Garry Sharp
Lost Cause
Cozmic
Synching the Roland. Two possibilities.
The Garry (i.e. agricultural) method is easy. Put two bars of on the beat clicks at the start of your drum track. Mute all but the drum track and one other; pan one hard left and one hard right. Left out to VF80 in L, R to R. Record it onto VF80 1 and 2.
Mute those two tracks, unmute two others, pan L&R, and set it to play back from the beginning of Bar 3. Start the VF80, set to record on 3&4. When the click starts, (playing back from the VF80 which you're monitoring) tap your finger along to it; by the end of Bar 2 you'll be tapping nicely in time and will hit the Play button on the Roland just right on the first beat of Bar 3. Might take a little practice.
The other possibility is to get into both Fostex and Roland manuals, learn how to set one to MIDI master and the other to slave. This will be precise but your brain may explode trying to work out how to do it.
By virtual tracks I meant 9-24. Once 1-8 are full, track exchange 2 of them with, say, 9/10, hence freeing two up. Your performers will have to manage with a maximum of six other tracks to play along to, as you can't replay 9-24. However up to all 24 tracks can be dumped to the Mac via the SPDIF as explained earlier.
The solution to your n-Track problem is called Logic Audio Producer, or something similar, (there's another version called Logic Fun which is similar) which is an Audio/Midi sequender which comes free with the Audiowerk card, and works very well with it as that's what it is designed for. The only limitation I think might be on the number of audio tracks, but there are many cheap (or even free) versions some of which will allow more audio tracks. Check the e-magic website. You can also use it to record from the VF80 so you don't need a separate audio editor like Wavelab. Avoid the fully featured version of Logic Audio because it's very expensive, has loads of stuff you won't need and reading the manual will again make your brain explode.
Have fun!!
Synching the Roland. Two possibilities.
The Garry (i.e. agricultural) method is easy. Put two bars of on the beat clicks at the start of your drum track. Mute all but the drum track and one other; pan one hard left and one hard right. Left out to VF80 in L, R to R. Record it onto VF80 1 and 2.
Mute those two tracks, unmute two others, pan L&R, and set it to play back from the beginning of Bar 3. Start the VF80, set to record on 3&4. When the click starts, (playing back from the VF80 which you're monitoring) tap your finger along to it; by the end of Bar 2 you'll be tapping nicely in time and will hit the Play button on the Roland just right on the first beat of Bar 3. Might take a little practice.
The other possibility is to get into both Fostex and Roland manuals, learn how to set one to MIDI master and the other to slave. This will be precise but your brain may explode trying to work out how to do it.
By virtual tracks I meant 9-24. Once 1-8 are full, track exchange 2 of them with, say, 9/10, hence freeing two up. Your performers will have to manage with a maximum of six other tracks to play along to, as you can't replay 9-24. However up to all 24 tracks can be dumped to the Mac via the SPDIF as explained earlier.
The solution to your n-Track problem is called Logic Audio Producer, or something similar, (there's another version called Logic Fun which is similar) which is an Audio/Midi sequender which comes free with the Audiowerk card, and works very well with it as that's what it is designed for. The only limitation I think might be on the number of audio tracks, but there are many cheap (or even free) versions some of which will allow more audio tracks. Check the e-magic website. You can also use it to record from the VF80 so you don't need a separate audio editor like Wavelab. Avoid the fully featured version of Logic Audio because it's very expensive, has loads of stuff you won't need and reading the manual will again make your brain explode.
Have fun!!