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Boss BR-8 Owner's Manual (131 pages)

Digital recording studio

Brand: Boss | Category: Recording Equipment | Size: 44.25 MB

Safety
2
Contents
4
Introduction
9
Main Features
9
Important Notes
12
Power Supply
12
Placement
12
Additional Precautions
12
Before Using Zip Disks
13
Handling Zip Disks
13
Handling the Zip Disk Drive
13
Front Panel
14
Display
18
Rear Panel
19
Listening to the Demo Songs
21
Connecting External Devices
21
Turning on the Power
22
Listening the Demo Songs
23
Selecting a Song - Song Select
23
Play Back the Song
24
Moving the Current Location
24
About the Current Time Location Indication
24
To the Beginning of the Performance
24
Removing the Demo Disk
25
Selecting Variations of the Song
25
Switching Scenes
25
By Measure/Beat
25
Turning off the Power
26
If a Disk Is Inserted
26
Recording/Playing a Performance
27
Turn on the Power
27
Prepare a Disk
27
Inserting the Disk
27
Selecting the Song to Record
28
Creating a New Song - Song New
28
What Is the Data Type?
28
Connecting Your Instruments
29
Selecting the Jack for Connections
29
Recording Time
29
Press the Input Select Button for the Instrument You will Record
30
Adjusting the Input Sensitivity
30
Listening to the Sound
30
Using Effects - Insert Effects
31
Switching Patches
31
Turning the Effect On/Off
31
What Is Patch?
31
Using the Rhythm Guide
32
Sounding the Rhythm Guide
32
Changing the Time Signature
32
Switching the Rhythm Pattern
32
Recording
33
Selecting the Track to Record
33
If Input Select Guitar/Bass, Mic2 or Mic1 Is Lit
33
If Input Select Line or Simul Is Lit
34
Playing Back a Recorded Performance
35
Listening to a Recorded Performance While Recording Another One
35
Playing Back
35
Silensing the Sound of Specific Tracks - Mute
35
Completing the Song - Mixdown
36
Adjusting the Left/Right Location of the Sound
36
Adjusting the Tone - Equalizer
36
Adjusting Spaciousness to the Sound - Loop Effects
36
Removing the Disk
37
Mixdown
37
Advanced Use
38
Adjusting the Pan of the Input Sound
38
Playing Back Repeatedly - the Repeat Function
39
What Is the Repeat Function?
39
Re-Recording over a Mistake - Punch-In/Out
40
Manual Punch-In/Out
40
Manual Punch-In/Out Using the Recorder Buttons
40
Auto Punch-In/Out
41
Manual Punch-In/Out Using a Foot Switch
41
Specifying the Area to be Recorded
41
Repeatedly Recording the same Area - Loop Recording
43
Specifying the Area to be Repeated
43
Recording Procedure
43
Using V-Tracks
44
Switching V-Tracks
44
Naming a Track
45
Combining Track Performances on a Separate Track - Bouncing
46
What Is Bouncing?
46
Registering a Marker in Your Song - the Marker Function
47
Registering a Marker
47
Clearing a Marker
47
Moving to the Location of a Marker
47
Editing a Marker
48
Changing the Location of a Marker
48
Naming a Marker
48
Registering/Recalling the Current Mixer Settings - Scenes
49
Registering/Recalling/Deleting Scenes
49
Recalling a Scene Without Changing the Track Volumes
49
Editing a Performance Recorded - Track Editing
50
Copying a Performance - Track Copy
50
Moving Performance Data - Track Move
52
Exchanging Performances - Track Exchange
54
Inserting a Blank into a Performance - Track Insert
55
Cutting out Part of a Performance - Track Cut
56
Erasing Performance Data - Track Erase
57
Undoing a Recording or Editing Operation
58
Canceling a Recording or Editing Operation - Undo
58
Canceling Undo - Redo
58
Handling Recorded Songs
59
Copying a Song - Song Copy
59
If the Display Indicates "Disk Full"
59
Erasing a Song - Song Erase
60
Conserving Disk Space - Song Optimize
60
What Is Song Optimize?
60
Protecting a Song - Song Protect
61
Canceling Song Protect
61
Naming a Song - Song Name
62
Saving a Song - Song Store
62
Exchanging Data with Thr Roland VS Series - Song Convert
63
Exchanging Data with the VS-880
63
Exchanging Data with the VS-840
64
Using BR-8 Song Data on the VS-Series
65
Initializing a Disk - Disk Initialize
66
Duplicating a Disk - Disk Copy
67
Stopping Automatically - Marker Stop
68
Creating a Master Tape Thet Prohibits Digital Copying
69
What Is SCMS?
69
Setting Th Tempo
70
Creating a Tempo Map
70
What Is the Tempo Map?
70
Using the Tempo Map to Control the Rhythm Guide
71
Adding an Offset to the Tempo Map
71
Synchronizing the BR-8 with Another MIDI Device
72
Basic MIDI Concepts
72
Sounding the Rhythm Guide on an External MIDI Sound Module
72
MIDI Connectors
72
Synchronizing a MIDI Sequencer with the BR-8
73
Synchronizing Playback to the BR-8
73
Sync Generator
74
Types of MTC
74
About Non-Drop Format and Drop Format
74
Using MMC
75
Operating an MMC-Compatible Device from the BR-8
75
Switching the Display of the Time Field
75
Time Display
75
Displaying Song-Relayted Information
77
Finding the Location Where a Sound Begins/End
78
Using Scrub and Preview to Find the End of a Sound
78
What Is Scrub?
78
Whst Is Preview?
78
Changing the Scrub Point
79
Enabling the Preview Function
79
Using Scrub and Preview
79
Initializing the Settings of the BR-8 - Initialize
80
Switching the Level Meter Screen - Pre/Post Fader
82
Tuning an Instrument - Tuner
83
Selecting the Tuner
83
About the Display While Tuning
83
Tuning Procedure
84
Setting the Reference Pitch of the Tuner
84
Practicing Along with a Difficult Song
85
Slowing down the Speed
85
Canceling the Center Sound
85
What Is the Phrase Trainer?
85
Using the Insert Effect
86
About Patches and Banks
86
Modifying the Insert Effect Settings
87
Saving Insert Effect Settings
88
Copying a Patch
88
Changing the Insert Effect Connections
89
Using Loop Effects
90
Modifying the Loop Effect Settings
90
Chorus/Delay/Doubling
90
Reverb
91
Mixer Effect Parameter Functions
92
Loop Effect
92
Insert Effect Algorithm List
94
Bank: Guitar/Bass
94
Bank:MIC
96
Bank:line
96
Bank: Simul
97
Insert Effect Parameter Functions
98
Acoustic Guitar Simulator
98
Acoustic Processor
98
Bass Simulator
98
Chorus
99
Compressor
99
De-Esser
99
Defretter
99
Delay
100
Doubling
100
Enhancer
100
Equalizer
100
Flanger
101
Foot Volume
101
Lo-Fi Box
101
Noise Suppressor
102
Octave
103
Phaser
103
Pitch Shifter
103
Preamp
104
Ring Modulator
105
Slow Attack
105
Speaker Simulator
105
Tremolo/Pan
106
Voice Transformer
107
Wah
107
Troubleshooting
108
Error Message List
110
Parameter List
112
MIDI Implementation
116
Transmitter Data
116
MIDI Machine Control
117
MIDI Implementation Chart
120
Specifications
121
Index
123
Effect Patch List
127
Rhythm Pattern List
128

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