BR8 zip disks to cd's

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I recently purchased a Roland BR8. I have a zip drive and cd burner in my computer and thought that I could insert my recorded zip disk into my computer and burn right onto a cd. No such luck! Can anyone tell me how to do that? I was told by someone else that I need to buy a stand alone cd burner such as the phillips cd recorded to hook directly to my Roland BR8. I can't believe I have to go to all that expense when I have a zip drive and cd burner on my computer. Is there a way to do this on my computer? Thanks. Pat
 
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unfortunately ,as i know Roland's vs series have their own format for saving data and so , it is not compatible with your pc .u should use external scsi hard our zip drives that are connected directly to your vs & ofcourse externally.if u learnt more about it i will appreciated to hear about it .:)
 
Roland/BOSS uses a proprietary software to record on the ZIPs, which why your computer's ZIP drive can't "read" the BR-8's ZIP. I have the same setup as you, what I do is ran a patch from the BR-8's 'line-out' to the 'line-in' on my computer's SB Live soundcard. If you have adigital 'optical-in' on your soundcard than you can use the 'optical-out' on the BR-8.

I have Adaptec software and use the CD Spin-Doctor to record to my harddrive drive. When I had enough songs than I burned a CD using my internal CD burner.
 
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as 72fender said it is available to convert your music track by track to your pc ,but don't forget that during this convert u will loose some of your quality.specially if u like to convert the sound back from your pc to hard recorder.(sound card noise & ....)
 
I didn't get any noise from my soundcard. If you are, than check your faders in your soundcard control panel and click the mute options. I don't think I lose any sonic quality of the music I record to my harddrive but my high end hearing is shot from playing live.
 
72 Fender.. thanks for the soundcard tip. I too, am looking to get a new soundcard that will accept a digital in (such as from the BR8)

Questions though.. since my computer is a few years old (WIN95) is there anything in particular I need to know about which type of soundcard to get? Burning from the BR8 to the Phillips is getting kinda expensive.

Also, any new word on the BR8 software updates?

thanks for your help!

Ranchfield
http://www.mp3.com/merrycherry - all recorded on the BR8
 
I have a Sound Blaster Live Value soundcard, I'm not sure what soundcard is the best for harddrive recording. I don't make recordings to send out as demos but to 'flesh' out original songs. I posted a demo of a song I did on the BR-8 on MP3 at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/152/the_primetime_blues_band.html, using the above setup (PII-400HZ, 128 P100 RAM, Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM harddrive.

No, I haven't heard anymore news about the BR-8 upgrades. My gut feeling now is that the upgrade won't be announced until the Winter NAMM show, Jan 19. I'm going as a guest!!
 
Wow.. smooth as I don't know what! listened to the tune and loved it.. I don't usually let a whole song fly by on MP3 (bad connections make a stop and start process to listen to) but I reaalllly liked the Blues Funk track. Anytime you want to do a CD swap/buy, let me know!

Your computer equip sounds a bit ahead of mine... I'm not looking to record directly using the soundcard (as in using the computer itself to record), just transfer the song from the BR8 to my hard drive so I can burn off CD's.. right now the cheap-o sound card I have has mono analog inputs! Not much use for that.

Going to Jan NAMM as a guest? Woo Woo! That's hot! Don't drool too much over the new stuff.. I'll wait to read in the magazines what new stuff I can't live without, although the BR8 is so damn handy, I can see it sticking around for awhile.

thanks for the info..

Rancher
 
I'm glad that you liked Blues Funk, it was the second song I recorded using the BR-8. I impressed myself! BF is only a demo, I don't think we'll use it on our next CD.

I first mix to cassette, this gives me the chance to listen to the mix on various systems. At first, I didn't really care about the mix but using the BR-8 makes me want the songs to sound good. I was going to just make demos for the band to listen to, to get across the way I wanted my songs played but my demos sound better than the band playing them. I don't use any pedals live but now I'm thinking about it after using the BR-8 COSM effects.
 
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