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I'm planning to buy a digital recording studio from "Roland" or "Boss" for home recording. Particullary, I'm looking at BOSS BR-1200:

BOSS BR-1200

I have a question for anybody who has an experiance with this kind of tools:

Is it possible to switch effects, loop, start or stop recording, using footswitches? Or pressing buttons is the only way?

Boss offers footswitches:

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Is it possible to use them with recording studio? If yes, can you assing anything to it, how does it work? Please describe the process, if you know how it works.

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Downvoted, because this is simply a matter of downloading the product manual and reading it. Why expect someone else to do that for you? – slim Dec 13 '11 at 15:21
Generally these kind of boxes support footswitches but as @slim says, you need to download the manual and verify that this particular model supports a footswitch for the functions that you need it to. – ObscureRobot Dec 13 '11 at 18:30
@slim, I'm not expecting somebody to download a manual for me, but to share experiance. – Silver Light Dec 13 '11 at 18:51
... And now someone has shared their experience (or more likely their hunch) whereas the manual contains the truth. – slim Dec 14 '11 at 8:00
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The simple answer is yes - you can use a footswitch for starting and stopping recording.

Page 39 of the manual, which as Slim points out is freely downloadable on the Internet, has instructions.

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If you want footswitching on a piece of studio hardware, you might have to do something custom -- and probably analog unless you know someone who can program.

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Downvoted for not being true. – slim Dec 14 '11 at 7:58
slim, you're just being a jerk at this point. – mendota Dec 14 '11 at 8:13
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Well, perhaps. But how are you helping anyone by posting a reply (that's here for posterity) that's just a guess, and a wrong guess at that. And how's Silver Light helping anyone (including himself) by posting a question for which a conclusive answer is readily available at the manufacturer's web site? – slim Dec 14 '11 at 9:36
If the question had been closed promptly, you wouldn't have been tempted to post your guess as a reply. – slim Dec 14 '11 at 9:37
Well, I thought I'd try to contribute something more than snark... – mendota Dec 15 '11 at 22:02
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