Recording

How do I record my tr-8 onto ardour

The same way you would in any other software?

This is a very open ended question, what exactly are you having problems with?

       Seablade

read the manual :
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ch023_recording-audio/

and it ofcourse depends on the inputs of your soundcard, adat or analog…

Grtz

The flossmanual is out of date (ardour 2.X). While many of the concepts are the same, there are updated versions:

http://manual.ardour.org is the reference manual and http://ardour.org/tutorial points to an updated version of the old flossmanual for Ardour 4. The latter has a chapter on recording multi-tracks.