I recently stumbled across
this old post- (96Khz on the old R09?...Yes) and decided to poke around the hidden
Test Mode and
Debug Menus to see what undocumented options are available for the original R-09. I've documented all the screens, tests and settings that I've found in the attached PDF. There’s a lot of stuff in there. Not all of it is useful, but there are some gems. The credit for all this goes to xweirdo (Pat) for posting how to access these hiden menus. Thanks Pat.
Personally, I have no desire to try and run this recorder at sampling rates higher than 48kHz (which may or may not prove to be stable). I have changed a few settings to better fit my usage and those changes seem to be completely stable. I'm quite happy about it.
A short list of what I've changed:
1) Completely turned off the blinking red recording LED (I can now remove the square of gaff tape from the clear window of the Body Glove case)
2) Changed the default file naming scheme from ‘R09_0001.WAV’ to 'Scene1_0001.WAV' for one of my R-09s and 'Scene2_0001.WAV' for the other, which immediately differentiates the files from each recorder after transfer. If I had only one R-09 I would probably change the file naming scheme to the date format used on the R-44 (and probably the R-4/R-4Pro as well- dunno, I've never used those), which is a numeric format indicating
year-month-date-hour-minute-second: ‘010625113113.WAV’
3) Increased the peak hold time to 5 seconds
4) Changed the
eq, send and
depth level settings of the reverb presets to values that are actually useful occasionally for playback (toned them way down so they aren’t so obvious and artificial)
Here’s a few things in there which others may find useful:
Adjustment of the gain balance between channels (untested)
‘One-touch’ recording (immediately enter
record mode directly without
rec-pause)
88.2 & 96kHz sampling rates (as on the HR)
Half speed playback (as on the HR)
Mute output on FFW/RWD
Change the display font size/bolding
Among others..
Enter at your own risk and enjoy!-