BR-800 video tutorials on YT

[thouston]

Last year I filmed a few video tutorials on the BR-800 for a friend who is dyslexia, and posted them on YT for him. I used a Kodak Zi6 and the focal length is quite short, so the screen is blurred somewhat and it's hand held as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHqIFQEFhg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypeY_0MStGQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZHmH1C79d8

etc,

[Bobtail]

Hi Tony,Ive seen your tutorials on the BR800,and took notes of it and it helped me heaps to get me up and running and recording a basic song,still finding extra stuff on it to make my songs better.
   Thanks ,those tutorials were a great help for me. 

[thouston]

You wouldn't have a vid on how to download a drum set into the br 600 would you?

No, I never even tried to import a drum toneload when I had my BR-600.

If I wanted a better sounding drums, I would go ahead and record the tracks using the BR's drums, note the tempo and export the tracks. Than I would import the tracks to Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/, and add a drum(s) from my DrumCore software http://www.sonomawireworks.com/drumcore/.

But I have also bounced the BR-600s drums as a stereo pair and applied EQ using loop effects.

[64Guitars]

The BR-600 Tutorial DVD from proaudiodvds does a great job of explaining the Tone Load feature of the BR-600.

Here's a sample of it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I48IpLOtHcA

The sample only demonstrates how to load samples from a track. But in the USB section of the DVD, he spends 1:23 demonstrating how to import a WAV file drum sample, which is the more usual way to use Tone Load. And, in the Rhythm Section chapter (18:33 in total length), he demonstrates how to copy a drum sound from one of the built-in kits to another kit. This lets you, for example, make a custom kit that's a copy of the STD1 kit, but replace the snare with the one from the JAZZ kit (or whichever kit you choose).

The entire video is 100 minutes long and costs $29.95.  It's a very good tutorial for all of the features of the BR-600. I recommend it.

http://www.proaudiodvds.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BR%2D600&Click=2040



It's actually quite easy to import a WAV file sample into a drum kit.

• First you have to get a suitable sample. There are several ways you could do that. An easy way is to download a sample from a site such as the ones listed on my Samples page:
  
  https://songcrafters.org/64guitars/BR/Samples.html
  
  For example, here's a snare drum sample from Free Wave Samples:
  
  http://freewavesamples.com/files/Snare-Drum-8.wav
  
  Right-click on the link and save it to your hard drive.
  
  
• Now copy the WAV file from your hard drive to the TONELOAD folder of your BR-600, which you'll find inside the ROLAND folder.
  
  
• Press the BR-600's [UTILITY] button, then move the cursor to [TONE] and press [ENTER].
  
  
• Move the cursor to [CARD] and press [ENTER].
  
  
• You should see the name of the file which you copied to the TONELOAD folder in step 2 above (Snare-Drum-8.wav). If you have other sample files in the TONELOAD folder, you'll have to scroll through them with the VALUE dial to find the one you want. When you've found it, press [ENTER].
  
  
• Now you need to select the drum kit to which you want to load this sample. Normally, it will be S1:SongKit1 unless you've already created a kit there. Press [ENTER] to select the kit.
  
  
• Finally, select the drum to which you want to load the sample within the kit. You can choose any drum you like. Since this sample is a snare, let's put it on S1: SNARE. Now exit back to the Play screen.

The only thing left to do is to select the custom drum kit in your arrangement. See pages 136 and 137 of the BR-600 manual.