Tascam US-428 manual

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    Page 1 of 5 Setting up and Using the US - 428 with Pro Tools ® The US - 428 can control Digidesign's Pro Tools software application on both the MacOS and the PC. Digidesign offers a free version, ProTools Free, that is an attractive application for use with the US - 428. On the Macintosh it uses SoundManager for audio, and Windows Multimedia [...]

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    Page 2 of 5 to free up CPU power” then you should first try increasing your latency setting. You might also adjust your CPU usage limit under the Setups/Hardware… menu item. For advice on low - latency input monitoring, see the Input Monitoring section below. Setting Pro Tools to use the US - 428 Control Surface Start Pro Tools and load or star[...]

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    Page 3 of 5 If "Audio During Fast Forward/Rewind" is not selected under Setups/Preferences.../Operation, then you can tap the REW or FFWD keys to move backward or forward in steps. (The step size depends on your selected time display mode.) Or you can hold down the REW or FFWD keys to move the time line continuously. "Pass Through Nu[...]

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    Page 4 of 5 Scrubbing and Shuttling The data wheel on the US - 428 can be use to scrub and shuttle audio in Pro Tools, and to create selections of data for editing. H ere's a brief example of how to use these features to select some audio. Please refer to the CS - 10 chapter of the MIDI Controller Guide (listed below) for lots of details. This[...]

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    Page 5 of 5 US - 428 “Pro Tools ® CS - 10” Summary Transport PLAY play SET+PLAY play at half speed RECORD toggle record state ASGN+RECORD cycle record modes STOP stop REW rewind FFWD fast forward SET+STOP abort recording SET+REW go to beginning SET+FFWD go to end Channel Strips FADER n adjust track n level SELECT n select track n for pan, send[...]