Tascam 788 - Manual (Page 70)

7 – Track editing–UNDO and REDO
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Undoing and redoing actions
1 Press the UNDO/REDO key and a list of the
operations that you have done since the start of
the song is shown on screen:
The first action ( START UP ) is numbered
0, and all the actions after this are then num-
bered in order. They are named:
RECORDING , AUTO PUNCH ,
COPY->PASTE , etc.
2 Use the dial to scroll through the list until the
cursor highlights the action to where you want
to undo.
3 Press ENTER , to return to the point in your
work just before you made your mistake.
You can also redo an action that you have undone in
exactly the same way.
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As well as using the dial to scroll through the list, you can
also use the UNDO /REDO key to position the cursor
automatically at the event before or after the current event.
If you press the UNDO key (unshifted) , the cursor moves
to the event immediately before the current event. Press
ENTER to undo the last event.
If you press REDO (SHIFT + UNDO), the cursor moves
to the event immediately following the current event (i.e. the
last action that has been undone). Press the ENTER key
to redo this action.
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Performing an action after the redo clears the list of re-
doable actions (i.e. those actions which have been
undone).
An undo/redo example
Here’s an extremely simplified example (in fact, it’s
extremely unlikely that you’d work this way, but it
shows the principles involved):
This is the history of a recording session so far. Sup-
pose that you decide that items 11 and 12 in the list
are not needed (in other words, the first take (9) with
its correction (10) have been overwritten by 11 and
12, but you feel that the original take (9) with its cor-
rection (10) has more energy, so you want to retrieve
it:
1 Press the UNDO key.
2 Use the dial to scroll down to the step to where
you want to undo (here it’s 10).
3 Press ENTER .
Now you have the track back again. If you press the
UNDO key, you’ll see that there’s a check mark
beside 10 - this shows that this is the “undo mark”.
Notice that we can still see items 11 and 12. This is
because we can still redo them, if we decide that the
first vocal take (9 and 10) wasn’t so great after all.
To redo them is just as simple as undoing them: press
the
UNDO key, highlight the step to which you want
to return, and press ENTER .
>RECORDING 12 This is yet another retake of the lead vocal
RECORDING 11 Another attempt at the whole of the lead vocal
AUTO PUNCH 10 A try to correct a bad note in the lead vocal
RECORDING 9 First try at the lead vocal
AUTO PUNCH 8 Repairing the bad guitar bridge
RECORDING 7 Recording the guitar solo
RECORDING 6 Piano (alternative part)
RECORDING 5 Piano
RECORDING 4 Guide vocals
RECORDING 3 Bass line
COPY->PASTE 2 Looping the drum part
RECORDING 1 Basic drum loop
START UP 0 Beginning of song
RECORDING 12 This is yet another retake of the lead vocal
RECORDING 11 Another attempt at the whole of the lead vocal
>AUTO PUNCH 10 A try to correct a bad note in the lead vocal
RECORDING 9 First try at the lead vocal
AUTO PUNCH 8 Repairing the bad guitar bridge
RECORDING 7 Recording the guitar solo
RECORDING 6 Piano (alternative part)
RECORDING 5 Piano
RECORDING 4 Guide vocals
RECORDING 3 Bass line
COPY->PASTE 2 Looping the drum part
RECORDING 1 Basic drum loop
START UP 0 Beginning of song
This line marks the
point to where we have
made the undo