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First and foremost, an user manual of Tascam SX-1 should contain:
- informations concerning technical data of Tascam SX-1
- name of the manufacturer and a year of construction of the Tascam SX-1 item
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- safety signs and mark certificates which confirm compatibility with appropriate standards
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Usually it results from the lack of time and certainty about functionalities of purchased items. Unfortunately, networking and start-up of Tascam SX-1 alone are not enough. An instruction contains a number of clues concerning respective functionalities, safety rules, maintenance methods (what means should be used), eventual defects of Tascam SX-1, and methods of problem resolution. Eventually, when one still can't find the answer to his problems, he will be directed to the Tascam service. Lately animated manuals and instructional videos are quite popular among customers. These kinds of user manuals are effective; they assure that a customer will familiarize himself with the whole material, and won't skip complicated, technical information of Tascam SX-1.
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It is mostly in the manuals where we will find the details concerning construction and possibility of the Tascam SX-1 item, and its use of respective accessory, as well as information concerning all the functions and facilities.
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SX-1 Digital Production Environment[...]
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The Vision Several years ago, the SX-1 design team envisioned a machine that wo u l d comb i n e t h e po wer and fle xib ility o f comp u ter - b a s e d r ecording and editing, MIDI sequencing, hardware surface control, dynamic mix automation, on-board and plug-in effects, stereo and surr ound mixdown, data backup - all of which would be accessib[...]
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disk recorder for slating or funky tracking. Also, if you own high- end analog outboard processors (maybe a pair of 1176’s or a Fairchild 670), you could easily patch them into inserts on any mixer channel. The SX-1 takes the digital console concept even further with pres- tige, name brand, onboard effects by TC Works and Antares. It also possess[...]
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When all components of the SX-1’s digital console are consid- e r ed…40 in pu t/8 bus ar c h i t e c t u r e, touch-sensit i ve motorized 100mm faders, name brand onboard effects, highly sophisticated automation, extremely flexible signal routing, sur round mixing, etc. - the SX-1 is clearly a remarkable value. _________________________________[...]
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A Professional Hard Disk Recorder The SX-1’s har d disk r ecorder is derived from the same technology in the TEC award-winning MX-2424 and Emmy award-winning MM Series film dubbers. The SX-1 can play back 16 uncompressed tracks of pristine 24-bit audio at one time, but it’s capable of far more. W ith 999 virtual tracks per project that can be f[...]
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W aveform Editing Man y industry p ros would a r g ue t h a t t h e w av e f or m - based d i s p lay h as been the most significant new feature i n t r o du c e d o v er t he p as t decade to improve the profes - s i onal audio r e c o r d i n g and editing proc es s . The SX -1 ’ s designers saw the possibilities for a custom, full color graph-[...]
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SX-1 Summarized V1.0 features • 40x8 digital console…32 channels with 3-band fully variable EQ, comp/gate and DSP insert point each, 8 identical return channels without the DSP insert point; 8 busses with DSP insert point; touch sensitive 100mm motorized faders; and powerful on-board dynamic mix automation. • Onboard effects…TC Works Reverb[...]
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Options • FP-MSX black flat-panel VGA monitor • ADAT 8-channel I/O card • TDIF 8-channel I/O card • AES/EBU 8-channel I/O card • Analog 8-channel I/O cards The TASCAM SX-1 Vision[...]