[TAG] wav files from MR8 recorder

[Bob van der Poel]

Hi all. A bit of a "forgot my thinking hat" problem here....

I recently purchased a Fostex MR8 digital recorder. I'd not try to go 
into the recording business with this toy, but for playing around a home 
with multitrack recording it's a fair bit of fun.

This unit records onto compactflash cards, which I can load onto my 
linux box from a card reader. No problems here.

And, a program like audacity can read, modify and mix them. Again no 
problem.

Unless the track is just a partial track with an offset. For example 
(see the adl file below), I have recorded some tracks from the start of 
the song. But, 2 tracks are just a little segment in the middle of the song.

I know that wav files can have offsets in them (I think), but it seems 
from looking the the wav file headers that this isn't so here. And, 
audacity certainly doesn't find the offset.

So, when I load all 5 tracks into audacity tracks 1 and 2 are aligned to 
the start of the song. They should really start about 40 seconds in. I 
can move the tracks in the program, but I'll never get them aligned.

But, wait, the MR8 seems to keep track of stuff in a file. I think that 
the data in the <EVENT_LIST> section is what I need to look at. But, I'm 
not sure just what the different fields mean. Anyone with some 
experience here?

I do know that the files MR80009.WAV, MR80003.WAV and MR80004.WAV are 
recording of the complete song and MR80011.WAV and MR800012.WAV are 
partials.

Guess what I'm asking is help in modifying the 2 files to push them into 
the correct position.

Suggestions appreciated!
-- 
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp at uniserve.com
WWW:   http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp


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