br-1600 -Not Enough Tracks?

[Envy The Pea]

They say you're never satisfied-- you always want more than you've got. I think I'm finding this to be true for my 1600. I do a lot of overdubbing for my songs. It's just me laying down all the parts. I like to try different vocals and experiment with different guitar parts, so I'm using up quite a few of my v-tracks.

Now I've experienced on a couple different occasions an error on playback "disc busy" and the machine stops. I was right in the middle of putting down a new vocal... very irritating. Anybody else experiencing this? Is it just that there's too much data being fed back on playback?

I've even bounced some back up vocals from 3 tracks down to 1 and erased the originals, then optimized the song and it still happened. Any ideas or ways to get around this?

Do I need to upgrade to 24? I really like this machine but I hate running out of room!

 

[voicelive]

16 would be great

I fully understand your views on the 8-tracks in BR-1600CD. Recording a live band with 8 tracks can be difficult, especially if you want to isolate the drums. Anyway, the machine is user friendly and has the COSM, bass & drum rhythms, which was why I chose it.

I haven't experienced the problems with the error you refer to. But I fully understand how annoying it is when the unit stops during recording. Having used Cubase a lot, I switched to BR-1600CD for stability. No windows breaking down, no external multi-track soundcard software delivering runtime errors, and no stuttering from Cubase. So it is a great and stable unit.

The thing is you can of course USB your tracks into the computer and work with Cubase and in that way you get more than 8 tracks for production issues.

BTW: I've just created a forum for BR-1600 CD - feel free to surf by and participate

http://www.takeforum.com/forum/index.php?mforum=br1600cd

Cheers
Claus