Topic: M-Audio MicroTracker details **PART III**

[The Kilted Taper]

And I'm seeing this quite a bit:

"In a future firmware update..."

[nickgregory]

no mention anywhere of how the unit handles the 2Gb limit...

[The Kilted Taper]

Or anything about a HOLD button...

[nickgregory]

Or anything about a HOLD button...

page 5, item 16..hold switch locks all the buttons

[The Kilted Taper]

In the words of a very powerful man...DOH!!!!! Wasn't in bold so I skipped right over it.

[madman]

the only way it could sound like garbage is through the analog inputs, which i will not be using.  i plan to pass it a digital signal from my v3.  now, if it completely botches the signal and drops out, introduces static, etc...then it's a piece of shit and not ready for use by anyone.  i highly doubt that will be the case but i guess anything is possible.  if it doesn't work, i'm pretty sure that i will be able to return it to cascade media as i'm sure everyone else will, and it will tarnish m-audio's reputation for releasing a non-working piece of junk...but like i said, i have some faith it will work as advertised, and if it does, we should have no problem feeding it a digi signal and recording without any degradation of quality.

I guess I wasn't thinking digital in...you make a valid point.  I'm still back in the 90s with analog.  I hope this thing ends up sounding great, I've been drooling over it for months.

[WiFiJeff]

No info on whether you can run it on external power, either.  If you turn it on when the USB is connected to a computer, it goes into USB Host mode, and you can't record.  If it's just USB power will this happen?  Hmmm.

Jeff

[anhisr]

Well the manual seems straight forward to me.  It seems that if you plug in the unit to a USB it will go into charge mode.  Notice when they said The MicroTrack 24/96 will automatically begin recharging the internal battery any time power is received at the USB port. Depending on the manufacturer of your computer, your computer may need to be powered on to provide power to the USB port.  If your computer is not on then it would be acting only as just a charger.
                      jerry

[BayTaynt3d]

 Classical or acoustic is another story, but I don't see much of that going on around here (except for our crazy classical man...mfrench).

Wayne

Still a number of us hanging out here, though maybe quietly.  Anyway, I'm another crazy classical man.

Jeff

OT: Since we're talking classical for a sec, and I'm in the market to buy my first decent mics, how do you guys think the C4's will hold up when audience taping classical or quartets? How about a pair of AT853's?

[WiFiJeff]

Well the manual seems straight forward to me.  It seems that if you plug in the unit to a USB it will go into charge mode.  Notice when they said The MicroTrack 24/96 will automatically begin recharging the internal battery any time power is received at the USB port. Depending on the manufacturer of your computer, your computer may need to be powered on to provide power to the USB port.  If your computer is not on then it would be acting only as just a charger.
                      jerry

Yeah, but will it record in "charge mode"?  It won't in Host mode, that's clear.  But if I want to use one of those cute 4-AA pocket USB power packs, will that be possible for running the machine, or is the internal battery the only choice?

Jeff

[The Kilted Taper]

Well the manual seems straight forward to me.  It seems that if you plug in the unit to a USB it will go into charge mode.  Notice when they said The MicroTrack 24/96 will automatically begin recharging the internal battery any time power is received at the USB port. Depending on the manufacturer of your computer, your computer may need to be powered on to provide power to the USB port.  If your computer is not on then it would be acting only as just a charger.
                      jerry

Does it not also say that if you plug in the USB while it's on you have to tell it to go into host mode? What happens if I don't tell it? Will it still get power? This could be a big issue for longer shows if we can't use external power while using it.

[jhirte]

So where is the cheapest media? I've found 4 gig PNY compactflash on newegg for 211 and change...

[anhisr]

I don't think we will know about power and what happens when it gets to the end of a 2GB file until somebody gets one in hand.  Frank
                             jerry

[prof_peabody]

Well the manual seems straight forward to me.  It seems that if you plug in the unit to a USB it will go into charge mode.  Notice when they said The MicroTrack 24/96 will automatically begin recharging the internal battery any time power is received at the USB port. Depending on the manufacturer of your computer, your computer may need to be powered on to provide power to the USB port.  If your computer is not on then it would be acting only as just a charger.
                      jerry

Does it not also say that if you plug in the USB while it's on you have to tell it to go into host mode? What happens if I don't tell it? Will it still get power? This could be a big issue for longer shows if we can't use external power while using it.

I speculate that they mean when it's plugged into a PC via USB it goes into host mode, and when you plug in only USB power it continues to function normally while making use of the external power source (in one way or another).  This would be akin to other similar products.

[JackoRoses]

sweetwater just called me and said they won't get their shipment in until the 23rd now.
I guess over half of them are sold as of now.
Is this the first sign of a delayed shipment? Has anyone else been told there will be a delay on their order yet?