Song Management; About Songs - Yamaha AW 1600 Owner's Manual

This chapter explains how to perform song management operations such as
copying, deleting, backing up, and restoring songs.
■ Song Organization
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.
Chapter 13

Song management

About songs

■ Song Bit Depth
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.
Max. Simultaneous
Song Bit Depth
Record Tracks
8
:
16 bits
1
0*
8
:
24 bits
1
0*
* 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.
HINT
• The bit depth of a song can be checked via the SONG screen
LIST page.
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Max. Simultaneous
Play Tracks
8
:
15
16*
0
:
7
8*
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