Re: Olympus LS-100 Recorder

2012-12-20 Thread Aidan Maher
Wel, those issues is not addressed in the recent updates as far as I
no, actually, I stil try to figure out how to do multi track moad
affectively before I get it, because my problem is that although its
possible to move between tracks just fine, it will be an issue to
select the correct files to assign to the tracks wich you plan to
export, or to change into a wave file to make space for new data. As
there is no audible feedback there as far as I no. I wish that olympus
can just wake up and give us full accessibility. Its now five years
since they started the talking menus, its now time for better. They
always do half a job with these things. Maybe they should also
consider tts, then it won't be necessary to record all the promts and
it take space on the internal memory.

On 19/12/2012, Rich De Steno ironr...@verizon.net wrote:
 There has been some discussion on this list about the Olympus LS-100
 multi-track recorder with spoken menus.  I know it has had some firmware
 upgrades since its release, but an old review by a user on the Musicians
 Friend web site has some serious criticisms of the unit.  The two that
 If ound most problematic are quoted below.  Are these still problems?  I
 am considering buying the recorder and would like some feedback.

 No way to pause playback. You need to think about this...imagine an
 analog reel to reel tape recorder, now imagine that every time you press
 stop when the machine is playing or recording, the transport instantly
 rewinds to the beginning of the tape...that's what happens with the
 LS-100! So, let's say you are trying to come up with a part for the 2nd
 chorus of a song...say 1:50 seconds into a song (like I was), when you
 are done and want to hear it, you only option is to press STOP (it
 instantly stops and resets to zero) then press PLAY, then hold down the
 Fast Forward key to advance to 1:45 seconds...and that's just to hear it
 once. If you don't like what you hear, you press STOP. RECORD to arm
 the track, PLAY, FF to advance to the 2nd chorus, RECORD to begin
 recording again, and then STOP and repeat the 1st process to hear it,
 every time having to press PLAY and then holding down the FF key for
 10 seconds or so to advance to 1:45 on your song. It becomes very
 tedious to say the least. You can't pause record either but I'm not sure
 why you would want to (at least in MTR mode).

 You can't alter, add to, or partially erase tracks in any way once
 they've been recorded. You either accept them or erase them entirely.

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Olympus LS-100 Recorder

2012-12-19 Thread Rich De Steno
There has been some discussion on this list about the Olympus LS-100 
multi-track recorder with spoken menus.  I know it has had some firmware 
upgrades since its release, but an old review by a user on the Musicians 
Friend web site has some serious criticisms of the unit.  The two that 
If ound most problematic are quoted below.  Are these still problems?  I 
am considering buying the recorder and would like some feedback.


No way to pause playback. You need to think about this...imagine an 
analog reel to reel tape recorder, now imagine that every time you press 
stop when the machine is playing or recording, the transport instantly 
rewinds to the beginning of the tape...that's what happens with the 
LS-100! So, let's say you are trying to come up with a part for the 2nd 
chorus of a song...say 1:50 seconds into a song (like I was), when you 
are done and want to hear it, you only option is to press STOP (it 
instantly stops and resets to zero) then press PLAY, then hold down the 
Fast Forward key to advance to 1:45 seconds...and that's just to hear it 
once. If you don't like what you hear, you press STOP. RECORD to arm 
the track, PLAY, FF to advance to the 2nd chorus, RECORD to begin 
recording again, and then STOP and repeat the 1st process to hear it, 
every time having to press PLAY and then holding down the FF key for 
10 seconds or so to advance to 1:45 on your song. It becomes very 
tedious to say the least. You can't pause record either but I'm not sure 
why you would want to (at least in MTR mode).


You can't alter, add to, or partially erase tracks in any way once 
they've been recorded. You either accept them or erase them entirely.


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Rich De Steno


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