welcome to the board CAFan
can you insert a click track/metronome on the VS890. In studios when they are moving tracks between equipment, the click track always becomes the key. It seems that you could record that click track alone, import it into GTP3, align it so it falls exactly on each measure marker according to the bpm of the song, and use it to align. easier said than done though, huh? Sounds like that is basically the approach you've been taking with the bass note, just a little different method.
newer equipment allows a universal "word clock" to be run between all components in a studio therefore you're always working off of one universal clock; makes aligning things much easier. i have no idea if GTP3 or the Roland have this feature.
otherwise,
I can clearly see them but I don't know how to get them aligned with eachother. I was thinking I could maybe just delete everything before the audio marker on each track so the rest of the tracks would be in sync but I don't even know how to do that. HELP!!
it seems like you'll have to get rid of everything before the tracks "start" and be left with just the moment the performence or each instrument begins on each track.
Thankfully, you can do this, but it takes a little work
1st and foremost you'll want to modify the "snap to" properties (right-click in the meter in the edit view) so you can break any given measure into 32nd notes. This way you'll get almost exactly to the point where the music of each track begins.
2nd- zoom WAY in on the beggining of where the music starts on each track, so that particular measure takes up the whole screen (it'll be easier to edit)
-"slip editing" will allow you to now delete everything up until the actual music of each track starts. Upon completion of editing each track in this manner you'll now have tracks that start at the exact moment the music does. You could, at this point, insert a blank measure to make things more managable.
Now, it seems like you could align them in this manner. This seems possible in theory, but the fact that each beginnning beat may be off a little or, more importantly, you'll be using the actual "wave" image to dicipher where each track begins, means you'll have to tweak (or move the tracks left or right in the edit view) within the measure to actually get them to be in sync with one another throughout the entire song.
It seems more possible if you were to do the above beginning with the drum track. The point at which the sound starts will be more discernable and therefore you could more comfortable rely on it as your major guide for the other tracks. get the beginning of the drum track to fall exactly on a measure (and the subsequent beats to fall on a measure as well). Need to adjust bpm in GTP3 to make this work. (obviosly)
there may be a MUCH easier way to go about what you are doing (i hope there is) but I can't think of it right now. But I do imagine it would be some variation of the above method.
BASICALLY YOU ARE LOOKING TO HAVE THE ACTUAL MUSIC OF EACH TRACK FALL EXACTLY ON A MEASURE MARKER AND THE SUBSEQUENT BEATS OF THE MUSIC TO FALL INTO LINE WITH THE REST OF THE MEASURE MARKERS.
if you're completely new at GTP3 you'll DEFINITELY want to familarize yourself with it a bit more, because what you are doing is a bit complex. Sadly, that probably means a bit of GTP3 manual reading (slip editing, inserting measures, snap to properties, etc.)
In theory recording on one set-up and editing on another sounds so simple and efficient (and is such common practice in pro studios), but I guess the particulars are a ****
(as your situation points out).
let us know if this helps out at all or if I just complicated things much more for you