Auto track increment, 5 − cd playback & recording – Teac DV-RA1000HD User Manual

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5 − CD playback & recording



TASCAM DV-RA1000HD

When recording, this allows the automatic division of
the recorded material into separate tracks when the fol-
lowing conditions occur:

1

Press and hold the

ATRK

switch on the rec page of

the virtual front panel for at least one second.

The auto track screen appears.

Figure 5.4: AUTO TRACK screen

2

Move the cursor to highlight

MODE

.

3

Rotate the

JOG/DATA

dial to select

LEVEL

or

TIME

.

4

Press the

ENTER

key to confirm the setting.

Automatic track increment in level mode
Depending on the input source, tracks are added as fol-
lows:

Coaxial input

When you record S/PDIF signal from

a CD, MD, or DAT while DD mode is turned on, the
PQ code is used to determine the track divisions. If a
digital audio signal that does not contain the PQ code is
input via the coaxial input, a new track is started when
the signal level rises above the threshold after having
fallen below the threshold for the duration specified by
the

LEVEL INTERVAL

parameter on the auto track screen.

AES/EBU and analog inputs

The threshold level

(see “Setting the sound threshold level (

SOUND LEVEL

)” on

page 35) is used to divide tracks. A new track is started
when the signal level rises above the threshold after
having fallen below the threshold for the duration speci-
fied by the

LEVEL INTERVAL

parameter.

NOTE

You can also divide a recording into tracks manu-
ally by pressing the

RECORD

key during a record-

ing. Note that the DV-RA1000HD is unable to create
a track with a length of four seconds or less. Make
sure that you press the

RECORD

key at intervals of

four seconds or longer. However, recording may
sometimes stop if you press the

RECORD

key fre-

quently, even at an interval of five seconds. If you
plan to divide a recording into tracks repeatedly,
wait about 0 seconds until you press the

RECORD

key again.

CAUTION

On a CD, two seconds of silence automatically fol-
low such a track division (no audio data is lost—the
input signal is buffered before being written to the
disc).

TIP

Note that tracks produced in this way must con-
form to the Red Book standard (be more than four
seconds long) and there can be a maximum of 
tracks on a disc.

Setting a level interval
You can specify the duration of silence to be detected in
level mode.
Move the cursor to the

LEVEL INTERVAL

parameter on the

auto track screen, then rotate the

JOG/DATA

dial to set

the duration in the range from one second through six
seconds (in one second steps).

Press the

ENTER

key to confirm the setting.

Setting a delay
You can offset the automatic track increment position in
level mode.

Move the cursor to highlight

DELAY

in the auto track

screen, rotate the

JOG/DATA

dial to set the delay time

in the range of –1.70 seconds through +1.70 seconds in
0.01 steps, then press the

ENTER

key to confirm the set-

ting.

TIP

The automatic track increment recording in level
mode starts when the audio signal rises above the
specified sound threshold. Therefore, the beginning
of the audio may not be recorded, or the beginning
of the subsequent track may be concatenated to
the end of the current track. To avoid these prob-
lems, set

DELAY to a negative value, change the

recording start time and the start position of the
source audio signal. Alternatively, you can lower the
sound threshold.

Auto track increment

DVD±RW

HD

MUTE

key again to unmute recording. Press

and hold the

MUTE

key to mute the signal

until you release the key. Release the

MUTE

key to unmute recording.

While recording is muted, the

MUTE

key

indicator lights up.
Pressing

RECORD

key (or

REC

key) during

a recording divides a recording into tracks

(track increment).

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