Yamaha 101 Introduction

Introduction

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.

 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.