Yamaha aw1600 Manual De Usuario

AW1600  Owner’s Manual

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Song management

Chapter 13

Song management

This chapter explains how to perform song management operations such as 
copying, deleting, backing up, and restoring songs.

On the AW1600, your recorded compositions are managed 
in units called “songs.” When you save a song on the hard 
disk, the audio data, the sample data used by the quick 
loop sampler, scene memories, and the data for each 
library are all stored together. By loading a saved song, 
you can return it to the original condition at any time.
You can store as many songs on the internal hard disk as 
its capacity allows. Songs stored on hard disk are divided 
into a song file containing all the basic setup information 
for the song, and WAV files containing the audio data.

The AW1600 allows the bit depth of individual songs to be 
set to either 16 or 24 bits. 24-bit songs are capable of pro-
viding higher audio quality than 16-bit songs, but the fol-
lowing limitations on the number of simultaneous record/
playback tracks apply.

* For mixdown the number of simultaneous record tracks is two, and the 

number of simultaneous playback tracks is 16 for 16-bit songs, or 8 for 
24-bit songs.

Only 24-bit audio data can be used in 24-bit songs. 16-bit 
WAV files cannot be imported from a computer or CD-
RW drive. Audio data imported from audio CDs, however, 
will be automatically converted to 24-bit format. In the 
same way, only 16-bit audio data can be used in 16-bit 
songs.

About songs

■ Song Organization

16 bits

8

8

:

:

1

15

0*

16*

24 bits

8

0

:

:

1

7

0*

8*

■ Song Bit Depth