Tascam 2488 Question

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Can you insert a regular commercial CD into the 2488 and record one or more tracks onto the unit's Hard Drive?
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I have had 2488 for just a few weeks and as far as I know you can only playback.
 
Hmmm, I've played a few cd's through it but never thought about recording from one. I don't think it rip songs into .wav files but you may be able assign it to record in real time. Or maybe stereo outs to 2 inputs if nothing else works.
 
Bad news, when it's a CD player that's all it can do.
 
actually, you can rip the cd to computer, and with proper software, you can convert it to two mono wav files, then load it back to the 2488 as a song. or an easier way is from a digital out on a cd player to the digital in on the 2488. should be able to load it in as two tracks.
 
I too thought about this one, you can only playback but I never thought about looping the outputs back into a couple of inputs.
Don't get too excited about the digital in for this function though.
Most playback decks will be 16 bit digital outs and you'll have to record at 16 bit on the 2488. Not acceptable to me so I take the analog outs of playback deck and record at 24 bit in real time on 2 tracks of the 2488.
 
your right song, good point. sure will be fun to take old recordings of oneself and color them up!
 
The best way to get tracks off a cd to the 2488 is to turn them into .wav files on your computer and then import them via the usb port to the FAT partition on the 2488. Then you copy them from the FAT partition to the virtual tracks, (from the wave in/out menu, select the usb import option. It's a similar funtion for standard midi files.

You can import audio files with the internal player/burner as long as they are mono .wav files and there are no other folders or subdirectories. That's important because that is how I intend to back everything up.......as mono .wav files.

Soon as the mini midi to midi adaptors arrive I'll be running tracks off my 788 to Sound Forge via s/pdif with a midi clock so they are synched and save them at 24 bit mono. Then I can put them on the 2488 anytime. You can't go direct s/pdif from the 788 to the 2488 with any midi controls, too bad but it just won't do it.
 
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