Edirol R-44 manual Editing Your Recordings to Create a CD or DVD, Creating CDs, Export the data

Application

2Editing Your Recordings to Create a CD or DVD

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE EDIROL R-44

Creating CDs

Have you ever wanted to have someone listen to your music that you recorded? If so, CDs are better than cassette tapes. A CD is more likely to get heard because CD players, and CD car stereos are really common. Once you learn how, making CDs is easy, so you should learn how to do it.

Making a CD

Transfer the sound file (WAV) on the SD card to a PC via a USB connection.

Mix down with“Cakewalk	Copy the mixed down data
SONAR7 Producer Edition.”	to a CD.

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If you’ve recorded four channels simultaneously on the R-44, and want to create a CD from your recording, you’ll need to adjust the volume of the four channels and combine them into two-channel stereo data. This process is called “mixdown,” and will allow you to create a CD that sounds the way you want.

In this example, we provide a simple explanation of using the Windows software “Cakewalk SONAR7 Producer Edi- tion” (sold separately) to turn the four channels of data (STEREO x 2) recorded by the R-44 into two-channel stereo, and use this data to create a CD. (For details, refer to the owner’s manual or Help file of the software you’re using.)

1. Manipulate the screen to adjust the volume	2. Export the data.
of each channel.	The data format should be a WAV file at 16 bit/
	44.1 kHz.

3. Write the exported data to a CD.	If you know that you are going to create a CD from
	the beginning, we recommend recording with 16
	bit/44.1 kHz on the R-44. Since this is the same as
	the CD specifications, it will take just a short time to
	convert the data.
	16 bit/44.1 kHz
	for CDs

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