Topic: MicroTrack 24/96 Beta 1.2.0

[neutrino]

Come and get it...

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers

New Items:
- Level meters display levels when playing back files
- Level meters operate in REC PAUSE for easier level setting
- Audio inputs can be heard when in REC PAUSE as well as REC (only for analog inputs)

New UI Items:
- Reboots the unit instead of shutting down when a CF card is inserted
- Pop-up menu added if the user tries to power off while recording
- All input controls will be active during record or record pause, allowing you to adjust your levels more easily.

General Fixes:
- Input and Headphone level controls work more smoothly when held down
- FFWD or REW no longer cause the timer to flash the time ’00:00:00’ when engaged.
- Record time available in main screen counts down from the lesser of space available, or 2GB file limit.
- Remaining record time is now calculated properly when recording from SPDIF input
- Several bugs with HOLD button fixed:
    - Now stops phantom power from turning on and off
    - Now works if booted from card reader mode
    - Continues to work if file was closed because of max file size or no media full

[Kyle]

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Changes from v1.1.5 to v1.2.0:

New Items:
- Level meters display levels when playing back files
- Level meters operate in REC PAUSE for easier level setting
- Audio inputs can be heard when in REC PAUSE as well as REC (only for analog inputs)

New UI Items:
- Reboots the unit instead of shutting down when a CF card is inserted
- Pop-up menu added if the user tries to power off while recording
- All input controls will be active during record or record pause, allowing you to adjust your levels more easily.

General Fixes:
- Input and Headphone level controls work more smoothly when held down
- FFWD or REW no longer cause the timer to flash the time ’00:00:00’ when engaged.
- Record time available in main screen counts down from the lesser of space available, or 2GB file limit.
- Remaining record time is now calculated properly when recording from SPDIF input
- Several bugs with HOLD button fixed:
    - Now stops phantom power from turning on and off
    - Now works if booted from card reader mode
    - Continues to work if file was closed because of max file size or no media full

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Changes from v1.0.2 to v1.1.5:

New Items:
   - S/PDIF is enhanced to 24-bit/48kHz, and is more reliable
   - Spanish language added

General Fixes:
   - Fixed the behavior of the L/M/H switch (L and H were reversed)
   - Fixed a problem with the File menu (recorded files would not play from the Files menu until the machine was rebooted)
   - Fixed problem where "no media found" message didn't always show
   - Adjusted screen contrast range

Fixing Meters:
   - Fixed battery meter (if full and the external power was removed,the level dropped approximately 5-10%)
   - Fixed level meter length (the bar of the level meter maxed out about 8 pixels shy of the end of the track,
     so it appeared that the unit had headroom left, even though it was clipping)

Fixing Pops:
   - Eliminated pop noises on boot-up
   - Eliminated static noises at the end of tracks
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gettin there!

[udovdh]

Come and get it...

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers

New Items:
- Level meters display levels when playing back files
- Level meters operate in REC PAUSE for easier level setting
- Audio inputs can be heard when in REC PAUSE as well as REC (only for analog inputs)

New UI Items:
- Reboots the unit instead of shutting down when a CF card is inserted
- Pop-up menu added if the user tries to power off while recording
- All input controls will be active during record or record pause, allowing you to adjust your levels more easily.

General Fixes:
- Input and Headphone level controls work more smoothly when held down
- FFWD or REW no longer cause the timer to flash the time ’00:00:00’ when engaged.
- Record time available in main screen counts down from the lesser of space available, or 2GB file limit.
- Remaining record time is now calculated properly when recording from SPDIF input
- Several bugs with HOLD button fixed:
    - Now stops phantom power from turning on and off
    - Now works if booted from card reader mode
    - Continues to work if file was closed because of max file size or no media full

2GB issue!?  it is fixed? Not if we read this?

[Chris K]

this is a nice sign and a good pace for new (albeit beta) firmware releases. about one every month. 

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Very nice. I will be testing @ Trey next week! 

[BC]

damn, still didn't fix the channel flipping on 24 bit digi in huh?
   
At least getting the correct time remaining was a big one.   

[udovdh]

BTW: Nothing about the ever present 14 dB of gain... 

[Sebastian]

New UI Items:
- Reboots the unit instead of shutting down when a CF card is inserted
- Pop-up menu added if the user tries to power off while recording

Reboots? I don't want it to restart *at all*.
And if you press the hold button long enough the MT still powers off.

At least the levels can now be set in pause mode and you can actually hold the button down. And the menus seem to be a bit faster as well...

[cmoorevt]

- Audio inputs can be heard when in REC PAUSE as well as REC (only for analog inputs)

Hmmm.  Does this mean that when recording via spdif in, you still can't hear the recording thru the headphone jack, nor pass signal thru the rca outs?

Also, I wonder if it fixed the levels going haywire after +/- 20 minutes.

[keepongoin]

faq is updated as per this information.

[timewasajoke]

i wrote a few weeks ago about a issue i was having where on playback of a recording i could only listen to about 20 min before i got nothing but silence,
but when transfered to my HD everything was there.

M-audio replied to my post asking me some general info about my flash card.

They are concerned about pleasing us because here is a private e-mail i just got from them...

Hello, right now we are working on a firmware update that will address this issue. If you like, there is a beta version firmware revision available on our website, but it will not address all the issues that the full version addresses.
 
The firmware update for the MicroTrack can be found here:
 
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers
 

[Sebastian]

I just got back from a show with the new firmware. The levels appear to be stable now (they don't mysteriously disappear anymore)...

[chitaper]

i wrote a few weeks ago about a issue i was having where on playback of a recording i could only listen to about 20 min before i got nothing but silence,
but when transfered to my HD everything was there.

I missed that post, but mine did the same thing once. I couldn't be sure that I hadn't done something to cause it, but you had the same problem.

[cmoorevt]

I just got back from a show with the new firmware. The levels appear to be stable now (they don't mysteriously disappear anymore)...

Just tested in my living room and get the same result.  No more haywire levels, even when running at low dbs.

Also, when I started recording, the MT showed the correct time remaining on my card.  Be interested to here if anyone else that was having time remaining issues finds that this has resolved it from them.

Unfortunately still no way to output a signal when running spdif in.

[deadheaded]

i updated firmware last night.  used the mt to record my radio show today.   v-3 > mt.
meters seem to be working much better.  my time remaining wasn't right  running 16/44 it said i had 2:39 left on an empty 6 gig microdrive.
they might not have gotten the time remaining bug fixed.
but good to see m-audio getting updates out pretty quickly.