Track Editing - Boss BR-1180 User Manual

Track Editing.

In the days of tape based recording, cutting a portion of a song meant physically cutting
out a portion of tape with a razor blade and "splicing" the remaining ends back together
with scotch tape. There was not any room for error. Track editing on digital recorders has
become much easier and certainly less destructive. You can cut, copy, move and erase
tracks in much the same way as you would edit paragraphs on a word processor. You
define a track (or tracks) and region that you want to edit and then tell the recorder how
you want to edit it. Because editing on a BR-1180 is "non-destructive" if you decide that
you don't like the edit you can UNDO that edit. To access the track edit menus press
UTILITY, CURSOR to TRACK and then press ENTER. To go to a specific type of edit
use the CURSORS to highlight its menu then press ENTER.
Here is a list of the types of edits that can be performed on the BR-1180.
• COPY- allows you to copy and "paste" a specified portion of a track or tracks.
• COPY+ INS- is the same as COPY but it will insert blank space to make room for
the copies.
• MOVE- moves a specified portion of a track or tracks to a new location.
• MOVE+INS- the same as MOVE but inserts blank space at the destination
location for the move.
• EXCHANGE- swaps the audio between two targeted tracks.
• INSERT- inserts blank space on a track by "sliding" over existing audio.
• NORMALIZE- takes the loudest portion of the selected audio and turns it up to
0.0db (or a user defined level). The volume of the rest of the selected audio will
also increase in proportion to the loudest parts.
• CUT- deletes a selected portion of audio and also eliminates the space that would
otherwise be the result of the cut.
• ERASE-deletes the audio but leaves a blank space where it had existed.
The first page that comes up in any of the track edit menus is almost the same for all of
them. It is on the first page that you establish which tracks are going to be affected by the
edit. A pair of question marks on this page represents the original track and v-track
(target) that you want to edit. For some edits there is a second pair of question marks. A
second pair of question marks (to the right of the arrow) represents the destination for the
track edit. In either pair the first number is the track number and the second is the v-track
number. Use the CURSOR buttons and VALUE wheel to select a track to edit (source)
and a destination. The source and destination can be the same if you want to COPY or
MOVE a section of a track to another section of the same track.
What if I want to edit more than one track at a time?
You will notice that your choices for selecting tracks to edit are limited to a single track
or an adjacent pair of tracks. However you can elect to perform more than one edit at a
time. To select a second track to be edited CURSOR to the number to the left of TR and
dial the 1: to 2. Then enter in a new set of track values. You could continue to set up to
edit 80 different tracks simultaneously for this single edit.
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