User manual BOSS BR-900CD

[. . . ] Owner's Manual Thank you, and congratulations on your choice of the BOSS BR-900CD Digital Recording Studio. Before using this unit, carefully read the sections entitled: · USING THE UNIT SAFELY (page 2­3) · IMPORTANT NOTES (page 4­5) These sections provide important information concerning the proper operation of the unit. Additionally, in order to feel assured that you have gained a good grasp of every feature provided by your new unit, Owner's manual should be read in its entirety. The manual should be saved and kept on hand as a convenient reference. Printing Conventions in This Manual · Text or numerals enclosed in square brackets [ ] indicate buttons. [. . . ] STD 2 : : Loading from the tracks This loads sounds recorded to the tracks as drum tones. It can be convenient to use the "scrub, " "punch in, " and "locator" functions to set the range containing the drum sounds you want to load ahead of time. You can use the scrub function to repeat playback and locate the point from which loading is to start (the start point) and press AUTO PUNCH [IN], then after determining the point at which loading is to finish (the end point), press [LOCATOR] to register the range to be loaded. Using this technique of setting the start point with AUTO PUNCH [IN] and the end point with [LOCATOR] allows you to set the range to be loaded very rapidly. Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to "TONE, " and press [ENTER]. fig. 03-505d Creating Original Drum Kits (Tone Load) With the BR-900CD, you can create original drum kits not only with the internal drum sounds, but by loading drum sounds from external sources as well. There are four ways to load drum tones. Section 4 Loading from the tracks Loading from other drum kits Loading from WAV/AIFF files (p. 181) Loading from WAV/AIFF files on CD-R/RW (p. 149) · · · · Wave data in the following formats can be imported. You cannot import wave data in other formats. WAV or AIFF format Mono or Stereo 8-bit or 16-bit Sampling Rate: 44. 1 kHz Compressed WAV files or AIFF files cannot be loaded. Extremely short waveform data (less than approximately 100 msec) cannot be loaded. The loop point settings within an AIFF file will be ignored. Add the extension "WAV" to imported WAV files and the extension "AIF" to imported AIFF files. You can load drum sounds of up to 13 seconds for a single drum kit. (Example) Kick: 3 seconds, snare: 3 seconds, crash cymbal: 7 seconds Total 13 seconds 4. Use CURSOR [ ] [ ] and the TIME/VALUE dial to select the track and V-Track to which the drum sounds are to be loaded, then press [ENTER]. fig. 03-507d 3. Press CURSOR [ ] to move the cursor to "TRACK, " and press [ENTER]. fig. 03-506d Stereo WAV and AIFF files are loaded as "mono" sounds with the left and right sides mixed. 135 Using the Drum Kits 5. Use [CURSOR] and the TIME/VALUE dial to specify the range (start and end points) of drum sounds to be loaded in terms of measures or time locations. * You cannot specify an interval between the start and end points or a length of time in less than 100 ms or excess of 13 seconds. * When specifying measures, the result is reflected in the time display, and vice versa. 6. When you have finished setting the start and end points, move the cursor to "LOAD" and press [ENTER]. fig. 03-510d Start Point ("S") Specify the measure or location to be used as the start point for loading the drum sounds. fig. 03-508d Measure Beat 7. Specify the load-destination song drum kit with the TIME/VALUE dial, then press [ENTER]. S1­5: Song Drum Kit 1­5 fig. 03-511d Hours Seconds Minutes Frame End Point ("E") Specify the measure or location to be used as the end point for loading the drum sounds. [. . . ] 76 Z [ZERO] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 V V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 131­132 Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]