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AW2400 Owner’s Manual
Song management
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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.

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.
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.
•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).
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