Tascam HD-P2 Manuel D’Utilisation

Press the 

 key and audio at the current location 

on the timeline is played back. The HD-P2’s play-

back engine is based on a 24 hour day and will play 

audio from time 00:00:00.00 to 23:59:59.59. If time-

code mode is not enabled, the HD-P2 will stop when 

it reaches the end of day (during play or while fast 

forwarding). It also stops if you are rewinding and hit 

the beginning of the day. See the Timecode section for 

specific information on its behaviors and settings.

To locate to the beginning of recorded audio, hold 

 and press 

. Hold 

 and press 

 to go 

to the end of all recorded audio. The 

 

keys, by default, locate to previous or next markers 

and file start points. For example, after recording is 

stopped you can press the 

key to go to the 

beginning of the recorded file (assuming no markers 

were dropped) and then hit play to review it.

The HD-P2 playback engine maintains an internal, 

dynamic edit decision list (EDL) to determine what 

files are played and when. In default auto-append 

mode (no pre-record) each file abuts the previous file.

While recording, the media space icon and text in the 

lower right of the screen change to reflect how much 

space is left. Should the media approach becoming 

too full, a low level warning is displayed. If recording 

continues, the HD-P2 will eventually run out of space, 

automatically stop recording, close the file, and dis-

play an out of space message.

When played back the most recently recorded (time of 

day 9:02) file is given precedence and played instead 

of the portions of the first two files recorded at 9:00 

and 9:01.

If the 9:02 file is moved to the trash, then the underly-

ing portions of the other two files will play back once 

again.
Unless the files need to be located at a specific time on 

the timeline it may be easier to keep the auto-append 

option on to avoid confusion. When in doubt you can 

visit the 

Project Files

 menu and audition individual files 

in their entirety.

When auto-append is off (or when chasing timecode) 

you can locate the timeline to any point in the 24 hour 

day and start recording, even if there is audio already 

recorded at that time.
The HD-P2 always records non-destructively, which 

means previously recorded files are not modified, 

requiring the playback engine to know which file to 

play back when it reaches that point on the timeline.

The rules for the internal EDL are quite simple: files 

are ordered by timestamp and creation time. If two 

files span the same period on the timeline, the most 

recently recorded file will be played back.
For example these files show the time of day that they 

were recorded. The place along the timeline indicates 

where in time (samples from zero) they were recorded.

09:00

09:01

09:02

09:00

09:01

09:02

09:01

09:02

09:00