Recording A Loop; Recording Layered Overdubs To Your Loop; Using Quantize For Seamless Loops - DigiTech GeNetX BNX3 User Manual

Recorder
songs already in memory, you must select a new Song to record your loop to. To select a new song, press
the UP footswitch. A new song is defined as a song that has no previously recorded material present on any
of its tracks. Looping uses CD recording quality mode only.
You are now ready to begin recording a loop.

Recording a Loop

Recording a loop is no different than doing multi-track recordings. Here are the steps for creating a loop:
1. Press the RECORD footswitch. The TRACK 1 button automatically lights red, indicating it is armed to
record, and the recorder begins recording on this track. The TIME display begins counting off the
recording time.
2. Just as you reach the end of your take, press the PLAY footswitch. This sets the loop length and
places TRACK 1 into playback. You can listen to what you just recorded, and the TRACK 2 button is
flashing red indicating it is now armed and ready to begin recording on.
NOTE: If the RECORD footswitch is pressed instead of the PLAY footswitch after recording
the first pass, recording is stopped and the loop's length is set. The TRACK 1 button
is still armed for recording (flashing red) but is now playing back what you just
recorded. You can now add material to track 1 rather than record on a new track by
pressing the RECORD footswitch to record on this track again. The new material is
added to existing recorded material. Until the PLAY footswitch is pressed, only
track 1 is available to record on.

Recording Layered Overdubs to your Loop

Adding overdubbed layers to your first loop is easy. After recording your first track and pressing the
PLAY footswitch,TRACK 2 is already armed for recording. To add overdubs to the current loop, follow
these steps:
1. Press the RECORD footswitch. The TRACK 2 button lights solid red and begins recording on this
track.
2.When finished, you can press PLAY to stage the next track for recording or press RECORD to begin
adding your next overdub.
If at anytime you are not satisfied with your current take while recording overdubs with your original
loop, you can undo it by pressing the UNDO footswitch. This erases the contents of a track and lets you
proceed with trying another take without having to stop. To use the UNDO function while recording a
loop, follow these steps:
1. Press the UNDO footswitch once. The BNX3's main display reads
2. Press the UNDO footswitch again within 3 seconds to start re-recording. The display reads
undodone
same track. If the UNDO footswitch is not pressed again within 3 seconds of the first press, the
recorder ignores the undo request and recording continues unaffected.

Using Quantize for Seamless Loops

When recording loops, it is important that you set the loop length exactly so that your loop is seamless
from finish to start. Sometimes our timing may not be perfect when pressing the PLAY footswitch to set
the length. The BNX3 provides a Quantize feature that corrects these timing problems to the nearest
eighth note. Quantize looks at the point where you pressed the PLAY footswitch in relation to the
tempo you are using for your loop. Lets say you were recording a four second loop and you pressed the
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and the recorder returns to the beginning of the song and resumes recording on the
rerecord
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