#Yamaha disk recorder quick disk serial#
#Yamaha disk recorder quick disk manual#
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I loaded Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, pressed copy, then play, and minutes later a clone of the CD resided on the hard drive. Copying a CD to the hard drive was a piece of cake, and prompts on the front-panel display guided me through it.

#Yamaha disk recorder quick disk manual#

I spent some time reading the voluminous owner's manual but soon tossed it aside, eager to start ripping. Since only one copy of the data is left at the end of the procedure, in the eyes of the 'copyright police' it has merely been 'moved,' not copied. To get around this, Yamaha provides a Digital Move feature, which digitally copies data from the hard drive to a disc (even if it was previously copied digitally from a source), and then erases the copy left on the drive. Having a hard-disk drive complicates things, because if you copy a CD to the drive, SCMS prohibits you from digitally copying that to a CD - a bummer if you want to put together a compilation on the drive and then burn it to a disc. You can, however, digitally copy from an original source (a first-generation copy).

#Yamaha disk recorder quick disk serial#

However, it's all converted to the CD-standard 44.1-kHz, 16-bit format, and the digital output is also the same format.Īs you might expect, the recorder complies with the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) - in a nutshell, you cannot make a second-generation digital recording. The recorder accepts digital audio data with sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz.

#Yamaha disk recorder quick disk Pc#

(Blank discs are rated for various recording speeds, so not all discs can run that fast.) Of course, being a home-recording component, the recorder works only with 'consumer use' blank discs - 'data' CDs that you'd use in your PC or Mac won't work.

Finally, there's a headphone jack with level control.When you're ready to start collecting music, you can copy a CD to the hard drive at up to 10x speed or from the hard drive to a CD-R at up to 8x speed and to a CD-RW at up to 4x speed.

for Audio Master Quality Recording - engages a special recording mode that increases the rate of data transfer from the hard drive to a CD-R, which is said to improve sound quality.

A Finalize button writes the Table of Contents on completed write-once CD-R or rewritable CD-RW discs (so you can play them in most late-model CD players), and an Erase button can wipe out individual tracks or the entire contents of CD-RWs or entire albums on the hard drive. There are buttons for selecting optical or coaxial digital or analog input and a knob to adjust the analog recording level. A multifunction jog wheel selects various menu options, adjusts the digital recording level, and so on. The CDR, HDD, Copy, and Rec buttons let you play or record from either a CD or the hard drive. The front panel has Yamaha's traditional black face, yellow readout, and a somewhat sparse control set. PRICE $799 MANUFACTURER Yamaha Electronics USA, Dept. OUTPUTS coaxial and optical digital audio analog stereoĭIMENSIONS 17 1/8 inches wide, 4 1/2 inches high, 16 3/8 inches deep INPUTS coaxial and optical digital audio analog stereo

Facilties for album editing on hard-disk drive.

Digital Move for data transfers from hard-disk drive to CD-R.

High-speed digital audio copying to/from internal 80-gigabyte hard-disk drive.