Track minutes...Correct??

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Figuring that "CAP" meant capacity and GB meant Gigabytes... Translating GB's into MB's, at 44.1khz resolution, with a 128mb card on the MR8, using only one track, I can get about 200minutes? Two tracks about 100minutes? At 8 tracks I can record about 30minutes? Have I figured out the Fostex chart accurately regarding the MR8 with a 128card?
 
I don't know where you got the capacity numbers from, but here's what I know to be fact.

If you record at 44KHz, which is high resolution mode, you get a total of 24 track minutes with a 128M card. So a 3-minute song with 8 tracks (3x8) will fill up the card. A couple of other factors come in to play though. If some of your tracks do not last the whole duration of the song and you record only during that time duration (like if you have harmony vocals only during the chorus), these tracks are smaller in size, leaving you more track time. On the other hand, if you want to do your mix-down on the MR-8, you need 2x the length of your song track-minutes in order to mix-down to tracks 7&8. In addition, you need more track-minutes if you want to bounce to a stereo WAV file on the unit.

The unit will tell you how much time is left in record mode, and always remember the Delete Unused function to get rid of undo files, which eats up more minutes.

I find my 256M card (48 track-minutes) adequate for a typical song of 2-4 minutes in length. I do have to mix down some of the tracks because I run out of tracks. I think a 512M card would be great, but I don't know whether you can use one with the MR-8.

I noticed that some other recording units can record more minutes to memory cards than the MR-8. I believe the reason is that these other units store the music in formats other than WAV (e.g. MP3 or proprietary), and they are in general much more compact in size.

DC
 
digitcallous said:
I find my 256M card (48 track-minutes) adequate for a typical song of 2-4 minutes in length. I do have to mix down some of the tracks because I run out of tracks. I think a 512M card would be great, but I don't know whether you can use one with the MR-8.
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digitcallous,

what type of 256mb card do you have?

where did you get it?

and what did you pay?

Thanks
 
markophonic and digitcallous,

Fostex posted new information today about which CF cards are certified for use with the MR-8.

They have also posted new software to install on the MR-8 which is supposed to resolve the previous incompatibility issues people were reporting with some of the "recommended" CF cards.
 
a12stringer said:
markophonic and digitcallous,

Fostex posted new information today about which CF cards are certified for use with the MR-8.

They have also posted new software to install on the MR-8 which is supposed to resolve the previous incompatibility issues people were reporting with some of the "recommended" CF cards.
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Where is it posted?
 
dyoub,
I have to correct my previous post. Fostex, as of 6:30PM CST, did not have the information posted on their web site. apparently they had sent it to me prior to posting. I would suggest going to their website and e-mail them asking for the mr-8 software upgrade and the new listing of certified CF cards. most of the card "brands" have not changed.
The software is supposed to resolve the compatibility issues.
 
Markophonic,

The 256M card I am using is a Viking I got from Amazon. I noticed that this particular card is now on the Fostex confirmed list.

I checked just now and it cost $82 from Amazon. Too bad because just a few weeks ago they had a rebate going on this card with the final cost something like $63.

DC
 
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