Boss MP3 Micro Tracks for Jamming

[RickSFBay]

Hey there,

I bought the MicroBR when it frist came out and now if you buy it they include some kind of jamming tracks in different styles. Seems like a natural to post up on here, but i didn't see them in the dowload pages.

I have the original demo, but it appears Boss is putting "MP3 Micro Tracks in different styles for jamming" on  the free 1GB sd they are including with the promotion.

Does anyone have these tracks? Has anyone heard these tracks? Do these tracks suck so i shouldn't worry?

This is my first post, and i'm an avid Micro BR fan and want to thank you all for this awesome resource.

Someone suggested a site MicroBR for dummies on the yahoo group i think, and that might be a page that could be done well here.

There are obvious things that aren't so obvious like tempo save (which you addressed well here) and how about name save by hitting rec-stop (yeah that's intuitive)

So to steal from a Mac site called SilverMac, how bout this?

Top ten (or 20?) things you didn't know about the Micro BR. Something like that. Just a suggestion to help newbies that are intimidated by the groups etc. Most questions could be answered that way and it would be a great salve for a decidedly crappy manual.

Take care,

Rick

ps i know i'm going  on and on, but also wanted to give kudos on the collaborative music areas here, this is just amazing to me...ALLRIGHT!

[guitarron]

Welcome Rick
That's the first I have heard of re: Jamming tracks
I received the free 1 gig card in Jan.-the promotion for that free card ended Dec31 07-it had some more complete songs on it-i might have backed the up before i deleted them, I'd have to check, but there were only a couple songs and some brochures on the card.
I checked the Boss site and it said there aren't any current promotions
But I like the idea of backing tracks in mp3 format- i know there are some users in this forum working that way
Roland has recently release a pattern arranger program for free-it's for the BR600/900, however you can create drum tracks on, then record them into another program such as Audacity or Sonar, them export them into the MBR
It's one work around.
I have used EZ Drummer in Sonar the Imported into MBR before with success.
If there's a will...
Ron

[RickSFBay]

Thanks Ron,

Re the jam tracks that was just idle curiousity as to if they were fun to use, but maybe they don't even exist! But your further suggestion to do an end-around the less than intuitive rhythm track interface and use this boss app sounds interesting (i'm pretty technical) but doesn't that make my 6 track into a 4 track (need two main trks for the stereo rhythm from the boss app?) You don't get nothing for nothing as Yogi Berra may have once said.

Probably still worth it for the ease of use and not losing the idea. I'm going to go an see if i can find that BOSS pattern arranger right now. Is it on the BOSSUS site?

Take care,
rick

ps thanks for the welcome and the response.

[guitarron]

Actually the micro br is only a 4 track recorder, however,the rythym section is separate and  stereo-so you could use 4 audio tracks and stereo drum tacks =6

try this link,
 Also i would recommend the explorer program and wave converter available in download section
Good luck


http://www.roland.com/products/en/_support/dld.cfm?iCncd=687&ln=en&SearchBy=RcId&dst=P&iRcId=0000023210&dsp=1

[guitarron]

rick
btw follow this thread re:using boss arrger
http://microrecorders.org/community/general-discussion/pc-drum-programs/msg1352/#msg1352