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12 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual
Operation
Playing Audio
Press the
PLAY
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
specic information on its behaviors and settings.
To locate to the beginning of recorded audio, hold
STOP
and press
REW
. Hold
STOP
and press
FFWD
to go
to the end of all recorded audio. The
LOCATE
Ô/
keys, by default, locate to previous or next markers
and le start points. For example, after recording is
stopped you can press the
LOCATE
Ô
key to go to the
beginning of the recorded le (assuming no markers
were dropped) and then hit play to review it.
HD-P2 Playback Considerations
The HD-P2 playback engine maintains an internal,
dynamic edit decision list (EDL) to determine what
les are played and when. In default auto-append
mode (no pre-record) each le abuts the previous le.
While recording, the media space icon and text in the
lower right of the screen change to reect 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 le, and dis-
play an out of space message.
NOTE
The FAT file system only supports file sizes up
to 2 GB. The HD-P2 will recognize if a file is
reaching this limit, close the file, and start a
new file without interrupting the recording.
The files themselves will abut within your DAW
seamlessly.
When played back the most recently recorded (time of
day 9:02) le is given precedence and played instead
of the portions of the rst two les recorded at 9:00
and 9:01.
If the 9:02 le is moved to the trash, then the underly-
ing portions of the other two les will play back once
again.
Unless the les need to be located at a specic 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 les
in their entirety.
Media Space and Recording
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 les are not modied,
requiring the playback engine to know which le to
play back when it reaches that point on the timeline.
The rules for the internal EDL are quite simple: les
are ordered by timestamp and creation time. If two
les span the same period on the timeline, the most
recently recorded le will be played back.
For example these les 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
Figure 6 – Auto-Append Recording
Figure 8 - Rendered Audio Timeline
09:00
09:01
09:02
Figure 7 - Logical Audio Timeline
09:0109:0209:00