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Chapter 13 CD-RW and Mastering

Now try making an original audio CD using the internal CD-RW drive.

You can connect an optional CD-R/RW drive to the VS-1824's SCSI connector. Adding the CD-R/RW drive allows you to create original audio CDs. Please refer to the CD-R/RW drive Owner's Manual for more information.

For more detailed information about SCSI, refer to “About SCSI” (Appendices p. 4).

Create Master Data (Mastering)

Mastering Room

The VS-1824’s Mastering Room contains everything you need to turn your song into a final master that can be burned onto your own original audio CD.

The process involves mixing up to 16 of your tracks down to the L and R “mastering tracks” (Tracks 17 and 18). You can select the V-Track you want to use—with the factory settings, V-Track 16 of Tracks 17 and 18 (i.e., 17-16 and 18-16) are selected. For example, you can play back V-Tracks 1-1, 2-1, 3- 1...15-1, and 16-1 (a total of 16 tracks), and record the result onto the L and R mastering tracks.

VS-1824

Mixing Down to the Mastering Tracks

Here’s how to select the mastering tracks and perform a mixdown.

In some countries—such as the United States—the VS-1824 is shipped with a hard drive already installed. If you need to purchase an internal hard drive for your VS-1824, be sure to purchase an appropriate drive. The successful playing back of 16 tracks while you mix down to the mastering tracks is significantly affected by the speed of the hard disk. For this reason, depending on the structure of the song data— sampling rate and recording mode, or if punch-in/out is used frequently, etc.—or depending on the drive that you use, the display may show “Drive Busy,” and the operation may not take place correctly.

*In order to take full advantage of the VS-1824’s potential—the number of tracks that can be recorded/played simultaneously and recording capacity—we recommend that you use a hard disk that is 2.1 GB in size or greater.

1.Press [CD-RW/MASTERING].

2.Press [F1 (MastRm)].

The Mastering Room screen will appear.

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Track 1–16

TR1

			Digital Out
MIX		Mastering	Select		MASTER OUT
L	R	Track	L	R
MIX		TR17-16
Sw		TR18-16
		MASTER			DIGITAL OUT

When the Recording mode (p. 51) is set to “MAS” or “CDR,” you can use a total of eight tracks. If you are recording onto the L and R mastering tracks (Tracks 7 and 8), you can play back Tracks 1-6. If you are not recording onto the mastering tracks, you can play back Tracks 1-8. Tracks 9–18 cannot be used.

When playing back mastering tracks, playback of all other tracks is silenced.

3.Press [ ], [ ], [ ], and [ ] to move the cursor. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to specify the value for each parameter.

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