The Transcend 8GB SDHC card I orderd from Newegg arrived today. Did the firmware update to 1.2 on the R-09 first, then formatted the 8GB card in the recorder.
SD card info menu reports 7.50GB available. In Rec/Pause the display indicates 7:46:18 time remaining at the 24/48 setting.
So far so good.
Just a reminder: With the exception of the date/time setting, all other options will default back to the factory settings (44.1khz/16bit, display brightness 5, etc.) when the firmware is updated.
The setting for switching off the
Rec & peak LED is at the bottom of the display setting page which requires a scroll down to find (it's the only menu that has enough options to require a scroll). Simple, but I missed that initially and didn't see the option displayed.
I set the file size limitation to 64MB (vs. 2GB where I would normally set it, just so I didn't have to wait so long) to test seamless file splitting and started a test recording of music thru my computer speakers. First noticed that while recording, the progress bar at the upper right of the screen that fills as the recording progresses represents how much of the file limitation size has been used. So though there is no exact indication of how many MB of data have been written to the current file, a general visual reference is there. I think that bar was always there with earlier updates, but I never took much notice of it before. But I will now because...
Once it got to the 64MB, I got an error message on the display:
SD card slow push any key and the card started filling rapidly with tiny files. I pushed buttons, but the card kept filling, until the whole recorder finally locked up and was completely unresponsive to any button pushing including the power button. The creation of tiny files stopped at this point, but I had to remove the batteries to reset. On power up I could start a new recording, but there was a latency of about 5 seconds between hitting the REC button and actually entering REC/PAUSE, likely because there were over 400 files on the card at that point. No latency going from REC/PAUSE to REC mode, and no problems with either the new recording (stopped before the file limit) or the original full 64MB one.
Checked file information on the recorder which showed:
The first 63.99MB file
Hundreds of 1.54KB files
Uploaded the files to the computer to take a look:
Same deal. Interestingly but unimportantly, the file numbering changed after the 250th file'et.
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R09_0248.WAV
R09_0249.WAV
R09_0250.WAV
R09_0251-1.WAV
R09_0251-2.WAV
R09_0251-3.WAV
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etc..
Deleted the small files but did not re-format the card. Disconnected from the computer and tried another recording which worked fine with no latency (as expected without hundreds of files on the card). Checked the max file setting which had reset itself to the default 2GB position.
Tried the same test again using the Transcend 4GB SD card.
No problem with the seamless split at 64MB
So1.20 works fine with my 4GB card, but I have to be very careful not to exceed the max file limit setting when using the 8GB card (regardless of the setting - too bad there isn't a
no file size limit option). What I should have done before the firmware update was try the 8GB card with firmware 1.10 since all I gain from this firmware update is the peak metering, which admittedly is nice. I won't use the ability to kill the REC & PEAK LED's since I like the peak LED and it doesn't kill the REC light if I push any buttons anyway.
At least it will format the larger card properly, but I'd rather not have to worry about going over 2GB. Fortunately I rarely have files much larger than 1.5GB but I am disappointed.
Two questions:
Anyone experience the same problem using any other brand of 8GB card?
Does firmware 1.10 work OK with the Transcend 8GB SDHC card / Can it format it ?
