Document Outline

• Important
  • Read the following before operating the AW4416
  • Handling the CD-R/RW media
  • Storing produced data
  • Responsibility for loss of data, etc.
  • Cautions for handling optional equipment
• Table of contents
• Before you begin
  • Checking the included items
  • Installing an internal hard disk
    • About the internal hard disk
    • Installation
  • Installing a CD-RW drive
    • About the CD-RW drives
    • Installation procedure
  • Removing the transport protection pad
    • How to remove the transport protection pad
    • Manual eject (emergency disc removal)
  • Attaching an external SCSI device
    • About external SCSI devices
    • Connection procedure
  • Installing I/O cards
    • About I/O cards
    • Installation procedure
• Important points you must observe
  • Turning the power on or off
  • Setting the internal clock
  • Transporting the AW4416
  • Vibration during use
• 1 Welcome to the world of the AW4416
  • Features of the AW4416
  • Signal flow within the AW4416
    • Input patch
    • Input channels 1–24
    • Return channels 1/2
    • Recorder input patching
    • Monitor channels 1–16
    • Digital cascade connections
    • Oscillator
    • Stereo output channel
    • Buses 1–8
    • AUX buses 1–8
    • Output patch
    • Internal effects 1/2
    • Monitor output/headphone output
• 2 Parts and their functions
  • Top panel
    • Analog input/output section
    • WORK NAVIGATE section
    • UNIT section
    • MIXER section
    • FADER MODE section
    • MIXING LAYER section
    • [SEL] keys, [ON] keys, faders
    • Display section
    • Level meter/counter section
    • RECORDER section
    • AUTOMATION section
    • SCENE MEMORY section
    • CURSOR/JOG & SHUTTLE section
    • Locate section
    • Transport section
    • SAMPLING PAD section
  • Rear panel
  • Front panel
• 3 The user interface of the AW4416
  • Display
  • Level meters/counter
  • Basic operation of the AW4416
    • Accessing a screen/page
    • Turning a button on/off
    • Editing the value of a fader/knob/numerical box
    • Using the additional function buttons
    • Inputting text
    • Selecting channels
• 4 Connections and setup
  • Connections
  • Word clock settings
• 5 Recording on the AW4416
  • Preparations for recording
    • Connections and start-up
    • Creating a new song
  • Recording the first tracks
    • Set the input level
    • Assign the signals to buses
    • Set the tracks to record-ready mode
    • Make monitor settings
    • Let’s record!
  • Overdubbing
    • Set the input level
    • Assign the signal to a bus
    • Put the track in record-ready mode
    • Make monitor settings
    • Using EQ and the dynamics processor
    • Let’s overdub!
  • Mixdown
    • Creating the mix balance of the tracks
    • Using the Solo function
    • Using the internal effects
  • Other convenient functions
    • Recording the stereo track
  • Saving a scene/song
• 6 Transport/locate operations
  • Table of transport key operations
  • Shuttle function (cue/review operation)
  • Nudge function
  • Rollback function
  • Locating to a specific point
  • Locating to the zero location of the counter
  • Locating to the start/end points
  • A-B repeat
  • In/out points
  • Markers
  • Adjusting the location of a locate point
  • Deleting a locate point
  • Deleting a locate point using the panel keys
• 7 Punch-in/out
  • About punch-in/out
  • Manual punch-in/out
    • Preparations
    • Manual punch-in/out recording
  • Auto punch-in/out
    • Preparations
    • Rehearsing and recording with auto punch- in/out
• 8 Patching
  • Patching to the input channels
  • Patching to the recorder inputs
  • Patching to the outputs
  • Patch library
  • Patching input/output jacks to an insert I/O point
  • Using the Quick Rec function
• 9 Track and virtual track operations
  • The track structure of the AW4416
  • Switching virtual tracks
  • Pairing tracks
  • Editing tracks and virtual tracks
    • Tracks, parts, and regions
    • Naming a virtual track or region
    • Track editing procedure
    • Virtual track editing procedure
  • Editing command list
    • TRACK menu
    • PART menu
    • REGION menu
• 10 Internal effects
  • About the internal effects
  • Using AUX send/return to apply an effect
  • Inserting an effect into a desired channel
• 11 Song management
  • About songs
  • Song structure and size
    • Song structure
    • Usable hard disks/song capacity
    • Work area for audio CD production
  • Saving/loading a song
  • Editing the song name/comment
  • Deleting/copying a song
    • Optimizing a song
  • Importing mixer data of an existing song
• 12 Sampling pads
  • About the sampling pads
  • Assigning the pad outputs to channels
  • Assigning a region to a sampling pad
  • Trimming a sample
  • Naming a pad
  • Erasing a pad sample and name
  • Recording your performance on the sampling pads
  • Copying a pad performance
  • Erasing a pad performance
• 13 Scene memory
  • About scene memory
  • Storing a scene
  • Recalling a scene
  • Editing the name of a scene
  • Protecting a scene
  • Changing the order of scenes
  • Using keys to store/recall a scene
    • Storing a scene
    • Recalling a scene
• 14 Automix
  • What is automix?
  • Creating a new automix
  • Recording the first section
  • Playing back automix
  • Overwriting events
  • Automix punch-in/out
  • Editing the fader movements
  • Editing automix off-line
  • Storing an automix
  • Recalling an automix
• 15 MIDI
  • What you can do using MIDI
  • MIDI connectors and the TO HOST connector
  • Using the TO HOST connector for direct connection to your computer
    • Connections
    • Setting the PORT SELECT parameter
  • Switching AW4416 scenes from an external device
  • Using MTC to synchronize the AW4416 and a MIDI sequencer
  • Using MIDI Clock to synchronize the AW4416 and a MIDI sequencer
  • Using MMC to control the AW4416
• 16 Backing up and restoring songs
  • Selecting the backup format
  • Backing up a song
  • Restoring a song
  • Disk utilities
    • Formatting the internal hard disk/external SCSI device
    • Erasing CD-RW media
• 17 Mastering
  • About mastering
    • Stereo tracks that can be mastered
    • CD-R and CD-RW
    • Track At Once and Disc At Once
    • Preparations for mastering
  • Writing the master
  • Finalizing
  • Playing CD-R/RW media (the CD Play function)