I have noticed

[chip]

that whenever I create a new song on the Br1200 and go into the utility screen and check system settings. The effects are turned off. Now, I have used all the effects as usual even when this mode is turned off, so when I turn it on, it seems the same as if it was off.. I cannot find anything in the manual relating to this function. Does it do anything? It's been ( dare I say it) bugging! me for sometime.

Also, and this may be something to do with it. When using the loops, I can't EQ the drum loops but can the internal or external drum machine. All the other effects seem to work as normal.

Last but not least. Write speed. I now intend to write a cd, four songs, app 30 mins in all. I get conflicting advice about write speed. For instance, my mate who has some of the finest hi fi imaginable reckons I should do it at the lowest  speed because any higher and the quality will be severely diminished ( His words). Some one else saying it don't matter, someone else says 8 and someone says 16 or even 24. Of course I am now more confused than before I asked.

 By the way, I think the Br1200 is great

[Lucamar]

Hey Chip, I'm a newbie, but had my BR900CD for quite a while (still learning!) Yes, I notice that effects get turned off, and from memory I thought it was to do with changing from Record/Input then switching to Record/Bounce.
I don't use the loops much lately, so can't really comment on that.
But, write speed I've always used the slowest - I can't back that up with techie blurb, but I believe that it's something to do with limiting errors - many friends have offered the same advice - slow as possible = best quality.
Hope that helps.

[SteveB]

Again, it's been a while since I used the CD Write function on the BR, but I can't recall that there was a choice of Write Speeds?
If there is, then it's a matter of how much you value your hard-won material. If slower's the better, then go thata way. Your stuff deserves it. 

[na_th_an]

CDs are digital so it's a matter of it sounds or not, not a matter of sounding better or worse. But the advide on recording at the lowest speed is not misleaded, though. It's way safer nowadays that media is usually cheaper and not very good quality. Remember that burning a CD means cutting holes in a media layer so such holes can be read by the laser. The slower you do this process, the more accurate and "well defined" such holes will be laid out, and you'll get a disk which will be correctly read with ease by any CD player, specially by old, worn-out, cheap, or low quality ones.

Usually, CD players are designed to be used with commercial CDs which are pressed so the "holes" are much better defined.

To understand it better, think of this analogy: the music is a poem, the CD is a white paper, and you are the reader. The very same poem can be printed professionally using big offset printer, or can be written with a blunt pencil on a sheet of squared paper. The quality of the poem is the same no matter how it has been transfered to paper, but it's easier for you to read it if it has been profesionally printed than if it has been quickly hand-written with a pencil. Furthermore, it will be easier for you to read it if has been hand written slowly and carefully than if it has been written in a hurry.

It's the very same thing

[AndyR]

^ brilliant analogy

[chip]

CDs are digital so it's a matter of it sounds or not, not a matter of sounding better or worse. But the advide on recording at the lowest speed is not misleaded, though. It's way safer nowadays that media is usually cheaper and not very good quality. Remember that burning a CD means cutting holes in a media layer so such holes can be read by the laser. The slower you do this process, the more accurate and "well defined" such holes will be laid out, and you'll get a disk which will be correctly read with ease by any CD player, specially by old, worn-out, cheap, or low quality ones.

Usually, CD players are designed to be used with commercial CDs which are pressed so the "holes" are much better defined.

To understand it better, think of this analogy: the music is a poem, the CD is a white paper, and you are the reader. The very same poem can be printed professionally using big offset printer, or can be written with a blunt pencil on a sheet of squared paper. The quality of the poem is the same no matter how it has been transfered to paper, but it's easier for you to read it if it has been profesionally printed than if it has been quickly hand-written with a pencil. Furthermore, it will be easier for you to read it if has been hand written slowly and carefully than if it has been written in a hurry.

It's the very same thing

So, slower is better then.