Roland BR-900CD Manual

Notice and apology regarding the possibility of
data loss, and explanation of recovery method
It has been found that in BR-900CD Version 2 while using the
included 1 GB memory card, the "Drive Busy!" indication is
sometimes followed by a "Card Read Error!" indication, at
which time the system can no longer be used normally.
If this occurs, it is possible that the track data being recorded
at the time that "Drive Busy!" occurs may have been
corrupted.
This data corruption is only for that single track, but since an
error has occurred, subsequent playback and recording will
not be possible.
However, it is possible to recover the uncorrupted track data.
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. In order to
restore your song data to a usable condition, please follow
the procedure given below to back up the uncorrupted
tracks, and then reconstruct your song data.
Unfortunately, the data of the track that was being recorded
when "Drive Busy!" appeared cannot be recovered.

Overview of the procedure

Broadly speaking, you'll need to back up and then restore
your data in the following order.
Back up the effect settings and
1
rhythm settings

Back up the uncorrupted audio tracks

2
from within the corrupted song
3
Erase The Corrupted Song data
4

Create a new empty song

Import the backed-up audio tracks
5
into the empty song
Restore the effect settings and
6
rhythm settings into the song
BR-900CD

Detailed procedure

Back up the effect settings
1
and rhythm settings.
1. Connect your computer and the BR-900CD with a USB
cable, then turn the power on.
2. Confirm that the recorder is stopped, then press BR-
900CD's [UTILITY].
3. Select "SEL," then press BR-900CD's [ENTER/YES].
UTIL SONG SELECT
[SEL] [NEW] [IN„
4. Select the corrupted song and press BR-900CD's
[ENTER/YES].
5. Press BR-900CD's [UTILITY].
6. Select BR-900CD's "USB," then press [ENTER/YES].
UTIL
‚T] [TRK] [USB]„
7. Select BR-900CD's "BACKUP," then press [ENTER/YES].
USB STORAGE
Type:BACKUP
The BR-900CD and your computer will be connected via
USB.
8. From your computer, open the ROLAND\BR0 folder
within the BR-900CD.
9. Use a text editor such as WordPad in Windows or
TextEdit in Mac OS X to open DISKINF2.BR0.
10. Note the last number (four digits) of the line that is
displayed.
Ex.)
BOSS BR0 Format DISKINFO Ver2.00BR-900
11. From your computer, open the SONG????.BR0 folder
whose name ends with the number you noted.
12. From the folder you opened, copy the following files to
your computer.
• ARRANGE2.BR0
• DRUMKIT.BR0
• EFFECTS2.BR0
• EFFECTS3.BR0 (*1)
• PATTERN.BR0
• PITCHMAP.BR0
• SONGINF2.BR0
• SOUND???.BR0 (*2)
USB
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