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AW2400 Owner’s Manual
Introducing the AW2400
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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.
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.
Here’s a quick overview of terminology used with the AW2400.
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.
●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.

■CD-RW drive

■Connecting to a Computer

AW2400 terminology

Recorder section

■Tracks

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Features of the AW2400 • AW2400 terminology