Can the 788 store its song data as Wav files in its hard drive??

[nicolas ruiz]

Pretty sure can easily place an IDE to SD card adaptor in the 788. This replaces the hard disc with inexpensive noiseless storage media that can serve to easily transfer the data to PC. If the 788 can store songs in .wav files in the hard disc then I see no problem with these transfers to PC. Can the 788 store its multitrack song data as .wav files in its hard drive?? In Tascam tips and tricks it states that in version 2.02 of the software multitrack .wav files can be produced via the CDR but can these .wav files be present in the hard drive to be read as such when transferred to the PC via the SD card ???

 

[A Reel Person]

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The 788 keeps all it's native (primary) data on the HDD in a proprietary format and requires an Import/Export operation to load from (read) or save to (create) actual WAV files *using the CDRW drive. (*edit) This capability was added with firmware version 2.0 and later.

http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/348/788_v2_Addendum.pdf



EDIT: WAV Export function is locked in to using the SCSI CDRW drive. There's nothing in the manual that indicates the WAV files are created to or resident on the internal HDD. I've not read V2 manual thoroughly, there may be something I missed.

Q: if an IDE/SD converter could be used in place of the HDD, wouldn't you have to go in/out or under a closed access panel to access the SD card in the HDD compartment?

OT: maybe consider the DP-008, DP-03 or DP-02, which record 2-simul/max and export WAV files to PC over USB. If you need more than 2-simul recording, consider the DP-24. The most economical solution may be to get the approved CDRW788 drive. With the 788, which sounds great & was very forward looking, you're limited by the technology which was top of the line at the time. (SCSI/CDRW)

If your 788 mods are successful, then maybe you could provide some tips to others. Thx.

 

[nicolas ruiz]

Thanks Reel person....very useful info....will review addentum carefully. Seems a shame about the propietary nature of the software. If a program could be installed in a PC to read this data then an SD card could be used to transfer the info and also use it for archiving purposes as SDs are fairly inexpensive. As far as needing to remove the HDD cover to get acess to the SD card.....No an IDE extension cable can be used to allow placing the adaptor with external acess to the SD card. The following video shows the IDE /SD adaptor being used sucessfully in a Roland VS 880. I believe Roland has provided users with software to allow use of their proprietary software in a PC making the SD card transfers possible. If Tascam opened their proprietary files to programers perhaps a similar software package could be designed. The idea here is to resucitate the usefulness of the 788. A good portable 6 channel 24 bit recorder but with limited acess to PC for mixing and sophisticated effects.

ww.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sNYSMPsGQ

 

[MusicallyMrM]

The 788 keeps all it's native (primary) data on the HDD in a proprietary format and requires an Import/Export operation to load from (read) or save to (create) actual WAV files *using the CDRW drive. (*edit) This capability was added with firmware version 2.0 and later.

http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/348/788_v2_Addendum.pdf



EDIT: WAV Export function is locked in to using the SCSI CDRW drive. There's nothing in the manual that indicates the WAV files are created to or resident on the internal HDD. I've not read V2 manual thoroughly, there may be something I missed.

Exactly as Reel said

 

[A Reel Person]

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If you want to go with the 788, you pretty much have to buy into the CDRW788. It's old school & cumbersome but is probably the best solution for the 788, otherwise upgrade to the DP series Porta's for that modern USB capability that everyone seems to want these days.

However, I like the idea of the IDE-SD card adapter simply to eliminate the noise of a moving head hard drive, but to resign to simply leaving the SD card in the closed compartment underneath. If the 788 native data is proprietary and there is no partition or WAV files present on the (HDD/SD) then there's no reason to make it "removable".