Yamaha AW2400 Backing up songs

Backing up songs

Song management

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AW2400 Owner’s Manual

Here’s how you can back up songs from the internal hard disk to CD-R/RW media.

1Insert CD-R/RW media into the CD-RW

drive.

2Call the SONG screen Backup page by

either pressing the Work Navigate section

[SONG] key as many times as necessary, or

by pressing the [F3] key after pressing the

[SONG] key.

In this page you can back up songs from the internal

hard disk to CD-R/RW media.

This page contains the following items.

1List

This area lists the songs that are saved on the hard

disk. The symbols at the right of the list indicate

whether the song has been selected (●) or disabled

() for backup.

BSORT box

Changes the order of the songs displayed in the song

list. Operation is the same as for the Song List page (→

p. 170).

CALL SET button

Move the cursor to this button and press the [ENTER]

key to select all songs in the list for backup. Pressing

the [F1] key whiled holding the Display section

[SHIFT] key has the same affect as the ALL SET but-

ton.

DALL CLEAR Button

Move the cursor to this button and press the [ENTER]

key to deselect all songs so that they won’t be backed

up. Pressing the [F2] key whiled holding the Display

section [SHIFT] key has the same affect as the ALL

CLEAR button.

EAW2400 button / AW2816 button

Selects the backup format. If the songs are to be

restored on a Yamaha AW-series workstation other

than the AW2400 (AW4416, AW2816, AW1600,

AW16G), select the AW2816 button. This mode only

supports 44.1kHz/16-bit songs, and only one song can

be backed up at a time.

FBACKUP button

Executes backup of the selected song(s). Pressing the

[F4] key whiled holding the Display section [SHIFT]

key has the same affect as the BACKUP button.

3Make sure that the cursor is in the list area,

use the [DATA/JOG] dial to select the song

you want to back up, and then press the

[ENTER] key.

The symbol for the selected song will change to the

(●) symbol, indicating that this song has been selected

for backup. You can repeat this step to select multiple

songs for backup.

If you turn on the ALL SET button, you can select all

data in the list in one step.

Backing up songs

•To backup AW2400 data to a computer, connect the AW2400 to the computer via a USB cable and copy the

song folders directly from the internal AW2400 hard disk to the computer. For detailed operation refer to

“WAV File Transfer (USB Storage Mode)” on page 230.

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