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Using the internal hard disk/external storage devices
11
Operation section
Writing a track to a WAV file
(Exporting a WAV file)
The audio data of a desired track/virtual track can be
converted into a WAV file and written to a storage
device such as a CD-RW drive or MO drive. This func-
tion is convenient when you want to use a waveform
editing program on your computer to edit audio data
that was recorded on the AW2816.
To write track data as a WAV file, use the “EXPORT”
audio data editing command that was explained in
chapter 7. You can select a Track, Part, or Region as
the area of data to be written. (For more information
about tracks, parts, and regions, refer to page 108.) As
the range of tracks to be written, you can select a spe-
cific track, all tracks 1–16, or the stereo track. When
writing the data of a Part area, the specified part of
either the specified track or of all tracks will be writ-
ten.
Cautions when writing to a WAV
file
• Before you can write WAV files to an external
hard disk or MO drive, you must format that
drive/media in “FAT16” format (→P.160). WAV
files cannot be written to a 640 MB or 1.3 GB
MO disk, or to a drive/media that has been for-
matted in FAT32 format.
• If a single specified track is written, one monau-
ral WAV file will be created. If all tracks are writ-
ten, a separate monaural WAV file will be
created for each track. A stereo WAV file will be
created for paired tracks and for the stereo track.
• When writing WAV files to a CD-RW drive, only
one file can be written to each volume of CD-R/
RW media. For this reason, it is not possible to
add new WAV files to media on which a WAV
file has already been recorded, or to write multi-
ple tracks simultaneously.
• It is not possible to write a WAV file whose size
exceeds the free capacity of the media. The fol-
lowing table shows the capacity that is needed to
write WAV files for one minute of audio data.
* All times shown are approximate.
* A stereo WAV file will occupy the space of two tracks.
• Execution of the WAV file export operation
requires a longer time than the actual time of the
WAV file. It is not possible to halt the operation
while it is taking place.
• Even when writing a WAV file for the same time
area, writing in Region units will require less
time than writing a Track unit or Part unit.
Checking the free space on the
internal hard disk
In order to write a WAV file to an external storage
device, the internal hard disk must have as much or
more free space as the WAV file that will be written.
For example in order to write a WAV file for a five-
minute stereo track, there must be enough free space
to allow five minutes or more recording on two tracks
of the current song.
You can use the following procedure to check the free
space on the internal hard disk.
1
Use the REC TRACK SELECT [1]–[16] keys
to select record-ready mode for the same
number of tracks as the WAV file(s) that
you want to write.
If you want to write a WAV file for the stereo
track, as in the example above, press the REC
TRACK SELECT [1]/[2] keys.
2
Press the [METER] key → [F2] key to display
the METER screen/Meter 2 page.
The REMAIN area in the upper left of the display
will indicate the remaining time (hours: minutes)
that can be recorded on the record-ready tracks.
If you want to write a five-minute WAV file, as in
the example above, make sure that there is at
least five minutes of time remaining.
Tip!
If there is not enough free area, you can try executing
the Song Optimize operation to delete unused audio
data. If there is still not enough free area, back up the
song, delete unneeded virtual tracks (i.e., virtual
tracks that are not currently assigned to tracks), and
then execute the Song Optimize operation. For more
information about the Song Optimize operation, refer
to “Chapter 10. Managing songs.”
Quantiza-
tion bits
Sampling
frequency
Per track
Per 16
tracks
16 bit 44.1 kHz 5.2 MB 83 MB
16 bit 48 kHz 5.6 MB 90 MB
24 bit 44.1 kHz 7.8 MB 124 MB
24 bit 48 kHz 8.5 MB 135 MB