Tascam 788 - Manual (Page 30)

2 – Getting started–The SONG menu
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tion, you should rename one of the copies immediately
after the copy operation has been carried out.
When you make the selection for copying, only those songs
in the currently-selected disk or partition are listed. If you
need to back up from many different disks or partitions, you
must select each partition in turn (“Selecting a disk” on
page 32) and then select the songs on the selected disk or
partition.
Deleting unused space from a song
As we explained earlier, a song does not consist of
just the recorded audio, but also of the “playlist” and
the recorded but unused parts of the song.
By “unused”, we mean parts of a song which have
been completely overwritten by other parts. If the
start or end or both of a new part extends beyond the
start or end of a new part, it will not be deleted in this
operation.
A virtual track which is not currently assigned as an
active track does not count as “unused” here.
To free up this disk space, once you’ve made all your
edit decisions (there’s no undo on this):
1 Press the MENU key.
2 Use the dial to scroll down until SONG is
highlighted, and press ENTER .
3 Turn the dial until DELETE UNUSED is
highlighted, and press ENTER .
4 The 788 asks you if you are sure. If you want to
delete all the unused portions of the song, press
YES . If you have second thoughts, press NO .
TIP
Although there is no undo operation here, and you lose all
the unused parts of the song permanently, you can back up
the song, to removable SCSI media, or to CD-R , before
performing this “cleanup” operation. If you change your
mind later on, you can restore this backed up version.
NOTE
Remember that you cannot undo this operation.
Protecting a song
When a song is protected, recording is not possible
(the
REC READY keys are disabled), it cannot be
edited using the track editing functions (“Track edit-
ing” on page 65), and it cannot be erased, etc. using
the SONG menu.
It is also impossible to set or edit location marks
(“Location operations” on page 60) except the IN
and OUT points for repeat operations, or to perma-
nently reassign virtual tracks as in “Assigning virtual
tracks” on page 54. Virtual tracks can be assigned for
audition purposes, but not permanently saved.
In operations which show a list of available songs
(for instance, loading a song), any protected songs
have a small padlock icon beside the song title.
Only the currently-loaded song can be protected or
unprotected at any one time (though, of course, songs
stored on the disk can be stored as protected or
unprotected).
1 Press the MENU key.
2 Use the dial to scroll down until SONG is
highlighted, and press ENTER .
3 Turn the dial until PROTECT is highlighted,
and press ENTER .
4 Use the dial to set the protection ON or OFF ,
and press ENTER to confirm the setting.
NOTE
You can retitle the song at this stage, before it is protected,
by pressing the SHIFT + MENU (TITLE) key.
New guitar solo over the old
Old guitar solo (will be deleted)
New guitar solo over the old
Old guitar solo (will not be deleted)
New guitar solo over the old
Old guitar solo (will not be deleted)