Connecting The Br-80 To Your Computer - Boss MICRO BR BR-80 Workshop Manual

About the BOSS BR-80 Workshop Booklets
The BOSS MICRO BR® BR-80 is an awesome portable tool for any songwriter
or musician, especially if you're a guitarist. Packed into its convenient,
pocket-sized body are three incredibly useful tools: a stereo recorder for
capturing ideas and live sounds using the high-quality built-in mics, an
eight-track multitrack recorder for developing your songs, and an irresistibly
fun eBand jamming system. The MICRO® BR BR-80 also contains a library of
acclaimed BOSS COSM® amps and effects, as well as tons of rhythms you can
use in your songs. If you're a computer user, the MICRO BR® BR-80 can serve
as an effect-packed USB audio interface for your recording software, and it
comes with a copy of SONAR X1 LE for Windows.
Each MICRO BR® BR-80 Workshop booklet focuses on one MICRO BR® BR-80
topic, and is intended as a companion to the MICRO BR® BR-80 Owner's
Manual.
About This Booklet
Part of the fun in music-making is making it with others. With the included
BRWC wave converter software, the BR-80's built-in recording studio blows
wide open, letting you export BR-80 tracks for your friends to play with, and
allowing you to bring their musical contributions into your BR-80 songs. This
booklet explains how to use the BRWC software.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, you'll come across information that deserves
special attention—that's the reason it's labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
Our Small World
This blue planet on which we reside gets smaller every day, thanks to the
internet, and the rich variety of human experience become more and more
obvious to each of us as our friendships spread across the globe. Our ideas,
our experiences, and our music can be instantly shared through social
networks, email, and music sites, as we noted in the Jam BR-80 Workshop
booklet. And it's never been easier to collaborate with musicians, wherever
they are, using tools such as the BR-80's BRWC software.

Connecting the BR-80 to Your Computer

Before using the BRWC, you've got to connect your BR-80 to your computer.
In this booklet, we're going to assume you know how to use your
computer. If you don't, please consult its documentation as needed.
If you've read the Jam BR-80 Workshop booklet, you've already seen
the section below—we're repeating it here for your convenience.
The BR-80 ships with the USB A/mini-B cable you'll need in a little
while for connecting to your computer.
To connect the BR-80 to your computer for use with the BRWC, you
don't need to install the BR-80's USB drivers—they're for using the
BR-80 as your computer's audio interface.
Turn on your BR-80 in MTR mode.
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Press the MENU button to display the Menu screen.
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Highlight FUNCTION.
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