Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the AW16G!
The AW16G is a very powerful and easy to use digital audio workstation that will allow you to take your musical ideas from concept to completion. By combining all of the necessary tools into an affordable all-in-one unit, the AW16G makes it extremely easy for the home recording musician to achieve high-quality results.
This guide was written with the recording novice in mind. It is written to take you, the user, from start to finish in the easiest possible way. Many advanced recording principles have been purposely left out. The idea is to get you up and running as quickly and easily as possible.
At the end of this guide there is a glossary. Words in this document that have been included in the glossary are underlined.
AW16G Features
16-Track Hard Disk Recorder – The AW16G records onto an internal 20 Gigabyte (GB) laptop style hard drive. There are 8 mono tracks and 4 stereo tracks for a total of 16 recording tracks.
36-Channel Mixing Console – Within the AW16G there are a total of 36 mixer channels. This includes 16 channels for playback of the recorded tracks, 8 analog input channels, 2 stereo effects return channels, and 4 stereo channels for the sample pads. Every mixer channel has a 4 band parametric EQ and a dynamics processor.
2 Internal Effects Processors– There are two built-in effects processors that have a wide variety of effects. Some examples would be reverb, delay, pitch- shift, chorus, phaser, tremolo, and amp simulation.
Quick Loop Sampler – The AW16G has a built-in pad-type sampler. This is very useful for drum loops, percussion parts, or anything else that you would like to loop. There are four sample pads with four switchable banks for each pad. The maximum sample time of the Quick Loop Sampler is 44 seconds.
Built in CD-RW– The internal CD-RW drive can be used to make audio CDs of your songs, to store song data, and to import or export audio.
