Yamaha AW2816 Owner's Manual - Page 7

Editing the name of a scene 130 Protecting a scene 131 Changing the order of scenes 132 Chapter9 Using automix .........133 About automix 133 What is automix 133 What can be recorded in automix?...........133 How the automix is related to the song ....133 Creating a new automix 134 Recording and playing an automix ..... 135 Recording fader operations in the automix135 Playing back the automix 136 Recording additional fader operations of other channels 137 Recording additional mix elements .... 138 Re-recording only part of the automix (Punch-in/out 139 Re-recording fader operations 141 Editing individual automix events ....... 143 Storing an automix 145 Recalling an automix 146 Chapter10 Managing songs.....147 About songs 147 What is a song 147 Song structure 147 Song recording time 147 Saving the current song 148 Loading a song 149 Editing the song name/comment ........ 150 Protecting a song 151 Duplicating a song 152 Deleting an unwanted song 153 Deleting unused audio data from a song (Optimize 154 Importing mixer data from an existing song 155 Importing tracks from an existing song156 Chapter11 Using the internal hard disk/external storage devices 159 Formatting the internal hard disk ....... 159 Formatting an external drive 160 Erasing CD-RW media 161 Backing up songs 162 Selecting the backup format for a removable drive 162 Executing the backup 162 Restoring backup data 164 Tidying up the data of the internal hard disk (Defrag 166 Writing a track to a WAV file (Exporting a WAV file 167 Cautions when writing to a WAV file .......167 Checking the free space on the internal hard disk 167 Exporting tracks to WAV files 168 Exporting virtual tracks to WAV files ........171 Loading a WAV file into a track (Importing a WAV file 172 Loading CD audio into a track (CD-DA Import 174 Enabling CD-DA loading 174 Loading CD-DA data and assigning it to a track 175 Playing an audio CD (CD Play 177 Chapter12 Mastering 179 About mastering 179 Stereo tracks that can be mastered..... 179 Media that can be used with the CD-RW drive 179 Track At Once and Disc At Once ....... 180 Checking the free space on the internal hard disk 181 Setting the mastering mode 181 Executing mastering 182 Finalizing a disc 185 Chapter13 MIDI 187 What you can do using MIDI 187 MIDI connectors and the TO HOST connector 188 Using the MIDI connectors to connect the AW2816 to external devices 189 Making connections 189 Enabling the MIDI IN connector and MIDI OUT/THRU connector 189 Using the TO HOST connector to connect the AW2816 and your computer....... 190 Making connections 190 Enabling the TO HOST connector 190 Using MTC to synchronize the AW2816 and an external device 192 Using MIDI clock to synchronize the AW2816 and an external device ....... 194 Using MMC to control the AW2816... 196 Synchronizing two AW2816 units ...... 197 Remotely switching AW2816 scenes .. 200 Controlling AW2816 parameters from an external device 202 Using control changes to operate parameters 202 Using system exclusive to operate parameters 204 Remotely controlling an external MIDI device 206 About the MIDI Remote function 206 Using the default MIDI Remote settings....207 Assigning MIDI messages to faders ...........208 Assigning MIDI messages to the [ON] keys210 Sending the AW2816's internal settings via MIDI (Bulk Dump 212 Chapter14 Other functions..... 215 Assigning a functions to the [CTRL] key + function keys 215 Making fine adjustments to the pitch of an entire song (Vari-pitch 217 Saving channel settings (Channel Library) 218 Storing channel settings in a library ..........218 Recalling channel settings from a library ..219 Editing the title of a channel library ..........219 Saving equalizer settings (EQ Library) 220 Storing EQ settings in a library 220 Recalling EQ settings from a library..........221 Editing the title of an EQ library 221 Storing dynamics processor settings (Dynamics Library 222 Storing dynamics processor settings in a library 222 Recalling dynamics processor settings from a library 223 Editing the title of a dynamics library........223 Copying attenuator settings to all channels 224 Copying delay time/phase settings to all channels 225 Copying pan settings to all channels... 226 Copying fade times to all channels ..... 226 Dithering digital signals 227 Using the test tone oscillator 228 Using the metronome 229 Mixing and recording multiple channels 230 Pingpong-recording multiple tracks to one or two tracks 232 Table of contents Before you begin Parts and their functions 1 Welcome to the world of the AW2816 2 Let's record on the AW2816 3 Input/output patching 4 Using the internal effects 5 Transport/Locate operations 6 Editing tracks and virtual tracks 7 Scene memory operations 8 Using automix 9 Managing songs 10 Using the internal hard disk/ 11 external storage devices Mastering 12 MIDI 13 Other functions 14 vii