Tascam CD-R624M Installation Manual

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TASCAM CD-R624MPacking ListThe following items should be present in your CD-R624M bundle:- TEAC 6x24 external CDR drive (CD-R56S/614)- SCSI Cable- SCSI Terminator- CD-R624M software CD-ROM- CD Stomper w/ CD Stomper CD-ROM and CD Labels- (2) Blank TEAC CDR media- TEAC 6x24 Installation Guide- CD-R624 QuickStart Guide (That’d be this book.)Installing the CD-R624M BundleA hardware installation booklet has been included with this package;look to it for installation of the CD-Recorder. Also, if you are new toinstalling software on your Mac, be aware that you will probably haveto restart the computer in between each installation.To install the software, make sure your CD-Recorder is connected.Insert the CD-R624W disc into your CD-ROM or CDR drive.There are several programs you will need to install:Adaptec Toast - Data CD AuthoringAdaptec Jam - Audio CD AuthoringThe CD-R56S driver file MUSTbe placed in the same folder asthe Jam application. This file ison the CD-R624M software CD.BIAS Peak LE - Audio Recording/EditingBIAS SFX Machine Lite - Effect ProcessingSFX Machine Lite must be placed in the Plug-ins folderinside the BIAS Peak LE Folder. Otherwise, Peak LE willnot add SFX Machine to its list.Xing Technologies AudioCatalyst - MP3 EncodingApple QuickTime 4.0 - Offers support for more advancedmultimedia, including playback of MP3 files.The QuickTime installer may ask for your type of internetconnection. The install is on your CD-R624M CD, so aninternet connection is not necessary.Adobe Acrobat 3.0 - Reading PDF filesBe sure attention is paid to the placement of the files as mentionedabove for Jam and BIAS Peak LE/SFX Machine Lite. If these files arenot placed as specified, the programs will lose some functions.CDR Introductory TutorialCDR (Compact Disc Recordable) media can store up to 74 minutes ofstereo audio, or up to 650 megabytes of data. CDR media can onlybe written to once, so the CDR authoring software allows you todesign your CD completely before you burn it. Since the CD mustcontain a directory of what is on it, and since that directory is on thewrite-once only media also, all of the information must be burned tothe CD at the same time. Recording the information to a CD is donein a Session.While audio CD players will only recognize the first session on theCD, many CD-ROMs will read multiple sessions. A CD with more thanone session is called a Multi-Session CD. So, if the first session onlycontained 200 megabytes of data, you could record another sessionbehind it up to approximately 450 megabytes. (It won’t be quite thatbig because of the extra space taken by the new directory.)Remember though, older CD-ROMs may not search for those extrasessions.When you get ready to design the session, you will first need todetermine the format of the CD. Some of the common CD formatsyou can create with Adaptec Toast and Jam are listed below:Audio CD - This is the standard CD format you can use in yourAudio CD player. You can have up to 99 tracks of audio, withadjustable silence breaks in between each track. The audio tracks