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As I sit here at work listening to clif's X-Jam for the millionth time, it occured to me that it might be cool to put together a CD of instrumental tracks created on the MR-8. I'm always looking for stuff to play that blocks out background chatter and would love to have an hour of stuff like...

Just got saved by the MR-8's hidden 'virtual tracks'. After some time away, I returned to a "work in progress" and proceeded to accidently record over a good take. Having gone over it a couple times before realizing what I had done, "Undo" didn't work. I was able to put the card in my reader...

clif, You need to make a longer version of x-jam! It's still a life saver at work for blocking out extraneous chatter, but I hate resetting every 4 minutes.... ;-> I'm starting to hear guitar - remember Animal Logic - that band with Staney Clark, Stewart Copland, and some chick singer?

Anyone use FruityLoops - particularly for more "traditional" music? The demo looks very cool, but I wonder how well it would work for Allison Krauss, as opposed to J-Lo...

Flamers: Yes, I know it's off topic, and yes, I know there's a Roland forum (I posted there, as well). As I've been looking for a drum machine with bass sounds (like the Roland DR series, and Zoom RT units) it occured to me that I own a PMA-5. I never used the sequencing features in the past...

While evaluating a drum machines with bass sounds (Roland DR-670, Zoom RT-123, etc.), I found my old PMA-5 and am wondering if it's worth using in that capacity. The user interface and manual for the PMA-5 were so bad, that I all I ever used it for was an expensive GM sound module. At the time...

I just tried a test - starting with a new song, I recorded a few bars on track 1, rewound to the start, and recorded over the track. I did this a half dozen times and checked the contents of the card... Guess what? All six wav files were there, along with entires for each in the .ADL. If...

We've talked about the Dr-5, and I've seen some stuff about the Zoom RT-123, but wonder if anyone else has any other thoughts about a good drumass machine. The ability to carry the MR-8 around the house has me thinking about creating my backing tracks away from the computer, as well. One...

Someone was mentioning (may have been on the Fostex site) being confused about the undo/redo, 'delete unused', free space, and the poor explanation in the manual. I checked the manual last night and it is clearly incorrect. If you repeatedly record over a track and then check the card, there...

It's on the Fostex site - enjoy!

I have a Takamine steel string acoustic with an intonation problem - with open strings tuned correctly, by the third fret certain notes are quite sharp. Since the bridge/saddle is not adjustable for each string (like an electric) - how does one correct this? Thanks!

I think there's a bug in the MR-8 with the 'undo' file. Even after using 'delete undo', I wasn't getting as much space as I expected. I looked at the contents of the card from my PC and saw that a couple tracks had extra wavs left over - like multiple levels of undo. Somehow by moving the tracks...

Any particular effects you all recommend (beyond those that come with n-Track)? In particular I was thinking about registering the n-Track compressor, and need a good pitch correction plugin for vocals. Thanks!

Kind of off topic, but I know there are a few of you out there who either owned, or considered, the Tascam PS5 before going with the MR-8. As you know, the PS5 suffered from early bugs that would destroy recordings, and contains some incredibly stupid design flaws. There have been raging debates...

Is there a way to "fine tune" the locate points on the MR-8? I've found that I have to FF/REW to get close, and when I save a point it "rounds off" to the nearest beat (using bars/beats). I like that it snaps to the nearest beat, but sometimes it's tough to catch the right spot - what I'm...

Just wondering how people are handling their MIDI data with n-Track. In other words, do you keep your sequences as MIDI right through mixdown, or do you record your MIDI modules to audio tracks and work entirely with digital audio during mix and mastering? I have been partial (with Cakewalk) to...

Scenario: A song with two tracks of MIDI (bass and drums) that I saved as an SMF. Converted the SMF to a 16 bit mono, 44.1KHz wav with Roland Virtual Sound Canvas. Imported the WAV into a Fostex MR-8 for a guide track (setting the tempo map to match). Recorded some guitars into the MR-8...

Just got that last night - I was able to cut the offending bar and it went away (it was after the song), but wonder if anyone has determined an exact cause. I know I've seen it mentioned.

I just dropped some MR-8 guitar tracks into Cakewalk and found things just a bit out of sync with my MIDI backing. Strange, since I used the tempo map. I'm thinking it's latency between my MIDI interface and sound card, but am wondering if anyone else has seen this. The audio tracks are in sync...

So what's the gag with this stuff - I see quite a few posts that make this sound like the early days of an open source project - so many bugs an quirks that debugging the app becomes as much fun as making music. Is it a hobby thing, or is there any reason (other than price) to use this versus...