Yamaha AW 16G, Owner'S Manual

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Chapter 13
Song management
This chapter explains how to perform song management operations
such as copying, deleting, backing up, and restoring songs.
About songs
On the AW16G, your recorded compositions are man-
aged 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. Each song can occupy a maximum of
6.4 GB. The songs stored on the hard disk consist of a
setup area that stores various settings (fixed at approxi-
mately 4.3 MB) and a data area that stores the audio data
(the size of this will depend on the amount of data that
you recorded.
Note Note
• The data area of a song also includes undo/redo data
that is not used for normal playback. You can use the
Optimize operation to delete this undo/redo data. (
→
p. 141).
• The sound clip audio data area is allocated when you
create a new song. This area is allocated according to
the SOUND CLIP TIME setting in the PREFER page of
the UTILITY screen (
→
p. 162), and cannot be changed
later.
Internal hard disk
(approximately 20 GB maximum)
●
Song
(maximum 6.4 GB for one
song)
●
Setup area (fixed at approximately 4.3 MB)
- Recorder section settings (SONG screen, TRACK screen)
- Mixer section settings (each channel and effect)
- Quick Loop Sampler section settings
- Libraries (except for the sample library)
- REMOTE screen settings
●
Data area
(increases or decreases according to the recorded amount)
- Audio data for 16 x 8 virtual tracks
- Audio data for the stereo track audio data
- Pad track event data
- Undo/redo data
- Sample data for the Quick Loop Sampler
- Sound clip audio data.
●
System area
- UTILITY screen settings
- Sample library
- Data management area