VS880s linked

[Alison Fleming]

Thanks for the info Wish.

Just to ask anyone, when my two VS880's are linked together, can I use it like a 16 track and bounce all tracks to 2 tracks and then burn a CD? I'm not sure.

Anyone?

[virtual.ray]

If your 2 machines are sync'ed and you come out of digital out of master into digital in of slave and have a pair of tracks available,I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.I've never tried it but once you have the two track mix it may be a good idea to reset the slave to it's internal clock before burning the CD.You no longer would need the master machine anyway once you have your mix to 2.

[Alison Fleming]

Thanks for the reply Ray. Sorry for having to ask more, but...

In an effort to understand how the two machines are communicating with eachother when synched...are you saying that I couldn't come out of the slave and into the master, to bounce to two tracks in the master? And why?

[virtual.ray]

I don't know.But I do know that in order to record anything,the VS needs some type of clock,either it's own internal one,or one coming from Digin 1 or Digin 2.My understanding was that you wanted the 2 machines to be in sync when doing the 2 track ,and in this scenario one would have to be master and the other slave.But it might work,give it a try,you won't damage anything by trying.I have one VS-990EX and I HAVE tried this:when all my tracks are full I send them out via S/PDIF to my Tascam CDRW-700 CD burner and record them to a CDRW,I then reset the clock on the VS to DIGIN 2(optical) and record the CD back into the VS on 2 Virtual Tracks.Now these are not in sync with the opriginal VS tracks but I don't care 'cause I can now continue recording on the other empty Virtual Tracks to embellish the 2 tracks from the CD so I end up with potentially more than 16 tracks although I've never yet needed to go that far.Sorry for the typos.

[virtual.ray]

My curiosity piqued,I dug up my VS880EX Manual,and found an example of what you want to do on p.176.Apparently,in order to play back all 16 tracks from both machines in sync you'd need to record the playback to a 3rd device like a CD burner unless you used the analog ins on one machine but I wouldn't recommend that 'cause you'll lose quality.

[r2d2]

I have 2 VS's and have never had any trouble mixing to 2 tracks, regardless which machine is slave & which is master. I can digitally lock either machine to the other, as long as I don't try to digitally lock both VS's at the same time. Didja ever see 2 VS's dukin' it out for control over digital lock? It ain't perdy!

I have a V-Exp & an EX. I use the EX as the master and the V-Exp as the slave. I also have a PIII500 sync'd up, using Cool Edit Pro and a DATPort for a 16-track totally digital mixdown. Here's the best part: The whole thing locks up very tight through MIDI. So I could have up to 64 pairs of 16-track submixes (1024 tracks!!!) IF my PC had the power to handle it.

It isn't Protools but it's more than enough to keep me busy in my spare time!

[Alison Fleming]

Thanks all

I'll let you know how I get on