Syncing VS-840 and PC-DAW

[Daf]

I've just bought a PC for digital audio, with a Delta-66 card, but would like to hang on to my vs-840 as a sort of "field recorder" (I do a lot of choir work in another town - easier to get them to the church than to my house).

I'm picturing mirroring a scratch track on both platforms, and merging the keeper tracks up at the end, but I'm not sure the best way to keep them sync'd. What time codes does the vs-840 support? Any? Would the EX upgrade expand my syncing options?

Are some software recorders better than others for this? I have PGMusic's PowerTracks ProAudio 6.0 right now, haven't used it yet (soundcard on my old PC blew up a week after I bought the PGM package). If nothing else, I figure I can use SondForge XP 4.5 to visually align the tracks - that's kind of a last resort, though.

I'll try to slog through the 840 manual tonight (Roland REALLY writes bad manuals!!!), but if anyone's got some experience doing something like this, your thoughts would be of great value.

Thanks,

Jay Ricketts
Music Director
St. Cornelius Church
Dryden, MI, USA

[lyricon]

If your roland box will tramsmit MTC ( Midi Time Code)You can use that. All you need is a Midi interface for your PC. I use an Akai DPS16 with Cool edit pro on the PC. I lock the PC recorder to the Sync signal coming in from the Midi in and the Akai piece drives the whole thing. I have to output tracks two at a time through the digital out of the Akai but once they are all in they are in perfect sync and the transfer was done in digital. Even if it has to go analog using midi sync will work fine. With a midi interface there are several sync options, midi clock, MTC or SMPTE, depending on what your programs and DAW will support. In this case which ever will work will be fine. The outcome will be the same.

hope this helps,
Good luck,
Greg

[GDANCE]

Hi there

The Roland VS840 has to be set up as the master sync unit, so you will have to set the PC software to slave to external midi sync. If you had bought the VS880/890/160/1880 these units will let set the PC as the master and VS as the Slave or the other way PC as Slave and VS as Master.
If you had a Roland RPC-1 card fitted to you PC you could use a Roland VSR880 8 track HD recorder, this would allow you to import all 8 tracks of audio you recorded on the VSR880 to be recorded into your PC for remixing and editing.

Best of luck

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