Timed transfer from eight track to computer?

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ot7doc wrote:

> I have always used a digital eight track but now would love to transfer
> some of the songs I've been working on there to computer. The trick, I
> imagine, is getting the tracks to come to the computer in time with
> each other. Can I use midi sync somehow to send one track at a time to
> the computer and get the timing from track to track to match up just
> right on the computer?


Which 8-track? Can you use a MotU 2408 for ADAT lightpipe or TDIF, and
do them all at once?

Barring that, you can record a pulse on all eight (just before or after
each song), then line that up visually after you've copied them in one
(or two) at a time.

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S O'Neill wrote:

> ot7doc wrote:

> > I have always used a digital eight track but now would love to transfer
> > some of the songs I've been working on there to computer. The trick, I
> > imagine, is getting the tracks to come to the computer in time with
> > each other. Can I use midi sync somehow to send one track at a time to
> > the computer and get the timing from track to track to match up just
> > right on the computer?

> Which 8-track? Can you use a MotU 2408 for ADAT lightpipe or TDIF, and
> do them all at once?

> Barring that, you can record a pulse on all eight (just before or after
> each song), then line that up visually after you've copied them in one
> (or two) at a time.

And some DAW apps let you align 'em by their own timestamps, but I
knoweth not what he has. One can also transfer in pairs, using one track
over and over as half of a pair and then aligning that track to itself
for each pair, and then deleting all unwanted instances of that track.
Xfer track 1 + 2; track 1 + 3, etc.

--
ha

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You could rent some gear that would allow you to transfer all 8 tracks
in one pass.

Al

On 31 Jan 2005 18:18:43 -0800, "ot7doc" <ot7doc@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have always used a digital eight track but now would love to transfer
>some of the songs I've been working on there to computer. The trick, I
>imagine, is getting the tracks to come to the computer in time with
>each other. Can I use midi sync somehow to send one track at a time to
>the computer and get the timing from track to track to match up just
>right on the computer?
>
>Thanks.

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Sure. I've got a Fostex digital 8-track with a few midi options (I've
used it to sync up and record drum machines but that's it). My
computer is a Mac G5 desktop running the latest OS X. My interface
between the two is an Edirol Audiocapture and I want my music to end up
on Garageband.

I know it's just Garageband, nothing fancy, but then all I was using
before was a Fostex.

I will truly miss my outboard tube-driven reverb by going to computer,
but the idea of not having to bounce; of being able to leave volume and
EQ knobs pegged to different points without jumping back and forth
between faders and EQ (and having to start over the poorly mixed
takes); of being able to leave all my settings in place without
extensive pencil note-taking and erasing and re-note-taking on each
song... well, it's downright dreamy.

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That's what I'm hoping for. I'm gonna give that a shot this weekend.

You know, maybe the trouble isn't worth it, and maybe I should just be
happy with my current setup. But mixdown is just so tedious for me on
the eight-track.

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Do you have SMPTE on these machines ?

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In article <1107305286.078293.170940@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
natjordan@gmail.com wrote:

> Rental is real hard in these parts, but I'm curious... what would do
> that? ADAT something? I've home-recorded a long time avoiding ever
> learning about ADAT, though I know it can provide an 8-track at once
> out. Although most of these songs have 14 tracks that need to be
> synced up...
>

You could rent something like a MOTU 896 or other firewire interface. At
that level they can take 8 or more inputs at a time. If you have
Garageband 2 you can do it all in one pass. Older garageband only has
stereo in.