The new Micro BR is pretty awesome for it's size! I wouldn't use the e-jam option, but for beginners, playing along with the jam tracks is a great learning tool.



Yes, you can, the BR-800 does come bundled with SONAR LE, and the BR-800 ASIO drivers are on the DVD.

I use Reaper, only because my vintage single core AMD will crash if I have 5 or more tracks running with plug-ins with SONAR LE, and when I opened Reaper, Reaper found the ASIO drivers and I had the option to use my BR-800 as control surface, and external audio device.

I know with any DAW, like Ableton for example, you must setup any device in the in the 'users preference' menu.

I've recorded tracks with the BR-800, exported the tracks to Reaper to record soft-synth tracks, and exported back to the BR-800.

This track "Sunrise Over Io' http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=8644395, was recorded by the way above, the basic backing track was created by another musician, I imported the backing track to my BR-800, recorded two guitar tracks using two different BR-800 COSM guitar effects, than exported those tracks to Reaper and added some soft-synths effect using my AXIOM 25, exported the tracks back to the BR-800 for some minor tweaking, and imposted the tracks back to Reaper for some more minor tweaks.

I'm really impressed with the BR-800 features, I've mic my amps & recorded, I've recorded my Mustang I and Cyber-Twin direct, used the internal COSM guitar & vocal effects, made quick field recording using batteries, etc.