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Topic: Yamaha AW1600 Question: Saving "Sound Clips"? |
Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 1:18 pm |
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Hi to all the AW1600 users, Greg and others:
I just got my AW1600 a few days ago and I'm working with it when I have time.
I am very happy with it and impressed with the logical and versatile system and the overall build and sound quality. It seems like a very cool and fun machine!
The sample pad section is pretty neat, and I can see this is a good composition tool, and makes the AW1600 close to being a cool performance tool.
The one thing that I've been trying to see if it will do is to save the little on-the-fly "sound clips" it allows you to record. These are the little bits of recording that you can use as a sketch pad rather than going through the process of saving them as an audio track in a "song". It seems that with all the versatility of moving audio around between tracks and virtual tracks, and assigning audio to sample pads, etc., you would be able to do the same sort of saving and assigning with audio that is recorded as a "sound clip" (such as archiving sound clips to be inserted into tracks or triggered with the sample pads), but I have not been able to do figure out how to do this, not does the well written manual make any reference to it. So, can you who are more experienced with the AW1600 tell me if it is possible to move around, save, or archive "sound clips" for later use and incorporation into "songs"?
Thank you very much for taking the time to help,
best wishes and Happy Valentine's Day!
Cliff |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 2:59 pm
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Cliff, I used the Sound Clip function a few times when I got my AW-1600 and of course I now have gone to the AW-2400 which also has the same Sound Clip function. This function only appears to have the ability to take an input into the recorder and play it back with no EQ, Dynamics or Export function.
What I starting doing instead, is just recording my clip to one of the song tracks. In fact you can fit 12 such clips into a song using all the tracks. Then save the song and you can use any of the song's tracks later in another song by importing the tracks.
You can mix each one of the song tracks onto a stereo track, one at a time, and create 12 separate wav file clips. Or you could just export the 12 tracks to your computer over the USB bus, and convert them to mp3 or wma files for posting.
Using individual tracks for sound clips actually gives you more tracks and more record time than the very limited Sound Clip function which I believe is limited to 120 seconds and no EQ, dynamics or effects.
Hope this makes sense!
Greg
Last edited by Greg Cutshaw on 14 Feb 2009 4:33 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Cliff Kane
From:
the late great golden state
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Posted 14 Feb 2009 3:02 pm
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Thanks, Greg. That makes total sense. I understand your process with using tracks instead. Good idea. I guess I was right about the "sound clip" function. Cool machine!
Thanks,
Cliff |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 16 Feb 2009 3:35 am
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Cliff , try this forum.
http://forum.dijonstock.com/
Also search YouTube for a tutorial or discussion on the subject. You never know. I am learning Sonar and there are countless tutorials on YouTube, so far I am batting 1000 !
I do like what Greg states as well, I have never used the sound clip function but Greg's process makes very good sense. I'm now on Sonar , the biggest advantage is that the display is huge ! ( 21" )
tony |
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