Topic: Microtrack 24/96 1.3.3

[Ed.]

i haven't had this problem either.  for record time available i get something like 56 minutes I think, but when i start a recording at 24/44.1 i get 2:05 for the remaining time.  No troubles whatsoever.  I didn't record for a full two hours, but I went over an hour easily.

i'm also using a 6gb microdrive.

[Ed.]

go team cheap microdrives, woot!

[china_rider]

Hmmm... we have a 4gig Hitachi microdrive at work.  Will have to borrow it tomorrow and test over the weekend.  Part of our product runs on mobile devices (palm, trio, midp, etc) and in theory the storage medium is abstracted from the software that writes to it. So a Microdrive should not respond any differently (other than speed) than a CF, or SD or any other type of supported card.

[jtessier]

I was just able to confirm this with the card that came with the microtrack and the 8gig SanDisk I have.

Was this the 8GB SanDisk Ultra II card?  There was an earlier report even with a posted sound file showing that this card had problems with the recoridngs sounding staticky with 1.3.3 and sounding ok with 1.2.3?  I had access to one of these cards but didn't feel the need to try it myself until now so now I've tested it myself and I'm not having any trouble with it.  I think I'll find that post and see if I can contact the original poster to see how he saw the problem. If yours is the Ultra II card then it's encouraging to see the 2 out of 3 of us are not having the problem.

J.T.

[BC]

Basically if you are configured to record SPDIF with the sampling rate set to auto and go under the Record settings menu and then select Rec time available it will show you the recording time left based on a 96k sampling rate.  If you record at a level < 96k and total time left at 96k is less than the file time left at your sampling rate the recording will stop at the 96k time.

Hey all-

For those that this has happened to, does this happen if the MT is powered up with the SPDIF signal connected and active?

I was thinking that powering up before connecting an active SPDIF input could cause this problem, maybe if it is getting a digi signal at the correct sampling rate on startup, it would then know the "correct" time left.       Just a thought.

Peace,
Ben

[china_rider]

Mine is the Ultra II.   Have not run it at a show yet but have done around 40 or so hours of testing on 1.3.3 at different speeds and rates at home with no quality issues.

[coloartist]

Mine dies at different times every time it dies.
It always works fine for the first set.
I have also gone for 1:45 minutes before restarting.
It just dies sometime in the 2nd set at 24/48.
Don't get me wrong. It has worked correctly a few times.
I reloaded 1.2.3.
I didn't have issues with 1.2.3

[cmoorevt]

I've been having a back and forth with M-Audio on this and the last message this afternoon said that a firmware upgrade would be coming soon that would address this issue.  They didn't have a specific timetable but said to check the website for something soon.

FWIW, I switched back to 1.2.3 and used the MT last night.  16/44.1, spdif input, 2GB kingston elite card, recorded one long 2hr 35min file.  Recording came out flawless and no stops.

[china_rider]

Issue just confirmed on a 4gig hitachi microdrive.

To answer the question above it happens with SPDIF whith or without signal provided on startup.

[udovdh]

Issue just confirmed on a 4gig hitachi microdrive.

To answer the question above it happens with SPDIF whith or without signal provided on startup.

What if you use a real CF card instead of microdrive?

[china_rider]

Already did that in previous posts... fails with included card, Kingston Elite 4gig, and SanDisk UltraII 8gig.  Just tried the microdrive cause others were reporting no issue and I had access to a MD from work.

[udovdh]

Already did that in previous posts... fails with included card, Kingston Elite 4gig, and SanDisk UltraII 8gig.  Just tried the microdrive cause others were reporting no issue and I had access to a MD from work.

Hmmm. Weird. Thanks for the extra info.

[Ed.]

well that sucks, guess i'm lucky.

[Howell]

I used the 1.3.3 firmware to record 3 shows(5 sets)  this past weekend.  It was the first time using it and everything recording wise worked out fine, I was running into the 1/4 inputs.

I did have a problem sunday night with playback though... I had one file that just kept stopping while it was playing back.  I thought maybe the file was corrupt or something but when I got home and pulled the file off everything was fine.  Anybody else ever had any playback problems?

EDIT: just found a post where people had this problem at 90 seconds with the 1.2.0 beta firmware.  Mine wasn't happening at 90 seconds all the time though, so still wondering if anybody has had this problem with the 1.3.3 firmware.

[Ed.]

i've yet to get any file to play back completely on the mt.  some will play for 30 mins, some will play for 5, some won't go longer than 5 seconds.

the file keeps playing, just no audio.  the files are always fine tho.  just sucks that you can't listen to it on the way home in your car.