fostex vr800

[PHILWILL]

Hi can someone tell me how many tracks can a vr800 record simultaneously and can I load the recording into cakewalk to be edited.

[Mike Nielsen]

Yes, Phil, you can do 8 at once. You need a hard drive installed inside the VR800 to do this. I bought mine "bare" and added a 13 gig Quantum EIDE hard drive for $85.

And yes, if you have a sound card such as Frontier Designs Dakota, you can move 8 tracks digitally to your hard drive and then edit them in Cakewalk and blend them down to a single stereo pair. This assumes that you have Cakewalk configured to handle that high a level of input-- ie, 8 tracks recoding at once. I have not tried this on my computer yet but I know that it is no picnic getting the settings right on Cakewalk to work with high rates of input and output. Simultaneus 8 tracks on a computer is a real pain. That is why I moved away from computer based to stand alone recording.

Mike Nielsen