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Offline clbgld

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Microtrack transfer speed?
« on: March 06, 2006, 11:28:39 AM »
Guys,

Wrote to M-Audio on this - haven't heard back yet. File transfer from MT to computer via USB 2.0 *always* run at around 1 Mb/s (around 70 MByte per minute). I have Ultra II 2GByte cards, and the Lexar 80x. Is this the same result you guys are getting? Those cards are supposed to transfer much faster than that, from what I read.

Sorry if this has been covered before - did a search on the forum and didn't find posts on this.

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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2006, 12:16:31 PM »
Quote from: clbgld on March 06, 2006, 11:28:39 AM
Guys,

Wrote to M-Audio on this - haven't heard back yet. File transfer from MT to computer via USB 2.0 *always* run at around 1 Mb/s (around 70 MByte per minute). I have Ultra II 2GByte cards, and the Lexar 80x. Is this the same result you guys are getting? Those cards are supposed to transfer much faster than that, from what I read.

Sorry if this has been covered before - did a search on the forum and didn't find posts on this.

Cleiber

Yes the MT does transfer quite a lot slower that a dedicated USB 2.0 card reader. Not sure why but others have noticed that same.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2006, 06:29:35 PM »
Just get a card reader, they're less than $10.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2006, 12:19:15 AM »
Thought it was because the MT didn't use the USB2.0 interface and is stuck back in prehistoric times with USB. Is that not the case?

I got a card reader and was very disappointed to watch it take 2 minutes to transfer a 325MB file. Isn't that kind of slow for a 50x CF card? Mind you, with the MT itself, it takes about 4-5 minutes.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2006, 05:25:19 PM »
Wow, I just transferred a near 2 gig file from the MT to my computer last night in about 6 minutes.  I am using a Microdrive to boot.  Mine worked pretty good and I was impressed.  About the same time as the same size file from a JB3 using firewire.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2006, 05:00:07 PM »
I am also using a Firewire Card reader and get the same results with a 2 GB file size yielding a 6-7 minute transfer time.  This has proven to be far quicker then the internal USB connection which was taking almost 4X as long to upload which I thought was excruciatingly slow!
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2006, 08:14:10 PM »
Could this be a mac/pc thing?  The transfers on my mac are rather slow -- something like usb 1 speed. 

I attributed this to the fact that the card is formatted for pc (what do they call it?  Fat32?).

Are the folks who report fast transfers on PC?  And slow transfers on a Mac?

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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2006, 01:33:00 AM »
the mt transfers are a bit slower than normal, but still not too bad for me.  I can usually transfer a nights worth of recordings off of it in about 5 minutes.  Considering thats about 3 hours worth of music isn't bad.  A few years back it took 3 hours to transfer 3 hours worth of music, I can easily live with 5 minutes.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2006, 01:52:20 AM »
I just got done transfering 1.52 GB and it took about 20 mins.  This using the microtrack as the reader and on a mac.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2006, 03:15:10 AM »
thats insanity, its never gone that slow in xp.  must be a mac issue.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2006, 02:43:49 PM »
Quote from: saygbye13 on April 07, 2006, 01:52:20 AM
I just got done transfering 1.52 GB and it took about 20 mins.  This using the microtrack as the reader and on a mac.

What kind/model of Mac?  They havne't always had USB 2.0. Originaly they had only USB 1.1 ports (that is to say the ones that had USB ports at all).

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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2006, 04:08:13 PM »
it's one of the last 12 inch powerbook g4's, only a few months old... I'm fairly certain it's USB 2 based on speeds to my ipod and such.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2006, 04:54:22 PM »
Quote from: saygbye13 on April 07, 2006, 04:08:13 PM
it's one of the last 12 inch powerbook g4's, only a few months old... I'm fairly certain it's USB 2 based on speeds to my ipod and such.

Yeah that one would definately have USB 2.0 on it. I only have a MDD G4 desktop machine near me now and that has 1.1 ports on it (and boy are those ports slow).

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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2006, 03:26:31 AM »
Just got back from taping Ben Folds and am transferring the show and again it's taking about the same amount of time.  I was wondering if last night was just a fluke.  I transfered one of the files from last night that was only like 350mb to my ipod and it only took like 10 seconds, so i'm not sure what the deal is.  Looks like I need to get a card reader.
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Re: Microtrack transfer speed?
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2006, 08:43:57 AM »
I'll be interested to hear if Mac people get better speeds with a card reader.  I thought the slow Mac speeds had to do with the card's format.

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