Chapter10 Managing Songs; About Songs; Song Structure; Song Recording Time - Yamaha AW2816 Owner's Manual

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What is a song?
On the AW2816, musical productions you create are
saved on the internal hard disk in units called "songs."
A song that you saved can be loaded into internal
memory at any time to reproduce the state that was
saved.
A maximum of 30,000 songs can be saved on the
internal hard disk, if capacity allows. However, only
the song that is currently loaded (the "current song")
can be operated on the AW2816 at any one time.
Tip!
When the AW2816 is powered-on, the most recently
operated song will automatically be loaded as the cur-
rent song.
Songs can be saved only on the current drive. An
external drive can be used to back up song data, but
cannot be used to save/load the current song or
record/playback audio data in the same way as the
internal hard disk.

Song structure

The AW2816 can use a hard disk of up to 64 GB
capacity. However, the capacity that can be used by
an individual song is limited to 6.4 GB. Of this 6.4
GB, approximately 2 MB is reserved as the system
area for storing various non-audio data, and the audio
data is recorded in the remaining area (the data area).
The diagram below shows the song structure on the
hard disk, and the data that is recorded in each area.
• Song
(maximum
6.4 GB per song)
Managing songs
This chapter explains song management operations such as saving,
loading, deleting, or copying songs.
Internal hard disk
(maximum 64 GB/30,000 songs)

About songs

Song recording time

The time that can be recorded in one song (data area
of approximately 6.4 GB) will differ depending on the
quantization (number of bits) and sampling frequency
of the song. The following table shows the recordable
time for each track when a 16-track recording is made
using the default song settings.
Song
16 bit/44.1 kHz
16 bit/48 kHz
24 bit/44.1 kHz
24 bit/48 kHz
Please be aware that the data area of a song also con-
tains audio data (i.e., for Undo) that is not actually
used in an audio track. For example even when you
erase all the audio data after once recording a track,
the erased audio data will remain in the song so that
Undo can be performed if needed, and this will
shorten the available recording time. As necessary,
you can execute the Optimize function ( P.154)
which deletes only the Undo data from the song.
The table shown above does not include the recording
time of the stereo track.
• System area (fixed at approximately 2 MB)
- Settings for each of the TRACK screen pages
- Tempo map settings
- Scene memories including the current scene
- Automix memory including the current automix
- Patch libraries
- EQ libraries
- Dynamics libraries
- Channel libraries
- Effect libraries
- SONG screen/Settings page settings
- Settings for each of the REMOTE screen pages
• Data area
- Audio data for 16 x 8 virtual tracks
- Audio data of the stereo track
- Audio data for undo/redo
Operation section
Maximum recording time
for one track
approximately 1 hour 20 minutes
approximately 1 hour 13 minutes
approximately 53 minutes
approximately 49 minutes
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