Yamaha aw1600 Basic settings for the CD-RW drive

Basic settings for the CD-RW drive

Creating an audio CD

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AW1600 Owner’s Manual

Before you actually write data to a CD, you will need to make basic settings for the CD-RW drive.

1In the Work Navigate section, repeatedly

press the [CD] key or hold down the [CD]

key and use the CURSOR [ ]/[ ] keys to

access the SETTING page of the CD screen.

1CD-RW MEDIA ERASE

Erases the data that was written to CD-RW media. For

details, refer to “Erasing CD-RW media” (→ p. 109).

BAUDIO WRITE SPEED

Selects the speed at which audio data will be written to

CD-R/RW media.

CTEST button

Speciﬁes whether a writing test will be performed

when you execute writing.

DWRITE button

Speciﬁes whether the actual writing operation will be

performed.

EUNDERRUN PROTECT button

Enables/disables the function that prevents buffer

underrun (an error that can occur when data transfer

cannot keep up with writing speed).

FDATA WRITE SPEED

This indicates the speed at which data other than CD

audio (e.g., backup data or WAV ﬁles) is written to

CD-R/RW media. Normally this will indicate x8. This

will indicate x4 if the media supports a maximum

writing speed of x4. This ﬁeld is for display only, and

cannot be edited.

GCOMPARE button

If this button is on, the original data will be compared

with the backed-up data or the exported WAV ﬁle after

a backup or export operation is performed, to check

whether any errors occurred while writing the data.

2Move the cursor to the AUDIO WRITE

SPEED ﬁeld, and turn the [DATA/JOG] dial

to select the writing speed.

You can select either x8 (eight times as fast as audio

playback) or x4 (four times as fast as audio playback).

Normally you should use x8, and drop down to x4 if

errors occur during writing.

3Use the TEST button and WRITE button to

select the writing operation(s).

The TEST button and WRITE button specify whether

a writing test and/or the actual writing operation will

be performed. The combination of buttons that are on

will determine the operation(s) that will occur, as fol-

lows.

• Only the TEST button on

........... Only a writing test will be performed.

• Only the WRITE button on

........... Writing will occur immediately.

• Both the WRITE button and TEST button on

........... First a writing test will be performed,

and then the actual writing will be

performed.

Depending on the media and the state of the hard disk,

it is possible that an error may occur while the data is

being written. (If you are using a CD-R, this will make

the media unusable.) Thus, you can turn on the TEST

button to check whether an error will occur before you

actually write the disc. If an error occurs during the

test, halt the procedure, and either lower the writing

speed or set the UNDERRUN PROTECT button to

ENABLE.

4If desired, set the UNDERRUN PROTECT

button to ENABLE.

The CD-RW drive of the AW1600 has a function to

prevent “buffer underrun” errors which can occur if

data transfer cannot keep up with the writing speed.

If you switch the UNDERRUN PROTECT button to

the “ENABLE” setting, this function will be enabled,

and buffer underruns will be prevented.

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•If this button is set to ENABLE, the TEST button will automati-

cally be turned off. Also, if the TEST button is turned on, this

button will automatically be set to DISABLE.

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