Adventures in SPDIF with a VS1880 and Pod XT Pro

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish - I want to plug my guitar/bass into my pod xt, and be able to play it with the fx on but record it clean. I've got that part hooked up just fine, no problem. I then, however, want to reamp into the Pod XT, essentially using it as an outboard FX box for my recorder.

Due to running out of I/O on my 1880, plus it'd be all nice and clean, I'm trying to get this to happen through spdif and can't seem to get it done. The thing is, both of these boxes are fairly new to me, so I'm not entirely sure where I'm getting tripped up.

From what I can tell, I definitely have the PODXT set right. DigOut is set to SPDIF and on the Digital Out screen of the Clock section, I've tried all the formats. I know thats for sync, not audio but figured it'd be worth mentioning.

On the VS1880, all I've done is route the Digital input to various tracks with no success. I've poked around like a mofo in the settings and don't see anything that's glaringly obvious.

I'm about to go climb into bed with my manuals, but figured I'd ask here just in case I can't get this figured out. Thanks.

Got it.

Feel free to delete, but just in case anyone else is having a problem with spdif on the vs1880, you have to sync your external source to the clockrate that you have on that particular song on the VS1880. If when you're creating a song, you set it to 48K ,for instance, be sure to set your external source to the same.

Never had that problem on the DPS24, so that's new to me.

Lampdog wrote:Digital in/outs usually lock with other gear at 48khz and other above rates.
They have to match though.

Unfortunately on the VS' they treat that info as song data so you have to create a song with the correct sample rate.

Roland had the wonderful idea of creating devices that create an whole environment and save it as a song which makes you have to create or load a song to use the unit.
So unlike most things that look for a digital signal to lock to they are looking for a signal to match.

I guess their overall thinking was that sample rate within a users setup would be pretty consistent and wouldn't matter.

Roland made a lot of devices that function that way.