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Section 5
Using the CD-R/RW Drive ... 217
Creating Audio CD .................................... 218
Precautions.................................................................218
Setting the time between songs (Pre-Gap) ..........218
Writing Songs to Discs ............................................219
Writing songs individually
(Track At Once) .....................................................219
Writing several songs at once
(Disc At Once By Song) ........................................220
Creating Audio CDs with Audio Tracks
Separated by Markers (Disc At Once by Marker) .........222
Playing Back Audio CDs.........................................224
Enabling playback on CD players (Finalize) ......225
Using the CD-R/RW drive
to exchange data ..................................... 226
Saving Recorded Songs to CD-R/RW Discs ........226
Backing up a song (Song Backup) ......................226
Reading backup songs
back into the hard disk (Song Recover) .............227
Saving Data on the Hard Disk
to CD-R/RW Discs ....................................................228
Saving Data
to CD-R/RW Discs (User Backup) .....................228
Reading backup user data
back into the hard disk (User Recover)..............229
Saving the Entire Contents
of the Hard Disk to a CD-R/RW Disc ...................230
Saving the Hard Disk Contents to a CD-R/RW
Disc (HDD Backup) ..............................................230
Reading backed-up hard disk contents
back into the hard disk (HDD Recover) ............231
Copying and writing waveform data....................232
Copying waveform data from a computer
to the audio tracks (WAV/AIFF Import) ..........232
Copying audio track waveform data
to computers (WAV/AIFF Export) ....................233
Playing SMFs using
external MIDI instruments (SMF Player) ............236
Erasing data from a
CD-RW disc (CD-RW Erase) ..................................237
Setting the time until the
CD-R/RW drive stops (CD Hold Time)................238
Importing songs
from CDs to audio tracks...........................239
Section 6 Using MIDI ......241
MIDI fundamentals....................................242
What is MIDI? ...........................................................242
MIDI connectors .......................................................242
MIDI channels...........................................................242
MIDI Implementation Charts ................................242
Playing drum and bass patterns
on external MIDI sound module ................243
Drum sounds and note numbers ...........................244
Synchronizing external
MIDI sequencers and rhythm machines .... 245
Synchronizing a MIDI device to the rhythm's
tempo using the MIDI timing clock .....................245
Synchronizing a MIDI sequencer
to the playback time using MTC ...........................246
Changing the TIME field display........................248
Synchronizing a MIDI device by recording its
tempo changes on the BR-1200CD (Sync Track) .........248
Setting the starting time
of synchronization (Sync Offset)...........................250
Controlling MMC-compatible devices
from the BR-1200CD ................................ 251
Controlling track volumes
via MIDI (MIDI Fader) ............................... 252
Turning MIDI Fader on and off.............................252
Setting the MIDI channel for MIDI Fader ..........253
Confirming the current fader positions ...............253
I nputting drum and bass patterns
from a MIDI keyboard (MIDI Recording) ...... 254
Using MIDI to Control the Switching of the
Insert Effects (Effects Program Change) ........ 255
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