Teac MMR-8 v4.7 - Manual (Page 4)

TASCAM MMR-8/MMP-16 Version 4.7 Owner’s Manual Update
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Changes in Version 4.7
The following functional changes and bug fixes have been made to the MMR-8/MMP-16 software
in Version 4.7. These changes are explained in detail in this document:
Ø Support for Recording and playing back OpenTL Projects on FAT-32 Disks
Ø Support for 5.2 Gigabyte Akai Format Magneto Optical Disks
Ø Fix for Digital Noise on M2 Series Machines
Support for Recording and Playing Back OpenTL
Projects on FAT-32 Disks
With version 4.7 software, the MMR-8 can now mount a FAT-32 formatted hard disk of any size.
If this FAT-32 disk is selected as the record disk, the MMR-8 recorder can record an OpenTL
Project onto the disk, and the audio files in the project will be in the broadcast wave (.wav) format.
The MMR-8 and MMP-16 can’t format a disk as FAT-32 from their front panels. The disk must
be formatted as FAT-32 from an external computer capable of doing so. When a FAT-32 disk is
then mounted on an MMR-8 and is selected in Menu 701 as the record disk, the project format will
be OpenTL by default and will record .wav files. Menu 700* will now offer a choice of “WAV 16-
bit” or “WAV-24 bit”, indicating that it will record an OpenTL project using either 16-bit or 24-bit
.wav files. As always, Menu 004 can be used to select the sample rate of the project.
An OpenTL project can be played back on a version 4.7 MMR-8 or MMP-16, or on an MX-2424
recorder. Additionally, an Open-TL project can be directly opened, with all edits intact, on any
OpenTL compliant DAW software, such as Nuendo.
Open-TL projects recorded on a FAT-32 disk from a MX-2424 or OpenTL compliant software
(such as Nuendo) can be played back on an MMR-8/MMP-16 with version 4.7 software.
Now that there are more choices of an MMR-8’s native recording capabilities, the following
summary applies:
Disk Format Resulting Project
Disk is formatted from front panel Projects recorded will be in WaveFrame format
Disk is Formatted as HFS+ from a Mac Projects recorded will be in ProTools format
(SDII)
Disk is Formatted as FAT-32 from a PC Projects recorded will be in OpenTL format
(.wav)
*
700
Disk Encoding
WaveFrame 16-bit
WaveFrame 24-bit
Pro Tools 16-bit
Pro Tools 24-bit
WAV 16-bit
WAV 24-bit