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An Introduction to Recording Your Own CD

There are lots of different loops available, including loops in all sorts of

music styles. Within a style, there may be a loop for each section of your

song—the introduction, verse, chorus and so on. You can string the loops

together like building blocks to construct your song. On Roland’s

VS-2480DVD and the BOSS BR-1200CD and BR-1600CD, you can play the

loops in the desired order on pads, making the whole process fast and fun.

In the BOSS BR-900, BR-1200CD and BR-1600CD, you can import a .WAV

loop—or a Standard MIDI File—directly into the Rhythm Track so it

doesn’t use up any of your recording tracks.

Recording Tracks

The process of recording tracks is sometimes called “tracking.” Here’s how

it goes:

• Record your ﬁrst track.

• You can re-record any portions of the track you’d like to improve with-

out losing the parts you like. This process is called “punching.” When

you begin to re-record a section of a track, you “punch in.” When you

stop, you “punch out.”

• Record additional tracks to complete your arrangement.

• You can combine already-recorded tracks to make them easier to

manage, lock in effects you really like or free up space for new tracks.

The process of combining tracks is called “bouncing” or “ping-pong-

ing.” Since Virtual Tracks provide so much elbow room, you can hold

onto the original, un-bounced tracks in case you need to change any of

them or re-do the bounce later on.

You can also perfect any track using the non-destructive editing techniques

we mentioned earlier. You can move pieces around, clean up unwanted

noises and much more.

Recording Your Music, continued

Drum

Loop 1

Drum

Loop 2

Bass

phrase

1 2 ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... 37 38

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Roland CD-Rack User Manual Page 14