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richardslessor
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My wife is a professional musician, and we recently bought a DP-004 to provide an record of her chamber music concerts (and possibly for other professional purposes). We have been surprised and pleased by the quality of the two experimental concert recordings I have done so far, even though I just use the internal mikes to minimise disruption of the concert setting.
Following the manual instructions, I was able to master the first test concert recording (only about 25 minutes), produce a .wav file, and copy it to the hard disk, so that I could then convert it to an MP3 CD.
So far so good! However, I have hit a problem with the second recording, lasting about 45 minutes. As we are still at the experimental stage, like the first recording this one was recorded on the 1GB card provided with the machine (having deleted the earlier 25-minute 'song'). The whole recording played back fine as a 'song' (and still does), and I was able yesterday to master it and use the 'master play' function to play the whole recording back to my wife, who was delighted with it.
However, today I opened the 'song' again, and went to 'master play' to listen again before converting to .wav, but got a message that there was no master! Just in case this was a rogue message, I started the process of converting to .wav, but again I got a message that there was no master to convert.
After trying a couple more times to call up the original master, I concluded that it had perhaps somehow been deleted. I decided that I would try to master in sections, in case I was running out of space on the card (even though this seemed unlikely since the *whole* 'song' had mastered successfully the first time round).
I did a master recording of the first piece (about 20 minutes), which appeared to complete successfully; but when I play it back using 'master play', it stops after just over 21 seconds. (I double-checked the 'out' setting just in case, but it still shows the correct cutoff at about 20 minutes.)
I'd be most grateful for any help in understanding what is going on. It's important to get the full 45 minutes off the DP-004 via my computer on to CD, so that my wife and her duo partner can have a record of a concert performance they were very pleased with.
My thanks in advance!
Richard
Following the manual instructions, I was able to master the first test concert recording (only about 25 minutes), produce a .wav file, and copy it to the hard disk, so that I could then convert it to an MP3 CD.
So far so good! However, I have hit a problem with the second recording, lasting about 45 minutes. As we are still at the experimental stage, like the first recording this one was recorded on the 1GB card provided with the machine (having deleted the earlier 25-minute 'song'). The whole recording played back fine as a 'song' (and still does), and I was able yesterday to master it and use the 'master play' function to play the whole recording back to my wife, who was delighted with it.
However, today I opened the 'song' again, and went to 'master play' to listen again before converting to .wav, but got a message that there was no master! Just in case this was a rogue message, I started the process of converting to .wav, but again I got a message that there was no master to convert.
After trying a couple more times to call up the original master, I concluded that it had perhaps somehow been deleted. I decided that I would try to master in sections, in case I was running out of space on the card (even though this seemed unlikely since the *whole* 'song' had mastered successfully the first time round).
I did a master recording of the first piece (about 20 minutes), which appeared to complete successfully; but when I play it back using 'master play', it stops after just over 21 seconds. (I double-checked the 'out' setting just in case, but it still shows the correct cutoff at about 20 minutes.)
I'd be most grateful for any help in understanding what is going on. It's important to get the full 45 minutes off the DP-004 via my computer on to CD, so that my wife and her duo partner can have a record of a concert performance they were very pleased with.
My thanks in advance!
Richard
