Yamaha AW2400 terminology, Recorder section, CD-RW drive, Connecting to a Computer, Tracks

Features of the AW2400 • AW2400 terminology

■CD-RW drive

A dedicated CD-RW drive is installed in the AW2400. You can produce an audio CD containing the stereo mixes of songs recorded on the hard disk. Markers assigned within a song can also be used as the CD track numbers. You can even use advanced techniques such as assigning more than one track number within a single song. The CD-RW drive can also be used to backup/restore songs, to play back audio CDs, and to load WAV data from a CD-ROM.

■Connecting to a Computer

The AW2400 can be directly connected to a computer via the built-in USB interface, which enables transferring audio files as well as MIDI messages. This allows WAV- format audio files to be copied between the AW2400 and computer for convenient management and processing in computer-based applications, and “backup” song files can be stored on the computer’s memory media.

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Introducing the AW2400

AW2400 terminology

Here’s a quick overview of terminology used with the AW2400.

Recorder section

■Tracks

A location where data is recorded is called a “track.” The AW2400’s recorder section uses the following types of track.

●Audio tracks

The physical tracks used to record and play back audio data are called “audio tracks,” or simply “tracks.” The AW2400 has 24 audio tracks. You can record 16 tracks simultaneously, and play back 24 tracks simultaneously (16-bit songs).

●Stereo track

The AW2400 has a “stereo track” that is independent from audio tracks 1–24, and which records and plays a stereo audio signal. The stereo track is used mainly as a dedi- cated mixdown track for recording the final mix.

●Virtual tracks

Each of the 24 audio tracks and the stereo track consists of eight “virtual” tracks. For the audio tracks and the stereo track, only one virtual track can be recorded or played at any time. However, you can switch virtual tracks to con- tinue recording other takes while preserving the previ- ously-recorded content.

The diagram below shows the concept of virtual tracks. The horizontal rows indicate audio tracks 1–24, and the vertical columns correspond to virtual tracks 1–8. The shaded areas indicate the virtual track that is currently selected for recording or playback.

Audio tracks

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	21	22	23	24
	1
tracks	2
	4
Virtual	3
	5
	6
	7
	8
	Stereo track
	1
tracks	2
	3
	4
Virtual	5
	6
	7
	8

● Trigger tracks

The “Trigger Track” function allows the track [ON] keys and faders to be used to start and stop playback of recorded tracks. When the Trigger Track function is engaged and you press a track channel [ON] key, the cor- responding track will playback one time from the begin- ning of the song to the end of the recorded data.

AW2400 Owner’s Manual

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