Yamaha AW 1600 Something wrong with the sound, Recorder operations

Troubleshooting

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AW1600 Owner’s Manual

Appendix

■Noise is present in the recorded signal

• The oscillator may be functioning.

• Does the word clock setting match for the AW1600 and

the external device(s)?

• Go to the RECORD screen in the Quick Navigate section

and check the recording-source and recording-destination.

■Can’t select a record track

• The number of 24-bit song tracks that can be recorded or

played simultaneously is limited.

■Signal from the INPUT 8 jack is too loud

•A conventional line-level signal may be connected to the

Hi-Z jack.

■Sound is distorted

• Is the [GAIN] knob set correctly?

• The connection cable from the external device may be

broken.

•The fader of the input channel or monitor channel may be

raised excessively.

•The stereo output channel fader may be raised excessively.

• The stereo output channel attenuator may be raised exces-

sively.

• The EQ or dynamics processor may have been set to pro-

duce an extreme gain boost.

• Did you record at an appropriate level?

→Go to the VIEW screen METER page and check the level

(meter movement).

•Is the word clock setting correct for both the AW1600 and

the external device(s)?

• An effect such as Distortion or Amp Simulate may be in

use.

■The volume of a particular channel

increases or decreases

• Are the dynamics processor settings appropriate?

•A scene recall may be speciﬁed in the SONG screen

TEMPO page.

■Can’t store a scene

• The store-destination scene may be protected.

•A scene cannot be stored in scene number 00.

■Can’t reproduce a scene

• One or more channels may be set to Recall Safe.

■Can’t save to a library

• It is not possible to save to the factory-preset libraries.

■Meters move even though the faders are

lowered

• The meter display may be set to PRE FADER.

■Moving a fader does not change the level

• In the VIEW screen FADER page, check whether the dis-

play moves in correspondence with fader operations.

→You cannot control the level until the panel fader position

matches the position shown in the display.

• In the UTILITY screen PREFER page, is FADER FLIP

set appropriately?

→When the power is turned on, FADER FLIP will be set to

TRACK.

• The fader may be set to PRE FADE in AUX.

■Pairing was speciﬁed, but the signal is mon-

aural

• Is the odd-numbered channel panned far left and the even-

numbered channel panned far right?

■Pairing was speciﬁed, but the signal phase

does not match

•Even when channels are paired, the phase setting is not

linked.

■Signal is delayed

• An effect such as delay may be inserted.

■Can’t use the internal effects

•Effect BYPASS may be turned ON.

•The effect may have been inserted into a different channel.

• Are the level of EFF.RTN 1, 2 faders raised?

• 019. HQ. Pitch can be used only with EFFECT 2.

• These do not affect the stereo track, sound clip, or audio

CD playback.

■Playback pitch is wrong

•VARI PITCH may be adjusted.

•Is the synchronized external device operating on the same

sampling frequency (44.1 kHz)?

• Is the master device operating in a stable way?

•You may have executed the EDIT screen PITCH com-

mand.

• Is an effect such as HQ.Pitch or Dual Pitch selected for a

monitor channel?

■A small amount of noise is produced when a

song is played back on a different AW1600

unit

•A small amount of noise may be heard at the beginnings

and ends of audio regions when a song created on an

AW1600 unit with Version 1.1 ﬁrmware is played back on

an AW1600 with Version 1.0 ﬁrmware. Please update all

AW1600 units you are using to the latest ﬁrmware ver-

sion. Information on the latest ﬁrmware version as well as

update procedure can be found at the internet address

below.

http://www.yamahasynth.com/

■When you press the [PLAY] key it blinks,

and playback does not occur

• Is the AW1600 set to MTC SLAVE?

→Access the UTILITY screen MIDI 2 page, and check the set-

ting.

■Something goes wrong with the sound

when you use the [FF] key or [REW] key

•Differences in the number of simultaneously played tracks

will affect the way in which the sound is heard when these

controls are operated.

■Can’t edit a recorded track

• The song may be protected.

•Have you selected the virtual track that you recorded?

Something wrong with the soundRecorder operations