GETTING PISSED!!!!!

[badrail]

 >:(Apologies rendered first off. Since my last post where I recorded, bounced and mastered my first song on my BR-600, I really did not like the quality of my "musician-ship" so I practiced a little more and now I'm ready to record it again. I deleted the first song and started from scratch. I gave the new song a name, I programmed the rhythm patterns, I stepped the rhythm arrangement, just like the last time. Now when I play it back I get the first measure of step 1 playing continuously. HELP! I deleted and started again 3 times with the same result. Someome please enlighten me as to my mistake, I have lots of stuff I want (need) to record, THANKS!!!!

Wes
Badrail

[Geir]

Can you accidentially have set it on A-B repeat?

[64Guitars]

Now when I play it back I get the first measure of step 1 playing continuously.

Are you saying the whole song repeats just one measure? If so, then check AB Repeat as Geir suggested.

Or are you saying that just the drum machine repeats one measure while the recorded tracks play in their entirety?

If just the drum machine is repeating, which mode is the drum machine in? Pattern Mode or Arrangement Mode?  If it's in Pattern Mode (PATTERN/TOM3 button is lit), it will just play the currently-selected pattern continuously until you press stop. To play an arrangement, it has to be in Arrangement Mode (ARRANGE/TOM2 button lit).

If you're sure it's in Arrangement Mode and step 1 is repeating continuously, then check the Starting Measure of step 2. Perhaps you accidentally set it to some very high number.

If you still can't see the error, how about posting your arrangement here. To do that, start BR Explorer and select the song in the Song List section. Then click the Arrangements tab in the Song Details section. Your arrangement will be shown in a grid. Right-click on this grid and select "Copy Arrangement to Clipboard". Now click on Reply in this topic and paste the arrangement into the message.

[badrail]

Okay, I cleared the arrangement, re-installed the arrangement with the patterns I need at certain measures (song has 9 steps and 109 measures total, 6 different patterns) , including different steps, and it's doing the same thing. I thought I'd let it play to see if my intro step 1 pattern continues and it does, but it changes at measure 33 which is the end of step 2, and the pattern I have at measure 33 plays continuously. I also checked the last meaasure of each step and it plays the pattern listed at the last measure of each step. I started step 2 at measure 2 so it should come up right after step 1/measure 1, it's not doing that. I thought I programmed the arrangement the same way I did with the first time which actually worked last week, but I don't know what I'm doing differently this time.... Any other possibilities??? Thanks again!

Wes
Badrail

[64Guitars]

Can you post the arrangement? See my last message for instructions. It will be a lot easier to figure out what's wrong if we can see all the steps of your arrangement and the parameters of each step.

[badrail]

One problem: I don't have a USB Cable to get it to my computer... I just tried it again and it's doing the same thing.. I'm going to delete the song and start from scratch again, I'll keep you posted, thanks again!

[64Guitars]

One problem: I don't have a USB Cable to get it to my computer.

Do you have a memory card reader? If you do, take the CompactFlash card from your BR-600 and put it in the card reader. Then start BR Explorer. It will read the arrangement from the card reader just the same as if it were reading it directly from the BR-600 via USB. Then you can post the arrangement here and we'll figure out what's wrong.

[badrail]

64Guitar, are you in the Houston Texas area? This is really getting frustrating... I did everything the same way again. When I go to look at the arrangement, I am seeing the start measure of the song in step 1. When I go to step 2, the measure listed is not 2 but 33, the end of that step, then step 3 it reads 49, the last in that step, and so on... Page 154-155 is the Creating Original Arrangement (I have no problems with creating patterns, that's working okay) I'm programming each measure of each step as instructed and exiting when finished to save the complete arrangement, but going back to see what I programmed, the first measure that comes up for steps 2 and later is the last measure of the step, it is not saving the measures from the start of the step to the end of the step. And it plays the first measure until the last measure of step 2. MERCY>>>

[64Guitars]

64Guitar, are you in the Houston Texas area?

Nope.

When I go to look at the arrangement, I am seeing the start measure of the song in step 1. When I go to step 2, the measure listed is not 2 but 33, the end of that step, then step 3 it reads 49, the last in that step, and so on... Page 154-155 is the Creating Original Arrangement (I have no problems with creating patterns, that's working okay) I'm programming each measure of each step as instructed and exiting when finished to save the complete arrangement, but going back to see what I programmed, the first measure that comes up for steps 2 and later is the last measure of the step, it is not saving the measures from the start of the step to the end of the step. And it plays the first measure until the last measure of step 2. MERCY>>>

Step #1 always starts at measure 1. You can't change it. The starting measures of the remaining steps depends on how long (# of measures) you want each of the previous steps to play for. The starting measure is the sum of the lengths of all of the previous steps plus 1. Fror example, if you want step 1 to play for 8 measures, then you must set the starting measure of step 2 to 9. In other words, step 1 wil play for measures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and step 2 will start playing at measure 9.

You said that step 2's starting measure is 33. That means that the pattern in step 1 will play for 32 measures. If step 3 starts at measure 49, then step 2 has a length of 16 measures (48 - 32). So the first 3 steps of the arrangement look like this:

Step	Starting Measure	Length
1	1	32
2	33	16
3	49	?

Is this not what you intended?

[badrail]

Okay:
Step 1 is 1 measure long, basically a 4 beat drum lead-in.
Step 2 starts at measure 2 with instrumentation, it goes until measure 33.
Step 3 starts at measure 34 and I can't remember where it goes to, I'm at work now...

But that's exactly how I progammed the arramgement, but it's not saving it that way or playing it back. Is there some setting under UTILITY and SYS that I am overlooking?  (Thanks for your patients in dealing with my lack there-of...)