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What you need to do to create your own CD

Steps taken in producing an original CD

The following introduces you to a number of paths that you
could choose to follow in carrying out the steps needed to
create your own original CD, using a CD-R disc.

Path 1

fig.16-01
Sample audio materials from a sampling CD (“clip audio”
collection) or load Windows WAVE files, and assign the
sounds to pads.
“Sampling to a pad” (p. 56)
fig.16-02
Freely combine pad sounds to create your song. Record the
pad operations on the sequence track.
“Arranging audio samples to create a song—Sequence” (p. 88)
fig.16-03
On the audio tracks, record sounds from connected
instruments, or what is played back by the sequence track.
“Recording your performance” (p. 119)
“Recording the sequence playback sound on an audio
track” (p. 108)
fig.16-04
Combine the performances recorded on multiple audio tracks
to two-channel stereo (mixdown).
“Preparing to write a CD-R disc—Mixdown” (p. 132)
fig.16-04a
Insert a CD-R disc, and write the song data.
“Completing your original CD—CD burning”
fig.16-05
This completes your original audio CD.
WAVE AUDIO
CD
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