HI,
I'm still playing around with my FD-4 that I got recently. I now have 7 songs recorded, I'm happy with that and to listen to them before going into the studio to add stuff like strings and drums I can connect easily to my stereo and record onto tape. Nice for listening in the car to come up with new ideas, etc.....
The thing is, the format that the FD-4 (and I suppose all other Fostex digital recorders) has is this own format. I wanted to just bring my Zip discs along to the studio, stick them in the studio Zip drive and the tracks are there. This way, no need to lug the FD-4 to the studio every time. I tried briefly last week with a zip disk with my stuff on it and immediately the Apple Mac in the studio came back to me saying something like "unreadable format". This is a shame, but has anyone been able to get around this in some way? It would be great for everything to be compatible.
I haven't tried a connection to a PC yet to see what happens as I don't have a PC with a SCSI port.
By the way, I still haven't worked out this copy and paste stuff (mostly due to laziness about reading the manual). Any good quick tips.
Thanks
I'm still playing around with my FD-4 that I got recently. I now have 7 songs recorded, I'm happy with that and to listen to them before going into the studio to add stuff like strings and drums I can connect easily to my stereo and record onto tape. Nice for listening in the car to come up with new ideas, etc.....
The thing is, the format that the FD-4 (and I suppose all other Fostex digital recorders) has is this own format. I wanted to just bring my Zip discs along to the studio, stick them in the studio Zip drive and the tracks are there. This way, no need to lug the FD-4 to the studio every time. I tried briefly last week with a zip disk with my stuff on it and immediately the Apple Mac in the studio came back to me saying something like "unreadable format". This is a shame, but has anyone been able to get around this in some way? It would be great for everything to be compatible.
I haven't tried a connection to a PC yet to see what happens as I don't have a PC with a SCSI port.
By the way, I still haven't worked out this copy and paste stuff (mostly due to laziness about reading the manual). Any good quick tips.
Thanks