jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Hello - I recognize that this is an old thread, but I'm hoping some of you are still following conversations on the Tascam MSR 16. I recently bought one and have two mysteries I'm trying to solve. I managed to find a PDF of the manual, so that was helpful. Anyway, I am routing from the Submaster Section of my Toft ATB-16 to a Patchbay then from there to in/out of the MSR-16. The ATB is like many analog boards of old. The submitter section has 8 channels out. Each input channel has selector switches in pairs for 1-8 "send" to the sub section. You pan L-R for odd even 1-8 in the sub. I also use the Apollo 16 silver interface. I'm testing various channels of the MSR-16 to see if things are going where you would expect and returning same. I'm routing a L-R output from iTunes into each of the Submaster channels and then pushing that out to the MSR 16. Note that I only have channels 1-8 connected on the MSR-16. However, when I send the signal, I get input at both 1 &9, 2&10, 3&11 - and so on. . .you get the picture. If the signal appears at Channel 1, it also appears on 9s. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening inside the MSR-16. Would someone be able to suggest what is going on here? Again, I am a total novice with this 16 track MSR-16.
My second problem is that I would like to integrate this tape machine into my studio environment. . . perhaps to track drums and bass through it and have it synched with my sequencer software - Digital Performer using SMPTE. I've found a piece of software called Horae that looks like it might work if I could figure out how the software works. It has LTC Generator and Read. So I'm thinking set SMPTE as the "clock" and slave Digital Performer. My question is? - 'Does anyone have SMPTE expertise with tape and digital worlds who might be able to offer some advie?'
Thank you in advance. Best. Steve
You might want to start a new thread in the Tascam sub-forum.