New User With Some Questions

[maddogon5]

I'm a very new user and need help getting started. I've been a musician for 38 years and would like to do my own CD. I have a friend in Pa., not to far away who purchased a Korg D1600mkII to use for making demo songs for his band. He doesn't know how to operate his machine, but has offered to let me use it, (even take it home!). He just uses one track and one mike for his demos. I would like to learn how to use as many as I need, (probably 6 tracks for the instruments and 3 to 4 for vocals). I also want to learn how to edit and bounce so I can make a correction in a track that has a flub in it. I know I have some work ahead of me but I have the manual and also the option of bringing the Korg to my house which I was kind of scared to do because right now I don't know much about it and he has songs on it he doesn't want erased. Ten years ago I had a Yamaha 4 track cassette recorder but it's long gone. My question is where can I get started in this forum? I failed to say I play acoustic bluegrass music, so I won't need midi or effects except for a little reverb and EQ. I play 5-string banjo, mandolin, guitar and upright bass. Can you download the songs from the usb port to a flash drive, or does it have to be a computer? Thanks for any answers
maddog .

[jerryv]

I'm not familiar with your particular recorder, but I've recently purchased a d3200 and have learned a lot by lurking and posting in this forum

http://www.studiotrax.net/

which has a strong base of users of Korg recording gear. There's a forum dedicated to the D1600 here ..

http://www.studiotrax.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=98

The folks who hang out at studiotrax have been helpful on a number of occasions .. It's well worth your time to check it out. You may find many of your questions answered already if you look thru all the posts.