Recording Equipment User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USING THE UNIT SAFELY
- IMPORTANT NOTES
- Precautions Regarding the Hard Disk
- Before Using CD-R/RW Discs
- About the CD-ROM “Discrete Drums”
- Contents
- Introduction to the BR-1600CD
- Panel Descriptions
- Extra information on jacks and connectors
- Common operations and display items
- Section 1 Advanced Use
- Re-recording only the portion that is mistaken (Punch In/Out)
- Using V-Tracks
- Placing markers in your song (Marker)
- Registering and recalling mixer settings (Scene)
- Recalling scenes automatically during recording or playback (Auto Scene)
- Finding the start or end of a section of audio (Scrub/Preview)
- Editing a recorded performance (Track Edit)
- Maximizing the volume levels of data recorded to the tracks (Normalize)
- Organizing your songs
- Section 2 Using Effects
- Makeup of BR-1600CD effects
- Using insert effects
- Effect patches and banks
- Makeup of effect patches
- Modifying insert effect settings
- Switching compressors, equalizers, and low-cut filters between stereo and mono
- Saving insert effect settings (Effect Patch Write)
- Copying insert effect settings (Effect Patch Copy)
- Changing insert effect connections
- Using an expression pedal
- Insert effect algorithm list
- Insert effect parameter functions
- Acoustic Guitar Simulator
- Acoustic Processor
- 3 Band Equalizer
- 4 Band Equalizer
- Bass Simulator
- Bass Cut Filter
- Chorus
- 2x2 Chorus
- Compressor
- COSM Comp/Limiter (COSM Compressor/Limiter)
- COSM Overdrive/Distortion
- COSM PreAmp&Speaker
- De-esser
- Defretter
- Delay
- Distance
- Doubling
- Enhancer
- Flanger
- Foot Volume
- Humanizer
- Limiter
- Low Cut Filter
- Lo-Fi Box
- Mic Converter
- Noise Suppressor
- Octave
- Pan
- Phaser
- Pickup Simulator
- Pitch Shifter
- Preamp
- Ring Modulator
- Short Delay
- Slow Gear
- Speaker Simulator
- Sub Equalizer
- Tremolo
- Tremolo/Pan
- Uni-V
- Vibrato
- Voice Transformer
- Wah
- Using track-specific compressors and equalizers
- Using loop effects
- Fixing the pitch of vocals/Adding a backing chorus to vocals (Vocal Tool Box)
- The Vocal Tool Box
- Makeup of the Vocal Tool Box
- Vocal Tool Box patches
- Fixing the pitch of vocals (Pitch Correction)
- Setting the correction method for vocal pitch (Pitch Correction Edit)
- Applying a backing chorus to vocals (Harmony Sequence)
- Inserting rests in a backing chorus
- Setting the application method for backing choruses (Harmony Sequence Edit)
- Saving Vocal Tool Box settings (Patch Write)
- Copying Vocal Tool Box settings (Patch Copy)
- Recreating the characteristics of different monitor speakers (Speaker Modeling)
- Speaker Modeling parameter functions
- Using the Mastering Tool Kit
- Mastering Tool Kit parameter functions
- Effect parameters assigned to VALUE knobs
- Section 3 Using Rhythm
- Makeup of Drum/Bass/Loop Phrase
- Rhythm arrangements
- Using drums
- Creating drum patterns
- Preparing for recording
- Creating drum patterns using real-time recording
- Creating drum patterns using step recording
- Correcting drum patterns (Microscope)
- Changing the drum pattern’s groove (Swing)
- Changing a drum pattern’s name
- Copying drum patterns
- Deleting drum patterns
- Loading drum patterns from the CD-R/RW drive (SMF Import)
- Using bass
- Creating bass patterns
- Preparing for recording
- Creating bass patterns using real-time recording
- Creating bass patterns using step recording
- Correcting bass patterns (Microscope)
- Changing the bass pattern’s groove (Swing)
- Changing a bass pattern’s name
- Copying bass patterns
- Deleting bass patterns
- Loading bass patterns from the CD-R/RW drive (SMF Import)
- Using Loop Phrases
- Creating Loop Phrases
- Setting the Universal Beat for Drums, Bass, and Loop Phrases
- Using rhythm arrangements
- Creating rhythm arrangements
- Assembling drum and bass patterns
- Canceling pattern allocations
- Inserting patterns
- Inputting chords
- Changing and moving chords
- Deleting chords
- Inserting chords
- Assembling Loop Phrases
- Canceling Loop Phrase allocations
- Inserting Loop Phrases
- Copying a Loop Phrase from a rhythm arrangement to an audio track
- Modifying all of the loop phrases in the current rhythm arrangement (Arrangement Modify)
- Naming and saving rhythm arrangements
- Copying a rhythm arrangement
- Deleting a rhythm arrangement
- Setting tempos and beats for individual measures (Tempo Map/Beat Map)
- Using a metronome
- Section 4 Using the CD-R/RW Drive
- Section 5 Using MIDI
- MIDI fundamentals
- Playing drum and bass patterns on external MIDI sound module
- Synchronizing external MIDI sequencers and rhythm machines
- Controlling MMC-compatible devices from the BR-1600CD
- Controlling track volumes via MIDI (MIDI Fader)
- Inputting drum and bass patterns from a MIDI keyboard (MIDI Recording)
- Using MIDI to Control the Switching of the Insert Effects (Effects Program Change)
- Controlling external video devices from the BR-1600CD (V-LINK)
- Section 6 Using USB
- Section 7 Other Convenient Functions
- Tuning instruments (Tuner)
- Automatically adjusting the input volume balance (Level Calibration)
- Muting individual inputs
- Inputting audio with no loss of quality (Digital In Assign)
- Creating a master tape protected from digital copying
- Changing the content of the level meter display (Pre/Post Fader)
- Using condenser microphones (Phantom Power)
- Mixing audio-device output with the BR-1600CD’s output (Audio Sub Mix)
- Initializing all BR-1600CD settings (Initialize)
- Performing hard disk operations
- Appendices

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Using insert effects
This section will provide a description of the methods for
changing and saving the various parameters for insert effects.
Rather than being restricted to usage only during recording,
the BR-1600CD’s insert effects can also be used with a
specific track during playback or with the mix created from
various tracks. For more detailed information, refer to
“Changing insert effect connections” (p. 82).
Effect patches and banks
The specific effect used as an insert and the parameters set
for this effect are changed by selecting what is called as an
Effect Patch. The BR-1600CD contains a wide range of preset
effect patches that have been set up for guitars, vocals, and
many other instruments. These patches are grouped by input
source, and each grouping is referred to as a Bank. The
makeup of banks is as follows:
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Whenever you press INPUT SELECT buttons, the
appropriate bank of effects will be automatically selected.
For example, when you press [GUITAR/BASS], a patch from
the Guitar bank will be automatically loaded, and when you
press [VOCAL], a patch from the MIC bank will be
automatically selected. The relationship between INPUT
SELECT buttons and the selected bank is as follows:
[GUITAR/BASS] Guitar bank
[VOCAL] MIC bank
[SIMUL] Simul bank
[MULTI-TRACK] Multi-channel bank
[STEREO TRACKS] Stereo bank
Furthermore, each of these banks contains various different
patches, as shown below.
Preset patches
Guitar bank P001 through P100
MIC bank P001 through P050
Simul bank P001 through P050
Multi-channel bank P001 through P010
Stereo bank P001 through P050
Preset patches contain data that has been set up in advance,
and it will not be possible to write new settings to them.
User patches
Guitar bank U001 through U100
MIC bank U001 through U050
Simul bank U001 through U050
Multi-channel bank U001 through U010
Stereo bank U001 through U050
User patches are stored on the BR-1600CD’s hard disk, and
their settings can be modified and saved. As a result, you
will be able to access these patches from any song. If you
have created an effect patch that you also want to use in a
different song, you should save it as a user patch.
Song patches
Guitar bank S001 through S100
MIC bank S001 through S050
Simul bank S001 through S050
Multi-channel bank S001 through S010
Stereo bank S001 through S050
Song patches can be modified and saved in the same way as
user patches; however, their data is stored on the hard disk
as part of the song that they are used in. As a result, these
patches prove extremely useful when you want each song to
maintain the specific effect settings that were used during
recording of its tracks.
At the time of purchase, the user patches in each of the
BR-1600CD’s effect banks will contain the same settings
as the corresponding preset patches. Furthermore, when
you create a new song (Song New), the song patches in
each effect bank will be set up by copying the
corresponding user patches.
GUITAR
Bank
P01–100
U01–100
S01–100
GUITAR / BASS
STEREO
Bank
P01–50
U01–50
S01–50
STEREO TRACKS
MIC
Bank
P01–50
U01–50
S01–50
VOCAL
SIMUL
Bank
P01–50
U01–50
S01–50
SIMUL
MULTI-CHANNEL
Bank
P01–10
U01–10
S01–10
MULTI-TRACK
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