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Managing your songs – Yamaha AW2400 User Manual

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AW2400 Owner’s Manual

Song management

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The following operations are possible by directly access-
ing the data on the internal hard disk from a computer. For
detailed operating procedures refer to “WAV File Transfer
(USB Storage Mode)” on page 230.

• Specified audio data on the internal hard disk can be

directly edited from a computer using an appropriate
waveform editor application. The song will become
unplayable if you change the sampling frequency or
quantization of the audio data, but you can change the
length of the waveforms without problems.

• WAV files transferred from a computer to the “Transport”

folder can be imported to the AW2400 audio tracks as
required, and specified regions of audio data can be
exported to the computer as WAV files which can then
be imported into computer-based DAW applications.

• The entire contents of the internal hard disk or individual

songs can be backed up to the computer.

Song management operations are accessed via the SONG screen Song List page. This page
also includes the shutdown functions.

To call this page press the [SONG] key in the Work Navi-
gate section a number of times, or press the [F1] key after
pressing the [SONG] key.

This page contains the following items.

1 Song List

The songs stored on the internal AW2400 hard disk are
displayed here.

B

LOAD button

Loads a specified song.

C

SAVE button

Saves a song.

D

NEW button

Creates a new song.

E

COPY button

Copies a song.

F

OPTIMIZE button

Optimizes a song.

G

MIXER IMP button

Imports data from another song.

H

DELETE button

Deletes a song.

I

SHUTDOWN button

This function is used when turning the AW2400 power
off. Refer to page 38 for detailed shutdown instructions.

• For 24-bit songs, the audio data contained in the “Audio” folders is

stored in 32-bit WAV format. If your waveform editor application
cannot handle 32-bit data, first export the WAV file(s) to the “Trans-
port” folder. WAV files imported or exported via the “Transport”
folder are automatically converted to 24-bit format that can be
edited using most waveform editor software.

• Song data is created in either the “Song1” or “Song2” folder. You

may have to check both of these folders to locate a specific song.

• If you initialize the AW2400 hard disk from your computer it will

become unreadable by the AW2400. Always use the SONG
screen Song List page to initialize the AW2400 hard disk.

• The song folders also contain audio data for undo and redo opera-

tions that is not normally used. The undo/redo data can be deleted
by performing an Optimize operation (

p. 172).

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