Sinner;
I have the VF 160 CDR and my "General Opinion" of it is that it's prolly the best bang for the bux in the price range. It can record 8 Tracks Simultaniously right out of the box. And with the ADAT Optical In, it can record 16 Tracks Simultaniously from say a Digiatal Mixer with ADAT or an Analog Mixer with a converter.
The ADAT out allows you to use use the Use the VF 160 as a Digital Mixer or tie two VF 160's together for 16 Tracks. If you equipt your PC or Mac with an ADAT sound card with Optical Ins and Outs, it allows you to "Fly" 8 Tracks at once to a recording or mastering program or you can fly Tracks to the VF 160 from the puter to the VF 160's Optical In.
Optical ADAT also allows you to interface with just about any Pro Studio out there.
Those are just a few of the capabilities of Optical ADAT.
The VF 160 also allow you to use the Optical Out as SPDIF instead of ADAT.
The internal 20 Gig HD in the VF 160 allows 472 Minutes of Recording Time at 8 Tracks and 236 Minutes of Recording Time at 16 Tracks. Man, that's alot of 3 to 5 Minutes tunes. But for Backup I hit the Scene Store Button and save it then hit the Setup Button, Scroll to Save Program (Save PGM) and save it to CDR. You can save as either DATA or Wav Files. I wouldn't suggest saving AFTER the HD is full. 20 Gigs on CD is alot of CD's dude!
Hope this helps and hope you are having an awesome Good Friday!
CR ><>
