Tascam DP-02 User Manual

The unit provides eight tracks for recording. But what 
happens if you want to record more than eight instru-
ments? You can take existing tracks, mix them, and record 
them to unused tracks, freeing up the tracks you just mixed 
for recording additional tracks. See “Bouncing” on page 34 
for full details.

Because the DP-02 is a hard disk and the DP-02CF is a 
Compact Flash card recorder, there are many options avail-
able to you which would be extremely difficult, or even 
impossible, with a tape-based recording system.

See “About track editing” on page 47 for details of copy, 
cut, and paste, etc. operations that you can perform on the 
both unit.

When we talk about “punch recording”, we mean going 
from play mode into record mode without stopping the 
song (“punching in”) as well as going from recording to 
playback without stopping the song (“punching out”).

The unit provides three ways to perform punching:

When at least one track is armed (the 

REC

 key is flashing), 

and a song is being played back, press the 

RECORD

 (

) 

transport key to punch in.

When recording, press the 

PLAY

 (

) key to stop recording 

(punch out).

If you have a footswitch connected to the 

PUNCH

 jack, 

you can press the footswitch to change between playback 
and recording, as long as at least one track is armed for 
recording.

You can automate the punch process by setting in and out 
points. This is described in “IN and OUT marks” on page 
30 and also in “Punching” on page 32.

If you have made a mistake, very often you can undo it. 
This includes the track editing operations described here, 
as well as most other common operations you can perform 
(including recording).

Also, if you make a mistake undoing an action, you can 
undo the undo (that is, you redo the action).

NOTE

Use the 

UNDO/ REDO

 key to undo the last undoable 

action.

UNDO/ REDO

UNDO/ REDO 

When 

UNDO/ REDO

 is lit, and the 

HISTORY

 key is 

pressed, the 

HISTORY

 screen appears. The 

UNDO/ REDO

 

key becomes unlit and the 

HISTORY

 key lights up.