I'm now running a test to see if I get the same or different results of Carrera2.
1 hour 36 minutes remaining at 96/24. my gain is turned all the way down so absolutely no sound is being recorded.
I just finished my tests to see what kind of results I would come up with.
What I did is I set recorder to internal memory at 24/96 bit rate to take up most disk space and recorded nothing. The gain was at zero and nothing registered on the m10. Two files were created on the m10 and one was 1.99gigs which ends up being 1 hour, 2 minutes and 8 seconds the next one was 1.11 gigs with a time of 34 minutes and 29 seconds.
Once the entire 4 gigs were full on the m10, a message came up:
Continue recording in a different memory. It did this automatically and updated the recording time remaining on my 16 gig card which was somewhere around 7 hours 16 minutes. I let the third recording roll for 2 minutes and 26 seconds which results in a 80.1MB file of nothing.
Before copying the files to my computer, I switched to the internal memory and started to play the first file and skipped to the last ~20 seconds for the recorder to seamlessly play the last file on the internal memory. What did I hear? nothing. Absolutely nothing.
According to page 40 of the users manual,
When you play back the original track recorded with Cross-Memory Recording, the PCM recorder does not play the succeeding track automatically. So I to copied all three files totaling 3.10 gigs to my computer and opened up Audacity to see if there is any static disruption as Carrera2 found in his tests.
end of file one
beginning of file two
end of file two
beginning of file three
play times of files the file in the middle, 100717_01 is on the external memory.
While my tests recorded nothing, the file splits also occurred without creating any sound whatsoever. The only DAW tool I have is audacity so while it may be primitive, I think static noise would have been displayed and heard on the recordings.
So I think my tests show that if you record nothing, there will be no static noise. I plan I doing the test over again with the gain raised to record audible noise and hope I get the same results.