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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #300 on: December 03, 2010, 09:00:21 AM »
Hi,

Just a quick note about the DR-680 firmware upgrade V1.20 (note, this is the very new release, not the earlier V1.12). So far, the only information I've been able to find is in Japanese, but I've downloaded and installed the firmware form the Tascam Japan site and in addition to the M/S functions, the DR-680 now has ganging functions available for gain, pan and trim, including the possibility of separate ganging for groups of inputs. For example, I record in A & B-Format and M/S at the same time and I can gang inputs 1-4 for the ambisonic inputs and 5-6 separately for the M/S inputs. You just push all the channel select buttons that you want to gang at the same time and once again to de-select. Very simple.

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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #301 on: December 03, 2010, 09:05:28 AM »
So you are saying that instead of raise the gain on individual channels, I can hit 1&2 and raise the gain of both at the same time?
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #302 on: December 03, 2010, 09:11:07 AM »
Quote from: soundmanjohn on December 03, 2010, 09:00:21 AM
the DR-680 now has ganging functions available for gain, pan and trim, including the possibility of separate ganging for groups of inputs

Very, very cool news!
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #303 on: December 03, 2010, 09:28:00 AM »
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #304 on: December 03, 2010, 09:31:14 AM »
1&2 3&4 and 5&6 can be linked together and even Mix Level is linked,  in Menu Mode is MS for all 3 Stereochannels possible Input or Monitor Option....

http://tascam.jp/product/dr-680

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ja&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftascam.jp%2Fproduct%2Fdr-680
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #305 on: December 03, 2010, 11:33:15 AM »
Quote from: Gutbucket on December 03, 2010, 09:11:07 AM
Quote from: soundmanjohn on December 03, 2010, 09:00:21 AM
the DR-680 now has ganging functions available for gain, pan and trim, including the possibility of separate ganging for groups of inputs

Very, very cool news!

Great news! This was my main complaint about this unit. Hopefully some of our e-mails to Tascam about this feature helped to push them along to get this implemented.
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #306 on: December 03, 2010, 11:34:05 AM »
Cool! Got a link to V1/20?
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #308 on: December 06, 2010, 05:26:31 AM »
Here's a direct link to the Japanese download area. Scroll down to the firmware section and the 1.20 upgrade is top of the list.


http://tascam.jp/product/dr-680/downloads/

Regards,

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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #309 on: December 09, 2010, 09:59:48 AM »
The new firmware v1.20 is officially out:

http://tascam.com/product/dr-680/downloads/

on the English page.
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #310 on: December 11, 2010, 07:02:54 PM »
So I noticed that there is now a paragraph with the new firmware that states the clocks on two unites ARE NOT locked together via the cascade function ONLY the transport controls are synced.  This is a big disappointment as I was under the impression when I got this that two units could be linked AND the clocks would be locked together.  So now my question is.  If I use the USBPre2 which will lock to an external clock, and input it into a second DR-680 will the clocks be synced then?
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #311 on: December 15, 2010, 03:56:02 PM »
EDIT: DONT BUY THE BATTERY BELOW
Maybe a good option for the Tascam 680. It is designed to power LCD screens in the wild. For the price it looks like a decent deal.

http://www.adorama.com/MHMLCDB26.html?utm_source=gbase&utm_medium=Shopping%20Site&utm_campaign=Other&utm_term=Other
 
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #312 on: December 15, 2010, 04:07:44 PM »
It says that it runs for 2.5 hrs.
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #313 on: December 15, 2010, 04:48:19 PM »
Quote from: Chadfish on December 15, 2010, 04:07:44 PM
It says that it runs for 2.5 hrs.

It run a LCD tv for 2.5 hours.   A TV pulls way way more power than the 680. 
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Re: TASCAM DR-680 portable 8-track Part 2
« Reply #314 on: December 15, 2010, 08:11:20 PM »
It is 7200mAh  :o
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