br-8 and Macs

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Hello all

I would like to know how to burn cds on a Mac computer. I noticed the boss website has software for converting files only for PCs. Does anyone knows how can I do this. Are there any softwares that can handle the files from the BR-8 in order to burn cds.

Thanks

Jose
 
Which Mac do you have? What inputs?

Free "iTunes" will handle PeeCee :) wave files. www.apple.com or www.versiontracker.com .

I am not sure how you would import them though.

Maybe a MIDI cable. Do you have a sound card? (Such as "Mouth of the Unicorn" etc?)

Try www.maccentral.com discussion forums for advice.

Also I suspect that Boss may have a solution.

Keep me posted as to what you find out!

Cheers Alan
 
I have 2 stand alone CD burners. And I go straight from the BR-8 to the CD burner. It's not fabulous, but it does sound decent.

cj
 
First, as to MIDI: No, you can't move music, audio, WAV files, with MIDI. MIDI is only MIDI, which is not an audio recording format. Instruments recorded as audio don't create MIDI data.

There are a couple problems with moving from BR-8 to Mac. First, you can't read a BR-8 disk in a Mac Zip drive---it will lock up your Mac the minute the Zip drive spins up the disk. At least, in OS 9 and earlier. I haven't tried it on OS X yet.

Second, the WAVE converter software for the BR-8 only works on PC. There is no Mac version. (Since you can't get a file into a Mac directly anyway... see above.)

So what you would have to do is use an intermediary PC to get the files to a hard disk, convert them, then get them to the Mac, either over a network or by delivering the files on a medium like a Mac-compatible Zip disk (not a BR-8 zip disk, see above) or CD.

Once they're there on the Mac, you can import them into audio processing software. If you want to do all your mixing on the BR-8, then you can just export the WAV and burn it on the Mac, going through the transfer process outlined above.
 
Thanks!

I was actually looking for that info myself!

Cheers Alan
 
All that converting for mac seem awfully complicated seeing's how recording with the BR-8 is supposed to be simple in the first place, but it you want to finesse the sound using fancier software, the conversions above are the only way. Of course, like me, you could just mix down directly to a stand alone CD burner, then use the mixdown CD to change song order and do final master edits and sweetening using the mac. Got excellent results like that.
 
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