Tascam HD-P2 User Manual

The HD-P2’s settings and utilities are accessed 

through a menu system. To activate the menu system, 

press the 

 key and the main menu is shown. To go 

back to the operational screen, press the 

 key at 

any time.

Project Menu

 – Used to access all of the settings and 

operations for the current project. Not accessible 

when media is not present.

Change/New Project

 – Used to create new projects or 

load existing projects.

System Menu

 – Access to all of the system utilities, 

settings, tools and disk management.

Display Menu

 – Settings for display contrast, backlight, 

and power savings.

FireWire Dock

 – When connected to a Windows XP or 

Mac OS X computer via FireWire this menu item is 

used to “dock” the HD-P2 as an external disk.

Unmount CF Media

 – Used to unmount the Compact 

Flash card before removing.

The inverted line on the screen indicates the current 

item (Project Menu in the case of Figure 12). Pressing 

 will operate on the item. Items containing sub-

menus are indicated with the right arrow icon. When 

 is pressed the next menu, a warning dialog, or 

the operation takes place. 
To change the highlighted item, rotate the 

 

wheel. If you have an external keyboard hooked up 

the HD-P2 you can also use the up/down arrow keys.

This menu applies to the active or currently loaded 

project and provides access to the sub-menus and 

actions that can be performed on a project. The top 

line in Figure 13 shows the project name.

Settings

 – Sub-menu for changing project settings.

Files

 – Sub-menu of all project audio files.

Markers

 – Sub-menu of all project markers.

Rename

 – Rename this project.

Trash Manager

 – Sub-menu of all items in project 

trash.

Save as Project Template

 – Turn this project’s settings 

into a template that can be used when creating a 

new project.

This menu provides access to all of the settings related 

to the current project, including timecode (a sub-

menu). Settings are listed with their name on the left 

side and current value on the right. A setting with its 

name in italics is disabled and cannot be selected or 

changed. This may be due to a dependency on another 

setting (e.g. Timecode Settings cannot be entered 

unless timecode is enabled), or system states (most 

settings cannot be changed while the transport is mov-

ing). As another example, since this project already 

has files you cannot change the sample rate.