Topic: New firmware for 7XX recorders

[bdasilva]

http://sounddevices.com/download/

Same version... No longer Beta.  (Kinda old news)


added - 47952 and 47952F sampling rates. 47952F mode records at 47952 and stamps files at 48 kHz.
added - MP3-file format recording at numerous data rates
added - MP2 file format recording at numerous data rates
added - FLAC file format recording and playback
added - input gain to infinite attenuation option (Setup Menu selected)
change - media speed test improved. Speed testing for all available drives combined into one menu option. All active drives are tested at different sampling rates and routings.
change - multiple linked units now record with sample-accurate start and stop times, making file management easier in post production
fixed - long CF shutdown time
fixed - AES3-id digital output one sample offset between left to right.
fixed - AES3-id bit stream is incorrectly formatted in consumer mode
fixed - high-pass filter clipping
fixed - gain accuracy improved, better match between actual gain and displayed gain
fixed - files can played back when selected from the Setup Menu (bug introduced in 2.15)
see known issues below

[H₂O]

+T for the heads up

[Crumbo]

thanks!

+T 

this is nice:

fixed - high-pass filter clipping

[Crumbo]

this is nice:

fixed - high-pass filter clipping

Anyone tested that one?  I'll believe it is fixed when I hear it

good point!

[F.O.Bean]

awesome. they also fixed the long shutdown when recording to cf cards IM PSYCHED and will be upgrading here shortly. glad to see this is no longer a beta version and that flac is now a reliable recording medium

[boojum]

. . .  and that flac is now a reliable recording medium

Josh Coalson, the FLAC developer, worked with SD on the implementation.  Apparently SD was having DLL problems that he helped them with.  I got this from Josh.  Anyway, If someone is in a pinch for space, like doing a lot of recording at a festival and has no way to save off the sessions, this would be a life saver.  If you just like to store a lot of your sessions on the SD it is a life saver.

I have not detected any FLAC failures in the year or so that I have been using it to compress WAV files.  Has anyone here had FLAC failures due to the software itself and not cockpit error?

[boojum]

FL - I checked eleven pages returned on a search of FLAC.  The errors fall into three categories: 1) Hardware, failing HD's and flaky RAM; 2) Software, flaky front ends and a padding error message in FLAC that was fixed a couple of years ago; and, 3) cockpit (user) error.  As the only error that I could find directly attributable to FLAC itself is a now-fixed padding error message I consider FLAC to be a good, workable, stable compression tool.  I like it; I use it.  As usual, YMMV

Cheers  ;o)

[F.O.Bean]

so, has anyone used this yet to record to flac straight I have mine upgraded and will try out recording straight to flac either this tues or nest tues, so I will def report in if I have any problems I am thinking/hoping that everything will go smoothly as 2.15 did/does. I dont care about recording to flac just yet, not until festy time anyway, but just want to try it out

[mmedley.]

2.34 was rock solid for me over the weekend. Did about 6-7 hours of recording. Did not use FLAC though.

[F.O.Bean]

2.34 was rock solid for me over the weekend. Did about 6-7 hours of recording. Did not use FLAC though.

+T awesome news. Im sure they wouldnt have released it as a stable version had the flac recording not been on par

[boojum]

I just recorded a jazz group here in town.  The two good sets were 24/48.  The first in FLAC and the second in WAV.  I am just now doing the post work on them.  "Tape at 11:00"   ;o)

edit: typo

[Dutchman1101]

so, has anyone used this yet to record to flac straight I have mine upgraded and will try out recording straight to flac either this tues or nest tues, so I will def report in if I have any problems I am thinking/hoping that everything will go smoothly as 2.15 did/does. I dont care about recording to flac just yet, not until festy time anyway, but just want to try it out

Yep, recoreded Phil and Friends Friday with no problems at all. Seemless splits and that jazz.

[F.O.Bean]

so, has anyone used this yet to record to flac straight I have mine upgraded and will try out recording straight to flac either this tues or nest tues, so I will def report in if I have any problems I am thinking/hoping that everything will go smoothly as 2.15 did/does. I dont care about recording to flac just yet, not until festy time anyway, but just want to try it out

Yep, recoreded Phil and Friends Friday with no problems at all. Seemless splits and that jazz.

did you record to flac?

[boojum]

I just recorded a jazz group here in town.  The two good sets were 24/48.  The first in FLAC and the second in WAV.  I am just not doing the post work on them.  "Tape at 11:00"   ;o)

FLAC worked just fine.  Not that I am surprised.  I would doubt that it would have been included if it didn't work.  And the note from Coalson indicated he was working with SD to get it to work flawlessly.  Somebody's mileage will vary.  But when the problem cannot be reproduced, it is usually cockpit error.  I supported software for 20+ years and have heard a lot of user complaints, "It doesn't work."  "Well, show me where it fails."  "Well, I can't get it to fail right now, but it does fail."  "OK, call me when it fails again."  You rarely, if ever, get that call.  ;o)

[F.O.Bean]

I ran 2.34 tonight for sound tribe sector 9 but chickened out writing flacs. I was the only taper so i recorded to WAV just to be on the safe side I am sure there will be more tapers next tues for YMSB and I will write to flac then BUT, 2.34 worked like a charm so far recording to WAV