12
Section 5 Using the CD-R/RW Drive..... 139

Creating Audio CD........................140

Precautions...............................................................140
Setting the Time Between Songs (Pre-Gap).........140
Writing Songs to Discs............................................140
Viewing the Remaining Time for Recording on
Audio CDs................................................................142
Playing Back Audio CDs........................................142
Enabling Playback on CD Players (Finalize).......143

Using the CD-R/RW Drive to Exchange

Data.............................................145

Saving Recorded Songs to CD-R/RW Discs
(Backup)....................................................................145
Backing up a song to a CD-R/RW disc one at a
time (Song Backup)............................................145
Saving all of the songs on a memory card to
a CD-R/RW disc (All Backup).........................146
Loading Saved Songs to a Memory Card (Recover).... 147
Loading saved songs to a memory card one at a
time (Song Recover)...........................................147
Loading all saved songs to a memory card
(All Recover).......................................................147
Copying and Writing Waveform Data.................148
Copying waveform data from a computer to the
audio tracks (WAV/AIFF Import)..................148
Copying WAV/AIFF files as drum sounds
(Tone Load).........................................................149
Copying audio track waveform data to
computers (WAV/AIFF Export)......................150
Using SMF................................................................ 151
Playing SMFs using external MIDI instruments
(SMF Player).......................................................151
Loading drum patterns from the CD-R/RW drive
(SMF Import)........................................................152
Erasing Data from a CD-RW Disc (CD-RW Erase).... 153

Importing Songs from CDs to Audio

Tracks.......................................... 154

Section 6 Using MIDI ............155

MIDI Fundamentals ......................156

What is MIDI?..........................................................156
MIDI Connectors..................................................... 156
MIDI Channels.........................................................156
MIDI Implementation Charts................................156

Synchronizing with MIDI Devices ..157

Using the Rhythm to Play an External MIDI Sound
Module......................................................................157
Synchronizing Playback with a MIDI Sequencer....158
Synchronized playback with the BR-900CD
as the master.......................................................158
Setting the MTC offset.......................................159
Using MMC..............................................................160
Operating MMC-compatible devices with the
BR-900CD............................................................160
Section 7 Using USB .............161

Before Using USB (Overview) .......162

Compatible OS.........................................................162
Composition of Data on Memory Cards..............162
Connecting a Computer..........................................163
Notes on Using USB................................................163

With Windows .............................164

Backing Up the BR-900CD’s Data.........................164
Saving BR-900CD Track Data in WAV/AIFF Format
(WAV/AIFF Export)...............................................165
Loading WAV/AIFF Files in BR-900CD Tracks
(WAV/AIFF Import)...............................................167
Importing SMFs and Creating Patterns................169
Loading Drum Sounds from WAV/AIFF Files
(Tone Load).............................................................. 171
Using the BR-864 / BR-532’s Data.........................173

With Macintosh............................ 175

Backing Up the BR-900CD’s Data.........................175
Saving BR-900CD Track Data in WAV/AIFF Format
(WAV/AIFF Export)...............................................176
Loading WAV/AIFF Files in BR-900CD Tracks
(WAV/AIFF Import)...............................................178
Importing SMFs and Creating Patterns................179
Loading Drum Sounds from WAV/AIFF Files
(Tone Load).............................................................. 181
Using the BR-864 / BR-532’s Data.........................183