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Tascam US-224 manual

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    Using the US-224 w ith Digital Performer Before s etting up the US-224 to work with Digital Perf ormer , please install the US-224 Mac OS drivers, and s et up the FreeMIDI. (Ref er to the enclosed docum ents on setting up both the dr ivers and FreeMIDI.) You m ust be using D IGITAL P ERFOR MER 2.7 or later. Setting Up Begin the setup procedur e bel[...]

  • Page 2

    Controller Surface Mapping Note: The SET and REC enable buttons act as s hift k ey s, and should be held down while pressing other buttons to modif y their behavior. Transport Controls STO P Stop, or go to Mem ory Start or beginning of song if already stopped PLAY Play toggle REC One-touch r ecording or rec ord toggle REW Fast rewi nd (REW LED lit)[...]

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    The REC button ac ts like a s hift key with the SELECT buttons. Holding REC and pres sing a SELECT button toggles the record enable st ate for that track . SET+REC cle ars all record - enabled track s. The MUTE buttons control both m ute and solo st atus of a track . W hen the SOLO LE D is unlit, pressing a MUTE button toggles the m ute status of a[...]

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    Fader Nulling W hen c hanging banks, the physical fader position m ay not m atch the c orresponding channel’s on-scr een fader’s pos ition. Pressing the NULL button plac es the US-224 into Null m ode and lights the NULL LED . In this m ode, the fader strips’ red REC and gr een SELECT LE D ’ S display whether the fader is too high ( REC LED [...]