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BOSS RC-500 A Guide For Beginners by beginnercbg...
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How Do I Record My First Loop On The Boss RC-500? Choose where you will save it. Decide if you will use a drum beat and set it up. Record the first layer. Overdub your loop: ● Choose an empty memory slot. This will be shown by a number in blue writing on the LCD screen.
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Can I Save A Loop That I Make Beforehand To Use In a Live Gig? You can use the Boss RC-500 to create your own backing tracks for use in a live situation without the pressure of actually setting the loop up live. This can have a drum rhythm included or not.
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With 99 memory slots to choose from, you can have several backups of a loop on your Boss RC-500 as long as you have a computer that you can use to copy the loops across. Using the name function as shown above, you can easily see which loops are the same.
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You will now see this in the top left hand corner of your computer screen: ● To save a loop from your RC-500 to your computer, press EXPORT ( I know, it seems round the wrong way to me too! They are taking it from the looper rather than the computer point of view) ●...
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● I press play to check it's the correct track and then I can save it to my computer as a 16 bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float by pressing Export. I tend to use 24- bit for now. This opens up the following window: By selecting save, I save the loop to my computer as a WAV file in the file given - you will see that because the writing is highlighted in blue, I can change the name here if I want to find it quickly.
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This is found in the WAVE folder of the drive letter which your loop pedal is showing On my PC this is : This PC > BOSS RC 500 (D:) > ROLAND > WAVE ● Open the WAV folder if necessary and find the number of the recorded pattern...
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24. Annoyingly it hasn't taken the name with it but I can change that as shown above. BOSS RC-500: How Do I Save The Drum Pattern To My Loop? By default, the drum machine is separate from the loop recorder.
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OUTPUT settings as shown in the above paragraph "BOSS RC-500: How Do I Save The Drum Pattern To My Loop?" to save the drum pattern to a loop. You don't need to add a guitar or any other instrument to this loop ( although you can if you want) This is ideal for having the drum settings all ready for a live performance at the push of a button.
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