Copying songs, Erasing unneeded audio data from songs, Creating a song – Tascam 2488MKII User Manual
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TASCAM 2488MKII
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Copying songs
As well as copying songs, so that you can work on another
version of them, you can also use this menu item as a tool to
back up songs to another partition (you can also back up to
CD-R or personal computer, but this is a separate process).
1 Press the
MENU
key to open the MENU screen.
Use the cursor keys to select the SONG item, and
then press the
YES/ENTER
key.
2 At the SONG menu, use the cursor keys to high-
light the COPY option. Press
YES/ENTER
.
3 Select the song or songs to be copied using the dial
to highlight the songs and the
INSERT
key to place a
check mark beside them.
If you select a song for copying by accident, use the
DELETE
key to deselect it.
4 When all the songs to be copied have been marked,
press the
YES/ENTER
key. A list of all the partitions
available currently is shown.
5 Use the dial to select the partition to which the
selection will be copied, and press
YES/ENTER
.
6 The 2488MKII asks you if you are sure that you
want to make the copy. Press
YES/ENTER
to contin-
ue with the operation, and
NO/EXIT
to cancel.
CAUTION
Copying a song may take some time. Be patient while
the song is being copied, and take care not to power
down the 2488MKII in the middle of a copy operation.
NOTE
If you copy a song to the partition where it was origi-
nally stored, it will be copied with the same title, so
the list will contain two songs with the same title. If
you want two copies of the same song on one parti-
tion, you should rename one of the copies immedi-
ately after the copy operation has been carried out.
When you make the selection for copying, only those
songs in the currently-selected partition are listed. If
you need to back up from many different partitions,
you must select each partition in turn and then select
the songs on the selected partition.
In addition to audio data in the track and the
“playlist,”
songs may also contain
“unused” audio data.
With the 2488MKII, audio data is not erased when a track
is overwritten, but remains on the hard disk.
Audio data that has been completely overwritten is
“unused.” The procedure below explains how to erase
“unused” audio data.
As the illustration shows, if old audio data is not complete-
ly overwritten by new audio data, it will not be erased.
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)
Unused audio data in virtual tracks that are not assigned to
physical tracks can also be deleted (see
Use the following procedure to delete
“unused” audio
data and open more space on the hard disk. This operation
cannot be undone.
1 Press the
MENU
key to open the MENU screen.
Use the cursor keys to select the SONG item, and
then press the
YES/ENTER
key.
2 At the SONG menu, use the cursor keys to high-
light the DELETE UNUSED option.
Press
YES/ENTER
.
3 The 2488MKII asks you if you are sure.
If you want to delete all the unused portions of
the song, press
YES/ENTER
. If you have second
thoughts, press
NO/EXIT
.
CAUTION
This operation completely erases unused audio data in
the song and cannot be undone. You can back up the
song to CD-R or a personal computer, before perform-
ing this “cleanup” operation. If you change your mind
later on, you can restore this backed up version.
Erasing unneeded audio data from songs