Changing An Eband Song’s Tempo; Changing An Eband Song’s Pitch; Center Cancel; Controlling The Eband-Song Player - Boss MICRO BR BR-80 Workshop Manual

Changing an eBand Song's Tempo
You can slow down—or speed up—a song's playback to work
out your part at your own pace, or just because you prefer a
different tempo.
Highlight the SPEED value (the "100%" in the screenshot on the
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previous page).
Press the PLAY 4 button to start the song playing.
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Turn the Value dial to set the song's speed as desired. At 100%, the
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song plays back at its original speed.
When you're done, set SPEED back to
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normal.
Press STOP  to end playback.
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Changing an eBand Song's Pitch
Sometimes a song's just simply in a hard key for you to play in. You
can shift its pitch down by as many as six semitones, or up by seven.
On the SPEED & PITCH screen, highlight the value you want
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to adjust. Select
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SHIFT—to shift the song's pitch by semitones into another key.
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FINE—to tune the entire track to your instrument if your
instrument isn't tuned to concert pitch.
After selecting the value you want to adjust, turn the Value dial to
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set it as desired.
When you're done practicing, set SHIFT and/or FINE back to 0.
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Center Cancel

The BR-80's Center Cancel feature allows you to remove the lead vocal
or main melodic instrument from many commercial recordings. It can, in
essence, remove the featured performer to make room for you.
How well Center Cancel works depends to an extent on the original
recording's mix.
100% to return the tempo to
To use Center Cancel on an eBand song:
Select the desired song, and press PLAY 4 to begin playback.
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Press the TR5/6 (CENTER CANCEL)
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button beneath the display—the
CENTER CANCEL screen appears.
On this screen you can tweak Center Cancel for optimal results.
Set DEPTH to 100 for the maximum effect. After adjusting the other
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settings, you may want to reduce this value.
Set POSITION to the stereo location of the voice or instrument you're
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trying to remove. You can set it to L50—all the way left—and then
increase the value gradually until you grab, and start canceling, the
voice or instrument.
To make the effect more precise, try adjusting the FREQ ("for
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"Frequency) value to narrow your aim as much as possible to target
only voice or instrument without affecting the rest of the song's
sounds.
If your Center Cancel's taking away too much of the original mix, you
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can try lowering its DEPTH value.
To turn off Center Cancel without losing your settings, press TR5/6
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(CENTER CANCEL) or ENTER to toggle Center Cancel's OFF/ON switch.

Controlling the eBand-Song Player

There are a few other tricks in eBand mode for getting playback configured
the way you want. You can:
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use the A/B Repeat feature—to zero in on one song section as you
practice, playing it over and over while you work out your part.
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set the eBand playback mode—using the TR7/8 button beneath the
display to control how the current song, the entire song list, or a
random selection of songs plays.
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