Tascam DA-38 DVR User Manual


 
SECTION 8 : CONTROLLING THE OA-38 FROM MENUS
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1 8-1. General
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The DA-38 allows you to control various functions from
menus. The following IO menus are provided :
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1 Press SHIFT and the associated LED will start blink-
ing to show that all the double functions keys are
switched to offer their lower blue-labelled functions.
2 Press MENU as many times as necessary to access
the desired menu.
l Each time you press MENU, you go down through
the menus in the order shown in the left column of
this page.
. To go up through the menus, hold MENU and press
the V key.
0 After having exited a xnenu setting mode, when you
prw MENU once, the menu you were last at shows
on the display. But, when switching on power to the
unit and pressing MENU once, the display shows
the ID selection menu (” , d SE L I’).
Menus Explained
For selecting a machine ID number. Select / ” on the
master unit, and assign other numbers (“2” to :6 “)
to slaves. Factory preset is /‘I.
At this menu you can switch on or off the shuttle
monitor. Factory preset is “0 F F “. Shuttling the tape
is explained in Section 9.
This is a postroll time menu for setting the length of
postroll after punching out of record. Adjustable
range is from 3 up to 59 minutes, 59 seconds, in 1
second steps. Factory preset is “EEt73 “. See also
Section 4.
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At this menu you can switch the built-in oscillator on
or off, Factory preset is “0 F f “. For the details, see
below.
This is a head cleaning menu. The cleaning function is
factory preset to L F f “. Cleaning the heads is
explained in Section 10.
The menu is wed to initialize the backup memory, as
discussed later in this section of the manual.
This is a cm&fade time menu, allowing you to enter
from IO ms up to 90 ms, in 10 ms steps. Factory preset
is ” /D”, Entering a crossfade time is explained in
Section 4.