Tascam 788 User Manual

Recording & Editing Functions

TASCAM 788 Operational Tutorial  •  8/2000 Edition  

Silk screened around 
the main transport 
keys are a couple of
combination functions.

RTZ - Pressing STOP
and REW together
functions as Return to
Zero.  That will bring you to 00:00:00:00:0 in the time
window (the very beginning of the project).

LRP - Pressing STOP and FFWD together will take you 
to the beginning of your last recorded passage.  This is 
helpful in getting right back to the same point on a 
punch in, or even for finding your IN point for an edit 
removing extra space in front of a region.  Keep in 
mind that LRP can go backwards or forwards to the 
last recording point.  Don't let the fact that it is on the
FFWD button confuse you.  

JOG - Pressing STOP and PLAY together will enter audio 
jog/scrub mode, allowing you to scrub a track in the 
song by turning the JOG/DATA wheel.  The display will 
show you the waveform 
display of any track to assist
in finding a sparse part 
visually.  

If you need to zoom in or out 
of the waveform, you can use 
the LEFT and RIGHT CURSOR 
keys to select the zoom aspect for time (horizontal).  
The UP and DOWN CURSOR keys can increase the 
height of the waveform, offering a better view of softer
passages.  Pressing STOP will take you back out of the 
waveform screen.  

You can also choose which track you are viewing the 
waveform of by pressing the select button above that 
track.  In other words, to view the waveform of track
3, press STOP and PLAY to get to JOG mode, then
press SELECT over channel 3.

One other item of note - if you use the RIGHT CURSOR
key to take you to 32x zoom, you are scrubbing at the
subframe level giving you more resolution than the other
resolutions which only scrub to the frame.

Locate points can be used to directly recall a particular
time location in the song, allowing faster and more 
accurate project navigation than the traditional fast
forward and rewind.  The 788 can store up to 999 
locate points for each song, so you won't run short on
memory points.

that should be clearly pointed out to avoid any
confusion over simple items.  

Some SONG MENU functions apply only to the current 
(opened) song and other functions will show you a list 
of all the songs on the selected drive.  For instance, 
DELETE UNUSED and PROTECT will only affect the song
that is currently opened.  However, ERASE and COPY
will show you a list of songs on the selected drive.

The reason ERASE and COPY 
show you the song list is 
because they can process 
multiple songs at the same 
time.  If you only want to 
ERASE or COPY one song,
simply scroll with the 
JOG/DATA wheel to the song and press ENTER/YES.
If you want to select multiple songs, dial to the song

and want to get out of the whole thing, just press 
EXIT/NO and you will be returned to the SONG MENU.

you want and press 
INSERT; a check mark will 
appear to the left of the
song title.  Keep selecting 
all the songs you want the
same way.  To remove a 
check mark from a
marked song, press 
DELETE.  Once you've 
marked all the songs you 
want, press ENTER/YES.  
If you changed your mind

Routing to the recorder is simple.  Whatever comes 
from channel 1 on the mixer goes to track 1 on the 
recorder.  Channel 2 feeds track 2, channel 3 feeds 
track 3, etc.  There is no routing matrix here, which 
keeps things very simple.  

The tracks are armed by the REC READY buttons 
just above the channel faders.  The lights will flash
to indicate they are armed for recording, and will go
solid when they are recording.

Don't skip this part!  While the primary functions of
the big buttons labeled PLAY and REC seem fairly
straight-forward, there are some very cool key-
combination commands available in there to help
you fly through your project with the greatest of
ease.

   marks the song
for COPY/ERASE

removes mark
for COPY/ERASE

starts COPY/ERASE

exits the screen