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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: Ozpeter on October 23, 2007, 06:49:55 PM

Title: Zoom H4 major firmware upgrade
Post by: Ozpeter on October 23, 2007, 06:49:55 PM

The latest System version 2.00 has been released. This provides following features.

- Support for SDHC cards over 4GB
- Adopted a larger display font to be easier to read
- Indicates the battery capacity and recordable time at the top of the screen
- Added a File Dividing function to create separate files for each song from a long-hours of live recording
- Added a Low-Cut filter to reduce wind noise and breath popping
- Added an MP3 post-encoding funciton which can convert recorded WAV files into MP3s
- Added a Mono Mix function for the purpose of Electronic News Gathering
- Added an Auto Recording function enables you to start recording automatically when the input signal exceeds a certain level
- Added a Normalize function lets you increase the audio level of the recorded file at a maximum

http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/download/software/h4.php

Title: Re: Zoom H4 major firmware upgrade
Post by: nbasila on October 25, 2007, 04:01:38 AM

I saw that earlier. Unfortunately for me, I had just ordered the Transcend card.

I applied the update. It seems to work fine. It still cannot format the 4GB correctly, but it has no trouble reading/writing to it.

Aside from the listing you provided, I notice that the H4 now:

gives you a choice of battery types - so as to better predict battery life (alkaline, NiMh)

seems to boot a little faster - although that could be my imagination.

I'm running a test now to see if it still creates the bogus header on files 2GB or larger.