Syncing 2 Fostex D80 - Help!

[benjy99]

Hey guys,
I'm new here and this is my first post. After researching I couldn't find anything useful so I decided to ask here (my English is not very good).

So I have 2x D80 recorders and I'm trying to sync them to get 16ch multitrack.
I connected MIDI OUT and DIGITAL OUT of the first to the ins of the second one. The MIDI OUT is set to MTC and the second d80 is set to slave. The Lock Up LED is on on the slave and is showing "digital in" on the display. Somehow I cannot sync them. when I press "play" on bot of them they (for example) the slave is not locked to the time of the master. Can someone help me with this? I really hope that it is possible to be synchronized without external sequencer.

Thanks,
Brani

 

[BFarago]

Hi,
I guess, you need to have two disks recorded in first step at sync mode on all channels to be able to play on sync.

So If you have two disks which are recorded separated way, thats will contains bad MTC sync info. For me it was the same.

Did you tried to record (from 00m00s00f) both D80 with 16channels record-ready state?

B.

 

[benjy99]

Fixed

I fixed it. It was problem with the MIDI cable, so I'm sorry for the post.

Anyway, now it's working good.