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Using the VS-1680 with a CD-R/CD-RW drive

This chapter explains how a CD-R/CD-RW drive connected to the SCSI connector of the VS-1680 can be used to create original audio CD’s, or to back up song data. Please also read “Chapter 7 Use with a CD-R Drive” in the VS-1680 Owner’s Manual (p.120).

Creating an audio CD

Creating silence between songs (Disc At Once and Track At Once)

When writing two or more songs together to a CD-R disc, you can select how the space between songs will be handled.

Disc At Once

The song data and the track number markers attached to the song data will be written to the CD-R disc without change. However, additional song data cannot be added later to a

CD-R disc that was written using Disc At Once. (It will be in the same condition as if Finalize had been performed.)

fig.5-01.e

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Audio CD
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Track At Once

Two seconds of silence will automatically be written to the CD-R disc before each track number marker attached to the song data. (This is the same condition as when additional songs are written to the disc later.) Additional song data can be written to a CD-R disc that was written using Track At Once.

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	M1		M2		M3
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Audio CD
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MEMO

For example, if you have assigned track numbers to a medley of songs, Disc At Once would be the appropriate choice. This is because Track At Once would add approximately two seconds of silence, which would cause the playback to sound fragmented.

Specifying the writing speed (Speed)

When writing songs to a CD-R disc, you can now select the speed at which the data will be written.

Song writing procedure

1.Insert a CD-R disc into the drive.

2.Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].

3.Hold down [SHIFT] and press [F1 (SONG)].

4.Press [F3 (CD Wt)]. If [F3] does not indicate “CD Wt,” first press [PAGE] so that “CD Wt” appears, and then press [F3 (CD Wt)].

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