BR-864 "Error: Card Busy" :(

[Christobal]

Hello and thanks for being here!

I just gave my son a BR-864 for his 13th birthday. I knew there would be a huge learning curve for him in the beginning, but I looked forward to it being a "father & son" thing for a while. Anyhoo....

Our first song... I produced and he played everything. Smiles abound. Then, at 1:45 into playback... "Error: Card Busy" !! If I hit [enter], then [play], the song resumes. I have recorded a 2:30 song of 7 tracks. Looking at the included CF card in a CF reader on my PC, I see that only 30mb of the 128mb total is being used. I copied that information to a 256mb CF card and I still get the error at the exact same 1:45 mark into the song.

The Troubleshooting section of the users manual mentions this error, but the remedies include:

Delete some tracks. (I'm not even using the full 8! AND FOR ONLY 2:30!!)
Bounce some tracks down.
&, get this,
RECREATE the song using a lower resolution!!!

I WANT to bounce the tracks down to a stereo mix, but the playback stops at 1:45 no matter what I do.

My son is really looking forward to playing this song for his grandparents this weekend and starting on a new one, but I am pulling out my hair trying to get a final mix put together for burning to CD.

Is there anyone who has experience with this problem?

Thanks so much,

Chris

[emdub123]

Hate to say it, but it could be the media. You may want to back it up on your computer and reload onto another card.

Another thing, try "song optimize". There may be some weird function being performed at that point in some earlier version, that you can get rid of by optimizing...

Another possibility, you've got an effect going on one of the tracks at that point that jams the machine. Does one of the 7 tracks come in right about there? That may be the culprit. Re-record over it between 1:40 and 1:50 or so and that may get rid of it.

can't think of anything else...

[Christobal]

Thanks for the reply emdub.

It wasn't the media, as I copied the files to another card with no remedy.

I was excited to read about "song optimize" in the manual, thinking "that will surly do it..." Nope.

The "effect jam" might be the only true hypothesis. There wasn't a punch-in, or new insertion at that point. I couldn't tell which track was the culprit, as the only way I could figure that out would be to delete them one by one.

I just gave up and successfully transferred the tracks to WAVs, mixed down using CEP, and moved the 2 channel mix back to BR.

The next song we did was several minutes longer and on the same card. No problems. I'll just chalk it up to "new user error" for now.

Thanks again.

C