BOSS Br-80 Portable Digital Recorder,Silver

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At the moment the iPad wins on Drums and editing, and it also has all the software instruments, which I sometimes find useful, particularly the pads and strings for fleshing out a song. Subsequent tracks are armed and recorded in the same way and, as the insert effects are permanently recorded with the track, you can opt to have different effects on every track if you want to.

Credit is provided by Novuna Personal Finance, a trading style of Mitsubishi HC Capital UK PLC, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Years of working with computers lead me to try every DAW in existence but I too am waiting for Santa (Thomann) to bring me a BR 80 and I can hardly wait! eBand mode is also an excellent partner for musical training, as it lets you record your performance adjust playback speed and/or pitch as desired. The intuitive user-interface continues the simple-to-use tradition of BOSS’ acclaimed BR series, with a graphical design that follows the layout of a conventional recording console. For mastering, you can select Master mode, set the balance and choose a combination of three-band compression and limiting with variable levels, ratios, thresholds and attack/release times in all three compressor bands to allow useful tonal changes to be made.Science fiction has a way of catching up with us, but when I took my first steps in multitrack recording I didn't envisage just how far things would come in such a short space of time.

You use the cursor right button to enter the volume screen and each track level can then be changed by pressing the [+] or [-] value button. The majority of decisions are given instantly, so you could get your new gear sooner than you thought! I’d say that it was also a little too large and cumbersome for the task at hand (I only need a single input, not four).The recording quality is surprisingly good and, though it doesn't rival a good studio mic in this respect, the end result is quite plausible. eBand mode provides a huge library of backing tracks and rhythm patterns to play along with, and users can import their own WAV or MP3 songs.

When you're done, hit Stop, then press Rewind and Stop at the same time to take you back to the start of the song.

If the rhythm section is switched on, this starts at the tempo you have selected and includes a count-in to get you started.