Boss BR-8 Owner's Manual

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Safety
Contents
Introduction
Main Features
Important Notes
Power Supply
Placement
Additional Precautions
Before Using Zip Disks
Handling Zip Disks
Handling the Zip Disk Drive
Front Panel
Display
Rear Panel
Listening to the Demo Songs
Connecting External Devices
Turning on the Power
Listening the Demo Songs
Selecting a Song - Song Select
Play Back the Song
Moving the Current Location
About the Current Time Location Indication
To the Beginning of the Performance
Removing the Demo Disk
Selecting Variations of the Song
Switching Scenes
By Measure/Beat
Turning off the Power
If a Disk Is Inserted
Recording/Playing a Performance
Turn on the Power
Prepare a Disk
Inserting the Disk
Selecting the Song to Record
Creating a New Song - Song New
What Is the Data Type?
Connecting Your Instruments
Selecting the Jack for Connections
Recording Time
Press the Input Select Button for the Instrument You will Record
Adjusting the Input Sensitivity
Listening to the Sound
Using Effects - Insert Effects
Switching Patches
Turning the Effect On/Off
What Is Patch?
Using the Rhythm Guide
Sounding the Rhythm Guide
Changing the Time Signature
Switching the Rhythm Pattern
Recording
Selecting the Track to Record
If Input Select Guitar/Bass, Mic2 or Mic1 Is Lit
If Input Select Line or Simul Is Lit
Playing Back a Recorded Performance
Listening to a Recorded Performance While Recording Another One
Playing Back
Silensing the Sound of Specific Tracks - Mute
Completing the Song - Mixdown
Adjusting the Left/Right Location of the Sound
Adjusting the Tone - Equalizer
Adjusting Spaciousness to the Sound - Loop Effects
Removing the Disk
Mixdown
Advanced Use
Adjusting the Pan of the Input Sound
Playing Back Repeatedly - the Repeat Function
What Is the Repeat Function?
Re-Recording over a Mistake - Punch-In/Out
Manual Punch-In/Out
Manual Punch-In/Out Using the Recorder Buttons
Auto Punch-In/Out
Manual Punch-In/Out Using a Foot Switch
Specifying the Area to be Recorded
Repeatedly Recording the same Area - Loop Recording
Specifying the Area to be Repeated
Recording Procedure
Using V-Tracks
Switching V-Tracks
Naming a Track
Combining Track Performances on a Separate Track - Bouncing
What Is Bouncing?
Registering a Marker in Your Song - the Marker Function
Registering a Marker
Clearing a Marker
Moving to the Location of a Marker
Editing a Marker
Changing the Location of a Marker
Naming a Marker
Registering/Recalling the Current Mixer Settings - Scenes
Registering/Recalling/Deleting Scenes
Recalling a Scene Without Changing the Track Volumes
Editing a Performance Recorded - Track Editing
Copying a Performance - Track Copy
Moving Performance Data - Track Move
Exchanging Performances - Track Exchange
Inserting a Blank into a Performance - Track Insert
Cutting out Part of a Performance - Track Cut
Erasing Performance Data - Track Erase
Undoing a Recording or Editing Operation
Canceling a Recording or Editing Operation - Undo
Canceling Undo - Redo
Handling Recorded Songs
Copying a Song - Song Copy
If the Display Indicates "Disk Full"
Erasing a Song - Song Erase
Conserving Disk Space - Song Optimize
What Is Song Optimize?
Protecting a Song - Song Protect
Canceling Song Protect
Naming a Song - Song Name
Saving a Song - Song Store
Exchanging Data with Thr Roland VS Series - Song Convert
Exchanging Data with the VS-880
Exchanging Data with the VS-840
Using BR-8 Song Data on the VS-Series
Initializing a Disk - Disk Initialize
Duplicating a Disk - Disk Copy
Stopping Automatically - Marker Stop
Creating a Master Tape Thet Prohibits Digital Copying
What Is SCMS?
Setting Th Tempo
Creating a Tempo Map
What Is the Tempo Map?
Using the Tempo Map to Control the Rhythm Guide
Adding an Offset to the Tempo Map
Synchronizing the BR-8 with Another MIDI Device
Basic MIDI Concepts
Sounding the Rhythm Guide on an External MIDI Sound Module
MIDI Connectors
Synchronizing a MIDI Sequencer with the BR-8
Synchronizing Playback to the BR-8
Sync Generator
Types of MTC
About Non-Drop Format and Drop Format
Using MMC
Operating an MMC-Compatible Device from the BR-8
Switching the Display of the Time Field
Time Display
Displaying Song-Relayted Information
Finding the Location Where a Sound Begins/End
Using Scrub and Preview to Find the End of a Sound
What Is Scrub?
Whst Is Preview?
Changing the Scrub Point
Enabling the Preview Function
Using Scrub and Preview
Initializing the Settings of the BR-8 - Initialize
Switching the Level Meter Screen - Pre/Post Fader
Tuning an Instrument - Tuner
Selecting the Tuner
About the Display While Tuning
Tuning Procedure
Setting the Reference Pitch of the Tuner
Practicing Along with a Difficult Song
Slowing down the Speed
Canceling the Center Sound
What Is the Phrase Trainer?
Using the Insert Effect
About Patches and Banks
Modifying the Insert Effect Settings
Saving Insert Effect Settings
Copying a Patch
Changing the Insert Effect Connections
Using Loop Effects
Modifying the Loop Effect Settings
Chorus/Delay/Doubling
Reverb
Mixer Effect Parameter Functions
Loop Effect
Insert Effect Algorithm List
Bank: Guitar/Bass
Bank:MIC
Bank:line
Bank: Simul
Insert Effect Parameter Functions
Acoustic Guitar Simulator
Acoustic Processor
Bass Simulator
Chorus
Compressor
De-Esser
Defretter
Delay
Doubling
Enhancer
Equalizer
Flanger
Foot Volume
Lo-Fi Box
Noise Suppressor
Octave
Phaser
Pitch Shifter
Preamp
Ring Modulator
Slow Attack
Speaker Simulator
Tremolo/Pan
Voice Transformer
Wah
Troubleshooting
Error Message List
Parameter List
MIDI Implementation
Transmitter Data
MIDI Machine Control
MIDI Implementation Chart
Specifications
Index
Effect Patch List
Rhythm Pattern List

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