- BOSS Digital Recorder Owner's Manual BR-600

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Creating Original Arrangements
With the BR-600, you can arrange patterns in whatever
sequence you like, giving you freedom to compose songs,
from intro to ending, the way you want. You can then save
these arranged patterns as song arrangements.
You can create song arrangements of up to 999 measures.
Now try actually creating an arrangement.
1
Confirm that [PAD] is not lit, then press
[ARRANGE].
[ARRANGE] and [RHYTHM ON/OFF] light.
2
Use CURSOR [ ] [ ] and the TIME/VALUE dial
to select the number for the song arrangement you
want to create.
* If you select a preset pattern here, you will not be able to
perform any further operations on the pattern.
3
Press [RHYTHM EDIT].
fig.04-500
4
Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to
“STEP,” and press [ENTER].
The Recording Standby screen appears in the display.
fig.04-510
5
Press CURSOR [ ] [ ] to move the cursor to
“STEP,” then turn the TIME/VALUE dial to select the
step to be edited.
You can press [REW] to move to the immediately
preceding step, or press [FF] to move to the next step.
About Steps
Actually, creating a song arrangement is accomplished
by arranging “steps.” A step is the data combining a
pattern number and the measure at which that pattern
is to start.
Example,
Section of Measure Length Pattern
Composition
Intro 2 Measures Pattern P001
↓
Melody A 16 Measures Pattern S002
↓
Melody B 8 Measures Pattern S003
↓
Bridge 8 Measures Pattern S099
↓
Ending 2 Measures Pattern P006
When a song is composed using the patterns arranged
as above, the arrangement will then consist of the
following sequence of steps.
Step Starting Measure
Number Pattern Number
Step 1 1 P001: ROCK-1 IN
↓
Step 2 3 S002: Original A
↓
Step 3 19 S003: Original B
↓
Step 4 27 S099: Original C
↓
Step 5 35 P006: ROCK-1 E
↓
Step 6 37 P327: BREAK
In other words, since even lengthy songs are sequences
of these compositional units, or steps, these songs can
be finished with less steps.
With the BR-600, you can arrange sequences of up to 50
steps.
Step
Pattern Number
Starting Measure
Time Signature
Tempo
Pattern Name