Donovan Banks

I do get the odd question from the videos I upload to YouTube. I thought I'd answer them publicly to make myself feel important. ha ha


The first mail comes from Neil. 

Hi Donovan Firstly, I would like to thank you for your youtube vids for boss br600. Really helpful. I wonder if you could send me a copy of the drum track list that you mentioned as I had trouble locating it on your blog page. Keep up the good work. Thanks Neil

Thanks Neil and I apologise for taking so long to reply. I might have moved it or misplaced it when I changed servers. So I have loaded it here for your benefit. Enjoy. I certainly found keeping a record of what I had done very helpful when arranging.


The second mail comes from Steve,

Hi there...I can export my ttrack 1 through 4 and 5/6 to my computer but when I try to export 7/8 it says card full...now I'm exporting so I don't understand why it says card full as I have plenty of memory left on the computer external card... Any help is appreciated and thanks for your other videos, I wouldn't be able to do this without your posts :) steve

What the BR600 does when you export a track is copy the .wav file to the USB folder on the card. Which means that if you have recorded 8 tracks, then export 8 tracks there are effectively 16 .wav files on your card taking up storage space.
What I found to be more effective is the Boss WAV converter which can be downloaded here. Basically it is more visual when downloading WAV files from the BR600. I will try get a video done for that soon.

Have fun recording guys.

I got a question from one of the vids on YouTube
"How do you record onto v-track 78_2 and delete the one that's already there?"

To select where to bounce the track move your cursor to the top right of the screen. You will see this;

Select which track by using the scroll wheel, then select which V-Track you wish to use. This is currently track 7/8, V-track 5.

The squares next to the number indicate whether you have something recorded there or not. If they are blank then no data is recorded in the V-Track

Hope That helps. Feel free to ask anything else.

Basically I pan two tracks left and right to make it feel like a wall, but here are the videos...





Enjoy.
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A short Video Demo on how to Export Tracks using the BOSS BR600

I know a few people battle with this so I put together this video on putting together rhythm arrangements for the BR600. I know the concept is the same for the Micro BR so knock yourself out.




The Song sheet can be found here...

Yes it is....
Recently you may recall I was playing with a Boss Micro BR. I loved it however I was slightly put off by the lack of variety in the drum rhythm patterns.

I looked up the BR600 and it has a built in, velocity sensitive drum machine. I loved the idea and although I am not sued to fiddling around with a drum machine, it turns out to be easy enough if I have the manual handy.

It has a whole lot more rhythm presets to it than the Micro BR and even has more effects using COSM modelling for the guitar effects and a bass and acoustic simulator for the guitar. The bass simulator is a little slow for my liking so I'd rather use a bass guitar anyway.

It has 8 tracks available for recording and I figured I'd post a sample for you to hear.

I love the mastering toolkit and I plan on playing around with it a lot more. The only problem with this is now that I have used the Micro BR, and the BR600 I want the bigger Boss recorders... But for now I'll stick with what I have.