AW2400 Owner’s Manual
Managing Your Songs
Song management
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Songs can be “protected” to prevent unwanted changes to
the data. When a song is protected it can’t be recorded to,
edited, or deleted.
1Call the Setting page by either pressing the
Work Navigate section [SONG] key as many
times as necessary, or by pressing the [F2]
key after pressing the [SONG] key.
The SONG screen Setting page will appear.
2Move the cursor to a location outside the
SORT box, and use the [DATA/JOG] dial to
select the song to be protected.
The line enclosed by the dotted frame indicates the
selected song to be protected.
3Move the cursor to the PROTECT button
and press the [ENTER] key.
When protection is turned on the PROTECT button
will be highlighted and a “lock” icon will appear to the
right of the song name.
“Optimize” is an operation that deletes the undo/redo
audio data maintained within the song. When you have
finished recording and editing a song you can Optimize it
to increase the amount of free space on the hard disk.
1Call the Song List page by either pressing
the Work Navigate section [SONG] key as
many times as necessary, or by pressing
the [F1] key after pressing the [SONG] key.
The SONG screen Song List page will appear. The
currently selected song in the Song List will be high-
lighted (inverted).
2Move the cursor to a location outside the
SORT box, and use the [DATA/JOG] dial to
select the song to be optimized.
The line enclosed by the dotted frame indicates the
selected song to be optimized.
3Move the cursor to the OPTIMIZE button,
and press the [ENTER] key.
A popup window will ask you to confirm the optimize
operation.
4To execute the optimize operation, move
the cursor to the OK button and press the
[ENTER] key.
The undo/redo audio data of the song you selected in
step 2 will be deleted, and you will return to step 1. If
you decide not to execute the optimize operation,
move the cursor to the CANCEL button and press the
[ENTER] key.

■Song Protection

Lock icon
•We recommend that you turn protect on for important songs.
•Even if protect is on, you can still copy the song (
→
p. 171)
and adjust the mixer settings.
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■Optimizing a song

• The deleted undo/redo audio data will be lost forever. Use this
operation with caution.
NOTE
•You may select the current song to be optimized. In this case,
a popup window will ask you whether you want to save the
current song. Move the cursor to the OK button (if you want to
save) or the CANCEL button (if you don’t want to save), and
press the [ENTER] key.
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