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8 – Mastering and backup (CD-R)–Backup using CD-R
80 TASCAM 788 Digital PortaStudio
NOTE
The backup operation may take some time, as a song may
have many different parts to it. If you use the
DELETE
UNUSED
function before backing up the song, this
may save some time and space (“Deleting unused space
from a song” on page 30).
DO NOT TURN OFF the 788 or the CD-R drive while this
backup operation is taking place. You will almost certainly
spoil the disc and may corrupt the song data.
CD-R backup discs are finalized and cannot be reused for
any other purpose (but CD-RW discs can be erased for
other backups).
TIP
Label your discs as soon as you make them, using a soft
water-based felt-tip pen. It is important that you keep notes
of what is on each disc for future reference.
Restoring data from CD-R
This operation is basically the reverse of the backup
operation.
Before you start restoring a song, make sure that you
have all the discs that were used to back up the song.
If some of the discs are missing, you will not be able
to restore the song (you cannot load half a song).
1 Put the first (or only, if there is only one) disc
of the backup set into the CD-R drive.
2 Make sure the 788 is in “normal” mode, that is,
not in the master check mode or mastering
mode.
3 With the transport stopped, press the
MENU
key.
4 Move the cursor to
DATA RESTORE,
and press
ENTER.
The 788 reads the title of the song from the disc
and asks you if you want to continue.
5 Press
YES to continue, NO to eject the disc and
cancel the operation.
6 If you go ahead with the restore, the 788 copies
the data from the CD-R disc to the active disk
partition. A bargraph on screen shows the
progress.
7 If the backup is spread over more than one
disc, when the first disc has been read, it is
ejected, and a message asks you to put in the
next disc. Insert the next disc and press
YES.
If you insert the wrong disc (out of sequence or
from a different backup set), the 788 ejects the
“bad” disc and asks you again for the correct
one. If you really cannot find the right disc, you
must press
NO to cancel the restore.
If you cancel the restore operation part of the
way through, none of the song is restored, and
the 788 goes back to the state before the restore
was started.
8 When data is restored from the last disc, the
disc is ejected, and the previous song (before
the restore operation was started) is loaded.
NOTE
If the song which has been restored has the same name as
a song which is currently on the partition, there will be two
songs with the same name. We suggest that you rename
one of them after the restore operation, to avoid confusion
(“Entering and editing titles” on page 26).
It is possible to make two different backups of a song, each
with the same name, at different stages of the song’s devel-
opment. If you mix up the backup sets and insert a disc
from the wrong set into the middle of a backup, the 788 is
smart enough to recognize this, and it will eject the “bad”
disc and ask you for the correct disc.