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Anonymous Posted on Jan 07, 2010

I have the Fostex MR-8 mk II without the burner. I'm having trouble as of late at exporting my finished song to a laptop computer. It's worked fine in the past. Could it be my USB cord is bad? The computer will play a memory stick, so I know it's not that. The stored song on the deck plays well through the phones. I think I've narrowed it down to either the memory card (storing the WAV file) or the USB cord. Any suggestions?

  • Anonymous Mar 25, 2014

    My Fostex MR16 has been acting funny lately and today it just had an error during a "15/16>Stereo Wav File" action. It froze and after about 5 minutes I disconnected the power. Now I turn it on and it seems to have reformatted the machine. But when I hook it up to my computer, it says that the memory is almost full. And when I try to record it says I have only about an hour of recording time. Which is what it told me before it crashed. So now I'm thinking my songs are still on the MR16's hard drive. Like ghost files. All I want to do is access my MR16 and save the files to my computer. When I tried that all the folders were in a different language/code? How can I still get to these files? HEELLLPPPP!!!!!

  • Anonymous Mar 25, 2014

    My Fostex MR16 has been acting funny lately and today it just had an error during a "15/16>Stereo Wav File" action. It froze and after about 5 minutes I disconnected the power. Now I turn it on and it seems to have reformatted the machine. But when I hook it up to my computer, it says that the memory is almost full. And when I try to record it says I have only about an hour of recording time. Which is what it told me before it crashed. So now I'm thinking my songs are still on the MR16's hard drive. Like ghost files. All I want to do is access my MR16 and save the files to my computer. When I tried that all the folders were in a different language/code? How can I still get to these files? HEELLLPPPP!!!!!

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USB cords are cheap and can often be found even in Thrift stores... try a new one to eliminate that possibility... I will say they RARELY go bad unless they have been abused.

Remember that reading a USB stick by the computer is FAR different than transfering data from the Fostex...

MAKE SURE the driver for the Fostex in your computer is intact...

OFTEN the stupid DLL files that were working get CLOBBERED by new software and suddenly old things that used to work don't anymore... Thank MS for the stupid thing of allowing new software to change DLL's.

Testimonial: "Thanks for the help. I hadn't thought about the drivers in the computer (not that I know much about them). I am relieved that the deck is OK!"

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Bounced trks 3&4 to 7&8 clicked on wav file button canceled says out of capacity

You have a memory problem. If you are using a flash card for memory or a CD drive or perhaps you have configured an external drive, you need to free up some space. Try deleting tracks or songs you don't need anymore.

Each song is independent on a CompactFlash
without affecting other songs. You can give a desired song name for managing recorded songs
(see pages 23 and 91).
Recorded track data is stored in a song as mono WAV files.
The MR-8mkII can convert the two WAV files recorded on tracks 7 and 8 (L and R) to a stereo
WAV file (see page 115).
You can export the converted stereo WAV file to your USB-connected personal computer, and
use the file by a music software application or make an original audio CD on the computer using
a CD burn software application. You can also burn an audio CD by using an external CD-R/RW
drive connected via the [USB HOST] port of the MR-8mkII (see page 115 and 123)
Fostex MR 8MKII Owner Manual Page 73 Fostex MR 8MKII Owner Manual Exporting Data To Personal Computer...

Are you using the auto delete feature? Get rid of data you don't need here: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/53326/Fostex-Mr-8mkii.html?page=135#manual
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Why does my mixer take so long to select something from the menu and why does it freeze up?

Sounds like you need more ram or computer space. You didn't list what time of mixer or computer so can only answer basicly. If using a computer (which it sounds like) see how much the mixer needs andhow much space available on your hard drive. This is called a latency problem. Basicaly how long does it take for the computer to respond to commands while it is doing a task. either get a bigger hard drive and more ram or clear out some files on your computer. You can also go into settings and change the settings. You'll have to look through the manual on latency problems.
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How long should it take to format a Fostex MR-8HD 40 gb drive?

The speed will depend on the speed of the processor used. However if it has not finished after 8 hours, shut it down and restart if it seems the drive is in endless loop. Check jumper settings before you restart..
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My Fostex MR-8HD states "Illegal song name" when

On page 22 of your manual, it appears that the warning message is used for more than one thing.

Make sure that you have entered the new song name text and it is accepted since if the name is not entered and accepted you will get that message.

If the text is unacceptable OR you try to advance to song creation when name has not been accepted will bring up that message.

The manual is really poor and I can understand your frustration.

It is UNCLEAR to us exactly at what point in the entry the message appears. Have you entered all the song name using all letters and then selected the enter function below? Does the message appear before you select the enter? or after you do...?
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Why does it say "Illegal song name?" No matter what I type in for a song name on my Fostex MR-8 HD I get this same message. I am not typing in the name of a song already recorded. Even if I just use the...

Note that the name of the song CANNOT have blanks and the use of special characters is limited.

If you need a space in the name you have to use the underscore to creat a "space".
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Formatting of Fostex MR-8HD won't complete

same problem. cant format the disk in computer either
[email protected] let me know if you fix yours
Feb 20, 2010 • Music
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How do I make CD from recorded songs.

u dnt tell whom u record ur song?
u can use computer for this problem first u copy all song in computer and then write in CD.
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TO CONVERT TO A WAV. FILE

i think you can only convert from 7/8 you should bounce to 7/8 then try
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