dual playlist mode, but the
following points are different.

1 File or title name (button)

The entry number icons use different colors as shown below.

Entry icon Meaning

Player A
Valid entry assigned

Player B
Valid entry assigned

No entry

2 Flash Page number and knob

Players A and B share the same flash page settings.
When operated the pages and buttons of both players A and

B are linked and change together.

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2 − Names and functions of parts

On-air mode

On-air mode

1 Take name (button)

This shows the icon and name of the currently loaded take.
Touch this area to open a pull-down menu.

ON AIR List button

This shows the ON AIR List screen. (See “Selecting files for
on-air playback” on page 98.)

REBUILD button

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased
from the unit using FTP.

2 Information field

On the on-air mode Home Screen, the names of the next
two takes are shown in the information field.

Touch this information field to switch to the ON AIR List
screen.

3 ON AIR button

Touch to switch between actual playback and rehearsal/
confirmation playback modes. (See “Using the ON AIR
button to switch between rehearsal/confirmation playback
and actual playback modes” on page 99.)

4 CREDITS 7 button

Touch to conduct credits playback. This starts playback from
the beginning of the selected file and stops at the applicable
mark. (See “Conducting credits playback” on page 99.)

NOTE

•

The ON AIR button only functions when stopped.

•

The CREDITS 7 button functions when the ON AIR button is
off and playback is stopped or when the ON AIR button is off
during CREDITS playback. It does not function when the ON
AIR button is on or during ordinary playback.

•

During credits playback, press the CREDITS 7 button to
stop playback. (Use it to toggle between credits playback
and a stopped state.)

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3 − Preparation

Inserting and removing CF cards

Inserting CF cards

Insert a CF card into CF card SLOT 1 or SLOT 2 on the front panel
of the unit in order to use it for recording and playback.

NOTE

CF cards can be inserted whether the power is ON or OFF.

1. Pull the CF card slot cover forward to open it.

NOTE

If you cannot close the slot cover, remove the CF card once,
press the square button to the right of the slot and then
reinsert the card.

Removing CF cards

Turn the unit power OFF or stop operations before removing a
CF card.

CAUTION

Never remove a CF card during recording, playback or any
other operation that accesses the CF card. Doing so could,
for example, cause recording errors, loss of recorded data,
and sudden loud noises to be output through monitoring
equipment, which could result in damaged equipment and
hearing loss.

1. Pull the CF card slot cover forward to open it.

2. Press the square button to the right of the CF card slot to

bring the button out.

2. Insert the CF card with the correct orientation.
With the labeled side up, insert the end with the connector

completely.

3. Close the cover.

3. Press the square button in again to partially eject the CF
card.

4. Pull the CF card out by hand.

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3 − Preparation

Security screws

The included security screws can be used to lock the CF card slot
covers.

Use a Phillips head screwdriver to install or remove the screws.

About the display

Adjusting the display angle

Push the LCD TILT button to unlock the display, and then pull the
bottom of the display forward to adjust the angle.

Pull the bottom of the display until you hear a clicking sound.
To restore it to its flat position, push the LCD TILT button again to

unlock the display, and push the bottom of the display.
Push the bottom of the display until you hear a clicking sound.

CAUTION

Do not push the display screen itself.

Adjusting display and indicator brightness

Turn the DATA dial while pressing and holding the HOME key to
adjust the brightness of the color display, the PAUSE, REC, PLAY
and ONLINE keys, and the JOG (SHUTTLE), SLOT 1 and SLOT
2 indicators. Push and turn the DATA dial while pressing and
holding the HOME key to adjust only the brightness of the color
display.

Cautions related to display use

•

The display can easily be scratched, so do not use pointed
objects, including fingernail tips, to touch it. Always touch it
with your fingers.

•

Do not press the display forcefully with a finger or poke
it with a pen, toothpick or other pointed object. Doing so
could damage the display or cause malfunction.

•

The display touch screen is constructed of a film and glass.
Do not apply strong force to its surface. Doing so could
break the glass.

•

When using the display, do not put a hand on the panel or
push around the display forcefully. Doing so could prevent
accurate position detection.

•

Do not place anything on top of the display or otherwise
put weight on the same place for a long time. Doing so
could cause the panel to warp or result in inaccurate
position detection.

•

Do not apply a commercially-available screen protection
film to the display. Doing so could prevent normal
operation.

•

Gently wipe the display with a soft dry cloth that does not
shed dust (e.g. a cleaning cloth). Avoid wiping with a stiff
cloth or rubbing with force. Doing so could damage the
surface of the LCD. Do not use thinner, manicure remover,
alcohol or similar substances.

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NOTE

The display is produced with extremely high-precision
manufacturing technologies, and 99.99% or more of
the pixels are effective, but sometimes pixels might not
appear or might appear as red or black dots. This is not a
malfunction.

Turning the power ON and OFF

Open the front panel POWER switch cover and press the POWER
switch.

3 − Preparation

2. Touch the SYSTEM SETUP button to open the SYSTEM SETUP
screen.

3. Touch the CLOCK ADJUST tab to open the page where you
can set the built-in clock.

Startup screen

Home Screen

To turn the power OFF, push the POWER switch on the front
panel again.

CAUTION

Never turn the power OFF during recording, playback, or
any other operation that accesses the CF card. Doing so
could, for example, cause recording errors, loss of recorded
data, and sudden loud noises to be output through
monitoring equipment, which could result in damaged
equipment and hearing loss.

Setting the time of the built-in clock

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

4. Touch the item that you want to change, and use the DATA
dial on the front panel to change the value.

5. Touch the SET button or push the DATA dial to confirm the
setting.

NOTE

After purchasing this unit, set the clock before making your
first recording. If you do not set the clock, the time stamps
on recorded files will not be correct.

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3 − Preparation

Lock function

Press the MENU key while pressing and holding the HOME
key on the front panel to open the LOCK SETUP screen. On
this screen, you can turn the lock function on or off. The lock
function prevents operation from the front panel and external
devices.

Display (panel) locked

•

The following pop-up message will appear if you use any of
the controls around the display.

Display (controls) locked

•

When the Transport section is set to LOCK, the following
pop-up message will appear if you use any of the transport
keys.

The front panel is divided into two sections, which can be locked
and unlocked separately. In addition, operations from external
devices are divided into four categories that can each be locked
separately.

The REMOTE section lock settings are divided into settings for
use with on-air mode and for use with all other modes.

In addition, when in on-air mode and the ON AIR button is on,
you can use the OnAir-ON SAFE section button to set whether or
not to lock all transport functions except those in the following
table. This applies regardless of the type of device used for
operation, including front panel and remote control keys and
the function keys of an external keyboard.

Transport operations not locked by OnAir-ON SAFE

STOP

PLAY

PAUSE

ONLINE

FLASH START

If you press the button for a section, it changes from UNLOCK to
LOCK (with a yellow background) and the locked area appears
dimmed.

Transport locked

•

When in on-air mode, the ON AIR button is ON and the
OnAir-ON SAFE section is set to LOCK, the following pop-up
message will appear if you try to use any transport controls
(including keys on the front panel and remote control and
the function keys of an external keyboard) other than those
in the "Transport operations not locked by OnAir-ON SAFE"
table to the left.

•

If the REMOTE section current operation mode is set to
LOCK, the following pop-up message will appear if you try
to use the control connected to the remote connector.

Everything locked

•

When the LCD Section is set to LOCK, the following pop-up
message will appear if you touch the display.

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Remote locked

•

If the KEYBOARD F-KEY section is set to LOCK, the following
pop-up message will appear if you try to use the function
keys on an external keyboard.

Keyboard function keys locked

•

When the KEYBOARD CHARACTER section is set to LOCK,
the following pop-up message will appear if you try to
use any keys other than the function keys on an external
keyboard.

Keyboard non-function keys locked

•

When the EXT.CTRL section is set to LOCK, the following
pop-up message will appear if you try to operate the
unit with a controller connected to the RS-232C, RS-422,
PARALLEL or ETHERNET connector.

3 − Preparation

Recording times

The table below shows the total amount of recording time (in
hours and minutes) possible on CF cards of various capacities for
each available recording format.

File recording
format and
number of tracks
recorded
16-bit, 44.1kHz, 4
tracks
16-bit, 48kHz, 4
tracks
24-bit, 44.1kHz, 4
tracks
24-bit, 48kHz, 4
tracks
24-bit, 88.2kHz, 4
tracks
24-bit, 96 kHz, 4
tracks

The recording times shown above are estimates. They might

differ depending on the CF card in use.

The recording times shown above are not continuous

recording times, but rather they are the total possible
recording times for the CF card.

8GB 16GB 32GB

CF card capacity

6:18 12:36 25:12

5:48 11:34 23:08

4:12 8:24 16:48

3:52 7:42 15:26

2:06 4:10 8:24

1:56 3:50 7:42

External control input locked

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4 – Basic operation

In this chapter, we explain the basic operation procedures that
are the same in each operation mode.

The display on this unit functions as a touchscreen.
Operate the unit using its keys, switches and touchscreen

display buttons.
On every screen except the Home Screen, a button appears

at the top left. Touch this button to return to the previous
screen.

NOTE

You can also return to the previous screen by pressing the
EXIT/CANCEL (PEAK CLEAR) key.

CF card preparation

CF card selection

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

3. Touch the SELECT button next to the CF SELECT item to
open the CF SELECT screen.

NOTE

You can also open the CF SELECT screen by touching the
recording media display button on the Home Screen.

4. Touch the button for the CF card that you want to use to
select it.

The background of the selected CF card appears yellow.

5. Touch the SET button to return to the CF MANAGE screen.

6. If you also want to format the CF card now, follow the proce­dures starting with step 3 in “Formatting a CF card” below.

Formatting a CF card

CAUTION

•

Formatting a CF card erases all the data on it.

•

Always format cards using this unit or another TASCAM
HS Series device. If a CF card that has been formatted by
another device or PC is used, operation might be affected.

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

2. Touch the CF MANAGE button to open the CF MANAGE
screen.

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2. Touch the CF MANAGE button to open the CF MANAGE
screen.

3. Touch the QUICK button next to the FORMAT item. The
following pop-up message appears.

NOTE

If no CF card is inserted in that slot, the following pop-up
message appears.

4. Click the OK button in the pop-up window. A reconfirmation
pop-up window appears.

4 – Basic operation

6. Click the OK button in the pop-up window.
The CREATE PROJECT screen automatically opens.

7. Follow the procedures in “Creating a new project” on page

68.

8

Creating a project automatically after quick
formatting

If you press the QUICK & Create Project button instead of the
QUICK button next to the FORMAT item, a new project will be
created after the CF card is quick-formatted. When doing this,
however, you cannot change the project settings.

Project name: Project01
Session name: Session001
Frame Type :29.97DF
TIMELINE Rec Tracks :2tr

The new project will be created with the same settings as the
current project.

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen. Then, touch the CF MANAGE button on the MENU
screen to open the CF MANAGE screen.

5. Click the OK button in the pop-up window.
During formatting, the following pop-up message appears.

When formatting completes, the following pop-up message
appears.

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4 – Basic operation

2. Touch the Quick & Create Project button next to the FORMAT
item. The following pop-up window message appears.

This window shows the project name, session name,
sampling frequency, bit rate, frame type and number of
tracks in the project to be created.

3. Click the OK button in the pop-up window.
Another pop-up window appears to reconfirm.

4. Click the OK button in the pop-up window.
After quick formatting completes, a new project is created

automatically.
After the project is created, the Home Screen reopens.

NOTE

Touch the CANCEL button in the pop-up window to cancel
formatting and return to the CF MANAGE screen.

Creating a new project

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the CREATE PROJECT button to open the CREATE
PROJECT screen.

The CREATE PROJECT screen has 3 pages.
On the first page, you can set the project name, the name

of the first created session, the sampling frequency, and the
sampling frequency written to BWF chunks.

For details about all of the settings, see “Creating new
projects” on page 39.

3. Touch the NEXT button to open the next page.
On this page, you can set the frame type and bit length.

NOTE

Touch the NEXT button again to open the third page where
you can set the starting time and number of tracks in
timeline mode, for example.

For details about each item, see “Creating new projects” on
page 39.

Press the CREATE PROJECT button to restart from step 6.

4. Touch the NEXT button again to open CREATE PROJECT
screen 3/3.

Set the start time and number of tracks for timeline mode
and whether or not to use other settings from the previous
project.

For details about the various settings on CREATE PROJECT
screens 1–3, see “Creating new projects” on page 39.

5. After you complete making settings touch the CREATE
PROJECT button.

NOTE

If a project with the same project name already exists, the
CREATE PROJECT button appears gray and you will not be
able to create a new project. If this happens, change the
project name.

6. Check the settings on the confirmation pop-up message
that appears.

Press the OK button to confirm them and return to the
Home Screen.

When creation of the project completes, the Home Screen
reopens.

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4 – Basic operation

Setting the master clock

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the SYNC button to open the SYNC T/C screen.

Setting inputs and outputs

Setting the inputs

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

2. Touch the MIXER SETUP button to open the MIXER SETUP
screen.

NOTE

You can also open the SYNC T/C screen by touching the
SYNC T/C button on the MENU screen.

3. Select the master clock that you want to use from the
MASTER item. (See “Sync and timecode settings (SYNC T/C)”
on page 104.)

On the INPUT page, make settings for each channel’s input
source. For details, see “INPUT page” on page 109.

3. If necessary, touch the MONITOR MIXER or SETUP tab to
open the corresponding page where various settings can be
made.

On the MONITOR MIXER page, make settings related to the
internal monitoring mixer. For details, see “MONITOR MIXER
page” on page 110.

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4 – Basic operation

On the SETUP page, turn monitor muting during online
play on/off, select the OUTPUT 1-4 output signals, and make
mono mix settings. (See “SETUP page (MIXER SETUP screen)”
on page 110.)

Setting reference levels

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

3. If necessary, touch the ANALOG Ref. LEVEL ADJUST tab to
adjust each channel.

On the ANALOG Ref. LEVEL ADJUST page, you can make
precise adjustments to the reference levels of the analog
inputs and outputs for each channel independently. (See
“ANA Ref LVL ADJ page” on page 113.)

NOTE

On the CLOCK ADJUST page, you can change the system
time.

Connecting headphones

Connect headphones to the PHONES jack on the front panel.

2. Touch the SYSTEM SETUP button to open the SYSTEM SETUP
screen.

On the REFERENCE LEVEL page, set the reference levels for
digital input and output (Digital Ref. Level), analog inputs
(Analog Input Ref. Lvl) and analog outputs (Analog Output
Ref. Lvl).(See “REFERENCE LEVEL page” on page 113.)

Headphones

CAUTION

Before connecting headphones and before turning the
POWER switch on/off when headphones are connected, use
the PHONES knob to minimize the volume (turn it all the
way left). Failure to do so could cause sudden loud noises to
occur, which might damage your hearing or equipment.

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Online function

To output audio from the line output connectors, open the ON
LINE key cover on the front panel and press the ON LINE key.

The ONLINE key lights when ON. You can also connect a TASCAM
RC–HS32PD remote controller (sold separately), for example,
and use its master fader to adjust the level suitably.

When the master fader is at its lowest position, audio will not be
output from the line output connectors.

Press the ONLINE key again to turn it OFF. That key becomes
unlit, and sound ceases to be output from the output
connectors.

For details about the online function, see “Online functions” on
page 122.

Recording operation limitations

With this unit, if the total number of files, folders and other items
in one folder becomes too great, recording to that session will
be restricted in the following ways.

8

When the total number of items in one folder
exceeds about 20000

Recording of a new take might not be possible even when
starting recording from a stopped state. When a project or
session is loaded, recording to that session might not be
possible. In these cases, the following pop-up message appears.

In this case, the remaining recording time indicator for the
currently selected CF card on the Home Screen shows Rec Limit.

CAUTION

The total number of items inside one folder includes
files and folders not created by this unit. Management
files, system files and other files and folders that are not
ordinarily visible are also included in the total.

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Project organization

This unit manages audio files in projects.
A CF card contains project folders, and each project folder

contains session folders that hold audio files, which are called
takes.

Project

Contains all the materials for one program or work

Session

A collection of materials within a project

Take

Materials recorded in a session
In timeline mode, however, there are no takes. Recordings are

managed in units called regions.

CAUTION

The sampling frequency in a project is fixed.

File formats

This unit can record and play files with the following types of
formats.

File formats

BWF, WAV*

*This unit cannot record in WAV format, but it can play back
WAV files.

Sampling frequencies

44.1/48/47.952/48.048/88.2/96kHz

(47.952/48.048:48kHz±0.1% pull-down/pull-up)

Number of tracks

1-4 tracks (Take Mode)
2-4 tracks (Timeline Mode)

File modes

Monophonic, polyphonic (monophonic mode is planned for a
future firmware version upgrade)

Folders where files are saved in mono mode

In monophonic mode, files can be saved in one of two places
(folders).

SubFolder mode

Subfolders are created for each take inside session folders, and
recorded audio files are saved in them.

Session Root mode

Recorded audio files are saved directly inside the session folder.

CAUTION

•

When Session Root mode is selected, the number of files
created is large. For this reason, the maximum number of
takes that can be recorded in one session is greatly reduced.
(See “Recording operation limitations” on page 35.)

•

During recording, you can press the REC key to start
recording a new take. This function can be used 4 seconds
after beginning recording in polyphonic and subfolder
modes, but inSession Root mode, you might have to wait
more than 4 seconds.

NOTE

The default setting is SubFolder.
Monophonic mode is planned for a future firmware version

upgrade.

Monophonic and polyphonic modes

In monophonic mode, each track is recorded as an independent
monaural BWF file.

In polyphonic mode, multiple tracks are recorded together as a
single BWF file.

When transferring a file to an audio application that is
compatible with polyphonic files, multiple tracks can be
imported at once.

CAUTION

In current version, monophonic mode cannot be selected. It
will be set automatically to polyphonic mode.
Monophonic mode is planned for a future firmware version
upgrade.

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PROJECT screen

Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the project
screen.

The last used project screen page (project selection, session
selection, AES31 file selection, take selection or playlist
selection) opens. The following explanations assume that the
PROJECT selection screen is open.

Project selection screen

0INFO button

Touch this button to open a pop-up window that shows
information about the project that is currently selected.

If no project is selected, press this button to show infor­mation about the entire CF card.

0CREATE PROJECT button

Touch to open the CREATE PROJECT screen.

0MULTI SELECT button

Touch to enable the selection of multiple projects.

0MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu where you can select LOAD,
REBUILD, EDIT NAME and DELETE.

0Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of
the project list or scroll one page (five lines) forward or
backward. You can also scroll through the project list one
line at a time using the DATA dial.

0Project name/session name at the top right of the
screen

Touch to open the following screen according to mode.

Timeline mode:

Take mode:

Playlist mode:

AES31 file selection screen for the
current session.
Take selection screen for the
current session
Playlist selection screen for the
current session

0Folder information

The current folder level and number of projects is shown. (In
the example above, the root folder of CF card 1 contains 5
projects.)

0NUM OF SESSION

This shows the number of sessions in each project.

0Fs

This shows the sampling frequency of the project.
The sampling frequency values are abbreviated as follows.

Sampling frequencies

44.1kHz 44k

47.952 kHz (48 kHz –0.1% pull-down) 48k–

48.048 kHz (48 kHz +0.1% pull-up) 48k+

88.2kHz 88k

Fs abbre­viation

0ENTER button

Press the e button for the current project (the one with the

icon of a yellow folder with the letter "C" for "current") to

show the contents of that project.
If you touch the e button for any project other than the

current project a pop-up window will appear confirming
that you want to load that project.

Touch the OK button to show the contents of that project
after it completes loading.

0Project name button

Touch to select that project.
The currently loaded project is shown with the icon of a

yellow folder with the letter "C" for "current" ( ).

Session selection screen

0Project name display

This shows the current project name.
Touch this area to open the project selection screen.

0NUM OF TAKE (timeline and take modes)

This shows the number of takes in the session.

0TOTAL TIME (timeline and take modes)

This shows the total time of the takes in the session.

0NUM OF PLAYLISTS (playlist mode)

This shows the number of playlists in the session.

0ENTER button

Press the e button for the current session (the one with the

icon of a yellow folder with the letter "C" for "current") to

show the contents of that session.
If you touch the e button for any session other than the

current session a pop-up window will appear confirming
that you want to load that session.

Touch the OK button to show the contents of that session.

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0Session name buttons

Touch to select that session.
The currently loaded session is shown with the icon of a

yellow folder with the letter "C" for "current" ( ).

0INFO button

Touch this button to open a pop-up window that shows
information about the session that is currently selected.

If no session is selected, press this button to show infor­mation about the current project.

0MAKE SESSION button

Touch to open the screen where you can create a new
session.

0MULTI SELECT button

Touch to enable the selection of multiple sessions.

0MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu where you can select LOAD,
REBUILD, COPY and DELETE.

0Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of
the session list or scroll one page (five lines) forward or
backward. You can also scroll through the session list one
line at a time using the DATA dial.

0Project name/session name at the top right of the
screen

Touch to open the following screen according to mode.

Timeline mode:

Take mode:

Playlist mode:

AES31 file selection screen for the
current session.
Take selection screen for the
current session
Playlist selection screen for the
current session

AES31 file selection screen

The AES31 file selection screen is only shown when the
operation mode is timeline mode.

0Session name display

This shows the current session name.
Touch this area to open the session selection screen.

0IMPORT buttons

Touch the e button for the corresponding AES31 file to
import its editing information.

0AES31 file name buttons

Tourch to select the corresponding AES31 file.

0INFO button

Touch this button when an AES31 file is selected to open a
pop-up window with information about the selected file.

If no take is selected, press this button to show information
about the current session.

Take selection screen

The take selection screen is only shown when the operation
mode is take mode.

0Session name display

This shows the current session name.
Touch this area to open the session selection screen. Note,

however, the session selection screen cannot be opened
from a take selection screen that was opened by touching
the TAKE LIST button in the pull-down menu that appears
when you touch a take name button on the Home Screen.

0 LENGTH display

This shows the take length (time).

0 LOAD buttons

Press a take's e button to load that take.

0Take name buttons

Touch to select a take.
The currently loaded take is shown with a yellow icon with

the letter "C" for "current" ( ).

0INFO button

When a take is selected, press this button to open an infor­mation pop-up for that take.

If no take is selected, press this button to show information
about the current session.

0CIRCLE @ TAKE button

Touch this button when a take is selected to add an “@” to
the beginning of that take’s name. If that take already has “@”
at its beginning, touch this to remove it.

0MULTI SELECT button

Touch to enable the selection of multiple takes.

0MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu where you can select SORT,
MOVE, EDIT NAME, UNLOCK (ALL), LOCK (ALL), LOAD,
REBUILD, EDIT.TC, COPY and DELETE items.

0Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of the
take list or scroll one page (five lines) forward or backward.
You can also scroll through the take list one line at a time
using the DATA dial.

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Playlist selection screen

The playlist selection screen is only shown when the operation
mode is playlist mode.

0Session name display

This shows the current session name.
Touch this area to open the session selection screen.

0 LOAD buttons

Touch the e button to open a pop-up to confirm that you
want to load that playlist.

0Playlist name buttons

Touch to select a playlist.
When in single mode, the currently loaded playlist is shown

with a yellow icon with the letter "C" for "current" ( ).
When in dual or A/B MIXED mode, the playlist loaded in

player A is shown with a yellow icon with the letter "A" (
) and the playlist loaded in player B is shown with a icon
yellow icon with the letter "B" ( ).

0INFO button

Touch this button to open a pop-up window that shows
information about the playlist that is currently selected.

If no playlist is selected, press this button to show infor­mation about the current session.

0NEW/IMPORT button

Touch this to open a pull-up menu where you can select
NEW and IMPORT.

0MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu where you can select LOAD
(LOAD to A and LOAD to B in dual mode), EDIT NAME and
DELETE.

0Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of the
playlist or scroll one page (five lines) forward or backward.
You can also use the DATA dial to scroll through a list one
line at a time.

Project operations

Creating new projects

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the CREATE PROJECT button on the PROJECT screen
to open the CREATE PROJECT screen.

This screen has three pages.

CREATE PROJECT screen 1/3

You can make the following settings on this screen.

Project Name

Touch the Project Name button to open the screen where
you can edit the project name.

The maximum number of characters for project and session
names is 31. Extra characters are discarded.

Session Name

Touch the Session Name button to open the 1st SESSION
screen where you can change the name of the first session.

On the 1st SESSION screen, the maximum number of
characters allowed is indicated by a yellow background.

Fs

Set that sampling frequency of the project.
48k–0.1% sampling frequency is pull-down compatible, and

48k+0.1% is pull-up compatible.

BWF Chunk Fs

Set the sampling frequency written to the BWF chunk
of each recorded audio file. To use the actual sampling
frequency of the recordings, select Actual Rate.

For pull-up/pull-down, select Fake Rate to write 48k instead
of 48k±0.1%.

NEXT button

Touch to open the next page.

CREATE PROJECT button

Touch this to create a project with the current settings.
If a project with the same name already exists, this button

appears gray and you will not be able to create a new
project.

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3. After you complete making settings, press the NEXT button.

CREATE PROJECT screen 2

You can make the following settings on this screen.

Frame Type

Set the timecode frame type.

Bit Length

Set the bit length used during recording.

PREV button

Open the previous screen.

4. After you complete making settings, press the NEXT button.

6. When the confirmation message appears in a pop-up, press
the OK button.

When project creation completes, the Home Screen reopens.

NOTE

•

Immediately after creation, the new project becomes the
current (loaded) project. The current project is shown on
the PROJECT screen with the icon of a yellow folder with the
letter "C" ( ) to the left of the project name.

•

When creating a new project/session, the Home Screen
NEXT TAKE NAME page setting is set to "Session Name", so
the initial Take Name pattern will be "session name" + "−
T001" will be used.

Editing the project name

1. Touch the Project Name button on the CREATE PROJECT
screen to open the PROJECT NAME screen.

CREATE PROJECT screen 3

You can make the following settings on this screen.

TIMELINE START TIME

Set the starting time used in timeline mode.
Press the EDIT button to open a screen where you can

change the starting time.

TIMELINE Rec Tracks

Set the number of recording tracks used in timeline mode.
2tr, 3tr, 4tr: Polyphonic files with this number of channels are

used.
2trx2: 4 tracks of audio are available, arranged as 2 individual

stereo (2tr) Polyphonic files.

OTHERS

Touch the Current Setting button to use the current settings
of other parameters when creating the project or touch
Factory Preset to use the default settings.

5. After you complete making settings touch the CREATE
PROJECT button.

NOTE

•

If a project with the same project name already exists, the
CREATE PROJECT button appears gray and you will not be
able to create a new project. If this happens, change the
project name.

•

On screens 2 and 3, press the PREV button to return to the
previous screen.

NOTE

•

On the PROJECT NAME screen and other name input
screens, characters other than letters and numbers used in
English and standard symbols will not be shown.

If characters other than letters and numbers used in English
and standard symbols are used in a name, these characters
will be removed when shown on the PROJECT NAME screen
or other name input screens and will be discarded when the
edited project name is confirmed.

Date button

Touch this button to change the project name to the date
currently set for the unit in a “yyyy–mm–dd” format.

If the same project name or session name already exists,
an underscore (_) followed by a number that has not
been used is added.

After pressing the Date button to change the name to the
date, you can further edit the name on this screen.

Project name display area

The input project name is shown.
The maximum number of characters allowed is indicated

by a yellow background.

Character buttons

Use these to input the project name.

BS button

Use this to erase the character to the left of the cursor.

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DEL button

Use this to erase the character to the right of the cursor.

Shift button

Touch this to switch between numerals and symbols and
uppercase and lowercase Roman letters.

Caps button

Use to input uppercase letters.

Space button

Use to input a space.

<- / -> buttons

Use these to move the cursor.

Enter button

Touch this to confirm the input name.

•

When the PROJECT NAME screen is open, you can also use
an external keyboard to input names.

2. Touch the Enter button on the PROJECT NAME screen or
press the DATA dial to confirm the project name.

Character input limitation

The maximum number of characters allowed is indicated by
the yellow background in the project name display area. Excess
characters have a gray background and are discarded when the
Enter button is pressed.

Changing a project name later

1. Select the project that you want to change on the PROJECT
screen. The background of the selected project name
appears yellow.

2. Touch the MENU button on the PROJECT screen to open a
pull-up menu.

Editing the name of the first session

Touch the Session Name button on the CREATE PROJECT screen
to open the 1st SESSION screen, as shown below.

Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name” on
page 40.

NOTE

Session names cannot be changed later.

Loading projects

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

3. Touch the EDIT NAME button in the pull-up menu to open
the PROJECT NAME screen.

NOTE

When multiple projects are selected, the EDIT NAME button
in the pull-up menu is not available.

4. Use these to input the project name. The input method is
the same as explained above.

5. Touch the Enter button on the PROJECT NAME screen or
press the DATA dial to confirm the project name and return
to the PROJECT screen.

2. Select the project that you want to load.

3. Touch the MENU button on the PROJECT screen to open a
pull-up menu.

4. Touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu.

NOTE

When multiple projects are selected, the LOAD item is not
available.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

After loading completes the Home Screen opens.

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Rebuilding projects

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased from
the unit using FTP or an incompatibility develops between
management and audio files.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Select the project that you want to rebuild.
You can touch the MULTI SELECT button on the PROJECT

screen to allow the selection of multiple projects.

3. Touch the MENU button on the PROJECT screen to open a
pull-up menu.

One project selected

Erasing a project

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Select the project that you want to erase.
You can touch the MULTI SELECT button on the PROJECT

screen to allow the selection of multiple projects.

3. Touch the MENU button on the PROJECT screen to open a
pull-up menu.

One project selected

Multiple projects selected

4. Touch the REBUILD button in the pull-up menu.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During rebuilding, the status of progress is shown in a
pop-up window. When rebuilding completes, the pop-up
window disappears.

NOTE

If you rebuild when no project has been selected in the
PROJECT screen, the selected CF card is rebuilt entirely.

Multiple projects selected

4. Touch the DELETE button in the pull-up menu.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During erasure, a progress status pop-up appears.
When erasure completes, the pop-up disappears.

CAUTION

When you erase a project, all session folders, session data,
takes and playlists in the project are also erased.

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Session operations

Creating new sessions

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button of the project to which you want to add
a session to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

3. Touch the OK button. Touch the MAKE SESSION button to
open the MAKE SESSION screen.

You can make the following settings on this screen.

Session Name

Touch the Session Name button to open a screen where you
can change the name of the session.

The maximum number of characters for session names is 31.
Extra characters are discarded. The maximum number of

characters allowed is indicated by a yellow background.

TIMELINE START TIME

Press the EDIT button to open a screen where you can
change the starting time in timeline mode.

TIMELINE Rec Tracks

Set the number of recording tracks used in timeline mode.
Setting buttons: 2tr, 3tr, 4tr, 2trx2
2trx2 mode uses 2 stereo (2ch) polyphonic files to record a

total of 4 channels.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During the creation of a session, a progress status pop-up
appears.

When session creation completes, the pop-up disappears.

NOTE

•

Immediately after creation, the new session becomes the
current (loaded) session.

The current session is shown on the session selection screen
with the icon of a yellow folder with the letter "C" ( ) to the
left of the session name.

•

When creating a new project/session, the Home Screen
NEXT TAKE NAME page setting is set to "Session Name", so
the initial Take Name pattern of "session name" + "−T001"
will be used.

Loading sessions

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the session
that you want to load to open the session list.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

3. Select the session that you want to load.

4. Touch the MENU button on the SESSION screen to open a
pull-up menu.

5. Touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu.

6. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

CAUTION

Session names cannot be changed later.
You cannot use the “@” symbol at the beginning of a session

name.

4. Touch the MAKE SESSION button.

After loading completes the Home Screen opens.

NOTE

The current session (currently loaded session) is shown on
the session selection screen with the icon of a yellow folder
( ) to the left of the session name.

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Rebuilding sessions

Use to rebuild when, for example, a file has been erased from
the unit using FTP or an incompatibility develops between
management and audio files.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the session
that you want to rebuild to open the session selection
screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Select the session that you want to rebuild.
Touch the MULTI SELECT button to enable the selection of

multiple sessions.

4. Touch the MENU button on the session selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

Copying sessions

You can copy session folders between CF 1 and CF 2 (two CF
cards are necessary). When you copy a session, the same folder
structure is created at the copy destination.

CAUTION

If you copy a session with a different sampling frequency
into a project, the session cannot be rebuilt.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the session
that you want to copy to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

3. Select the session that you want to copy.
Touch the MULTI SELECT button to enable the selection of

multiple sessions.

4. Touch the MENU button on the session selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

One session selected

Multiple sessions selected

5. Touch the REBUILD button in the pull-up menu.

6. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During rebuilding, the status of progress is shown in a
pop-up window.

When rebuilding completes, the pop-up window disappears.

NOTE

•

You can also rebuild a session from that session’s take
selection screen.

•

If you rebuild without selecting a session on the session
selection screen, the entire current project will be rebuilt.

One session selected

Multiple sessions selected

5. Touch the COPY button in the pull-up menu.

6. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During copying, a progress status pop-up appears.
When copying completes, the pop-up disappears.

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NOTE

If a session with the same name already exists on the
destination CF card, a message confirming that you want to
overwrite the existing one appears.

Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial to delete the
copy destination folder and copy the session.

Erasing sessions

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the session
that you want to erase to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Select the session that you want to erase.
Touch the MULTI SELECT button to enable the selection of

multiple sessions.

4. Touch the MENU button on the session selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

One session selected

Multiple sessions selected

5. Touch the DELETE button in the pull-up menu.

6. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During erasure, a progress status pop-up appears.
When erasure completes, the pop-up disappears.

CAUTION

When you erase a session, all session data, takes and
playlists in that folder are also erased.

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Playlist selection screen

Switching project screens

When you press the ENTER button or a folder name (project
name or session name) button on a project screen (project
selection screen, session selection screen, AES31 file selection
screen, take selection screen, playlist selection screen), a
different screen will open as shown below.

Project selection screen

NOTE

In on-air mode, only the ON AIR LIST screen will be shown.

Session selection screen

AES31 le selection screen

Take selection screen

Timeline
mode

Take mode

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Playlist mode

6 – Overview of operation modes

This unit has 4 operation modes as described below.

Timeline mode:

This amount offers a linear timeline working style that is like
working with tape.

In timeline mode, up to 4 tracks can be recorded and played
back. Marks, including BWF-J CUE points, can also be edited.

Take mode:

Uses takes (files) as recording and playback units.
Up to 4 tracks can be played back. Marks, including BWF-J

CUE points, can also be edited.

Playlist mode:

Provides a playlist playback function.
Furthermore, playlist mode has both a single mode, which

allows one playlist to be played back, and a dual mode,
which allows two playlists to be played back independently.

In single mode, up to four tracks can be played during
playlist playback. In dual mode, two two-track playlists can
be played back and controlled independently.

On-air mode

Use this mode to play selected audio files (only files that
match the sampling frequency set for the unit) in the root
folder of the current media.

Supports playback of up to 4 tracks.

Take mode functions

The following functions can be used in take mode.
i Up to four channels of simultaneous recording and playback

is possible at all compatible sampling frequencies (Fs).

i Confidence monitoring allows the simultaneous playback

and output of audio while it is being recorded. (This is
available when recording in 2-track polyphonic mode with a
sampling frequency of 44.1kHz/48kHz/48kHz±0.1% and the
mirror recording function is not being used.)

i Auto cue, auto ready and incremental play functions are

available.

i Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD or other remote controller, flash

start playback is possible (three pages of 32 keys each).

i Different types of marks, including BWF-J CUE points, can be

set, managed, edited and used for playback.

Timeline mode functions

The following functions can be used in timeline mode.
i Up to four channels of simultaneous recording and playback

is possible at all compatible sampling frequencies (Fs).

i Confidence monitoring allows the simultaneous playback

and output of audio while it is being recorded. (This is
available when recording in 2-track polyphonic mode with a
sampling frequency of 44.1kHz/48kHz/48kHz±0.1% and the
mirror recording function is not being used.)

i The mirror recording function uses dual media slots. (This

cannot currently be used with confidence monitoring;
support is planned for a future version upgrade.)

i Recording and playback with timecode synchronization is

possible.

i The bounce function can be used to write the content of a

designated timeline interval to a single file.

i Different types of marks, including BWF-J CUE points, can be

set, managed, edited and used for playback.

i Compatibility with AES31 format allows importing, exporting

and the exchange of data with other devices

In timeline mode, playback units are called “regions,” and their
extent is shown in the track area of the Home Screen.

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Playlist mode functions

The following functions can be used in playlist mode.

i Playlists can be edited and managed.
i Compatibility with JPPA flash start standards enable

importing and exporting, and the exchange of playlists with
other devices.

In addition, the single, dual and A/B MIXED playlists modes have
the following functions.

Single mode

i Unit functions as a single playback system.
i Auto cue, auto ready and incremental play functions are

available.

i Playback of polyphonic files with up to four channels is

possible at all compatible sampling frequencies (Fs).

i Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD or other remote controller, flash

start playback is possible (three pages of 32 keys each).

Dual mode

i Unit functions as two independent playback systems (using

separate playlists for each).

i Auto cue, auto ready and incremental play functions are

available.

i Simultaneous playback of two polyphonic files with up to

two channels each is possible at all compatible sampling
frequencies (Fs).

i Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD or other remote controller, flash

start playback is possible (each player can have 6 pages of 16
keys each or 8 pages of 12 keys each and independent page
switching).

NOTE

•

Only playlists in the current session can be loaded. Playlists
from sessions other than the current session cannot be
loaded.

•

The same playlist cannot be loaded in both player A and
player B at the same time.

A/B MIXED mode

In dual mode, the key assignments are fixed. Those on the left
are assigned to A and those on the right are assigned to B. In
A/B MIXED mode, though, key assignments can be switched
between A and B as desired.

0 Unit functions as two independent playback systems.
0 Simultaneous playback of 2 polyphonic files with up to

2 channels each is possible at all compatible sampling
frequencies (Fs).

0 Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD remote control, dual flash start

playback is possible (32 keys × 3 pages).

0 Two output destinations can be set independently for each

entry.

0 The function when a flash key is pressed during playback can

be set independently for each entry.

0 Five colors are used for the indications on the displays of

this unit and the RC-HS32PD and the flash keys, allowing for
quick visual recognition of output destinations and statuses.

A/B MIXED mode restrictions

o The settings of the Auto cue, Auto Ready and Inc. Play items

on the CONTROL page of the PLAY SETUP screen are all fixed
to OFF.

o The setting of the Play Mode item on the GENERAL page of

the PLAY SETUP screen is fixed to One Take.

o The Flash Start Key Method item on the General page of the

REMOTE SETUP screen is fixed to Individual. In modes other
than A/B MIXED playlist mode, "Individual" is disabled and
cannot be selected.

o Only five of the time display modes can be used: ELAPSED,

REMAIN, ELAPSED/REMAIN, REMAIN/ELAPSED and T/C. The
TOTAL and T.REM modes cannot be used.

o When an existing playlist is loaded, if the same entry is

assigned to both outputs A and B, the setting of the playlist
loaded more recently is used.

o When a PPL file is imported, if the same entry is assigned to

both outputs A and B, the output destination of this entry
will be set to A.

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Comparison of dual and A/B MIXED playlist mode
functions

Dual playlist mode

Number of players 2 2
Number of subject

audio channels
Number of flash start
playback entries
Number of flash start
entries when using
an RC-HS32PD
Keys assignable to
player A when using
an RC-HS32PD
Keys assignable to
player B when using
an RC-HS32PD
Entry output
destination setting

Functions of flash
keys when pushed

2 2

100 x 2 100

16 keys x 6 pages
x 2

16 keys on left side
of RC-HS32PD

16 keys on right
side of RC-HS32PD

Setting fixed by
flash key location

Set all keys to one
of two options
(Flash Start/
Standby)

A/B MIXED playlist
mode

32 keys x 3 pages

32 keys on
both sides of
RC-HS32PD
32 keys on
both sides of
RC-HS32PD
Can be set as
desired
Set one of three
options for
each flash key
separately ( /

/ )

On-air mode functions

Selecting the operation mode

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

2. Press the OPERATION MODE button to open the OPERATION
MODE screen.

The functions that can be used in on-air mode are as follows.

0 Four- channel playback at all available sampling frequencies
0 BWF-J cue point playback
0 CREDITS playback

3. Press the button for the mode that you want to use to select
it.

The button for the selected mode appears yellow.

TIME LINE MODE

Timeline mode

TAKE MODE

Take mode

PLAYLIST MODE (SINGLE)

Single playlist mode

PLAYLIST MODE (DUAL)

Dual playlist mode

PLAYLIST MODE (A/B MIXED)

A/B MIXED playlist mode

ON AIR MODE

On-air mode

4. Press the SET button to enable the selected mode and
return to the Home Screen.

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In this chapter, we explain how to use the timeline mode.
To use this unit in timeline mode, set the unit’s operation mode

to TIMELINE MODE.(See “Selecting the operation mode” on page

49.)
Please refer to “4 – Basic operation” when reading this chapter.

Preparing to record

Basic preparations

Refer to “4 – Basic operation” on page 30 as you conduct basic
preparations.

Creating a new project

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the CREATE PROJECT button on the PROJECT screen
to open the CREATE PROJECT screen.

Finally, set the starting time and number of tracks to be
recorded in timeline mode, and then set whether other
settings should be retained from the currently open project
or whether the factory defaults should be used instead.

For details, see “Creating new projects” on page 39.

3. After you complete making settings touch the CREATE
PROJECT button.

NOTE

•

If a project with the same project name already exists, the
CREATE PROJECT button appears gray and you will not be
able to create a new project. If this happens, change the
project name.

•

You can also touch the CREATE PROJECT button on CREATE
PROJECT screens 1/3 and 2/3 to create a project.

4. When the confirmation message appears in a pop-up, press
the OK button.

Creating new sessions

Create new sessions as necessary.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button of the project to which you want to add
a session to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

On the first page, you can set the project name, the name
of the first created session, the sampling frequency, and the
sampling frequency written to BWF chunks.

Press the NEXT button to open CREATE PROJECT screen
[2/3].

Set the frame type then bit length.
Press the NEXT button to open CREATE PROJECT screen

[3/3].

3. Touch the OK button. Touch the MAKE SESSION button to
open the MAKE SESSION screen.

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4. Touch the Session Name button to open the SESSION NAME
screen where you can change the session name.

Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name”
on page 40.

NOTE

You cannot use the “@” symbol at the beginning of a session
name.

5. Touch the Enter button or press the DATA dial to return to
the MAKE SESSION screen.

6. If necessary, set the timeline starting time and number of
recording tracks.

7. When you have finished making settings, press the MAKE
SESSION button.

8. When a confirmation pop-up message appears, touch the
OK button or press the DATA dial to create a new session and
return to the Home Screen.

For details about session operations, see “Session operations” on
page 43.

2. Touch the REC/MON button to open a pull-up with REC and
MON buttons.

To arm tracks for recording, touch their record arm buttons.
When a track is armed to record, its button appears red.

NOTE

The record function for the number of tracks set with the
"TIMELINE Rec Tracks" item when a project/session was
created is linked.

Recording mode settings

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

Arming tracks for recording

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the REC SETUP button to open the REC SETUP screen.

On the REC MODE page, you can turn confidence
monitoring on or off. For details, see “Confidence
monitoring” on page 122.

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Setting the file format

Touch the FILE FORMAT tab on the REC SETUP screen to open
the following screen.

On the FILE FORMAT page, set the bit length, maximum file size
and how files are handled when entering recording standby
(pause mode).

The selected items appear light blue. For details, see “FILE
FORMAT page” on page 101.

NOTE

In timeline mode, you cannot select the file mode. The mono
file recording folder setting cannot be changed.

Other recording settings

Touch the OPTIONS tab of the REC SETUP screen to open the
following screen.

Recording

When unit is stopped, press the REC key to put the unit into
recording standby. At this time, the
transport status. In recording standby, press the PLAY key to
start recording at the located point (current point).

NOTE

When stopped, pressing the PLAY key while pressing and
holding the REC key will also start recording.

When timecode synchronization is ON, recording will start at the
timecode from when this unit was synchronized with the master
timecode.

When recording starts, the transport status indicator at the top
left of the Home Screen changes to the recording indicator and
some of the background turns red to show that it is recording.
The time counter starts at the same time.

When the elapsed time (ABS time) from the beginning of the
timeline reaches 23:59:59:MM (MM is the maximum number of
frames), “RECORD stopped. ABS time is over 24h” appears in a
pop-up message and recording stops.

Overwriting a recording

During playback, press the REC and PLAY keys simultaneously to
start recording instantaneously from that point.

icon indicates this

On the OPTIONS page, you can set the pre-recording time and
the use of auto markers. For details, see “OPTIONS page” on page

102.

Making a recording

Locate to the recording start position

Use the m[ ] and ,[ ] keys, jump to a mark or use
the manual locate function to locate to the time where you want
to start recording.

When timecode synchronization is ON, recording will occur
at the input timecode, so locating as described above is not
necessary.

NOTE

Recording can also be controlled using parallel control
(except retaking).

CAUTION

When in recording standby, the parallel control signals
output are high for TALLY_RECORD and low for TALLY_
PAUSE .

When in recording standby, the REC and PAUSE keys on the
front panel will be lit.

Stopping recording

To stop recording, press the STOP (RETAKE) key.

Retaking a recording

Press the STOP (RETAKE) key while pressing and holding the
SHIFT key to erase the last recorded region.

The recorded sound file itself will remain as a take.

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Playback

Project/session selection

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

Setting input monitoring

Turn input monitoring OFF for the channels (tracks) that you
are playing back. For channels that have input monitoring ON,
audio input through the input connectors is output.

1. Touch the REC/MON button on the Home Screen to open a
pull-up with REC and MON buttons.

2. If input monitoring is on for any playback channels (MON
buttons appear blue), touch those MON buttons to turn
them off (turning them gray).

Setting the online function

Refer to “Online functions” on page 122 as you make online
output settings.

2. Touch the e button next to the project that you want to

play to open the session selection screen.
If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears

confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch a session name button to select that session.

4. Touch the MENU button to open a pull-up menu and touch
the LOAD button.

The “Load selected Session?” pop-up appears.

5. Touch the OK button.
When loading completes, the Home Screen opens.

Locating to playback starting points

You can locate to the time where you want to start playback
using the m[ ] and ,[ ] keys and the mark
jumping and manual locate functions. When timecode synchro­nization is ON, playback will occur at the input timecode, so
locating as described above is not necessary.

Playback

Press the PLAY key to start playback.
Press the PAUSE key to start playback standby.
To end playback standby, press the PLAY key.
Press the STOP (RETAKE) key to stop playback.
Press the .[MARK.] key or /[MARK /] key to skip

to the start of another region.
Press and hold the m[ ] key or ,[ ] key to search

backward or forward.
While pressing and holding the SHIFT key, press the XXX [MARK

X] key or/[MARK X] key to jump to a mark.
Press and hold the m[ ] or ,[ ] key while pressing

and holding the SHIFT key to search at high-speed.
While pressing the STOP key, press the .[MARK .] or /

[MARK /] key to skip to the beginning of the first region
recorded or the end of the last region. (This only works with the
front panel keys.)

NOTE

Playback functions can also be used via parallel control.

Call function

Press the CALL (CHASE) key to locate to the point where
playback was last started from playback standby (call point) and
put the unit in playback standby mode.

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BWF-J cue points (timeline mode)

When the Follow BWF-J item on the GENERAL page of the PLAY
SETUP screen is ON, if a BWF-J cue point is detected during
playback, the following operations will occur. In addition, when
the BWF-J tally item on the PARALLEL page of the REMOTE
SETUP screen is ON, cue signals and tally signals will be output
from the parallel remote connector in response to each BWF-J
cue point. However, when playback is synchronized with
timecode, only the CUE signal and tally signal will be output.

When a session is loaded, the transport
moves to the first BC$STANDBY point,

BC$STANDBY

BC$CM

BC$END

BC$STOP

BC$FILE

BC$PAUSE

and playback standby starts. During
playback, when this point is reached,
playback standby starts. In either case, a
BC$STANDBY tally is output.

During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$CM cue signal is output.

During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$STOP CUE signal is output,
and playback stops.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$PAUSE tally is output, and
playback standby starts.

Importing and exporting AES31 editing information

Importing AES31 editing information

You can import AES31 editing information located in the current
session to the currently loaded session.

When viewed on a computer, the folder of the CF card should be
as follows.

{CF drive name}:\{project name}\{session name}\{AES31
editing information}

NOTE

You cannot import an AES31 editing information file from a
folder other than that of the current session.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button next to the project that contains the
session with the AES31 editing information that you want to
import to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

3. Touch the e button for the session with the AES31 editing
information that you want to import to open the AES31
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

If AES31 editing files are found in the session, they appear in
the list.

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TIP

If you press the INFO button after selecting a file by touching
the filename area, the date and time last changed and the
file size of that file are shown.

4. Press the e button for the AES31 editing information file
that you want to import.

After the project loads, the Home Screen reopens.

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5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

While importing AES31 editing information, a progress
status pop-up appears.

When importing completes, the pop-up message disappears
and the Home Screen appears.

The timeline of the current session is replaced with the
imported contents.

TIP

After importing, touch the session name button to open
a pull-down menu and touch the SAVE button to save the
timeline of the imported contents to the selected CF card.

Exporting AES31 editing information

You can export the timeline of the currently loaded session as an
AES31 file.

The exported file is created in the current session.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the session name button on the Home Screen to open
a pull-down menu.

3. Press the EXPORT AES31 button on the pull-up menu to
open the AES31 NAME screen where you can input the
AES31 data file name.

Input the file name. Use the same input method as in
“Editing the project name” on page 40.

NOTE

If the current session has already had an AES31 file
imported or exported, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to overwrite that file.

Touch the OK button to overwrite that file or press the
RENAME button to open the AES31 NAME screen.

4. Touch the Enter button on the AES31 NAME screen or press
the DATA dial.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

NOTE

If a file with the same name already exists, a pop-up window
opens to confirm whether you want to overwrite that file or
not.

Touch the OK button to overwrite that file, or touch the
CANCEL button to return to the AES31 NAME screen.

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Saving timelines

Save a timeline after editing regions, adding and editing marks
or changing the timecode for the beginning of the timeline. If
you do not save the timeline, the changes will be lost when you
load another session, remove a CF card or turn the power off.

NOTE

After regions have been edited or marks have been added
or edited in a session, an “*” appears in the session name
icon. In addition, when a "*" is shown, if you import AES31
editing information, load another project/session or change
the operation mode, for example, a pop-up message will
appear confirming whether or not you want to save the
current timeline data.

1. Press the HOME key to open the Home Screen.

2. Touch the session name button on the Home Screen to open
a pull-down menu. Then, press the SAVE button in the menu
to save the timeline to the selected CF card.

While saving, a progress status pop-up appears.
When saving completes, the pop-up disappears.

Importing all takes

NOTE

Each take is imported to the timeline at the timecode set in
the take. Takes that do not have set timecodes are imported
at 00h 00m 00s 00f.

The current timeline will be cleared and all tracks that match the
TIMELINE Rec Tracks setting in the folder for the current session
will be imported to the timeline.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the session name button on the Home Screen to open
a pull-down menu.

3. Touch the IMPORT ALL TAKES button in the pull-down menu.

4. Check the settings on the confirmation pop-up message
that appears.

NOTE

When you save a timeline, the contents of the timeline
are overwritten in the AES31 file that was last imported/
exported and that file is exported (output).

Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial to clear the
current timeline, and import all the takes in the current
session folder.

Touch the CANCEL button to return to the Home Screen.

NOTE

Takes that do not correspond to the current TIMELINE Rec
Tracks setting will not be imported.

If the TIMELINE Rec Tracks setting is "2tr", two-channel
polyphonic files will be imported.

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Changing the timeline starting timecode

You can change the timecode of the beginning of the current
timeline.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the session name button on the Home Screen to open
a pull-down menu.

3. Touch the START TIME EDIT button in the pull-down menu to
open the START TIME screen.

Editing timelines

You can cut, erase and divide regions.
The basic procedures for editing are as follows.
Refer to the explanations of each of the editing functions for

details about them.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.

Touch the FRAME EDIT button to set whether or not the
frame value can be edited.

Use the number buttons to input the take start time.

•

If you begin input without selecting a digit, input will
start from the smallest one.

•

To input a specific digit, touch it to make its background
yellow, and then use the number buttons or the DATA
dial to enter two digits at a time.

•

Touch the CLEAR button to erase all entered values.

4. Touch the ENTER button to change the timecode of the
beginning of the current timeline and return to the Home
Screen.

NOTE

The change will not be saved to the CF card until you save
the timeline.

TIP

TIP This can also be edited using an externally connected
keyboard.

Press the keyboard’s Enter key to confirm a setting and its
ESC key to clear all the values.

The EDIT MODE button will be highlighted by becoming
white with red letters, and the REC/MON, Bounce I/O and
NEXT TAKE NAME buttons will disappear. In their place, the
EDIT, Fade/Level and IN/OUT buttons will appear.

3. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

The pull-up menu has 8 editing function buttons: Copy, Cut,
Erase, Divide, Insert, Paste, Ins/Paste File and Insert Mute.
In addition, it has UNDO and REDO buttons. Touch these
buttons to use their functions.

CAUTION

After editing, if you do not save the timeline (SAVE), the
changes will be lost when you load another session, import
AES31 editing data, remove a card or turn the power off, for
example.

NOTE

Due to the management of regions and the editing history
from repeated recording and editing, the amount of open
working memory could become insufficient, preventing
further editing.

In this case, "Cannot Edit. System limit reached." appears as
a pop-up message.

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Selecting a region to copy, cut or delete

•

If editing start and end points have been set, the region
between these points is selected.

•

If editing start and end points have not been set, the entire
region where the time cursor is located in the current track
is selected.

Editing start and end points not set

•

If the timeline cursor is located at the border between
regions, the region to its right will be subject to the editing.
If that region is silent, however, it will remain unselected.

Setting editing start points

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter editing mode.

3. Use them/, keys, for example, to locate the timeline
cursor to the position (time) where you want to start editing.

4. Touch the IN/OUT button to open a pull-up menu.

Setting editing end points

1. Use them/, keys, for example, to locate the timeline

cursor to the position (time) where you want to end editing.

2. Touch the IN/OUT button to open a pull-up menu.

3. Touch the SET OUT button in the pull-up menu item to set
the editing end point (OUT point).

The OUT mark (
mark display area.

The interval between the IN (
shown in blue, will be subject to editing.

) appears at the current position in the

) and OUT (

) marks, which is

Clearing editing start and end points

1. Touch the IN/OUT button to open a pull-up menu.

5. Touch the SET IN button in the pull-up menu to set the
editing start point (IN point).

The IN mark (
display area.

) appears at the current position in the mark

2. Touch the CLEAR button on the pull-up menu to discard the
currently set IN and OUT points.

When a confirmation message pop-up appears, touch the
OK button or press the DATA dial. The IN (
marks in the mark display area will disappear.

) and OUT (

)

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Copy buffer

Selecting tracks for editing

If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", you must select the
tracks to be edited.

NOTE

If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2tr, 3tr" or "4tr", all the
tracks will always be selected.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the track display area for tracks 1-2 or 3-4 to select
those tracks. The selected tracks will be shown with a yellow
frame. Touch the selected tracks to unselect them.

Copying the data of a selected region (Copy)

You can copy a selected region.

NOTE

•

The copied data is stored in the copy buffer.

•

If an entire fade (in/out) is included in the selected region,
the settings of that fade will also be copied.

Selected range

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode. If
"TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks to be
copied.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the region that you want to
copy.

4. If you want to set editing start and end points, touch the IN/
OUT button to open a pull-up menu and use its SET IN and
SET OUT buttons to select the regions you want to copy.

3. Any editing operations will affect only the selected tracks.

5. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

6. Touch the Copy button in the pull-up menu to copy the
selected region. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

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Cutting the data of a selected region (Cut)

When you cut a selected region, the data that follows it shifts
forward.

NOTE

•

The cut data is stored in the copy buffer.

•

If an entire fade (in/out) is included in the selected region,
the settings of that fade will also be copied.

•

If the IN point or OUT point is in a region, any parts outside
the designated cut region become new regions.

•

If the IN point or OUT point is in a fade in or fade out, that
fade in/fade out is cleared.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks to

be cut.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the region that you want to cut.

4. If you want to set editing start and end points, touch the IN/
OUT button to open a pull-up menu and use its SET IN and
SET OUT buttons to select the regions you want to cut.

Erasing the data of a selected region (Erase)

When you erase a selected region, that region becomes silent.
The data that follows it does not shift.

NOTE

•

The erased data is stored in the copy buffer.

•

If an entire fade (in/out) is included in the selected region,
the settings of that fade will also be copied.

•

If the IN point or OUT point is in a region, any parts outside
the designated region become new regions.

•

If the IN point or OUT point is in a fade in or fade out, that
fade in/fade out is cleared.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks to

be erased.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the region that you want to
erase.

4. If you want to set editing start and end points, touch the IN/
OUT button to open a pull-up menu and use its SET IN and
SET OUT buttons to select the regions you want to erase.

5. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

6. Touch the Cut button in the pull-up menu to cut the
selected region. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

5. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

6. Touch the Erase button in the pull-up menu to erase the
selected region. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

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Dividing data at a selected point (Divide)

Use this function to divide regions at the timeline cursor.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks to

be divided.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the position where you want to
divide the region.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

Inserting data from the copy buffer (Insert)

NOTE

•

All regions that follow the insertion point will be shifted
backward by the amount of time of the inserted region.

•

If the copy buffer is inserted into a region, three regions will
be created: one before the timeline cursor, one with the copy
buffer contents and one after the timeline cursor.

•

If the set point is in a fade in or fade out, that fade in/fade
out is cleared.

Copy buffer

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks

where the data will be inserted.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the position where you want to
insert the data.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

5. Touch the Divide button in the pull-up menu to divide the
selected region. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

Touch the Insert button in the pull-up menu.
If the track numbers or number of tracks in the copy buffer

differ from the tracks where the data will be inserted, a
pop-up message will appear to confirm the tracks where the
data will be inserted. If there is no problem, touch the OK
button or press the DATA dial.

NOTE

The Insert button is only usable when the copy buffer has
data.

5. When the insertion completes, the Home Screen will be
shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

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Pasting the copy buffer data at a set point (Paste)

You can paste the copied content at a set point.

NOTE

If the pasted region is in a fade in or fade out, that fade in/
fade out is cleared.

Copy buffer

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks

where the data will be pasted.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the position where you want to
paste the data.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

Inserting/pasting data from a select file at a set point (Ins/Paste File)

You can insert or paste an entire BWF/WAV file at a set point.

NOTE

•

You can only insert and paste files that have the same
number of tracks as the "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" setting. If you
try to insert or paste a file that has a different number of
tracks, it will not be possible and a message will appear.

•

All regions that follow the insertion point will be shifted
backward by the amount of time of the inserted file.

•

If the file is inserted into a region, three regions will be
created: one before the timeline cursor, one with the
inserted file and one after the timeline cursor.

•

If the set point is in a fade in or fade out, that fade in/fade
out is cleared

•

If the pasted file is in a fade in or fade out, that fade in/fade
out is cleared.

bwf file

File insertion

Touch the Paste button in the pull-up menu.
If the track numbers or number of tracks in the copy buffer

differ from the tracks where the data will be pasted, a
pop-up message will appear to confirm the tracks where
the data will be pasted. If there is no problem, touch the OK
button or press the DATA dial.

NOTE

The Paste button appears white and is only usable when the
copy buffer has data.

5. When pasting completes, the Home Screen will be shown
again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

bwf file

File pasting

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks

where the data will be inserted.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the position where you want to
insert the file.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

Touch the Ins/Paste File button in the pull-up menu to open
the SELECT FILE screen.

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5. On the SELECT FILE screen, press the e button for the

media that contains the file that you want to insert/paste.

NOTE

•

If the top SELECT FILE screen shown above does not appear,
touch the button at the top right of the screen to open
the media selection screen.

•

Touch the button at the top right of the screen to open
the current session folder on the current media.

6. On the SELECT FILE screen shown, select the file that you
want to insert/paste. Press the Insert File button to insert it.
Press the Paste File button to paste it.

NOTE

•

If timecode data is not set in the selected file and you touch
the File T/C button, the file will be inserted/pasted at 00h
00m 00s 00f.

•

If you selected a file from a folder other than the current
session folder, it will be copied to the current folder and then
inserted/pasted.

•

If a file with the same name already exists in the current
session folder, "Cannot Copy" appears in a pop-up message.

To change the file with the same name, touch the RENAME
button. To cancel the operation press the CANCEL button.

When inserting

7. A pop-up message that allow you to select where to insert/
paste appears. Touch the Current Position button or File T/C
button to start inserting/pasting.

When inserting

When pasting

At this time, if you touch the CANCEL button, the SELECT
FILE screen will be shown again.

When pasting

8. When the insertion/pasting completes, a pop-up message
appears. Then, the EDIT pull-up menu closes and the Home
Screen opens.

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Inserting silence in a set region (Insert Mute)

Use this function to insert silence in a set region.

NOTE

•

All regions that follow the IN point will be shifted backward.

•

If you insert silence in a region, it will be divided into two
regions at the timeline cursor.

•

If the set point is in a fade in or fade out, that fade in/fade
out is cleared.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks

where the silence will be inserted.

3. Touch the IN/OUT button, and use the SET IN and SET OUT
buttons in the pull-up menu to set the region where silence
will be inserted.

Setting fade ins and outs for designated regions (Fade IN/FadeOut)

Use this function to set fade ins and outs for designated regions.

NOTE

•

Fade in/out intervals appear blue on the display.

•

Fade in intervals are from the beginning of the region to the
set point.

•

Fade out intervals are from the set point to the end of the
region.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode. If
"TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks
where the fade in/out will be set.

3. In the region where you want the fade in/out, move the
timeline cursor to the point where you want the fade in to
end or the fade out to start.

4. Touch the Fade/Level button to open a pull-up menu.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open the pull-up menu.

5. Touch the Insert Mute button in the pull-up menu to insert
the silence. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

•

Touch the Fade IN button to set a fade in.

•

Touch the FadeOut button to set a fade out.

5. When setting the fade in/fade out completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the Fade/Level pull-up menu will still be open.

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Removing fade ins and outs (Remove Fade IN/Remove Fade Out)

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode. If
"TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks with
the fade in/out that you want to remove.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the region with the fade in/out
you want to remove.

4. Touch the Fade/Level button to open a pull-up menu.

•

Touch the Remove Fade IN button to remove the fade in
from that region.

•

Touch the Remove Fade Out button to remove the fade
out from that region.

5. When removing the fade in/out completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

Setting the playback level of a designated region (Level)

You can set the playback level of an entire designated region
(from the end of the fade to the beginning of the fade out).

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.
If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", select the tracks for

which you want to set the playback level.

NOTE

You cannot set the playback level when multiple files (1-2tr
and 3-4tr) are selected. In this case, touching the Level
button in the Fader/Level menu causes a message to appear.

3. Move the timeline cursor to the region for which you want
to change the playback level.

4. Touch the Fade/Level button to open a pull-up menu.

At this time, the Fade/Level pull-up menu will still be open.

5. Touch the Level button in the pull-up menu.
Doing this, the region beneath the timeline cursor of the

selected track appears yellow and will be subject to level
adjustment.

6. A level knob will appear above the Level button. Use the
DATA dial to turn it and set the playback level.

Setting range: −∞, −120 dB – +10.0 dB

7. Press the Level button again to close the level knob pop-up.
(The set playback level value will be retained for the selected
region.)

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Undoing the previous edit (UNDO)

You can undo the immediately previous timeline editing
operation.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.

3. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

4. Touch the UNDO button in the pull-up menu to undo the
previous operation. When the undo completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

Redoing an edit (REDO)

After undoing an edit, you can redo it.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch the EDIT MODE button to enter edit mode.

3. Touch the EDIT button to open a pull-up menu.

4. Touch the REDO button in the pull-up menu to redo the
previous undo. When the operation completes, the Home
Screen will be shown again after a pop-up message appears.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

NOTE

•

You can also undo using the UNDO button in the Fade/Level
pull-up menu.

•

If no editing has been conducted, the UNDO button is
disabled. The UNDO button appears with white letters when
it is possible to undo an edit.

•

In timeline mode, a maximum of 10 recording/editing
operations are remembered in the editing history. You can
use the UNDO and REDO functions on operations retained
in this history. However, as the number of edits and regions
increases, the number of operations that can be remem­bered could become less than 10.

•

The editing history in timeline mode will be cleared when
any of the following occur.

•

The main unit power is turned off.

•

A project/session is loaded.

•

AES31 editing information is imported

•

The operation mode is changed.

At this time, the EDIT pull-up menu will still be open.

NOTE

•

You can also redo using the REDO button in the Fade/Level
pull-up menu

•

If no edit has been undone, the REDO button is disabled. The
REDO button appears with white letters when it is possible
to redo an edit.

•

In timeline mode, a maximum of 10 recording/editing
operations are remembered in the editing history. You can
use the UNDO and REDO functions on operations retained
in this history. However, as the number of edits and regions
increases, the number of operations that can be remem­bered could become less than 10.

•

The editing history in timeline mode will be cleared when
any of the following occur.

•

The main unit power is turned off.

•

A project/session is loaded.

•

AES31 editing information is imported

•

The operation mode is changed.

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Bouncing

You can output part of a region or an interval that crosses
multiple regions as a single take.

Designating the bounce starting point

1. Touch the HOME key to open the Home Screen.

2. Use the m and , keys, for example, to locate the

bounce start point (time).

3. Touch the Bounce I/O button to open a pull-up menu with
buttons related to bouncing.

4. Touch the SET IN button on the pull-up menu to set the
bounce starting point (IN point).

The IN mark ( ) appears at the current position in the mark

display area.

10. Touch the BOUNCE button on the pull-up menu to open the
BOUNCE NAME screen where you can input the bounce file
name.

Input the file name. Use the same input method as in
“Editing the project name” on page 40.

11. Press the Enter button. The following confirmation pop-up
message will appear.

Designating the bounce ending point

5. Use the m and , keys, for example, to locate the

bounce ending position (time).

6. Touch the BOUNCE I/O button to open a pull-up menu.

7. Touch the SET OUT button on the pull-up menu to set the
bounce ending point (OUT point).

The OUT mark ( ) appears at the current position in the
mark display area.

Selecting tracks

8. If "TIMELINE Rec Tracks" is set to "2trx2", touch the tracks that
you want to bounce to select them.

Bouncing the interval

9. Touch the BOUNCE I/O button to open a pull-up menu.

•

Touch the Root dir button to save the bounce to the root
folder of the current CF card.

•

Touch the Current Session button to save the bounce to
the current session.

•

Touch the Cancel button to return to the BOUNCE NAME
screen without bouncing.

While the file is being created, a progress status pop-up
appears.

When file creation completes, the pop-up disappears.

NOTE

You can cancel a bounce by pressing the CANCEL button
while the progress pop-up window is open.

Clearing the bounce starting and ending points

12. Touch the Bounce I/O button to open a pull-up menu with
buttons related to bouncing.

13. Touch the CLEAR button on the pull-up menu to discard the
currently set IN and OUT points.

When a confirmation message pop-up appears, touch the
OK button or press the DATA dial. The IN ( ) and OUT ( )
marks in the mark display area will disappear.

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8 – Take mode

In this chapter, we explain how to use the take mode.
To use this unit in take mode, set the unit’s operation mode to

TAKE MODE.(See “Selecting the operation mode” on page 49.)
Please refer to “4 – Basic operation” when reading this chapter.

Preparing to record

Basic preparations

Refer to “4 – Basic operation” on page 30 as you conduct basic
preparations.

Creating a new project

Create new projects as necessary. You do not need to create a
new project if you plan to record into an existing one.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the CREATE PROJECT button on the PROJECT screen
to open the CREATE PROJECT screen.

3. After you complete making settings touch the CREATE
PROJECT button.

NOTE

If a project with the same project name already exists, the
CREATE PROJECT button appears gray and you will not be
able to create a new project. If this happens, change the
project name.

4. When the confirmation message appears in a pop-up, press
the OK button.

When creation of the project completes, the Home Screen
reopens.

Creating new sessions

Create new sessions as necessary. You do not need to create a
new session if you plan to record into an existing one.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button of the project to which you want to add
a session to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

On the first page, you can set the project name, the name
of the first created session, the sampling frequency, and the
sampling frequency written to BWF chunks.

Touch the NEXT button to open the next page.

Next, set the frame type and bit length.
Touch the NEXT button to open the next page.

Finally, set the starting time and number of tracks to be
recorded in timeline mode, and then set whether other
settings should be retained from the currently open project
or whether the factory defaults should be used instead.

For details, see “Creating new projects” on page 39.

3. Touch the OK button. Touch the MAKE SESSION button to
open the MAKE SESSION screen.

4. Touch the Session Name button to open the SESSION NAME
screen where you can change the session name.

Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name”
on page 40.

NOTE

You cannot use the “@” symbol at the beginning of a session
name.

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5. Touch the Enter button or press the DATA dial to return to
the MAKE SESSION screen.

6. If necessary, set the timeline starting time and number of
recording tracks.

7. When you have finished making settings, press the MAKE
SESSION button.

8. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

When creation of the project completes, the Home Screen
reopens.

For details about session, see “Session operations” on page

43.

Arming tracks for recording

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

Recording mode settings

1. Press the MENU key on the front panel to open the MENU
screen.

2. Touch the REC SETUP button to open the REC SETUP screen.

2. Touch the REC/MON button to open a pull-up with REC and
MON buttons.

To arm tracks for recording, touch their record arm buttons.
When a track is armed to record, its button appears red.

On the REC MODE page, you can turn confidence
monitoring on or off. For details, see “Confidence
monitoring” on page 122.

Setting the file format

Touch the FILE FORMAT tab on the REC SETUP screen to open
the following screen.

On the FILE FORMAT page, set the bit length, maximum file size
and how files are handled when entering recording standby
(pause mode). The selected items appear light blue. For details,
see “FILE FORMAT page” on page 101.

NOTE

File Mode cannot be set to MONO. The mono file recording
folder setting cannot be changed.

(Support is planned in a future firmware version upgrade.)

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Other recording settings

Touch the OPTIONS tab of the REC SETUP screen to open the
following screen.

On the OPTIONS page, you can set the pre-recording time and
the use of auto markers. For details, see “OPTIONS page” on page

102.

Making a recording

Recording

When unit is stopped, press the REC key to put the unit into
recording standby. At this time, the
transport status.

In recording standby, press the PLAY key to start recording.
The transport status display at the top left of the Home Screen

changes into the recording status display and part of the
background of the Home Screen becomes red, indicating that
the unit is recording. The time counter starts at the same time.

icon indicates this

Stopping recording

To stop recording, press the STOP (RETAKE) key.

Retaking a recording

While pressing and holding the SHIFT key, press the STOP
[RETAKE] key to delete the last recorded take. (This deletes the
recorded audio file itself.)

If you press the PAUSE key during recording to record multiple
consecutive takes (files) and the PAUSE MODE item is set to
SPLIT, this will only erase the last take.

If it is set to NO SPLIT, the recording is not split into multiple
takes, so this will erase the entire recording from start to finish.

For details about the PAUSE MODE item, see “FILE FORMAT page”
on page 101.

Playback

Project/session/take selection

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

NOTE

•

When stopped, pressing the PLAY key while pressing and
holding the REC key will also start recording.

•

Recording can also be controlled using parallel control
(except retaking).
In take mode, even if you press the REC and PLAY keys at
the same time during playback, you cannot overwrite a
recording.

CAUTION

When in recording standby, the parallel control signals
output are high for TALLY_RECORD and low for TALLY_
PAUSE .
When in recording standby, the REC and PAUSE keys on the
front panel will be lit.

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2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the take
you want to load to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

8 – Take mode

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the take

you want to load to open the take selection screen.
If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears

confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

NOTE

To load a take in the current session, instead of steps 1
to 3, you can do one of the following to move to the take
selection screen of the current session.

•

Touch the session name button at the top right of the
project screen.

•

Touch the take name button on the Home Screen to
open a pull-down menu and touch the TakeList button.

•

Touch the session/take name in the lower information
area of the HOME screen when the INFO button is
pressed.

4. Select the take that you want to load.

5. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

6. Touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu.

7. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

Setting input monitoring

Turn input monitoring OFF for the channels (tracks) that you are
playing back. Audio from the audio input connectors is output
for the channels that have input monitoring ON.

1. Touch the REC/MON button on the Home Screen to open a
pull-up with REC and MON buttons.

2. If input monitoring is on for any playback channels (MON
buttons appear blue), touch those MON buttons to turn
them off (turning them gray).

Setting the online function

Refer to “Online functions” on page 122 for details about
making settings for the online outputs.

Playback

Press the PLAY key to start playback.
Press the PAUSE key to start playback standby.
To end playback standby, press the PLAY key.
Press the STOP (RETAKE) key to stop playback.
Press the .[MARK.] key or / [MARK /] key to

switch takes.
Press and hold the e [ ] key or e [ ] key to search

backward or forward.
While pressing and holding the SHIFT key, press the XXX [MARK.]

key or / [MARK X] key to jump to a mark.
Press and hold the m[ ] or ,[ ] key while pressing

and holding the SHIFT key to search at high-speed.

NOTE

On the PLAY SETUP screen, you can set whether only the
currently selected take is played or whether all the takes
within the current session are played. You can also enable
and disable repeat playback. (See “Playback settings (PLAY
SETUP)” on page 103.)

Playback functions can also be used via parallel control.

After loading completes the Home Screen opens.

NOTE

You can also press the e button for a take to load it.
In this case, no pop-up window appears, and the take

selection screen remains open after loading (the Home
screen does not reopen.)

Call function

Press the CALL (CHASE) key to locate to the point where
playback was last started from playback standby (call point) and
put the unit in playback standby mode.

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BWF-J cue points (take mode)

When the Follow BWF-J item on the GENERAL page of the PLAY
SETUP screen is ON, if a BWF-J cue point is detected during
playback, the following operations will occur. In addition, when
the BWF-J tally item on the PARALLEL page of the REMOTE
SETUP screen is ON, cue signals and tally signals will be output
from the parallel remote connector in response to each BWF-J
cue point.

When a take is loaded, the transport locates
to this point as the playback start point.

BC$STANDBY

BC$CM

BC$END

BC$STOP

BC$FILE

BC$PAUSE

During playback, when this point is reached,
playback standby starts. In either case, a
BC$STANDBY tally is output.
During playback, when this point is reached,
a BC$CM CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is reached,
a BC$END CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is reached,
a BC$STOP CUE signal is output, and
playback stops.
During playback, when this point is reached,
a BC$END cue signal is output, and if the
next take has a BC$STANDBY cue point, the
transport locates to that point, playback
standby starts and a BC$STANDBY tally is
output.
During playback, when this point is reached,
a BC$PAUSE tally is output, and playback
standby starts.

Using the flash start function in playlist mode

Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD (sold separately) or other remote
controller, flash start playback is possible.

For details, see “Flash start function” on page 123.

Take operations

You can create multiple takes in the same session folder.
For details, “5 – Projects” on page 36.
The following operations are possible with takes.

p Changing take start times

p Adding @ marks to take names and removing them

p Copying takes

p Deleting takes

p Sorting takes

p Moving takes

p Editing take names

Changing the start time of a take

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the take
for which you want to edit the start time to open the session
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the take
for which you want to edit the start time to open the take
selection screen.

If it is not the current session, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

NOTE

To load a take in the current session, instead of steps 1
to 3, you can do one of the following to move to the take
selection screen of the current session.

•

Touch the session name button at the top right of the
project screen.

•

Touch the take name button on the Home Screen to
open a pull-down menu and touch the TAKE List button.

•

Touch the session/take name in the lower information
area of the HOME screen when the INFO button is
pressed.

4. Select the take that you want to edit the start time.

5. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

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6. Press the EDIT TC button in the pull-up menu to open the
TAKE TC screen.

8 – Take mode

7. On the TAKE T/C screen, use the FRAME EDIT button to set
whether or not to input the frame value.

FRAME EDIT on

FRAME EDIT off

8. Use the number buttons to input the take start time. If you
begin input without selecting a digit, input will start from
the smallest one.

To input a specific digit, touch it to make its background
yellow, and then use the number buttons or the DATA dial to
enter two digits at a time.

Touch the CLEAR button to erase all entered values.

9. Touch the ENTER button to confirm the setting.

Using @ with take names

Select a take and touch the CIRCLE TAKE button to add an “@” to
the beginning of that take’s name.

In addition, you can add an "@" to the beginning of a take name
(or remove it) by touching the take name button on the Home
Screen to open a pull-down menu and touching the CIRCLE
TAKE button in it.

CAUTION

Be aware that you can add/remove @ marks to/from the
names of takes that are used in playlist mode. If you do
this to a take that is used in playlist mode, an error pop-up
message will appear when you try to load a playlist that
contains it.

TIP

You can use the "@" to identify good takes, for example.

NOTE

•

If a WAV LOCK function Authorize Key has not been input,
you cannot add/remove @ marks to/from take names that
have been password locked.

•

Even if a WAV LOCK function Authorize Key has been input,
you cannot add/remove @ marks to/from take names that
have been password locked with a password different from
the one used by this unit.

TIP

TIP This can also be edited using an externally connected
keyboard.

Press the keyboard’s ESC key to clear all the values.

10. When the confirmation pop-up window appears, touch the
OK button or press the DATA dial.

NOTE

If you change the start time of a WAV file, it will automati­cally be converted to BWF format and a pop-up message
stating this will appear.

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Copying takes

You can copy takes in the current session to the following
locations.

p Root folder of same CF card
p Root folder of different CF card
p Current session of different CF card

1. On the take selection screen, select the take you want to
copy.

2. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

3. Touch the COPY button in the pull-up menu to open the
following pop-up message.

Touch a location button in the pop-up message to copy the
selected take to it.

Touch the CANCEL button in the pop-up message to return
to the take list screen.

Deleting takes

1. On the take selection screen, select the take that you want
to delete.

2. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

Take selection screen with pull-up menu open

3. Touch the DELETE button in the pull-up menu.

4. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

NOTE

•

If the copy destination is empty (the current session does
not exist on the other card when you select "CFn Current"),
the same project/session as the source will be created there
when copying.

•

If the copy destination already has a file with the same
name, when you try to copy, it will not be possible and a
pop-up message will warn, "Cannot Copy. Selected Take
Already exists in Copy destination."

•

If the total copied file size exceeds the open capacity of
the copy destination, when you try to copy, it will not be
possible and a pop-up message will warn, "Cannot Copy.
Not enough space on CFn".

•

If the sampling frequency of the copy destination project is
different, when you try to copy, it will not be possible and
a pop-up message will warn, "Cannot Copy. Destination
Project is different Fs."

Confirmation message window

5. When a confirmation message pop-up appears, touch the
OK button or press the DATA dial.

Reconfirmation message window

During erasure, a progress status pop-up appears.
When erasure completes, the pop-up disappears.

CAUTION

Be aware that you can delete takes that are used in timeline
and playlist modes. If you delete a take that is used in
timeline or playlist mode, an error pop-up message will
appear when you try to load a timeline or playlist that
contains it.

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Sorting takes

You can sort the playback order of takes by their names.

1. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

Take selection screen with pull-up menu open

2. Touch the SORT button in the pull-up menu to open a
confirmation pop-up message.

Moving takes

You can move takes to change their playback order.

TAKE-3TAKE-1 TAKE-2

TAKE-1 TAKE-2 TAKE-5

1. On the take selection screen, select the take that you want
to move.

2. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

3. Touch the MOVE button in the pull-up menu to open the
TAKE MOVE screen.

TAKE-3

Take selection screen with pull-up menu open

TAKE-4

TAKE-4 TAKE-5

Confirmation message window

3. Touch the OK button in the pop-up message or press the
ENTER key to sort the playback order of the takes by their
names.

Touch the CANCEL button to return to the take selection
screen.

4. Use the DATA dial and scroll buttons to move the selected
take.

5. Touch the MOVE button or press the ENTER key to move the
take to the location shown.

Touch the button at the top left of the screen or press
the EXIT/CANCEL key to return to the take selection screen
without moving the take.

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Editing take names

1. On the take selection screen, select the take with the name
that you want to change.

2. Touch the MENU button on the take selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

Take selection screen with pull-up menu open

3. Touch the EDIT NAME button in the pull-up menu to open
the PROJECT NAME screen.

TAKE NAME screen

NOTE

If multiple takes are selected, the EDIT NAME button in the
pull-up menu cannot be selected.

4. Input the take name. Use the same input method as in
“Editing the project name” on page 40.

5. Touch the Enter button on the TAKE NAME screen or press
the DATA dial to confirm the take name and return to the
take selection screen.

CAUTION

Be aware that you can change the names of takes that are
used in playlist mode. If you do this to a take that is used in
playlist mode, an error pop-up message will appear when
you try to load a playlist that contains it.

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9 – Playlist mode

In this chapter, we explain how to use the playlist mode.
To use this unit in playlist mode, set the unit's operation mode

to PLAYLIST MODE. (See “Selecting the operation mode” on page

49.)

Playlist operations

Loading project/sessions

Only takes/files included in the session used to create a playlist
can be added to that playlist.

When takes/files that are in other sessions are added to a playlist
they are copied to the current session.

First, load the session with the playlist that you want to use.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

6. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

When loading a session completes, the last loaded playlist
is automatically loaded (or a default playlist is created for a
new session) and the Home Screen reopens.

Creating a new playlist

You can create a playlist in the current session folder.
When viewed on a computer, the folder of the CF card should be

as follows.

[CF card drive name]: \ [project name] \ [session name] \
[_playlists] \ [playlist file]

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project in which you want to
create a new playlist to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch the e button for a session where you want to create
a new playlist to open the playlist selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

2. Touch the e button for the project that you want to select

to open the session selection screen.
If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears

confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch the name of the session to select it.
Its background appears yellow.

4. Touch the MENU button on the session selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

5. Touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu.

NOTE

You can also load a session by pressing its e button.
In this case, if it is not the current session, a pop-up window

appears confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK
button.

NOTE

When you create a session, three playlists are created
automatically—for single mode and for A and B in dual
mode.

4. Touch the NEW/IMPORT button to open a pull-up menu.

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5. Touch the EDIT NAME button in the pull-up menu to open
the PLAYLIST NAME screen.

6. Input the playlist name.
Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name”

on page 40.

7. Touch the Enter button or press the DATA dial.
When the confirmation message pop-up appears, in single

mode, touch the OK button or press the DATA dial to confirm
the session name.

8. In dual or A/B MIXED mode, after creating a playlist press
the LOAD to A button to load it to player A or the LOAD to B
button to load it to player B.

Importing JPPA PPL files

You can import JPPA PPL format files into the current playlist.
JPPA PPL Format files must first be placed in the "_playlists"

subfolder inside the session folder on the CF card.
When viewed on a computer, the folder of the CF card should be

as follows.

{CF drive name}:\{project name}\{session name}\_playlists\
{JPPA PPL file name}

NOTE

If you save a playlist after importing it, the imported
contents of the playlist are saved in this folder.

If you do not save it, the imported contents of the playlist
will be cleared when you load another playlist, remove the
CF card or turn the unit off, for example.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Press the e button for the project that contains the
JPPA PPL file that you want to import to show the playlist
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Press the e button for the session that contains the
JPPA PPL file that you want to import to show the playlist
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

4. Touch the NEW/IMPORT button to open a pull-up menu.

Single mode

Dual or A/B MIXED mode

While the playlist is being created, a progress status pop-up
appears.

When playlist creation completes, the pop-up disappears.

NOTE

•

Immediately after creating a new playlist that playlist
becomes the current playlist (the currently loaded playlist).

•

In single mode ,"C" (current) appears in the icon of the
currently loaded playlist.

•

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, "A" appears in the icon of the
playlist loaded in player A and "B" appears the icon of the
playlist loaded in player B.

5. Touch the IMPORT button in the pull-up menu to open the
IMPORT PPL screen.

A list will be shown of all the JPPA PPL files found within the
"_playlists" folder under the session folder.

6. Touch the e button for the PPL file that you want to load.

NOTE

Touch a name in the list to select a file, and the touch the
INFO button to show file information.

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7. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

The progress of playlist importing appears in a pop-up
message.

When playlist importing completes, the pop-up message
disappears.

NOTE

•

Immediately after importing JPPA PPL file, the imported
playlist becomes the current playlist (the currently loaded
playlist).

•

In single mode, the contents of output port A of the JPPA PPL
format file is imported.

•

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, the contents of output port A
of the JPPA PPL format file is imported to player A and the
contents of output port B is imported to player B.

Changing a playlist name later

You can change playlist names later.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the playlist
for which you want to change the name to open the session
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the playlist
for which you want to change the name to open the playlist
selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

4. Select the playlist that you want to change. The background
of the selected playlist name appears yellow.

5. Touch the MENU button to open a pull-up menu.

6. Touch the EDIT NAME button in the pull-up menu to open
the PLAYLIST NAME screen.

NOTE

If the loaded playlist is selected, the EDIT NAME button
(which opens the PLAYLIST NAME screen) in the pull-up
menu item is disabled.

7. Input the playlist name.
Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name”

on page 40.

8. Touch the Enter button on the PLAYLIST NAME screen or
press the DATA dial to confirm the playlist name and return
to the playlist selection screen.

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Loading playlists

You can load a playlist that is in the current session folder.
The folder hierarchy will be as follows when examined on a

computer.

[CF card drive name]: \ [project name] \ [session name] \
[_playlists] \ [playlist file]

NOTE

You cannot load a playlist file from a session other than the
current one.

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the playlist
you want to load to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the playlist
you want to load to open the playlist selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

4. Select the playlist that you want to load.

5. Touch the MENU button on the Playlist selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

7. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

Single mode

When LOAD to A button selected in dual or A/B MIXED mode

After loading completes the Home Screen opens.

NOTE

You can also touch the e button for the playlist that you
want to load.

When in single mode, the same pop-up message as above
appears. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial.

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, touch the LOAD to A button or
LOAD to B button in the pop-up message according to the
player.

Single mode

Dual or A/B MIXED mode

6. In single mode, touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu.
When in dual mode, press the LOAD to A or LOAD to B

button to load it to the desired player.

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Deleting a playlist

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

2. Touch the e button for the project that contains the playlist
you want to delete to open the session selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it.

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the playlist
you want to delete to open the playlist selection screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

4. Select the playlist that you want to delete.
Touch the MULTI SELECT button to enable the selection of

multiple playlists.

5. Touch the MENU button on the Playlist selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

Editing a playlist (adding, clearing and editing entries)

A playback unit in a playlist is called an “entry”.
A maximum of 100 entries can be added to a playlist.
Only takes (files) in the session in which the playlist was created

can be added as entries.
When a take (file) that is in another session in the same project is

added to a playlist, it is copied to the session where the playlist
was made.

Even during playback of a playlist, entries can be added to or
removed from it and their names can be changed.

The entry that is currently playing, however, cannot be changed.
Use the Entry list and Assign file screens to edit playlists.

Entry list screen

To open this screen, touch a take or entry name button on the
Home Screen to open a pull-down menu and touch the ENTRY
LIST button, or touch the ENTRY g part of the ENTRY gt
ASSIGN button on the ASSIGN screen.

6. Touch the DELETE button in the pull-up menu.

NOTE

If the loaded playlist is selected, the DELETE button in the
pull-up menu item is disabled.

7. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

During erasure, a progress status pop-up appears.
When erasure completes, the pop-up disappears.

1 ENTRY gt ASSIGN button

Switches between the entry list and ASSIGN file screens.
Touch the \ ASSIGN part to open the ASSIGN file screen.

2 A/B buttons/indicators (dual mode only)

These show which player’s playlist is currently selected. The
selected player’s button appears light blue.

Touch the A button to open the playlist entry list for Player A
or the B button to open the playlist entry list for Player B.

3 Session and playlist names

This shows the current session and playlist names.
When entries have been edited but not saved, * appears.

4 START TC/LENGTH button

Touch this area to switch between showing the starting
time (START TC) and the length (LENGTH) in the START
TC/LENGTH column. The one shown in white is currently
displayed.

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5 Entry name buttons

Touch to select the corresponding entry.
Touch this button to shown the take list to the right.
After doing this, press the button with the name of the take

that you want to assign that take to this button.

NOTE

When selecting an entry button, at the top of the list of
added takes, a yellow line appears in the scroll bar area.

The entry number appears inside the icon.
The entry verification status also appears inside the icon.

If the format of the file is found to be incorrect, its name
appears in gray.

Entry name

button

Orange

White

White

White

Grey

Current entry (currently loaded entry)

Entry that is okay

Entry with different format that cannot be
played back
Entry that does not have a file assigned (when
a take has been deleted after being added to
a playlist, for example)

No entry

Meaning

6 INFO button

When an entry is selected, press this button to open an
information pop-up for that entry.

When an entry is not selected, press this button to show
information about the current playlist.

7 PLAY button

Touch to play the corresponding entry. These turn green
during playback of the corresponding entries.

Touch one during playback to stop playback of the corre­sponding entry.

8 Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of the
take list or session list, or to scroll one page (five lines)
forward or backward. You can also scroll through the entry
list one line at a time using the DATA dial.

9 START TC/LENGTH

The entry starting time or entry length (time) is shown.
The START TC/LENGTH button item shown in white is

currently displayed.

0 MULTI SELECT button

Touch to enable the selection of multiple entries.

q MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu that contains the following
items: REBUILD, CAPTURE BC$, CLEAR, ADJUST, SAVE (SAVE
A+B in dual and A/B MIXED modes), SAVE AS (SAVE AS(x) in
dual mode with x being the player mode shown with the
current A/B button; both SAVE AS(A) and SAVE AS(B) are
always shown in A/B MIXED mode) and EXPORT PPL.

8

A/B MIXED playlist mode entry list screen

In A/B MIXED playlist mode, the entry list screen appears as
follows.

Entry List Screen

1 Playlist name button

The player A playlist name is shown above and the player B
playlist name is shown below. (In other modes, the top line
shows the session name).

2 File or title names (buttons)

Icons that show entry numbers are classified using the
following colors.

Entry list screen

icon

Orange

Green

Purple

Blue

White

Grey

Entry already assigned to player A
(stopped)

Entry already assigned to player A (in use)

Entry already assigned to player B
(stopped)

Entry already assigned to player B (in use)

Entry with different format that cannot
be played back

No entry

Meaning

3 PLAY buttons [Be sure to check plural/singular.]

During playback, the player A entry appears green.
During playback, the player B entry appears blue.

4 Take name list/buttons

Three lines of take name list buttons are shown in A/B
MIXED mode.

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5 Flash start key operation setting buttons

Use these buttons to set the operation of the flash start keys
of entries that are playing back. The default setting is .

Setting

buttons

Press the flash start key of an entry playing back
to start playback of an entry. (Default)
Press the flash start key of an entry playing back
to stop playback.

Press that key again to restart playback from
the beginning of the entry.
Press the flash start key of an entry playing back
to enter playback standby.

Press that key again to restart playback from
the position where playback was paused.

Meaning

6 Output selection button

Use these buttons to select output A or B for each entry.
The default value is "A".

NOTE

When no entry has been added, the buttons shown below
will be disabled.

Touch the ENTRY g part to open the ENTRY list screen.

e Current folder name display/button

This shows the name of the folder, which is selected in the
current list display area.

Touch this button to show the session list in the take list
display area.

r Current button

Touch this button to open the take name list of the current
session.

t Key set selection button

Use the key assign buttons to select whether the left key set
or the right key set is shown.

When entries have been edited but not saved, appears.
The layout of these buttons differs according to the player

mode and RC–HS32PD Flash start key mode setting on the
GENERAL page of the REMOTE SETUP screen.

Player mode Key mode Left button

Single mode

A/B MIXED mode

Dual mode

16x2 1-16 17-32

16x2 A1-16 B1-16

12ｘ2 A1-12 B1-12

Right

button

y Key assign list/buttons

These buttons are entry assignments.
The show the flash page numbers and flash start key

numbers.
The playlist verification status also appears inside the icon.

The icon for the currently playing entry is and its button is
highlighted in green.

8

INFO pop-up message

If you touch the INFO button when no entry is selected a pop-up
message showing information about the player A playlist will
appear. You can then press the NEXT button to show infor­mation about the player B playlist.

Assign File screen

To open this screen, touch a take or entry name button on the
Home Screen to open a pull-down menu and touch the ASSIGN
FILE button, or touch the t ASSIGN part of the ENTRY gt
ASSIGN button on the ENTRY list screen.

w ENTRY gt ASSIGN button

Switches between the entry list and ASSIGN file screens.

Entry currently being played back

Entry that is okay

Entry has a file format that cannot be played
back
Entry that does not have a file assigned (when
a take has been deleted after being added to a
playlist, for example)

No entry

After touching one of these buttons, touch a take name
button to assign that take to that button.

u Scroll bar

This shows the overall position in the take list that is
currently shown and how much of the total take list is being
displayed.

NOTE

When an entry button is selected, a yellow line appears in
the top of the list of added takes in the scroll bar area.

i Scroll buttons

Use these buttons to scroll to the beginning or end of the
take list or session list, or to scroll one page (five lines)
forward or backward. You can also scroll through the take list
one line at a time using the DATA dial.

o Page display and selection buttons

The current key assign button page is shown.
Touch the + or – button to change the page.
The number of pages differs according to the player mode

and RC–HS32PD Flash Start Key Mode setting on the
GENERAL page of the REMOTE SETUP screen.

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p INFO button

When a key assign button is selected, press this button to
open an information pop-up for that key assign button.

When a take is selected, press this button to open an infor­mation pop-up for that take.

When nothing is selected, press this button to show infor­mation about the current playlist.

a Take name list/buttons

This is a list of the takes in the current session.
After touching a key assign button, touch a take name

button to assign that take to that key assign button.
When only the project name is shown in the current folder

name display/button, if you touch it, a list of the sessions in
the current project will be shown.

Touch the button of the session that you want to load to
open the list of takes in that session.

s MENU button

Touch to open a pull-up menu that contains the following
items: REBUILD, CAPTURE BC$, CLEAR, ADJUST, SAVE (SAVE
A+B in dual mode), SAVE AS (SAVE AS(x) in dual mode with x
being the player mode shown with the current A/B button;
both SAVE AS(A) and SAVE AS(B) are always shown in A/B
MIXED mode) and EXPORT PPL.

8

A/B MIXED playlist mode file assignment screen

In A/B MIXED playlist mode, this screen appears as follows.

3 Flash start key operation setting buttons

Use these buttons to set the operation of the flash start keys
of entries that are playing back. The default setting is .

Setting

buttons

Press the flash start key of an entry playing
back to start playback of an entry. (Default)
Press the flash start key of an entry playing
back to stop playback.

Press that key again to restart playback from
the beginning of the entry.
Press the flash start key of an entry playing
back to enter playback standby.

Press that key again to restart playback from
the position where playback was paused.

Meaning

4 Output selection button

Use these buttons to select output A or B for each entry.
The default value is "A".

NOTE

When no entry has been added, the buttons shown below
will be disabled.

1 Key assign list/button

Buttons are classified using the following colors.

Assign File Screen Meaning

Orange

Green

Purple

Blue

Grey

Grey

ENTRY assigned to player A
(stopped)

ENTRY assigned to player A (in use)

ENTRY assigned to player B
(stopped)

ENTRY assigned to player B (in use)

Entry with different format that
cannot be played back

No entry

2 Take name list/buttons

Three lines of the take name list and buttons are shown in
A/B MIXED mode.

8

INFO pop-up message

If you touch the INFO button when no entry is selected a pop-up
message showing information about the player A playlist will
appear. You can then press the NEXT button to show infor­mation about the player B playlist.

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Assigning a take to an entry

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

Single mode

9 – Playlist mode

A/B MIXED mode

On the left side are the buttons that can receive assign­ments, and on the right side is the list of takes that can be
assigned.

NOTE

You can also touch the t ASSIGN button on the Entry List
screen to open the Assign File screen.

In dual or A/B MIXED mode

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu, and press the ASSIGN FILE button to open the file
assignment screen where you can add entries.

Single mode

3. First, select the key assign button of the take that you want
to assign.

NOTE

The appearance of the key assignment button screen will be
partly different when the player mode is single, dual or A/B
MIXED and the RC-HS32PD Flash Start Key Mode item is set
to "16x2" or "12x2". For information about the RC-HS32PD
Flash Start Key Mode,“Creating a JPPA PPL file from the
loaded playlist” on page 94.

4. Use the “+” and “–” buttons to open the page where you
want to assign a file.

Dual mode

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5. When in single or A/B MIXED mode, touch the 1-16 or 17-32
button to show the flash start keys to which you want to
assign entries.

Single mode 1-16

Single mode 17–32

When in dual mode, touch the A1-16 button to select player
A or the B1-16 button to select player B.

7. Touch a take name in the take list to assign that take to that
button.

When a take is assigned to a button, the button’s icon
changes from (no assignment) to .

NOTE

•

Only takes in the project where the playlist is can be added
to the playlist.

•

If the take that you want to add does not appear, use the
scroll buttons or DATA dial to scroll through the list until the
take appears and then touch its name.

TIP

If the take that you want to add is in a different session in
the same project, touch the current session name button to
open the session list.

Then, touch the name of the session that contains the take
that you want to add to open that session’s take name list.

8. When in A/B MIXED mode, use the buttons below the take
list to set the functions of the flash start keys when pushed
and the outputs of the entries.

Dual mode player A

Dual mode player B

6. In the key assign button list on the left, select the one that
you want to assign to.

The selected button appears light blue.

NOTE

If you select a button that already has an entry assigned to
it, the corresponding take appears yellow in the take list.

9. Repeat steps 3–8 as necessary.

10. After you have completed making assignments, save the
playlist as necessary.

To save a playlist, touch the MENU button on the file
assignment or entry list screen to open a pull-up menu (or a
file name or title name button on the Home Screen to open
a pull-down menu), and touch the SAVE button (SAVE A+B
button in dual or A/B MIXED mode).

For details about saving playlists, see “Saving a playlist” on
page 93.

CAUTION

If you do not save the playlist, all changes will be lost when
another playlist is loaded, the CF card is removed or the
unit’s power is turned off, for example.

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Entry number page allocation

Playlist entry numbers are displayed according to the player mode and key mode settings.

Mode

RC-HS32PD

Flash Start Key Mode
Key set selection button

1 001-016 017-032 A: 001-016

2 033-048 049-064

3 065-080 081-096

Page numbers

“-” means there is no corresponding page.
“A:” indicates entry numbers for the Player A playlist, and “B:” for the Player B playlist.

4 - -

5 - -

6 - -

7 - - - -

8 - - - -

Single, A/B MIXED

16x2 16x2

1-16 17-32 A1-16

B: 001-016 A: 001-012 B: 001-012

A: 017-032 B: 017-032 A: 013-024 B: 013-024

A: 033-048 B: 033-048 A: 025-036 B: 025-036

A: 049-064 B: 049-064 A: 037-048 B: 037-048

A: 065-080 B: 065-080 A: 049-060 B: 049-060

A: 081-096 B: 081-096 A: 061-072 B: 061-072

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Dual mode

12x2

B1-16 A1-12 B1-12

A: 073-084 B: 073-084

A: 085-096 B: 085-096

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Clearing entry assignments

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the ENTRY LIST button to open the entry
list screen where you can work with entries.

3. Select the entry that you want to clear.
Its background appears yellow.

4. Touch the MENU button on the Entry List screen to open a
pull-up menu.

Editing entry titles

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the ADJUST ENTRY button to open the
ADJUST XXX screen ("XXX" is the entry number).

CAUTION

Playback will stop if you open the ADJUST XXX screen.

NOTE

You can also open this screen by touching the MENU button
and then touching the ADJUST button in the pull-up menu
when a take is selected on the ENTRY list screen or one of the
key assign buttons on the left is selected on the ASSIGN file
screen.

5. Touch the CLEAR button in the pull-up menu to clear the
entry.

NOTE

•

You can also clear an entry by touching the take name that
is highlighted yellow in the take list on the right side.

•

You can select multiple entries by touching the MULTI
SELECT key. Then, you can touch the CLEAR button to clear
all those entries at the same time.

•

On the Assign File screen, when a button on the left is
selected, you can clear its entry by touching the take name
that appears yellow in the take list on the right side or by
touching the MENU button and then touching the CLEAR
button on the pull-up menu.

Entry List Screen

Assign File Screen

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3. The characters shown next to the TITLE button is the title of
the selected entry.

Touch the TITLE button to open the EDIT TITLE screen where
you can change the title of the entry.

Input the title name. Use the same input method as in
“Editing the project name” on page 40.

4. Touch the Enter button on the EDIT TITLE screen or press the
DATA dial to change the entry title.

Editing the playback start and stop positions

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the ADJUST ENTRY button to open the
ADJUST XXX screen ("XXX" is the entry number).

CAUTION

When you open the ADJUST XXX screen, playback stops.

•

Touch the BC$ , button to open a confirmation pop-up
message that allows you to set the Start and End points to
the times of the BC$STANDBY and BC$END marks or reset
them to the file start and end times. Touch the CAPTURE
button in the pop-up message to load the BC$STANDBY
and BC$END mark times as the Start and End points. Touch
the RESET button in the pop-up message to reset the Start
and End points to the file start and end times. [This should
be one note. It might be better, however, to give it its own
section.]

Quickly switching to the region between BC$STANDBY and BC$END marks

You can switch to the region between BC$STANDBY and
BC$END marks all at once.

1. Open the pull-up menu on the playlist mode ASSIGN or
ENTRY screen.

NOTE

•

You can also open this screen by touching the MENU button
and then touching the ADJUST button in the pull-up menu
when a take is selected on the ENTRY list screen or one of the
key assign buttons on the left is selected on the ASSIGN file
screen.

•

Use the. and / buttons shown at the top right to open
the ADJUST XXX screen for the previous or next assigned
entry.

3. Open the Start End Point page.

4. Touch a time display unit to highlight it yellow. The corre­sponding cursor bar blinks.

When a time unit is selected, use the DATA dial to change
the Start/End position.

Select the time unit for the precision at which you want to
make the change. For example, select the frame unit for
frame precision or the sample unit for sample precision.

If the selected unit is increased/decreased beyond its
maximum/minimum, the next larger unit is increased/
decreased by one.

2. Touch the CAPTURE BC$ button in the pull-up menu to open
the following pop-up message.

NOTE

•

You can also use the CURRENT button to capture the current
playback position as the Start/End position.

NOTE

Touch the CANCEL button in the pop-up message to return
to the ASSIGN or ENTRY screen.

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3. Touch the CAPTURE ALL button in the pop-up message to
open the following pop-up message.

4. Touch the CAPTURE ALL button in the pop-up message to
switch to the region between the BC$STANDBY and BC$END
marks all at once.

NOTE

Touch the CANCEL button in the pop-up message to return
to the ASSIGN or ENTRY screen.

5. Touch the RESET ALL button in the pop-up message shown
in step 1 to open the following pop-up message.

6. Touch the RESET ALL button in the pop-up message to reset
the starting and ending times of the entry to the beginning
and ending times of the file.

NOTE

Touch the CANCEL button in the pop-up message to return
to the ASSIGN or ENTRY screen.

Using the numeric entry screen to edit the playback beginning and ending positions

1. On the Start and End areas of the ADJUST XXX screen, touch
the EDIT button at the far right to open the EDIT START
POINT/EDIT END POINT screen on which you can edit the
playback starting/ending position.

Use the FRAME EDIT button on the EDIT START POINT screen
to set whether or not you will edit the frame value.

2. Use the number buttons to input the playback starting/
ending position of the entry.

•

If you begin input without selecting a digit, input will start
from the smallest one.

•

To input a specific digit, touch it to make its background
yellow, and then use the number buttons or the DATA dial
to enter two digits at a time.

•

Touch the CURRENT b button to copy the current playback
position to the input value.

•

On the EDIT END POINT numeric entry screen, touch the
SET MAX 5 button to set the file end time as the input
value.

•

Touch the CLEAR button to erase all entered values.

•

Touch the Mark List button to open the mark list screen
where you can copy the time from a designated mark.

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On this screen, touch the e button for the mark with the
time that you want to load to set it as the playback starting/
ending point, and return to the ADJUST XXX screen.

NOTE

When changing the playback starting/ending time, these
time settings will automatically be constrained so that the
time between them is greater than the total time of the fade
in and fade out.

3. Touch the ENTER button to confirm the setting.

TIP

•

You can also use the PLAY key and other transport keys
while listening to the audio to find the location, and then
press the CURRENT b button to input that value here.

•

You can also use an external keyboard for editing items on
the EDIT START POINT and EDIT END POINT screens.

•

Press the keyboard’s ESC key to clear all the values.

9 – Playlist mode

Editing entry starting timecodes

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the ADJUST ENTRY button to open the
ADJUST XXX screen ("XXX" is the entry number).

CAUTION

When you open the ADJUST XXX screen, playback stops.

NOTE

•

You can also open this screen by touching the MENU button
and then touching the ADJUST button in the pull-up menu
when a take is selected on the ENTRY list screen or one of the
key assign buttons on the left is selected on the ASSIGN file
screen.

•

Use the. and / buttons shown at the top right to open
the ADJUST XXX screen for the previous or next assigned
entry.

3. Touch the Start TC Fade/Level tab to open the following
screen.

5. The value shown next to "Start TC" is the timecode of the
start of the selected entry.

Touch the EDIT button in the Start TC item to open the EDIT
START T/C screen where you can edit the timecode of the
beginning of the entry. [This step repeats the previous step.]

Use the FRAME EDIT button on the EDIT START T/C screen to
set whether or not you will edit the frame value.

6. Use the number buttons to input the timecode for the
beginning of the entry.

•

If you begin input without selecting a digit, input will
start from the smallest one.

•

To input a specific digit, touch it to make its background
yellow, and then use the number buttons or the DATA
dial to enter two digits at a time.

•

Touch the CURRENT b button to copy the current
timecode time to the input value.

•

Touch the CLEAR button to erase all entered values.

7. Touch the ENTER button to confirm the setting.

TIP

•

You can also use the PLAY key and other transport keys
while listening to the audio to find the location, and then
press the CURRENT b button to input that value here.

•

This can also be edited using an externally connected
keyboard. Press the keyboard's ESC key to clear all the
values.

4. Touch the EDIT button to open the EDIT START T/C screen
and use its number buttons to change the starting timecode
(START TC).

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Editing fade in/out lengths and levels

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the ADJUST ENTRY button to open the
ADJUST XXX screen ("XXX" is the entry number).

CAUTION

When you open the ADJUST XXX screen, playback stops.

3. Touch the Start TC Fade/Level tab to open the following
screen.

4. After selecting the Fade In, Fade Out or Level knob, turn the
DATA dial to set the value.

Setting ranges:

•

Fade In/Out Length: 0–30 seconds (0.1 second/step or

1.0 second/step when pressing and turning)

•

Level: −∞ to +10 dB

NOTE

•

When changing the length of a fade in/out, the fade in/out
length settings are automatically restricted so that the fade
in/out length will not extend past the playback start or end
times.

•

The set level is shown by the solid red line.

•

The reference level (0 dB) is shown by the dotted orange line.

Using rehearsal playback functions

On the ADJUST ENTRY screen, you can use the transport
functions to conduct rehearsal playback.

•

Other than using the. and / keys to move to file
beginnings, Start Points, End Points and file endings,
transport operations are the same as usual.

•

If you change the Start Point or Fade In Length, the
playback position will move to the Start Point. If you make
this change during playback, playback will resume after
moving to the new playback position.

•

If you change the End Point or Fade Out Length, the
playback position will move as follows. If you make this
change during playback, playback will resume after moving
to the new playback position.

PREVIEW OFF PREVIEW ON

End Point changed

Fade Out Length
changed

•

Use the PREVIEW button to change the rehearsal playback
contents.

2 seconds before
End Point

2 seconds before
Fade Out start
position

Rehearsal playback when PREVIEW OFF

•

Fade IN/OUT and Level Adjust settings do not affect the
playback sound.

•

You can move to points outside the region between the
Start and End Points.

•

When the End Point is reached during playback, playback
stops and the playback position moves to the Start Point.
Press the PLAY key to start playback from the Start Point.
To move to a point after the End Point, use the , key,
/ key, SHIFT+/ key or the JOG/SHUTTLE dial.

Rehearsal playback when PREVIEW ON

•

Playback is only possible in the region between the Start
and End Points.
The transport cannot be moved outside this region.

•

Fade IN/OUT and Level Adjust settings affect the playback
sound.

2 seconds before
Fade Out start
position
2 seconds before
Fade Out start
position

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Saving a playlist

The current playlist is saved in the "_playlists" subfolder inside
the current session (the currently loaded session) folder on the
CF card.

When viewed on a computer, the folder of the CF card should be
as follows.

[CF card drive name]: \ [project name] \ [session name] \
[_playlists] \ [playlist file]

9 – Playlist mode

CAUTION

After editing a playlist, save it as necessary.
If you do not save the playlist, all changes will be lost when

another playlist is loaded, the CF card is removed or the
unit’s power is turned off, for example.

An “*” appears in the file name or title name button when
editing has occurred but it has not been saved yet. When
an “*” is shown, a pop-up message asking if you want to
save the playlist will appear when you try to do something
that would clear the edits, including when loading another
playlist, creating a new playlist and changing the operation
mode.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu, and touch the SAVE button. (In dual or A/B MIXED
mode, this becomes the SAVE A+B button and saves both
player A and B playlists.)

Assign File Screen

Naming a playlist and saving it

Touch a file name or title name button on the Home Screen to
open a pull-down menu, and instead of the SAVE button, touch
the SAVE AS button to change the name before saving.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu and touch the SAVE AS button.

(In dual and A/B MIXED modes, this becomes SAVE AS (A) or
SAVE AS (B) and saves the playlist of the currently selected
player (A or B.)

The PLAYLIST NAME screen where you can input new playlist
names opens.

This starts saving.
While saving, a progress status pop-up appears.
When saving completes, the pop-up disappears.

NOTE

You can also save a playlist by touching the MENU button
on the ASSIGN file or ENTRY list screen to open a pull-up
menu and touching the SAVE button

Entry List Screen

3. Input the playlist name. Use the same input method as in
“Editing the project name” on page 40.

Touch the Enter button on the PLAYLIST NAME screen or
press the DATA dial to save the playlist with this name.

While the file is being created, a progress status pop-up
appears.

When file creation completes, the pop-up disappears.

NOTE

If a file with the same name already exists, a pop-up
message confirming that you want to overwrite that file
appears.

Touch the OK button to overwrite that file or press the
CANCEL button to return to the PLAYLIST NAME screen.

TIP

On the ENTRY list screen or file ASSIGN screen, you can also
press the MENU button to open a pull-up menu and press

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the SAVE AS button (SAVE AS (A) or SAVE AS (B) in dual or
A/B MIXED mode) to name a file and save it.

Single mode

Dual mode

Creating a JPPA PPL file from the loaded playlist

JPPA PPL files are saved in the current playlist. The files are saved
in the "_playlists" subfolder inside the current session folder.

When viewed on a computer, the folder of the CF card should be
as follows.

[CF card drive name]: \ [project name]} \ [session name] \
[_playlists] \ [JPPA PPL file]

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

2. Touch a file name or title name button to open a pull-down
menu, and press the EXPORT PPL button.

3. Input the file name.
Use the same input method as in “Editing the project name”

on page 40.

NOTE

•

If you have previously created the current playlist from a
JPPA PPL file (imported) or created a JPPA PPL file (exported)
from the current playlist, a pop-up window will appear to
confirm that you want to overwrite that JPPA PPL file.

Touch the OK button to overwrite that file or the RENAME
button to open the PPL EXPORT screen.

•

You can also touch the MENU button on the ENTRY list or
ASSIGN file screen to open a pull-up menu, and touch the
EXPORT PPL button to create a JPPA PPL file.

Entry List Screen

Touch the EXPORT PPL button in the pull-down menu to
open the PPL EXPORT screen where you can edit the name
of the JPPA PPL file that will be created.

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Assign File Screen

4. Touch the Enter button on the PPL EXPORT screen or press
the DATA dial.

5. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial when a confir­mation pop-up message appears.

The selected playlist is converted into JPPA PPL file.
While the file is being created, a progress status pop-up

appears.
When file creation completes, the pop-up disappears.

9 – Playlist mode

NOTE

•

When a JPPA PPL format file is created, playlist information
for both player A and player B is output into a single file.

•

If a file with the same name already exists, a pop-up window
opens to confirm whether you want to overwrite that file or
not.

Touch the OK button to overwrite that file, or touch the
CANCEL button to return to the PP+ EXPORT screen.

Playing back playlists

Project/session/playlist selection

1. Press the PROJECT key on the front panel to open the
PROJECT screen.

3. Touch the e button for the session that contains the playlist

that you want to play to open the playlist selection screen.
If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears

confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

TIP

You can also touch the current project/session name button
at the top right of the PROJECT screen to open the playlist
selection screen for the current session.

4. Touch the name of the playlist that you want to play to
select it.

Its background becomes yellow.

5. Touch the MENU button on the Playlist selection screen to
open a pull-up menu.

The items in the menu differ between single and dual mode.

2. Touch the e button next to the project that contains the

playlist that you want to play to open the session selection
screen.

If it is not the current project, a pop-up window appears
confirming that you want to load it. Touch the OK button.

Playlist selection screen pull-up in single mode

Playlist selection screen pull-up

menu in dual or A/B MIXED mode

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6. In single mode, touch the LOAD button in the pull-up menu
to load the playlist.

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, touch the LOAD to A button or
LOAD to B button in the pull-up menu to load the playlist to
player A or player B.

A confirmation pop-up appears.

Single mode

LOAD to A button selected in dual or A/B MIXED mode

Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial.
When loading completes, the Home Screen opens.

Selecting the current player

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, select the player that is controlled
using the front panel.

1. Press the HOME key on the front panel to open the Home
Screen.

Home Screen in dual mode

2. Touch the SELECT button for the player that you want to
select.

The background of the selected player becomes yellow.

NOTE

On the playlist selection screen, instead of touching the
MENU button followed by the LOAD button (or LOAD to A/B
button) in the pull-up menu item, you can also press the e
button for the playlist that you want to play to load it.

When in single mode, the same pop-up message as above
appears. Touch the OK button or press the DATA dial.

In dual or A/B MIXED mode, touch the LOAD to A button or
LOAD to B button in the pop-up message according to the
player.

Dual mode Home Screen when player B selected

Setting the online function

When a player is selected, press the ONLINE key on the front
panel to set whether or not the sound from that player is output
through the output connectors.

For details about online output, see “Online functions” on page

122.

NOTE

You cannot turn this function on or off for a player that
is not selected. Select the player first and then press the
ONLINE key to turn this function on/off for it.

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Playlist playback

Press the PLAY key to start playback.
Press the PAUSE key to enter playback standby.
To end playback standby, press the PLAY key.
Press the STOP (RETAKE) key to stop playback.
Press the . [MARK.] key or / [MARK /] key to

switch entries.
Press and hold the m [ ] key or , [ ] key to

search backward or forward.
Press the . [MARK.] or / [MARK /] key while

pressing and holding the SHIFT key to move between marks.
Press and hold the m[ ] or ,[ ] key while pressing

and holding the SHIFT key to search at high-speed.

NOTE

•

On the PLAY SETUP screen, you can set whether only the
currently selected entry is played or whether all the entries
within the current playlist are played. In addition, you can
also turn repeat playback on and off (in single and dual
modes). (See “Online function” on page 35.)

•

Playback functions can also be used via parallel control.

Using the call function

Press the CALL (CHASE) key to locate to the point where
playback was last started from playback standby (call point) and
put the unit in playback standby mode.

BWF-J cue points (playlist mode)

When the Follow BWF-J item is set to ON, if a BWF-J cue point
is detected during playback, the following corresponding
operation will occur. In addition, if the BWF-J Tally item is set to
ON and the unit is in single player mode, in response to each
BWF-J cue point, the CUE signal and tally signal will be output
from the parallel remote connector.

When an entry is selected, this point is
made the playback starting position.

BC$STANDBY

BC$CM

BC$END

BC$STOP

BC$FILE

BC$PAUSE

During playback, when this point is
reached, playback standby starts. In either
case, a BC$STANDBY tally is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$CM CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END CUE signal is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$STOP CUE signal is output,
and playback stops.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END cue signal is output
and if the next take has a BC$STANDBY cue
point, the transport locates to that point,
playback standby starts and a BC$STANDBY
tally is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$PAUSE tally is output, and
playback standby starts.

Using the flash start function

Using a TASCAM RC-HS32PD (sold separately) or other remote
controller, flash start playback is possible. For details, see “Flash
start function” on page 123.

Flash start key display colors on the TASCAM RC-HS32PD remote control in A/B MIXED mode

In the same manner that the icons in the entry name buttons
on the entry list screen and the key assign list buttons on the
file assign screen are classified by color, the TASCAM RC-HS32PD
remote control flash start keys will have the following display
colors.

No

assigned

entry

Output Stopped

A Orange Green

B Purple

Playing

back

Darker

blue

Playback

standby

Orange

blinking

Purple

blinking

Invalid

entry

Red Unlit

Red Unlit

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10 – On-air mode

In this chapter, we explain operations when using on-air mode.
To use this unit in on-air mode, you must set its operation mode

to "on-air mode".(See “Selecting the operation mode” on page

49.)
Please also refer to “On-air mode functions” on page 49 and

“4 – Basic operation” on page 30.

Selecting files for on-air playback

In on-air mode, selected audio files in the current media root
folder (only files that use the sampling frequency set for the
unit) can be played back.

1. Touch the Home Screen information field take name button
to open a pull-down menu, and touch the ON AIR button to
open the ON AIR LIST screen.

You can also push the PROJECT key to open the ON AIR LIST
screen.

The ON AIR LIST screen shows in file name order the audio
files (that match the unit's set sampling frequency) in the
root directory of the current media.

2. Touch the SELECT buttons on the left side of the ON AIR LIST
screen to check/uncheck files for on-air playback.
Checked files will be used for on-air playback.

Remove a check mark, making the box grey, to deselect the
file for on-air playback.

•

Touch the INFO button to open the following pop-up
message. If there is a file that can be played back, infor­mation about the current take is show.

If no file is shown or there is no file that can be played back,
information about the sampling frequency and CF card
capacity are shown.

NOTE

•

By default, all valid files start with check marks.

•

Only files that match the selected sampling frequency will
be shown.

•

Even if the sampling frequency matches the setting, files
with 5 or more channels and other files that cannot be
played back by this unit will not be recognized.

•

The maximum number of audio files with the selected
sampling frequency that can be recognized is 100. If the
number of applicable files exceeds 100, the first 100 in file
name order will be recognized.

•

The SELECT buttons can only be used when playback is
stopped and the ON AIR button is OFF.

•

The LENGTH column item for each file shows the length of
its playback area in on-air mode.(See “Playback areas in
on-air mode” on page 98.)-air mode" on page <?>)

At the top right of the screen beneath the "LENGTH" column
name, the total playback area of all the files that could be
played back is shown.

Playback areas in on-air mode

ON AIR

button

NOTE

•

•

•

•

BWF-J

Follow

OFF − − Entire take

ON OFF − Entire take

ON ON Normal Entire take

ON ON

• If there is no BC$STANDBY mark, playback is from the take
beginning

• If there is no BC$END mark, playback is until the take end

• Marks other than BC$STANDBY and BC$END have no
effect on the playback area.

• For details about the BC$END MODE, see “GENERAL page
(REMOTE SETUP screen)” on page 106

BC$END

Mode

Jump to
Standby

Area that can be played back

If the next take has a
BC$STANDBY mark: BC$STANDBY
to BC$END
If the next take does not have a
BC$STANDBY mark: BC$STANDBY
to take end

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Examples of playback areas when the ON AIR button
is ON, Follow BWF-J is ON and the BC$ END mode is
Jump to Standby

BC$STANDBY BC$END

The next take has a BC$STANDBY

1st Take

Take

3rd Take

4th Take

Played area

BC$STANDBY BC$END

Played area

BC$STANDBY

Played area

Played area

mark, so playback goes up to the
BC$END mark.

The next take has a BC$STANDBY
mark, so playback goes up to the
BC$END mark.

The next take has no BC$STANDBY
mark, so playback goes to the end o
the Take.

There is no next take, so playback
goes to the end of the Take.

Using the ON AIR button to switch between rehearsal/confirmation playback and actual playback modes

On the Home Screen or ON AIR LIST screen, press the ON AIR
button to switch between rehearsal/confirmation playback and
actual play modes.

ON AIR button ON (red): actual playback mode

The CREDITS 7 button is disabled, and only the on-air
mode playback area can be played back. (See “Playback
areas in on-air mode” on page 98.).)

The CREDITS 7, ON AIR LIST screen check and file name
buttons are disabled.

When you switch from OFF to ON, the transport jumps to
the beginning of the first take and enters playback standby.

ON AIR button OFF: rehearsal/confirmation playback
mode

The CREDITS 7 button is enabled, and locating to and
playing back any part of a take is possible.

When you switch from ON to OFF, playback stops at the
current position.

also turn repeat playback on and off (in single and dual
modes). (See “Online function” on page 35.)

•

Playback can also be controlled via the PARALLEL
connector.

Conducting credits playback

1. On the Home Screen or ON AIR LIST screen, press the ON AIR
button to turn it off.

2. Use the file name selection buttons on the ON AIR LIST
screen or the.//keys to select the current take.

NOTE

•

Only files that are valid for on-air playback can be selected
as the current take.

•

When you turn the unit on, switch the sampling frequency
or switch to on-air mode, the first file in the list of files
available for on-air playback is selected as the current take.

3. On the Home Screen or ON AIR LIST screen, touch the
CREDITS 7 button to start credits playback from the
beginning of the current take and stop at the appropriate
mark.

•

When the Follow BWF-J setting is ON, playback is from
the beginning of the file to the first BC$STANDBY mark.

•

When the Follow BWF-J setting is OFF, playback is from
the beginning of the file to the first mark.

•

If a selected file does not have a valid mark, playback will
continue until the end of the file and then stop.

During playback, the take name button on the ON AIR LIST
screen will become green.

NOTE

The ON AIR button only function when playback is stopped
or in standby.

On-air playback

Press the PLAY key to start playback.
Press the PAUSE key to enter playback standby.
To end playback standby, press the PLAY key.
Press the STOP (RETAKE) key to stop playback.
Use the. [MARK.] and / [MARK /] keys to switch

entries.
Press and hold the m [ ] key or , [ ] key to

search backward or forward.
Press the. [MARK.] or / [MARK /] key while pressing

and holding the SHIFT key to move between marks.
Press and hold the m[ ] or ,[ ] key while pressing

and holding the SHIFT key to search at high-speed.

NOTE

•

On the PLAY SETUP screen, you can set whether only the
currently selected entry is played or whether all the entries
within the current playlist are played. In addition, you can

4. During credits playback, touch the CREDITS 7 button to
stop.

NOTE

The file name selection and CREDITS 7 buttons on the ON
AIR LIST screen can be used when playback is stopped and
the ON AIR button is off and during credits playback when
the ON AIR button is off.

They are disabled when the ON AIR button is ON and during
ordinary playback.

Using the call function

Press the CALL (CHASE) key to locate to the point where
playback was last started from playback standby (call point) and
put the unit in playback standby mode.

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BWF-J cue point (on-air mode)

When the Follow BWF-J item is set to ON, if a BWF-J cue point
is detected during playback, the following corresponding
operation will occur. In addition, if the BWF-J Tally item is set to
ON, in response to each BWF-J cue point, the CUE signal and
tally signal will be output from the parallel remote connector.

When the ON AIR button is turned ON, this
point in the first take is made the playback

BC$STANDBY

BC$CM

BC$END

BC$STOP

BC$FILE

BC$PAUSE

*If BC$END Mode is set to "Jump to Standby", playback standby
does not occur.

NOTE

If the OnAirOFF BWF-J tally item is off and the ON AIR button
is off, cue and tally signals for corresponding BWF-J cue
points are not output. (BWF-J cue points function normally
otherwise.)

starting position. During playback, when
this point is reached, playback standby
starts.* In either case, a BC$STANDBY tally
is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$CM cue signal is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END cue signal is output.

If the BC$END Mode is set to "Jump
to Standby" and the next take has a
BC$STANDBY cue point, the transport
locates to that point and playback
continues.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$STOP CUE signal is output
and playback stops.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$END cue signal is output,
and if the next take has a BC$STANDBY cue
point, the transport locates to that point,
playback standby starts and a BC$STANDBY
tally is output.
During playback, when this point is
reached, a BC$PAUSE tally is output, and
playback standby starts.

Changing the sampling frequency

When in on-air mode, change the sampling frequency on the
CLOCK page of the SYNC T/C screen.

1. Touch the SYNC button on the Home Screen or the SYNC T/C
button on the MENU screen to open the CLOCK page of the
SYNC T/C screen.

2. Touch the ON AIR Fs button at the top left of the screen to
open the ON AIR Fs screen.

3. Touch the button for the desired sampling frequency. When
a confirmation message appears, touch the OK button.

4. When a second confirmation message appears, touch the
OK button.

NOTE

•

After changing the sampling frequency, only files that
match the ON AIR Fs setting will be shown on the ON AIR
LIST screen.

•

Even if the sampling frequency is the same, files with 5 or
more channels and other files that cannot be played back
by this unit will not be recognized.

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Precautions when using on-air mode

•

The following settings on the PLAY SETUP screen will be
turned off when the operation mode is set to on-air mode:
repeat mode, auto cue, auto ready and incremental play.
They can be turned ON, but these changes will not be
backed up.

•

In on-air mode, marks cannot be set, edited or deleted.

If you press the Mark key, "Cannot set Mark point in ON AIR
Mode." will appear in a pop-up message.

The EDIT NAME, EDIT TIME and DELETE buttons will appear
disabled on the MARK LIST screen.