br 1600 questions

[chuskey]

I've been using the br 864 for about a year now, just for song writing really. I'm thinking about upgraging this year and I'm thinking about getting the br 1600. I'd be inclined to use it recording the whole band and then exporting the tracks to mix and master using recording software. The reason is because the br would be easy to setup where ever the band is recording and then I can dump it to do editing and mixing on the pc. I don't have the money for the bigger Roland units and I have access to a couple of really nice recording programs. This would mainly be just for my band doing demos. The 1600 would still retain the things that made the 864 so great for songwriting (drum machine, etc) and still have enough imputs to record the band. Plus I'd already know my way around it.

Based on what I'm wanting to do with it does the 1600 sound like the right unit for me. Also I've read some saying it's not a true 16 track. I assumed, I haven't done my homework on it yet, that there are 16 channels of playback but you can only record 8 at a time. Please correct me on this if that's not how it's set up. That would be pretty important factor. What's not going to be that important is the editing and mastering functions. I might use them some, but mostly I'll do that on the pc.

Thanks for the help and advice.

 

[Lowboy]

I just bought one and have used it successfully for recording my band live. I'm a newbie so I'm still trying to figure out the editing portion of it. Maybe I need to download it to my computer too, but I'd prefer to do it on the machine right now. Maybe someone can help me with that. I want to normalize a track but I can't figure out what the numbers for "Start" (1.1) and "End" (9.9) refer to. I know this designates a portion of the track but I'm not sure how to use it. Any help?

 

[sp_clark]

Br1600

Lowboy...the start/end position indicators tell you what measure/minute/second/frame position you are at in the song. If you press the 'DSPFMT' function key, it will expand the start/end position to be more meaningful (granular). If you press it again, it will show a format with marker numbers. If you want to normalize a track, the 1.1 to x.x is what you want anyway. If you are trying to just normalize a 'portion' of a track, you must specify that section with the start/end positions. Hope that helps.

Steve