Boss Audio Systems BR-900CD - Manual (Page 12)

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Section 5
Using the CD-R/RW Drive..... 139
Creating Audio CD ........................140
Precautions ...............................................................140
Setting the Time Between Songs (Pre-Gap) .........140
Writing Songs to Discs............................................140
Viewing the Remaining Time for Recording on
Audio CDs ................................................................142
Playing Back Audio CDs ........................................142
Enabling Playback on CD Players (Finalize) .......143
Using the CD-R/RW Drive to Exchange
Data.............................................145
Saving Recorded Songs to CD-R/RW Discs
(Backup) ....................................................................145
Backing up a song to a CD-R/RW disc one at a
time (Song Backup)............................................145
Saving all of the songs on a memory card to
a CD-R/RW disc (All Backup).........................146
Loading Saved Songs to a Memory Card (Recover) .... 147
Loading saved songs to a memory card one at a
time (Song Recover)...........................................147
Loading all saved songs to a memory card
(All Recover).......................................................147
Copying and Writing Waveform Data.................148
Copying waveform data from a computer to the
audio tracks (WAV/AIFF Import) ..................148
Copying WAV/AIFF files as drum sounds
(Tone Load).........................................................149
Copying audio track waveform data to
computers (WAV/AIFF Export)......................150
Using SMF ................................................................151
Playing SMFs using external MIDI instruments
(SMF Player) .......................................................151
Loading drum patterns from the CD-R/RW drive
(SMF Import)........................................................ 152
Erasing Data from a CD-RW Disc (CD-RW Erase).... 153
Importing Songs from CDs to Audio
Tracks ..........................................154
Section 6 Using MIDI ............155
MIDI Fundamentals ...................... 156
What is MIDI? ..........................................................156
MIDI Connectors .....................................................156
MIDI Channels .........................................................156
MIDI Implementation Charts ................................156
Synchronizing with MIDI Devices .. 157
Using the Rhythm to Play an External MIDI Sound
Module ......................................................................157
Synchronizing Playback with a MIDI Sequencer.... 158
Synchronized playback with the BR-900CD
as the master .......................................................158
Setting the MTC offset.......................................159
Using MMC ..............................................................160
Operating MMC-compatible devices with the
BR-900CD ............................................................160
Section 7 Using USB .............161
Before Using USB (Overview) ....... 162
Compatible OS .........................................................162
Composition of Data on Memory Cards ..............162
Connecting a Computer..........................................163
Notes on Using USB ................................................163
With Windows ............................. 164
Backing Up the BR-900CD’s Data .........................164
Saving BR-900CD Track Data in WAV/AIFF Format
(WAV/AIFF Export) ...............................................165
Loading WAV/AIFF Files in BR-900CD Tracks
(WAV/AIFF Import)...............................................167
Importing SMFs and Creating Patterns................169
Loading Drum Sounds from WAV/AIFF Files
(Tone Load) ..............................................................171
Using the BR-864 / BR-532’s Data.........................173
With Macintosh ............................ 175
Backing Up the BR-900CD’s Data .........................175
Saving BR-900CD Track Data in WAV/AIFF Format
(WAV/AIFF Export) ...............................................176
Loading WAV/AIFF Files in BR-900CD Tracks
(WAV/AIFF Import)...............................................178
Importing SMFs and Creating Patterns................179
Loading Drum Sounds from WAV/AIFF Files
(Tone Load) ..............................................................181
Using the BR-864 / BR-532’s Data.........................183