Micro BR-80

[Gnasty]

Woohoo! Congrats Dave! Yup I couldn`t say it better myself except in paragraph form

It`s one HELL of a great piece of machinery! Glad you`re enjoying. I am too!!!

[Tony W]

It's easy to tell when Dave's excited. The run on sentence structure is the key. Dave your energy is infectious!

The COSM effects, I wasn't sold on early, but I'm really really starting to like them.

I think I'm the only person with the "drive busy" errors in Live Rec mode. I'm going to swap back to the original SD card and see if it clears up.

[Bluesberry]

You are right I'm excited............hahahaha.........I am sitting here at work and can't wait to get home and play with it some more.........once I have had the puppy out for a walk to the park, and supper, and spending time with my wife and son.............yeah, once all that is out of the way I may just squeeze in an hour to play.....damn sleep always getting in the way of the good stuff in life..............probably just get back to eband mode tonight.............I love eband mode.

[cuthbert]

Congrats, Dave! It's a cool little box, isn't it? 

[chip]

Can someone explain what E band does? I have not got the recorder yet   I need to know more.

[The Reverend 48]

Can someone explain what E band does? I have not got the recorder yet  I need to know more.

Basically its a mode on the BR-80
It has a host of loops to play over and record with
You can import any song into the directory to play over with
It can change Tempo, change pitch and remove center of each song/loop
Each loop is accompanied by Roland's choice of guitar patch (Which can be easily changed)

All in all countless hours of fun.......
What I like is the range of different loops with different patches
It encourages you to try different stuff with different sounds!!!

Listen and Watch all the vids on You Tube...It will give you a feel for the sounds

[nowheremancy]

Hello again folks,
Nipped down to the local music emporium today and asked if I could test drive a BR80.  Happily they obliged and I spent the next couple of hours noodling around with it.  Have to say it's an awesome bit of kit.  My only real niggle is that it doesn't support time signatures other than 4/4 but on the strength of the other features, I'm getting one tommorow  I'm still gonna write to the Boss folks in the hope that a steady stream of whinging and whining e mails might get them to weave the necessary magic and make 3/4 6/8 and other time sig SMFs supportable.  Really, if they sort that out I believe I'll have bagged me a near perfect piece of shiny goodness.  Was wondering if any of you veterans could tell me where is the best place to direct my grumbles, ideally an e mail address if you have the info.
Much obliged.

[64Guitars]

Was wondering if any of you veterans could tell me where is the best place to direct my grumbles, ideally an e mail address if you have the info.

Like most companies, Roland keeps most of their email addresses private. However, you can contact them via the following page in the UK.

http://www.roland.co.uk/MyRoland/MyEnquiries.aspx

Or telephone 01792 702701.

You could also post a message on their forum: http://www.rolandforums.co.uk/

[nowheremancy]

Ok thanks. 

[nowheremancy]

Hello,
Received a reply this morning about the time signature mallarkey.  Here's what they say...

Thank you for your email.
This is not a bug - just a limitation of the current version.
We have had many requests for this function to be extended - and we have passed all requests ( like this one ) to Japan.
So fingers crossed the OS will be updated in the near future.

Regards
Oliver Davis
Senior Product Specialist
Roland (UK) Ltd