LOL, well we'll have to find one to bid on first. I've been searching and there was one the first day but it sold and I'm not finding anymore. One thing I just thought about is even after I find a board and buy it I'll still have to buy 3 new RPC-1 cards. I don't think they are to expensive but with 3 of them it will add up.

Hi HeatherHaze, if you are interested there is a mixer about to be sold real cheap on ebay here's the item number if you want to bid 7402478365 I can't this week I've got my money tied up in groceries maybe the next one :-)

Hi HeatherHaze, if you are interested there is a mixer about to be sold real cheap on ebay here's the item number if you want to bid 7402478365 I can't this week I've got my money tied up in groceries maybe the next one :-)

That's a good deal, for sure, but I'm not in a position to bid right now either, unfortunately. Luckily I'm sure there will be more popping up on eBay. The great thing about Roland gear is it seems to last forever. I'd rather buy silightly older Roland gear than pay through the nose for new junk. Not that there isn't anything good out there...it's just you can get such great equipment for so much less money. Anyway, thanks for the tip!

You're welcome I feel the exact same way and I'll have one of those boards by summer :-)

Hi folks, I hate to dredge this old thread up but I thought it the best place to get an answer to my question. As you know I have a VM-3100 pro mixer so I'm wanting to record directly into sonar 5 pe and use sonar plugins and monitor in real time. Ok I have my latency in great shape 5.8 ms and I haven't even tried to get lower but I'll bet you I can milk at least 2 ms's off that and get it down to around 3 or so. So I know how to do everything except not monitor my guitar thru the vm-3100 I want to input my guitar into channel 4 (thats the gtr input) and then go into sonar and pick the channel I want to record on and then send that signal back out to the vm-3100 and I do not want to hear the dry signal coming from the input on channel 4 on the vm-3100 I only want to monitor from sonar with plugins running. Actually it's not me but a steel playing friend that does not have any effects and I want to capture a dry signal and re-amp it later but I thought I'd throw a little compression and reverb to make his signal pleasing to him so he'll play better.

Now I know how to do it using the effects on the vm-3100 but I need to learn how to do it in sonar. I don't have any type of manual to look in other than the quick start very skimpy manual that came with it. So is there a way to do this surely there has to be and I'll bet you guys will laugh at this very simple question and I will to after I find out how simple it is :-) Thanks for any help I'll bet Heatherhaze will know :-)

Bob

Hi guy's yes I know I'm resurrecting a very old thread:-) but I thought this would be the best way to try to get an answer to my question and major pain in the butt!

As stated earlier I use a Roland VM-3100 Pro and I am now using a Boss GT-Pro to record my guitar but it makes no difference what effects I use. If I use the spdif input on the VM3100 pro it randomly mutes all the sound and says on the readout that it is checking for the digital signal. Kind of like it's afraid it's going to drop out and it wants to make sure it's still there.

Has anyone else had this problem when recording thru the digital spdif input on the VM-3100Pro? Like I said it matters not which effects I use I have at least 4 other effects with digital spdif out and when I connect them it randomnly does this check.

Of course the big deal is if it does this check while I'm recording I have to stop and start that take again.

Anyone have any suggestions???? Thanks for any healp.

Bob

Hey guy's I might have made a mistake tying this in with this old thread but I'll leave it here for a day or so and see if it get's any publicity here and if not I'll just start a new thread.

I have one RPC-1 and two M-audio R-bus cards. Any way to get these cards all going in one system if both the RPC-1 and M-audio driver are in the WINXP system? Do i need to delete some RPC-1 driver somewhere?

Thanks,

Hi muziekschuur, I can't think of a way to utilize the RPC-1 card with your setup. The RPC-1 card is primarily for hooking up to Roland's mixers like the VM-3100 pro or the 7000 series or even the VSR-880 recorder or VS2480 recorder to transfer 8 tracks to and from the mixer to the computer or to add 8 more inputs to the 2480 and vs and VSR series recorders with a R-bus connector. So I don't see any way to utilize it with you setup unless you have one of those mixers or recorders I mentioned.

Bob

I have two M-audio Rbus cards, a RPC-1, two VSR880's and a SI-24. And I think I found a way to port R-bus to TDIF.


Now, if only these three cards could be married in one pc.

two VSR880's and a SI-24

Now with that information things change some. I don't own a M-audio r-bus but I do own 2 Roland PCI RPC-1 R-bus cards and they have the capability of being chained together with a small sync cable that hooks internally to the cards. When you do that the pair show up in my recording software (Sonar 6.2) as Roland RPC 1 and 2 each one with 4 pairs of stereo ins and outs or 8 mono in' and outs. They are synced by Sonar so I can actually record and mix 16 tracks at one time thru both of them.

I'm pretty sure that your M-Audio cards will have the same capability with the one big difference being that your M-Audio cards also have analog in's and outs if you hook up the breakout cables. I can with an adapter turn my rbus cards into adat light pipe or Tascam tdif and record that way if I wanted to. But I don't own tascam recorders or adats but if the need ever arose I could certainly do that so theres no reason you can't do it now if you can find or make a sync cable for you mp-audio r-bus cards.