Yamaha AW 1600 Track editing

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AW1600 Owner’s Manual

Track editing

Chapter 12

Track editing

This chapter explains how you can edit the audio data recorded in an audio

track, and how to edit the pad events recorded in a pad track.

The AW1600 provides various editing commands for editing the recorded audio tracks and pad

tracks. Editing commands are functions that let you specify a track or region, and delete or move

the data of that track or region.

The AW1600 provides the following editing commands.

●ERASE

Erases the data of the speciﬁed region.

●DELETE

Deletes the data of the speciﬁed region. Any data that fol-

lows the deleted region will be moved forward by the cor-

responding distance.

●INSERT

Inserts blank space into the speciﬁed region.

●COPY

Copies the data from the speciﬁed region to the desired

location of the desired track.

●MOVE

Moves the data from the speciﬁed region to the desired

location of the desired track. The move-source data will be

erased.

●EXCHANGE

Exchanges data between the speciﬁed tracks.

● TIME COMP/EXP (Time Compression/Expansion)

Adjusts the length of the speciﬁed region of an audio track

without affecting its pitch.

●PITCH CHANGE

Adjusts the pitch of the speciﬁed region of an audio track

without affecting its length.

●EXPORT

Writes the speciﬁed region of an audio track to a WAV

ﬁle.

Here are some ways in which you can use these editing

commands.

1Erase unwanted regions

You can use the ERASE command to erase just a speciﬁc

region of a speciﬁc track. For example, this provides a

convenient way to erase a few wrong notes from a perfor-

mance, or to eliminate noise that occurred while an instru-

ment was not playing.

BChange the structure of the tracks

You can use the EXCHANGE command to exchange an

entire track with another track. By using this command

you can bring tracks of widely separated track numbers

closer to each other for easier operation during mixdown.

You can use the COPY or MOVE commands to copy/

move the speciﬁed region of a track to a different track.

This is convenient when you have recorded a solo part

among two or more virtual tracks, and want to assemble

the best parts into a single track.

CChange the structure of the song

You can use the DELETE or COPY commands to delete/

copy entire tracks, changing the structure of the song

itself. Even after all parts of the song have been recorded,

you can use this method to adjust the length of the song,

for example by shortening the number of measures or

increasing the number of choruses.

DCreate special effects

You can also use editing commands to create special

effects. For example, you can copy a guitar or vocal solo

part to another track and use the PITCH CHANGE com-

mand to slightly detune one of these tracks, creating a

chorus effect without using the internal effect processor.

By applying the PITCH CHANGE command to a drum

track to lower the pitch, you can create a unique lo-ﬁ

effect.

What you can do using editing commands

• The EXCHANGE, TIME COMP/EXP, PITCH CHANGE, and

EXPORT commands can only be used on audio tracks. The

remaining commands can be used on either audio tracks or pad

tracks.

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