BR800 Importing 2~3 second wav files into user bank for use as effect/patch

[Soccerlogical]

Hi,
How would I go about recording or importing sitar, steel drum, moog patches into User Bank to play via my guitar   and keyboard.

Can I Import a 2~3 second wav file of a single sitar note from laptop and save it in br800 user bank?

Then play that file in user bank with keyboard or guitar changing the note/key of imported file as i hit my different guitar strings or keys on synth...

[cuthbert]

Hi there,

Sorry but no, this is not possible with a BR-800. The Boss BR series are audio recorders, and its effects only process the input signal and mix in the effect type. For instance, you can apply a chorus or delay effect to an electric guitar that is plugged in. That said, the BR-800 has a sitar effect that you can apply to a guitar signal - but it doesn't transpose / play back an audio clip - it's only an effect.

The feature you're describing sounds more like a sample playback system, where you can trigger a sample and transpose it to the note(s) coming in from a controlling device. There are hardware systems that you can buy that will do this (I think Electro Harmonix has a series of these, and there are certainly others), or you can do it in software such as Kontakt via a MIDI controller.

hth,
cuthbert

[64Guitars]

How would I go about recording or importing sitar, steel drum, moog patches into User Bank to play via my guitar   and keyboard.

Can I Import a 2~3 second wav file of a single sitar note from laptop and save it in br800 user bank?

No. The User Bank stores Patch Settings, not audio samples. The only way to store audio samples on the BR-800 is with the Tone Load feature of the Rhythm section which you'd load using the free BR Rhythm Editor software from Roland. However, you can't trigger these samples with a guitar or keyboard. Instead, you'd trigger them by programming patterns and arrangements using the BR Rhythm Editor. Your patterns and arrangements will be saved with the song. When you press Play, the arrangement will start playing and you can play along with it on your guitar or keyboard. Note that the total of all of your samples is limited to 13 seconds per drum kit. And you can't change the pitch of a stored sample, so it's not practical for playing melodies. It's really only meant for playing drum and percussion sounds.

See page 22 of the BR Rhythm Editor manual:

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/BR-800_RhythmEditor_e01.pdf

Then play that file in user bank with keyboard or guitar changing the note/key of imported file as i hit my different guitar strings or keys on synth...

No. I don't know of any multitrack recorder that has that capability. It's the wrong type of hardware for what you want to do. To trigger sounds using a MIDI guitar or MIDI keyboard, you need some sort of MIDI sound module. The cheapest solution would probably be to find a MIDI keyboard that has the sounds you want.

[Soccerlogical]

Much appreciated gents,

I was hoping to save on outboard gear when i read:
BR 800 Update Version 1.10 ]
The user patches for an insert effect can be copied to song patches in the same bank, or song patches can be copied to user patches in the same bank.

Figured I could import a tiny wav/aiff file from laptop into Song Bank and then "song patches can be copied to user patches in the same bank."

And voila