Synching Dr-770 with Br-1600

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Hello,
I'm trying to synch my DR770 with my BR1600 (=Master, using Midi timing clock), when I start the BR1600 the DR770 starts as well, but I can't hear anything.

Can anyone help?

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blahovetz
 
Is the volume up on the 770? Do you have audio cables hooked up from the 770 to the 1600?

Are the audio channels for the 770 routed correctly in the 1600 and can you see if you are getting any signal in the 1600?

Do you need to turn up the drum tracks on the 1600?

How are you monitoring the audio?
 
And if you only have midi cables hooked up, then that is your problem. Midi does not transmit audio. It is control data for the devices to talk to each other.

You will need to hook up audio output from the dr770 in addition to the midi cables if this is the case.
 
Thanks for your help. It's funny, the manual doesn't say that audio cables are required, so I need to buy the appropriate cables first.
 
I'm glad it was easy to figure out.

You can use guitar cables if you have any extra laying around...assuming that the br1600 accepts a quarter inch connector.

Have fun!
 
Hi,
I have audio cables hooked up now, but nothing has changed: when I start the BR1600 the DR770 starts too, but I'm not getting any signal in the BR1600. When I plug my headphones into the DR770 I can hear the sound, but not in the BR1600.

blahovetz
 
Wish14 said:
Is the volume up on the 770?

Are the audio channels for the 770 routed correctly in the 1600 and can you see if you are getting any signal in the 1600?

Do you need to turn up the drum tracks on the 1600?

How are you monitoring the audio?
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Is there any drum patterns programmed in the 770, it will start and play but only play back a song or programme selected. If nothing is selected it just plays an empty song.

Alan.
 
Hi,
Thank you, it's working, I can hear the sound of the drum machine in the BR1600, unfortunately the sound has a lot of reverb. This is a problem I've had for many years: when I use a mike the sound in the BR1600 is dry, when I use a keyboard I've got a lot of of reverb in the BR1600. The same is happening with the drum machine now. I'm not using any insert effects and "reverb send" is zero.

Can you help?

Blahovetz
 
Are effects turned on in the dr770? Can you hear the reverb with headphones plugged into the dr770?
 
And reverb is a loop effect, not an insert effect, for the br1600.

Did you press the Reverb button to make sure reverb isn't turned on in the br1600? I believe it is a different menu than the insert effect menu, so you might be looking in the wrong place.

Have you read the manual?
 
Completely left field idea, but could the reverb be turned on via midi with a transmitted midi message, for example there could be a situation where by a button pressed on the drum machine turns on/up the reverb on the br1600 via a midi command. This could have also been happening with the keyboard you had plugged in before.

If you plug a midi out from the br1600 to the 770 to transmit the midi time, but don't have a midi cable plugged in between the 770 out and the midi in of the br1600 does the same problem happen, you will have to restart both machines first to check so that they both go back to default settings (reverb off).

Alan.
 
@wish: I swear, the reverb in the BR1600 isn't turned on.
@witzendos: I don't use the keyboard via midi, I just plug it in and the BR1600 adds the reverb.

BTW, when the same keyboard is plugged into my small BR600, the sound is dry, so the BR1600 must add the reverb.
 
I don't know, man. Sounds strange. Sounds like the effect is on in br1600 somewhere. I think you can use the arrow keys when you are in the effects menu to get to sub-menus. Have you taken a look at that?

Also what happens if you route the input to a different track? Does the reverb follow it? If you record the drums, does the reverb get printed to the track or does the recorded track stay dry?
 
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