Question Recording to audio CD

[Geoff]

How do we record our Clavinova masterpieces to audio CD?

[Simon Smith]

Hi Geoff

Although ultimately your song needs to be in audio wave format, my recommendation first of all would be to use the Song Creator within the CVP to record your song in Midi Format. That way if you want to at a later date, you can go back and edit your song if a particular note/ instrument or volume needs changing later.

The next stage is record your song in AUDIO format, as your song needs to be in wave format to record to audio CD. One of the easiest ways is to use the USB audio recorder on your CVP. Once you have finished and saved your song using song creator (midi format), simply press the USB button on the panel surrounding the display, choose USB audio recorder to bring up the audio recorder page; then choose record in the ‘display’ followed by the play button in the ‘song creator’ section. Your midi song will play back and will be recorded in audio wave format to your USB stick. Once your song has played all the way through, press stop in the display and your song will automatically saved/named on the USB stick.

The next stage is to take your USB stick to your PC or Mac and drag the file (or files if several songs) across from the USB stick to your computer. You can then use one of many CD burning software packages to instantly create a new audio CD.

Our new CVP400 series tutorial will cover recording in detail (inc. editing). I do apologise for the long delay in product launch. It’s looking now like end Dec / January, much later than I ever hoped.

I hope this info will help you on your way to making an audio CD in the meantime.


Kind regards


Simon

PS - (I have made a couple of assumptions in this post. 1- that you have a USB stick handy and 2 -that your computer has a CD writer drive)

[Geoff]

Success! Thank you, Simon.

I did my Midi saves in two separate sessions - one using piano mode, the other with multi-voices. The audio recording of the latter was better. The solo piano sounded a bit distorted at times, although the Midi save was good. I used the 'Normalising' option on the Nero CD burning program, will experiment to see if this was the cause.

Geoff

[Simon Smith]

That’s great news Geoff!

Re distortion –

If your piano recording sounded distorted on your USB stick audio recording, try lowering volume levels on the CVP before recording to audio on USB stick.

If your original USB audio recording is OK, then it sounds as if external audio optimising may possibly be the cause. Although usually normalising applies gain to increase the amplitude of the audio waveform to a specified maximum DB level without introducing distortion.

A bit of experimenting and I am sure that you will have a very satisfactory CVP masterpiece.

Regards


Simon