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About songs • Managing Your Songs

The following operations are possible by directly access- ing the data on the internal hard disk from a computer. For detailed operating procedures refer to “WAV File Transfer (USB Storage Mode)” on page 230.

•Specified audio data on the internal hard disk can be directly edited from a computer using an appropriate waveform editor application. The song will become unplayable if you change the sampling frequency or quantization of the audio data, but you can change the length of the waveforms without problems.

•WAV files transferred from a computer to the “Transport” folder can be imported to the AW2400 audio tracks as required, and specified regions of audio data can be exported to the computer as WAV files which can then be imported into computer-based DAW applications.

•The entire contents of the internal hard disk or individual songs can be backed up to the computer.

NOTE

•For 24-bit songs, the audio data contained in the “Audio” folders is stored in 32-bit WAV format. If your waveform editor application cannot handle 32-bit data, first export the WAV file(s) to the “Trans- port” folder. WAV files imported or exported via the “Transport” folder are automatically converted to 24-bit format that can be edited using most waveform editor software.

•Song data is created in either the “Song1” or “Song2” folder. You may have to check both of these folders to locate a specific song.

•If you initialize the AW2400 hard disk from your computer it will become unreadable by the AW2400. Always use the SONG screen Song List page to initialize the AW2400 hard disk.

•The song folders also contain audio data for undo and redo opera- tions that is not normally used. The undo/redo data can be deleted by performing an Optimize operation (→ p. 172).

Managing Your Songs

Song management operations are accessed via the SONG screen Song List page. This page also includes the shutdown functions.

To call this page press the [SONG] key in the Work Navi- gate section a number of times, or press the [F1] key after pressing the [SONG] key.

This page contains the following items.

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

1Song List

The songs stored on the internal AW2400 hard disk are displayed here.

BLOAD button

Loads a specified song.

CSAVE button

Saves a song.

DNEW button

Creates a new song.

ECOPY button

Copies a song.

FOPTIMIZE button

Optimizes a song.

GMIXER IMP button

Imports data from another song.

HDELETE button

Deletes a song.

ISHUTDOWN button

This function is used when turning the AW2400 power off. Refer to page 38 for detailed shutdown instructions.

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