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Q:
Creating an Audio CD on the D1600
A:
You can use mixer settings such as EQ, faders, and
effects to adjust the audio from each recorded track, and combine the result into two tracks to create your own CD or record it on an external two-channel recorder (DAT recorder, MD recorder, cassette recorder etc.) to create a finished song. This process is called mixdown. 1. Creating an audio CD Here’s how you can use a CD-R/RW drive to create an original CD from a song you recorded on the D1600. In order to create an audio CD, you will need the same amount of free space on your hard disk as occupied by the song you created (i.e., the total of the two tracks). For example if you wish to create an audio CD of a five-minute song, you will need sufficient free space for ten minutes of monaural recording. 1 Listen to the completed song. Use the faders and knobs to adjust the volume and pan of each track, and listen to the playback. If you wish to enable the scenes you registered, set the [SCENE] “ReadDel” tab page “Sce-neRead” parameter “On.” 2 Bounce your song to two tracks. As described in “5. Combining multiple tracks into two: Bounce” (p.29), bounce the tracks of the song to tracks 1 and 2. If a song without a region of silence at the beginning (at time zero) is written to CD, the beginning of the sound may be omitted when the CD is played back. In such cases, insert approximately 0.5 seconds of silence into the beginning of the audio data (time zero) when you mix down to tracks 1/2. (p.52, 82 “InsertTrack”) 3 Insert a disc into the internal CD-R/RW drive. If you are using an external drive, refer to “3. Connecting external drives” (p.67). Set the external CD-R/RW drive to SCSI ID 6. 4 Access the [SONG] “CDR/RW” tab page. Make sure that “CD-R/RW Information” indicates either “BlankDisc” or “song number.” 5 Execute the write operation. • Press the “WriteToCD” button. • Select the writing speed. 4X: Write at quadruple speed. 2X: Write at double speed. If you use “4X” to write, you must use a drive 4X speed writing. • A message of “Obey Copyright Rules” will appear. Carefully read the owner’s manual section “COPYRIGHT WARNING” (p.1). If you accept the terms, press the “Yes” button for the “AreYou-Sure?” prompt. Writing to the CD will begin. While the data is being written, you can press the “Abort” button to halt the write operation. However, this will result in an unfinished disc. 6 Complete the process. When the data has been written, the display will indicate “Completed.” Press the “OK” button. You can press the “CD Monitor” button and verify the data that was entered. 7 If you wish to write more songs, repeat steps 2 and 4 –. The additional songs will be written after the last song on the CD-R/RW. 8 Finalize the disc. In order for the CD-R/RW you created to be playable on an audio CD player, you must stop, and then press the “Final” button to finalize the disc. No more songs can be written to a disc that has been finalized. Be sure to write all the desired songs to a disk before you finalize it. 9 Verify the data that was written. Press the button to play back, and check that the data was written correctly. In the case of a disc that has not yet been finalized, a portion of the end of the song may not play back. Some drives may not be able to play back the CD. 10 Play back the disc on an audio CD player to check it. Even when the recommended CD-R/RW media is used, some audio CD players may be unable to play them. Since there are cases in which CD-RW media will not play on an audio CD player, we recommend that you use CD-R media. |