I need serious help!
Just bought the MOTU 2408, and it installed fine.
Goddammit, all I want to do is record 4 tracks
simultaneously-yet-independently from my TASCAM 424 to my
hard drive, using Vegas, for editing and mix-down later.
The documentation that came with the MOTU is horribly
scant, and there is no help file. Whatever.
I need a step by step “how-to.” Someone needs to hold my
hand and walk me through it. I would PAY DEARLY for that!
That’s the point of frustration I have reached.
Which analog inputs should I use on the 2408? 1,2,3 & 4? Or
1, 3, 5 & 7?
Then, how should I set up the input assignments in the PCI-
324 Console?
How should I have the Bus routing set up in Vegas? Right
now, A is on 1-2, B is 3-4, C is 5-6, and D is 7-8.
No matter what I do, I can only hear/record, what is on
Track 1 on the tape (which is plugged into Input 1 on the
2408).
Even if I set the Track in Vegas to record from Bus B
(routed to inputs 3-4 from the 2408), once I click “arm to
Record” it just goes back to 1-2. What am I doing wrong?
Also - in Control Panel|Multimedia, what should I have as
my Preferred Recording device? What about Playback?
Back to Vegas routing - what should be my default record
device? My only MOTU choices are the four sets of analog
pairs. I can only pick one at a time.
There seem to be some major concepts of which I am
apparently painfully ignorant.
It all started with someone telling me about Sound Forge,
so I checked out your web site and downloaded Vegas. Then I
got all these wild-assed ideas about doing a simple
project, transferring some stuff from my 4-track to my HD.
Now, one week, $1000, and many web forums later, I still
cannot get this shit to work. At this point I don’t know if
I’m inputting or outputting anymore!
Please, would some kind, experienced, digital-recording-
head, have mercy on a newbie who just wants to get this
frigging project done before Thanksgiving?
Let’s say I record one track at a time… I have played hell
this whole week trying to do it that way (before the MOTU),
trying to get the tracks synchronized. It just don’t happen
as far as I can tell.
Peace,
Ray
Just bought the MOTU 2408, and it installed fine.
Goddammit, all I want to do is record 4 tracks
simultaneously-yet-independently from my TASCAM 424 to my
hard drive, using Vegas, for editing and mix-down later.
The documentation that came with the MOTU is horribly
scant, and there is no help file. Whatever.
I need a step by step “how-to.” Someone needs to hold my
hand and walk me through it. I would PAY DEARLY for that!
That’s the point of frustration I have reached.
Which analog inputs should I use on the 2408? 1,2,3 & 4? Or
1, 3, 5 & 7?
Then, how should I set up the input assignments in the PCI-
324 Console?
How should I have the Bus routing set up in Vegas? Right
now, A is on 1-2, B is 3-4, C is 5-6, and D is 7-8.
No matter what I do, I can only hear/record, what is on
Track 1 on the tape (which is plugged into Input 1 on the
2408).
Even if I set the Track in Vegas to record from Bus B
(routed to inputs 3-4 from the 2408), once I click “arm to
Record” it just goes back to 1-2. What am I doing wrong?
Also - in Control Panel|Multimedia, what should I have as
my Preferred Recording device? What about Playback?
Back to Vegas routing - what should be my default record
device? My only MOTU choices are the four sets of analog
pairs. I can only pick one at a time.
There seem to be some major concepts of which I am
apparently painfully ignorant.
It all started with someone telling me about Sound Forge,
so I checked out your web site and downloaded Vegas. Then I
got all these wild-assed ideas about doing a simple
project, transferring some stuff from my 4-track to my HD.
Now, one week, $1000, and many web forums later, I still
cannot get this shit to work. At this point I don’t know if
I’m inputting or outputting anymore!
Please, would some kind, experienced, digital-recording-
head, have mercy on a newbie who just wants to get this
frigging project done before Thanksgiving?
Let’s say I record one track at a time… I have played hell
this whole week trying to do it that way (before the MOTU),
trying to get the tracks synchronized. It just don’t happen
as far as I can tell.
Peace,
Ray