Topic: MicroTrack 24/96 Beta 1.2.0

[Sebastian]

while playing back files on the mt, is there a way to fast forward or reverse?

Hold the nav button up or down while playing a file. It works for me...

[RebelRebel]

Does anybody have a contact email addy with M-Audio tech support? The last 2 times I've filled out the long form on their site....planning on sending another email urging them to work on the 2GB file limit.

When I was planning on getting one as a backup to my 722 I used this email address:
support@m-audio.de

They always answered the next day. And as with all(or most) retailers/technicians of music/electronic products, their English is very good.

[neutrino]

Does anybody have a contact email addy with M-Audio tech support? The last 2 times I've filled out the long form on their site....planning on sending another email urging them to work on the 2GB file limit.

BetaDrivers@m-audio.com <BetaDrivers@m-audio.com>

[petal]

About the 2 GB limt - would a different format be a solution? I don't know if it's possible to change this, but surely there must be another loss-less format that doesn't have this problem. It could be a feature, a third format that could record bigger files than 2 GB in lossless quality.

Is it possible to add more file-formats to the firmware?
If yes, which formats would we like? (any open source formats out there that would be suitable? Flac perhaps?)

Just a thought...
Thomas

[John Kelly]

About the 2 GB limt - would a different format be a solution? I don't know if it's possible to change this, but surely there must be another loss-less format that doesn't have this problem. It could be a feature, a third format that could record bigger files than 2 GB in lossless quality.

Is it possible to add more file-formats to the firmware?
If yes, which formats would we like? (any open source formats out there that would be suitable? Flac perhaps?)

Just a thought...
Thomas

If the unit had the processing power Flac would work nicely.  I think the best format for uncompressed >2gig files would be wav64, or even an option for dual mono (which effectively gives you a 4 gig limit). 

[musicsherlock]

I loaded the new firmware and reformatted my 6gb microdrive just before I left for a Lotus show last night (two openers).  The first band came on and I hit the record button (SPIDIF 24/28).  The levels were fine but I noticed that the time remaining indicator read /00:01:45   When it reached 00:01:45/00:00:00 the levels froze.  I was not sure if the unit was indicating correctly so I let it roll.  After about 40minutes the band stopped and I checked the recording - only recorded 1:45.

Never had this problem with the old firmware

I'm getting similar times (~1:45) going 24/48 out of my UA-5 with at home testing...

That's interesting I thought the MT sample rate was auto not selectable for the SPIDF.  Was this before the 1.2.0 upgrade? 

I get Auto Detect Sample rates with spidf out with this firmware and the previous one...

[udovdh]

Does anybody have a contact email addy with M-Audio tech support? The last 2 times I've filled out the long form on their site....planning on sending another email urging them to work on the 2GB file limit.

M-Audio Hardware Support <techsupt@m-audio.com> ?

[petal]

If the unit had the processing power Flac would work nicely.  I think the best format for uncompressed >2gig files would be wav64, or even an option for dual mono (which effectively gives you a 4 gig limit). 

As I understand it, MP3-encoding is no work in the park - but then again the MP3-encoding might be hardcoded into a specific chip and not "just" a part of the firmware.

[whatboutbob]

About the 2 GB limt - would a different format be a solution? I don't know if it's possible to change this, but surely there must be another loss-less format that doesn't have this problem. It could be a feature, a third format that could record bigger files than 2 GB in lossless quality.

Is it possible to add more file-formats to the firmware?
If yes, which formats would we like? (any open source formats out there that would be suitable? Flac perhaps?)

Just a thought...
Thomas

This may be a bit out there...but the rockbox developers have had a *lot* of cooperation from the developer of wavpack (wavpack.com) in regards to playback on the iriver h1x0's...and they're looking at implementing wavpack recording on the same units.  I'm just an interested 3rd party, but perhaps there could be a marriage made there...i know wavpack certainly supports 24/96, and it seems they're looking for hardware support.  caveat: i've never actually heard a wavpack file, but apparently compression compares favourably to flac, and it is, of course, lossless.

[JasonSobel]

FLAC recording would be nice.  I also really like the dual mono .wav idea, effectively making it a 4 gig limit by creating two 2 gig files. (one mon file for each channel).

Regardless of any of these possible solutions, I think an auto-split is the most effective solution, and we should still press M-Audio on that issue more than others.

[bagtagsell]

Regardless of any of these possible solutions, I think an auto-split is the most effective solution, and we should still press M-Audio on that issue more than others.

agree

[udovdh]

Regardless of any of these possible solutions, I think an auto-split is the most effective solution, and we should still press M-Audio on that issue more than others.

agree

Just email them once a week or two?

[SonicSound]

Has anyone else tried recording (S/PIDF) 24/88.2?  I did it by accedent on Wednesday and have been testing it at home.  I am not sure how stable it is.  It still will not do 24/96, in fact when I tried it froze and had to power down.

[Nick Graham]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:    Microtrack 24/96
Date:    Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:02:23 -0600
From:    Nick Graham <wngraham@gmail.com>
To:    techsupt@m-audio.com


I'd sent an email last week requesting info on when a future
driver/firmware update would be available. Needless to say
I was quite excited and appreciative when I saw the new
Beta driver Tuesday.

Anyway, just curious if the next update would possibly address
the 2GB file size limit? That's one of the last remaining "bugs"
that needs to be fixed. The ability to seamlessly start a new
file is crucial to any type of  portable recording.

If you can consider that in the next update, it would make
a world of difference.

Thanks in advance!

Nick Graham
wngraham@gmail.com

[MattH]

It still will not do 24/96, in fact when I tried it froze and had to power down.

Is it doing 24/96 line in but not digi in? I'm interested in line in 24/96 at the moment. How big a difference does anyone think between this on-board A/D and most out-board A/D's? In case I missed them, any A/D comps done yet?