Ridiculous 128MB CF making my MR8 time no fun!

[Mons]

I have one track of vocals and one track of acoustic guitar for a song that is no longer than 3 minutes long. I can't bounce the tracks to 7/8, so I copied track one (guitar) to track 7 and track two (vocals) to track 8 and erased one and 2. I wanted to make some .wav files so I could then transfer them to my PC and mix them via Ntrack, but it keeps saying "Out of capacity, over 3 min long". Do I have to make my song shorter? Is there a way I can attach an external HD to this thing? Am I stuck buying bigger CF cards, even though the damned thing wont use any old CF card?!?!? HELP!!!

[Mons]

OK, maybe the song is slightly over 3 minutes...Sheesh

[BurnBarfield]

Make sure you do the "delete unused" function after you delete the tracks, or use more takes over trakcs.

[Mons]

Burns, you are a genius. Many thanks!

[BurnBarfield]

Glad it helped. took me a while to figure out why my songs would run out of time after a few takes. Then I was told from someone on here.

[kdgospel]

Man, ain't it great to learn about "delete unused". I remember when I got my MR8 a year or so ago and right off the bat thought I had been ripped off. While the card is small you should get 24 track minutes on it. In other words 8 tracks of a 3 minute song. When using my pc I just go ahead after I lay down a few tracks and transfer to my pc. Then when I get close to running out of time I delete whatever track is least needed on the MR8 to complete the song. The track is already on my pc so I can keep the recording flowing at a good pace.

[notbradsohner]

get wavmangaer pc from the fostex website. it lets you import each track seperate without having to bounce them