Creating Original Arrangements - Boss BR-600 Owner's Manual

Creating Original Arrangements

With the BR-600, you can arrange patterns in whatever
sequence you like, giving you freedom to compose songs,
from intro to ending, the way you want. You can then save
these arranged patterns as song arrangements.
You can create song arrangements of up to 999 measures.
About Steps
Actually, creating a song arrangement is accomplished
by arranging "steps." A step is the data combining a
pattern number and the measure at which that pattern
is to start.
Example,
Section of Measure Length
Composition
Intro 2 Measures
Melody A 16 Measures
Melody B 8 Measures
Bridge 8 Measures
Ending 2 Measures
When a song is composed using the patterns arranged
as above, the arrangement will then consist of the
following sequence of steps.
Step Starting
Number Pattern
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
In other words, since even lengthy songs are sequences
of these compositional units, or steps, these songs can
be finished with less steps.
With the BR-600, you can arrange sequences of up to 50
steps.
154
Pattern
Pattern P001
↓
Pattern S002
↓
Pattern S003
↓
Pattern S099
↓
Pattern P006
Measure
Number
1 P001: ROCK-1 IN
↓
3 S002: Original A
↓
19 S003: Original B
↓
27 S099: Original C
↓
35 P006: ROCK-1 E
↓
37 P327: BREAK
Now try actually creating an arrangement.
1
Confirm that [PAD] is not lit, then press
[ARRANGE].
[ARRANGE] and [RHYTHM ON/OFF] light.
2
Use CURSOR [ ] [
to select the number for the song arrangement you
want to create.
* If you select a preset pattern here, you will not be able to
perform any further operations on the pattern.
3
Press [RHYTHM EDIT].
fig.04-500
4
Press CURSOR [
"STEP," and press [ENTER].
The Recording Standby screen appears in the display.
fig.04-510
Pattern Number
Step
Starting Measure
Tempo
5
Press CURSOR [
"STEP," then turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the
step to be edited.
You can press [REW] to move to the immediately
preceding step, or press [FF] to move to the next step.
] and the TIME/VALUE dial
] [ ] to move the cursor to
Time Signature
Pattern Name
] [ ] to move the cursor to