Sony MXD-D400 Manual

How to use this manual........................... 4
Playable discs.......................................... 4

Unpacking ............................................... 7
Hooking up.............................................. 7

Loading a CD .......................................... 9
Playing a CD ........................................... 9

— Normal Play/Shuffle Play/Search Play

Playing an MP3 file .............................. 10

— Normal Play/Shuffle Play/Search Play

Loading an MD ..................................... 11
Playing an MD ...................................... 12

— Normal Play/Shuffle Play

Locating a specific track ....................... 13

—AMS Function

Playing repeatedly................................. 14

— Repeat Play

Creating your own program .................. 14

— Program Play

Playing only the tracks in the desired 

group ............................................... 15

Falling asleep to music.......................... 16

— Sleep Timer

Changing the pitch of the MD .............. 17

— Pitch Control Function

Using the display................................... 18

Before you start recording .................... 19
Recording a CD on an MD ................... 20

— CD-MD Synchro Recording/High-
Speed CD-MD Synchro Recording

Recording on an MD manually............. 21

— Manual Recording

Starting recording with 6 seconds of 

prestored audio data........................ 22
— Time Machine Recording

Marking track numbers ......................... 23
Making a space between tracks 3 seconds 

long automatically .......................... 24
— Smart Space

Adjusting the recording level ............... 25

— Music Synchro-Recording

Recording the current CD track............ 27

— REC-IT Function

Synchro-Recording with an external audio 

equipment ....................................... 27

Fading in and out .................................. 28

Recording tips....................................... 29

Editing tips............................................ 30
Registering tracks in groups ................. 31

— Group Function

Labeling an MD/group/track ................ 32

— Name Function

Creating a new group............................ 34

— Create Function

Releasing group registrations ............... 35

— Release Function

Erasing recordings ................................ 36

— Erase Function

Moving recorded tracks ........................ 38

— Move Function

Combining recorded tracks................... 39

— Combine Function

Dividing recorded tracks ...................... 40

— Divide Function

Undoing the last edit............................. 41

— Undo Function

Changing the recorded level after recording 41

— S.F Edit Function

Problems and remedies ......................... 43
Self-diagnosis display........................... 44
Messages............................................... 45

Precautions............................................ 46
System limitations of MDs ................... 47
Specifications........................................ 48
List of button locations and reference 

pages............................................... 49