The new Boss BR-600 is a compact, battery powered, 8 track digital recorder that records to compact flash.
The Boss BR-600 includes:
- Built in drum machine with velocity sensitive pads
- Built in stereo mics
- 64 Virtual tracks
- Variety of effects
The BR-600 comes with adapters for XLR mics to its 1/4" input. This unit is so small there's not even room for a standard XLR input.
The Boss BR-600 lists for around $450. You can get more info at the Roland website. Check it out.
I am having a real
I am having a real difficulty and I ma hoping somebody can help me.
I have a working 1GB card in my BR600 and have been recording a new song project (so far just 4 tracks). My card still has plenty of space.
However, I am now getting the EVENT FULL message whenever I try to do ANY functions. Unable to record, edit, delete etc... Im Stuck!
In the manual it says I need to optimize the song as I have been using the punch in/punch out function but I even get the EVENT FULL when trying to perform that function. As it stands now I am unable to do ANYTHING with my recorder....( including bouncing or mastering) So very frustrating as I am in the middle of a rather interesting and great sounding project.
Can anybody help me? I have had no response from Boss/Roland customer service....
Thanks...... Lee
move your tracks and tones
move your tracks and tones to your computer, not changing them to wave. you can save drum sets/sounds, drum patches, etc., to your computer.
then initialize the card. i know this seems an extreme solution, but it was all I could make that Event Full or whater it was from happening.
put all your stuff back on. you do this through the utility button/USB patch/BACKUP patch.
the manual explains much better than I!
hope this did some good
so i was just exporting
so i was just exporting tracks to my computer when on the boss br 600 screen it said "CARD ERROR" or something like that and now it just says "keep power on! card testing..." and its had that on their for like 19 minutes now help please?
Hi Daniel, I've had this
Hi Daniel,
I've had this problem a couple of times. I believe that your last song may now be a corrupt file. What I do is connect the card to my pc via a card reader and rename the songs... I swap, say song003, which may be corrupt, with song001. Then when I start the br600, it works again... though not with the song I want loaded. If you try to reload the corrupt file and everything hangs again, I'm afraid you'll have to delete it.
I have had this issue
I have had this issue also. If i remember I think i made sure that everything was saved then exited the song by selecting another song via the utility. Then i reselected the first one again and the card error message didnt reappear. I hope this helps.
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Can anyone tell me if it is
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to overdub vocals using a Yamaha portable PA system mixeramp and my BR600. I am recording CD backing tracks onto the BR600 but am struggling to find a way to get the vocals recorded.I have a Shure mic for vocals and I would like to hear myself via the PA Monitors whilst recording. I also find my Beyer headphones seem to be very quite and muffled when taking a feed direct from the BR600. Any help would be appreciated and any advice on the best way to overdub vocals.
the best way is to
the best way is to record while listening thru headphones. make sure your input level is high enough and that the master is set high enough also. That should give you plenty of level to hear sufficiently in your headphones
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I AM DESPERATE, NOW. Hello,
I AM DESPERATE, NOW.
Hello, I really hope someone could help me...
I've just finished recording a new song on my BR600, and I bounced all the tracks on track 7/8. As I decided to erase a slight noise for a few seconds at the end of this track, it happened that ALL the tracks disappeared!! All of them!!!! I am not a beginner, since I've been using th BR600 for a few years, and I'm sure I did nothing wrong. The card information still says that my song is "57Mb", as the tracks were not really "lost", but anyway every virtual track, on every track is absolutely EMPTY, and I am dying... The backup I made right after on my PC also shows a 57 Mb song.
Please, if you have any tips that could save my work...
Thanks a lot, cheers everybody.
maybe (if your lucky) just
maybe (if your lucky) just press the undo/redo button...
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Okay. I got my br 600 for
Okay. I got my br 600 for Christmas and i love it. one problem. Okay i bounced all of myt racks to 7/8. went to utility usb export Aiff. (i have a mac)yadda yadda yadda. My file will export, but it only plays for 10 seconds...
Anyone have this problem? i could use some help.
Thanks :D,
Chris O. McGraw
Make sure you have selected
Make sure you have selected the correct v track
How do i save the drumtrack
How do i save the drumtrack to the song? i only manage to play one and one, but not as tracks to the song at different parts.
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Try mixing in the rhythm
Try mixing in the rhythm part of the drum pattern or arrangement to a certain track in bounce mode.
Thanks for sharing. Boss BR-
Thanks for sharing. Boss BR- 600 is a very good compact, battery powered, 8 track digital recorder that records to compact flash. I like it.
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HELP PLEASE, i bounced each
HELP PLEASE, i bounced each drum sound onto a v-track so that i could apply reverb to the snare drum alone. I was hoping to edit each drum sound then bounce it all onto 1 track to achieve the exact drum kit sound i wanted. After i had bounced the snare and bass drum onto 2 tracks and added reverb to the snare i tryed to combine them both and delete the 2 tracks they were on to make space for more parts. I have tryed track edit, delete all and the v tracks are stil there.....it has ruined the song i was working on. As far as i can see it wont let me delete any v-track once it is recorded...... DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DELETE V-TRACKS?
hi, i may sound stupid
hi, i may sound stupid telling you this but.....when you go to track delete you are "scrolling" to the exact v-track i.e. say you bounced all drums to v-track 7/8 v2. when you go back to delete a drum sound on, say, track 1 v1, it may still be on v2, so it'll be track 1 v2 your deleting....
thanks, lol, i cant believe
thanks, lol, i cant believe i didnt realize
Hello, I am having a problem
Hello, I am having a problem with step recording. I enter the pattern I want to be Step 1, starting Measure 1. When I try to enter Step 2 as a different pattern starting at measure 14, say, and I put the cursor over where you change the measures, and use the wheel to change Measure 2 to Measure 14, scrolling does nothing and it won't let me start a new step further along. It only seems to let me do the 2nd step at Measure 2. Any help getting around this would be helpful. Would the rhythm editor help with this issue? Thanks!
do you have anything set
do you have anything set insteps after step 2 ? If you have something in step 3 that comes before measure 14 the unit wont allow you to set step 2 to 14. just a thought hope that is it
Hello all, does anyone know
Hello all, does anyone know if it's possible to record an electronic drum kit (eg Alesis) direct to the br-600 and if so how? Thanks
if it has a line out just
if it has a line out just plug into the line in on the BR 600
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I used the sub mixer in rec
I used the sub mixer in rec out of the sr. Br has no midi capability. You have to use 2 tracks though.
Hi . . I have a Roland
Hi . .
I have a Roland TD9. Just plug directly from the brain into the mic 1 and 2 jacks. Also recorded using mics placed in front of my Roland drum speakers and the mics are plugged into the mic 1 and mic 2 jacks. Open to other ideas. Hope this helps.
Don
Help! I have been using the
Help!
I have been using the BR600 fine and downloaded about 14 tracks successfully.
This time however, it says it cannot download a track ebcause "the parameters are incorrect", although I'm sure I've been doing it the same way I always have. Anyone know what si wrong?
hey. i bouced 2 tracks and
hey. i bouced 2 tracks and im not happy with it how do you delete the bounced tracks??
wherever you bounced it to,
wherever you bounced it to, eg. 7/8 v1 . just go to utilities - track - erase.
I think you can just record
I think you can just record over the top. use the dial to change it to 7/8 Tk1 (or whatever) and record over the top.
I joined the BR600 fan about
I joined the BR600 fan about a month ago and i like it very much except for one thing. The time/value knob isn't working as it use to. It kept going back to 1 a lot of times no matter how slow I turn it and it's pissing me off. Anybody have this problem? Is there an easy fix? I dont want to give it up just yet. Is there a similar product with better knob? I would get the BR-1600 but it doesn't have drum pad and I need that. I do all the editing on the pad itself. You just gotta get use to it.
I don't know if the
I don't know if the following information will be of any help, or if you still have your BR600, but I had the exact same problem, and I managed to fix it.
The problem is due to dirty contacts in the time/value switch. The switch has three electrical terminals that are close to each other on the edge of a circle. As you turn the wheel, it will make and break connections between those 3 terminals. Logic within the BR600 looks at the changing pattern of connections and decides which way you are turning the wheel and how quickly.
If the moving parts within the the switch get worn or dirty (as can happen in a potentiometer) then you will see the erratic behaviour you describe.
I fixed my BR600 by opening it up (WARNING: this will invalidate your warranty !!!) and spraying a small amount of "Servisol Super 10" electrical switch cleaner into whatever small gaps I could find into the switch. It looks like there are hardly any gaps at all, but the spray is brilliant and somehow manages to find its way in !!!
I was carfeul not to spray anywhere else on the circuit board because the spray is conductive. Make sure you use a proper electrical switch cleaning spray like "Servisol Super 10" or "Caig's DeoxIT". DON'T USE WD40 !!! I used "Servisol Super 10" because it cheaper and more easily avialable in the UK than Caig's.
After doing that it works like brand new.
Hi. Just had BR600 couple of
Hi. Just had BR600 couple of weeks. Problem with Internal mic. When I switch it on it just makes a hell of a noise like interference on a radio station? What could i have done wrong?
Check your mic effects.
Check your mic effects. Could be that you changed the mic effects setting.
Hi. Thanks for advice.
Hi. Thanks for advice. Changing mic effects just seems to change the sound of the noise I want to get rid of, not eliminate it. Is there a way I can switch effects off for internal mic? I only want internal mic to record live performance i.e raw sound without effects. Thanks
The first time that happened
The first time that happened to me was I had recorded say on track 1 some material voice/music doesn't matter. Then while listening to track 1 (what I had recorded) I was going to record another instrument on say track 2. You have to listen to what you recorded so you can play along with track 1. The problem is while you are listening to track 1 the sound from track 1 is being fed back into the mics (in you case the internal mics) that is what is causing the noise. Buy your self a good pair of headphones plug them in the back and that is how you listen as you record using the internal or external mics.
I recorded some drum sounds
I recorded some drum sounds and assigned them to a drum pad not realizing it is for the current song.
Does anyone have advice for saving these sounds to use in other songs without having to re-record and re-assign?
Hi, It seems some people
Hi,
It seems some people have problems updating the firmware. I've made a video tutorial on youtube showing how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6isV45Dno
Hi All, I'm quite new to
Hi All,
I'm quite new to the BR 600 and have only just recorded my first song. It's got 4 tracks in it. When I went to bounce it to the 7/8, it told me my memory card was full, even though this is the first song I've recorded. I find it hard to believe it wouldn't have the space to bounce and master one song. Does anyone know what it is I'm doing wrong? I'm just using the standard card that comes when you buy it.
URGENT!!! I have just
URGENT!!!
I have just purchased the Br 600 and spent 5 hours recoridng a song. I now want to bounce all the tracks to th 7/8 track. Unfortunately whenever i try that, regardless of how many tracks i am trying to bounce, i get the "drive busy" message at the 107th bar of my song (at about 3:30 into the song). Please could someone tell me what to do because i have done nothing wrong and this is bs. i would prefer not to have to go buy a flash card reader but if its the only option i will.
i am using the original memory card that you get with the br 600.
I have a 1gig card in and I
I have a 1gig card in and I am getting the Drive Busy message at almost the exact same time 3:30.
Let me know if you found out any different fixes for this.
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This message will sometimes
This message will sometimes appear when the flash card is full. I suggest you backup your work to a computer with a USB cable and then install a 1 GB flash card. It's also a good idea to backup any data you don't want to risk losing and then erase the recordings on any virtual tracks you don't need for the project you're working on. I haven't had this message show up since I began using these steps.
Hello, I have had no
Hello, I have had no problems bouncing recorded tracks onto track 7/8, but am having no luck at all mastering this - despite reading the section of the manual really carefully three or four times.
If I have a bounced stereo track on T78v1, I set the maching into mastering mode, select T78v1 as the source, then select T78v2 (for example) as the destination, and hit the record and play buttons.
However every time I end up with a blank v1 and v2 - or at least, there is no longer any sound when I listen to either of these v-tracks of T78.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I did this too a couple
I did this too a couple times, maybe? forgot to zero back to the start.
how do you record a drum
how do you record a drum track first before you lay down a guitar track?....also i want to do things like....add a fill right after an intro, then make a fill go right back into a verse or make the verse measure longer....im having the hardest time just recording drums!...anyone know.....guitar is easy this aint!
hi, i've imported some
hi, i've imported some sounds from my computer into one of the drum kits (so i can play my sounds on the pads). but now i want to delete them and its not working. can someone explain how to erase them?. thanks.
really there are two
really there are two options. one would be to initialize your card. which, to me is the best way because you free all of your space. (card initializing leaves all created amp models/effects in place) what to do in the event of card initialization would be to backup your tracks on computer, initialize card, upload tracks back to the BR, then rebuild your drumkit from scratch.
if you have not used up all 13 or so seconds of .wav time for your drum kit sounds, simply put whatever sound you'd rather have for said pad over top of the existing .wav file
hope this was helpful.
is there any effect patches
is there any effect patches to download for the BR-600?
I suck at programming and to most other effects,patches for effects can be found for download, I would love to find "say for exampel" a complete patch that have just Blues effects on all effects.
Hope you get my point.
It took me MANY hours but I
It took me MANY hours but I finally figured out how to create custom drum parts and then use the step mode to create a sequence of drum accompanyment for the song.
The problem is that the BR-600 only allows (50) steps and that's not enough to provide a drum track for my 2:30 minute song!
Is there a way to string together multi-bar steps so I can created drum tracks that sychronize with songs that are more than 2 minutes or do I have to simply reduce the number of steps (and therefore the rythmic variety of my drum track)?
I've ended up with the same
I've ended up with the same problem. How do you string the 5 songs together to get up to 250 bars (of 50 each)? Or is there another way of doing this?
what you need to do is
what you need to do is simple. instead of making each pattern 1 bar... make them 4 or whatever you need them to be. MOst of my songs are in the 6 minute range and i usually end up with about 25 - 30 segments