Creating an Audio CD on the D1600

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.

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