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2 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Important Safety Pr ecautions The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within equilateral triangle, is i[...]

T ASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 3 Important Safety Instructions 1 Read these instructions. 2 Keep these instructions. 3 Heed all warnings. 4 Follow all instructions. 5 Do not use this apparatus near water . 6 Clean only with dry cloth. 7 Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufactur er's instructions. 8 Do [...]

4 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual T able of Contents T able of Contents Intr oductio n Introduction ................................................ 5 Document Conventions ............................. 5 About this manual ..................................... 5 Supplied accessories .................................. 5 System Organization Projects [...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 5 Intr oduction Intr oduction The HD-P2 is a compact, lightweight Portable High Definition Stereo Audio Recorder. It uses standard Compact Flash memory cards to record in mono or stereo, 16- or 24-bit, at samples rates from 44.1kHz to 192kHz. An advanced clocking system is included, with the ability to chase extern[...]

6 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual System Organization File System Pr ojects Projects are a means of organizing files and settings for a specific situation or recording. When a new project is created, you have the option to choose the current system settings for the project or use a proj- ect template. These settings control how audio will be rec[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 7 System Organization File System Format When a new CF card is first inserted into the HD-P2 a screen pops up offering to format the media. There are two reasons for this. The first is to ensure that the optimal FAT (File Allocation Table) is being used with the card. The HD-P2 supports both FAT-16 and FAT-32 for-[...]

8 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual The HD-P2 Interface Keys Keys are primarily organized into menu navigation and transport functions. Menu keys and Shuttle/Data wheel The rest of the keys are used for navigating the HD-P2’s menu interface. The main screen of the HD-P2 has two modes: Operation Mode and Menu Mode. The M EN U key is used to toggle [...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 9 Figure 3 - Audio Switc hes Located on top of the HD-P2, next to the data wheel are switches for con- trolling the analog audio inputs and dynamics. The input switches ( L IN E /M I C ) switch between the XLR and RCA jack inputs. The P AD switches only apply to signals coming in the XLR jacks. Limiting can be turne[...]

10 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Power Setup Power The HD-P2 can be powered from the supplied AC power adapter, from eigh t standard AA batteries (alka - line strongly recommended), or from the FireWire (IEEE.1394) connection when attached to a host com- puter with a powered (6-pin) 1394 port. Each of these power sources is described below. AC P[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 11 Operation Power Contr ol Once power is connecte d to your HD-P2, turn it ON or OFF by momen tarily pressing the spring-loaded power switch. The HD-P2 will power up immediately. If, for any reason, the HD-P2 does not respond to a power off attempt, a forced power-down is accomplished by holding the power switch en[...]

12 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Operation Playing Audio Press the P LA Y 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 ([...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 13 Monitoring The HD-P2 features a headset jack and phones adjust knob. In the Project Menu, Settings page there is an option for choosing the type of headset monitoring. The choices include Stereo, Mono Left, Mono Right, Mono Summed, and Follow Record Mode. The Mono Summed mode can be useful if you are doing mono r[...]

14 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Menu Navigation The HD-P2’s settings and utilities are accessed through a menu system. To activate the menu system, press the M EN U key and the main menu is shown. To go back to the operational screen, press the M EN U key at any time. Main Menu P r o j e c t M e n u – Used to access[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 15 HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Continued from the previous page Figure 14a - Project Settings Screen: Expanded View Figures 14a and 14b are expanded views of all of the project settings and timecode sub-menus (timecode settings are explained in detail in the Timecode sec- tion of this manual).The following are details [...]

16 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Continued from the previous page HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Figure 15 - File Edit Screen Figure 16 - File Edit in Process The S HU T TL E /D A TA wheel moves the menu selection as it does in any other menu screen. If you wish to use the S HU T TL E /D A TA wheel to move the timeline, press and hold the S TO P key. [...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 17 HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Change/New Project By default the HD-P2 automatically makes the first project whenever new media is used. To make addi- tional projects, or switch between projects, use the Change/New Project menu from the Main menu. In Figure 18 the menu shows the currently loaded project (Project 09) a[...]

18 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Continued from the previous page HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Set System Time Figure 21 shows the current time stored in the real- time clock chip of the HD-P2. A backup lithium bat- tery powers this clock. The screen shows the status of this battery. Figure 21 - Set System Time Screen Audio Clock Management The HD-P[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 19 HD-P2 Scr eens and Menus Media Information Figure 25 - Media Information Screen Media Information reports information on the type of CF card/media that is in use. Figure 25 shows a 512 MB CF card from Toshiba. It has been formatted as a FAT-16 storage device for optimal performance of this size of media. Media Sp[...]

20 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Continued from the previous page Software Update Figure 29 - Software Update Screen w/o Update Figure 30 - Software Update Screen w/Update From time to time new software may be released for the HD-P2. To update the HD-P2 software you will copy the update file (e.g. UPDATE_1_1.BIN) to a CF card and insert it into[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 21 Timecode Timecode Overview The HD-P2 has a wide range of timecode features. It can read incoming linear timecode (LTC) and has many functions including freewheeling, trigger on frame number, and timecode offset. The HD-P2 can also resolve its audio clock to a range of sources including LTC in and video in. Very b[...]

22 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Continued from the previous page Timecode • 2 4 . 0 0 – Th is f ra me rate is use d in both fi lm a nd H DTV systems. • 2 5 . 0 0 – Used f or P A L video. • 2 9 . 9 7 D F – Stand ard f r ame rate for NTSC video with wall ti me matchi ng the d rop-f rame v ideo time. • 2 9 . 9 7 N D – NTSC video w[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 23 Key Shortcuts Key Shortcuts The HD-P2’s keys are mapped to the most commonly used functions, to quickly perform an action or navi- gate to a menu. There a re additional key shortcuts that, while not necessary to the more common operations of the HD-P2, might prove useful in some situations. Shortcuts Shifted ME[...]

24 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual Keyboard a4 Function Main Screen Everywhere* T ranspor t Space Bar Pla y/Stop x x F-5 Rew x x F-6 F Fwd x x F-7 Stop x x F-8 Pla y x x F-9 P ause x x F-10 Record x x F-12 Drop Marker x Left Arrow Locate Left x Right Arrow Locate Right x HOME R TZ x END End of Project x Shor tcuts T T oggle Timcode Chase x Z Retak[...]

TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 25 Docking and Conforming Fir eWire Dock When the HD-P2 is connected to a host computer sup- ported by Windows XP or Mac OS 10.3 via FireWire, this Main Menu item is enabled and can be used to dock the HD-P2 to the host computer. The HD-P2, when docked, shows up on the host com- puter as an externally mounted FireWi[...]

26 TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual During the conforming p rocess a dialog is shown, with a progress bar that tracks the approximate amount of the process that has completed. If you click C a n c e l but- ton during conforming the process is interrupted and the incomplete file is deleted. The application uses the same playback algorithms as the H[...]

T ASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 27 Specifications Specifications Recording Media: Compact Flash, Microdrive File Format: BWF Broadcast W ave File (F A T16/F A T32) R e co r d in g t i m e : 2 4 m i n u t e s ( 25 6 MB C o m p a c t F l a s h , F s = 4 4. 1 kH z 16 bit stereo) Operating time: 5 Hours Sample Rates: 44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz S [...]

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