Roland CDX-1 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Editing a recorded performance to create an audio CD
Editing a recorded performance to
create an audio CD
Mixing down
After listening to repeated playbacks and adjusting the pan, equalizer, loop effects,
and volume balance settings of each audio track to the desired settings, you are
ready to mixdown.
1. Press AUDIO TRACK RECORD [MIX DOWN].
[MIX DOWN] will light, and you will be in mixdown-ready mode.
* If the pad/sequence contained in the CDX-1’s internal memory, a message of “Save PAD/SEQ
Data?” appears, [MIX DOWN] will blink.
If you wish to save the pad/sequence on a CD-RW disc, press [YES/ENTER]. [MIX DOWN] will
light.
If you press [NO/EXIT], a message of “You’ll lose PAD/SEQ data. Go to MIXDOWN MODE?”
appears. If you wish to go mixdown mode, press [YES/ENTER]. If you wish to cancel, press
[NO/EXIT].
2. For audio tracks that you wish to include in the mixdown, press [STATUS] to
make the button light in green.
* Make sure that master track [STATUS] light in red.
3. Press ZERO [ ] to return the SONG POSITION to “00:00:00-00” (beginning of
the song).
Alternatively, you can move to a desired location so that recording will start from
that point.
4. Press PLAY [ ].
Mixdown will begin.
5. When mixdown is finished, press STOP [ ].
The screen will ask “Do you want to burn a CD? “
If you wish to create an audio CD, press [YES/ENTER] and continue with the
procedure “Writing to a CD-R disc” (p. 135).
If you wish to make sure that the result of mixdown, press [NO/EXIT]. For detail
refer to “Listen to the result of Mixing down”, below.
Listen to the result of Mixing down
1. When the “BURNING CD?” message appears in step 5 of the above procedure,
press [NO/EXIT].
2. Press master track [STATUS] to make the button light in green.
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The mastering track screen appears.
3. Press PLAY [ ] to the beginning of the mastering track.
The song will play back. Adjust the settings of the mastering tools as necessary.
( “Adjusting the mastering tools”; p. 134)
4. When you are finished with test-listening, press STOP [ ].
5. If you wish to write to the CD-R disc, press [CD BURNING] and continue with
the procedure “Writing to a CD-R disc” (p. 135).
Once you carry out mixdown,
pad/sequence held in internal
memory of CDX-1 will be lost.
You cannot listen the song in
CD burning mode.
If you wish to cancel
MIXDOWN MODE
([MIX DONW] is lit), press
[MIX DONW] once again.
If you press PLAY [ ] to
play back the master track
form top each time.
If you wish to redo mixing
down, press master track
[STATUS] to make the button
b
link in red. Return to step 2 of
“Mixing down,” above.