Best way to upload/import MULTIPLE wav files back into a BR1600??

Started by Super 8, November 05, 2017, 11:44:52 AM

Super 8

So, following on from a previous post, after being told what I needed to do in order to cut unwanted frequencies from my mixes, I just couldn't work out how to actually physically do it with my BOSS BR1600 (still to this day!) Using one particularly large song project as my test, I ended up exporting numerous track parts (as .wav files) out of my BR1600 (in one pass!) and uploading to my laptop where I made the required cuts (which was quite easy as things turned out! I used Reaper as recommended by Flash - CHEERS!) The thing is, I just can't mix for toffee with a laptop I NEED KNOBS & FADERS so ... now I want to bring ALL these cleaned-up files back into my Boss & get back to mixing my song project from there HOWEVER it's taking me AN ETERNITY just trying to reload these cleaned-up files back into my BR1600 though! Am I right in thinking that, although I managed to get said files out in one bulk pass, in order to get them back in I now have to sit & load each track back in individually??!! I just can't find another way around this as things currently stand! Anyone got any suggestions as to how to speed this process up? I'm going a bit stir crazy this end I have to say as it's taking FOREVER and it's not like I can go away & do something else (like I did when exporting these tracks) as the import process prompts at numerous steps along the way for each & every track import! Surely if you can get multiple tracks out easily & relatively quickly then you should be able to import the same (multiple!) files back in in a similar fashion surely? Any insights/workaround much appreciated as I actually have an entire album's worth of tracks that will require processing in this way = "AARRRGGHH!!!" ???     

Oldrottenhead

Getting tracks out en masse is easy. But putting em back in is a different story the most obvious being you want to know where the tracks are going. .

One work around is doing submixes on your laptop.

Ie, bounce drums and bass to a stereo track. Rhythm guitars to another etc. Depending on how many tracks you have. You could do four stereo sub mixes. Then fire them onto your br1600.

Just an idea.
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Super 8

CHEERS FOR THAT ORH! Yes, getting them out is no problem (or 'nae problem' if speaking in the local vernacular!) Anyway, after much head-scratching I THINK I might have come up with another way of doing it too using the CD-R/CD-RW LOAD function. If I'm right in thinking (I haven't actually physically tried this yet but intend to later on today!), if I save this batch of now 'EQ filtered' multiple .WAV files I have stored on my laptop as a DATA disk and import them back into the 1600 that way it should (in theory as things stand!) give me the option to decide what track goes where at the import stage.

I vaguely remember attempting a similar thing once many moons ago when I first got the BR1600 and was looking to import some loops. It was still a faff but miles easier than individual track uploads via the USB port (it's USB 1.0 on the BR1600 remember zzzZZZ!!!!) Hopefully this'll work and I can crack on with the album post-production. Come hell or high water I am on a mission now to produce something that's commercially releasable with my BR1600 and ... this album is it! (It had been my intention to keep it all ENTIRELY 'in-thebox' ie: recorded & produced just on/with a BR1600  .... and I would have done had I been able to work out how to high pass and low pass filter frequencies on individual tracks using the built-in EQ on the BOSS but, try as I did, I just couldn't seem to work out how to do that bit hence the major headache of having to export every single album component track out of the Boss just to do this filter bit only to import it ALL back in again and remix EVERY song!) Anyway, I'm getting there now (I think!) and said LP (namely "T-T-T-Technicolour Melodies!") should be out on general release (via Detroit's Futureman Records) come the beginning of next year (2018) That's the plan anyway. ROCK'n'ROLL!!!

PS: I've asked on here before but still couldn't seem to get the answers I needed (I dunno, maybe it's just me?!!) If anyone could once & for all 'slip me the key' and let me know (ideally in simple terms as if you were explaining to a 3 year old!) how to High Pass & Low Pass Filter recorded tracks within the BR1600 it would save me a heap of time come album No.2! The thing is, it was actually REALLY easy cutting the freqs with the DAW (Reaper as recommended by Flash!) Take BASS for example: Depending on the song, I'd just cut out everything below 40 or 60hz and above say 5K = "SIMPLES!" For the life of me I couldn't (and still can't!) do that on my BR1600 hence the MAJOR faff of having to export then re-import each & every component song part of my forthcoming album in order to filter out unwanted frequencies. Talk about a hassle! I've spent more time doing this (ongoing!) than I did actually recording the album!!!

PPS: So I bet you're now thinking: "Once he got the tracks out why didn't he just mix/produce his album in the DAW?" Well, 'cause I just can't mix on a laptop. I much prefer the hands-on style of mixing using physical knobs & faders. I'm very 'old skool' in this respect. Each to his own / horses for courses ... whatever works for you eh? ; - )