User's Manual

2 – Basic operational concepts : Utilities
36 TASCAM DM-3200 Owner’s Manual
Utilities
There are three UTILITY screens, accessed with the
UTILITY key.
The first of these (
PARAM COPY) provides a method of
copying values between channel parameters.
The second (
EXT. SW) determines the function of the
external footswitch.
The last (
SYSTEM) allows CF card management and
date setting. These have already been described in
“Formatting a new card” on page 24 and “Setting the
date and time” on page 27 and are not described
again here.
There is also a system update facility. See the
TMCompanion software and its documentation for
full details of how to update the DM-3200.
UTILITY copying
This screen allows the aux send levels and pan set-
tings for a group of channels to be set up to mirror
the settings made on the channel faders, and the other
way around. This may be useful when setting up a
studio monitor mix, for example, and the levels and
pans of the aux sends used for the monitor mix
should initially be set to the same as the channels.
1 Press the
UTILITY key.
2 Check either of the two checkboxes (
PAN/BAL
and/or
LEVEL) to select the settings to be copied.
3 In either of the two boxes, select either the
AUX
-> CH
or the other radio button (CH -> AUX for
level, but variable for pan/balance).
Naturally, it is not possible to select both in the
same box, though it is possible to select
CH ->
AUX
in one box and AUX -> CH in the other.
4 Select the source and the destination parame-
ters as explained here.
• For pan/balance copying, the aux sends and
busses are available as linked pairs or an
ALL
selection is also available. Individual sends
and busses are not available.
• The
STEREO buss is available as a destination.
• The aux sends are selectable individually or as
linked pairs as sources or destinations for level
copying.
• Channels are divided into blocks of eight:
1-8,
9-16, 17-24, 25-32 33-40 and 41-48 and ALL. Indi-
vidual channels cannot be selected. This
applies to both pan/balance and level copying.
5 Move the cursor to the on-screen
COPY button
and press
ENTER. A confirmation popup mes-
sage appears.
6 Press
ENTER again to confirm the copy, or a
cursor key to cancel.
If neither of the checkboxes is checked when you
press the
COPY button, an error message is displayed.
Figure 2.34: UTILITY copy screen