#1771

Did I missed something? What is FM and Synth mode on the /W?
Alternative firmware?

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#1772

The latest v2 beta firmware has quite a few changes. There are now three different engines, Tape (a simplified version of v1), Delay, and Synth. Synth is a 2 op fm engine. Check out the w/ beta thread for more info!

#1773

Super thx
All my recordings will be overwritten. I donā€™t think I can recover them in some way then?

Cheers

#1774

Yeah, I donā€™t think there is a method for exporting your tapes. Outside of playing them all into another recorder, which seems more than a little arduous if you have a lot of recordings spread across the various tapes.

#1775

Someone sufficiently motivated could dump the whole SD card and write a program to extract the audio, using the layout documentation here. I just went through and played everything back to my computer to record the tape contents ā€“ turned out I had less material than I thought, and it was kind of fun to listen to the whole thing linearly. If you then wanted to record all this back to the W/ tape this is not currently really possible since I think the current beta actually limits the tape to just a few minutes.

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#1776

Or buy another W/ :joy:

No but seriously, I donā€™t know about others, but there is a lot of sweat and tears in those recordings. I would like to keep them or at least export themā€¦

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#1777

Temporary solutions:

  1. Get a second micro SD card to use with the new firmware. You can revert to v1.2 to continue with the old card. Make sure you remove the card before switching firmware, then only re-insert the card after the firmware update is finished.
  2. Make a disk image of the SD card until someone writes a wave-extractor for the old format recordings. I have something that got part way through this I should post. It needs a lot of work, but just dumped the audio between each cue point into a separate .wav file.

That said - the W/2 beta is not primetime ready. It has a number of issues that are actively being solved. Weā€™re planning to post a new beta by the end of this month.

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#1778

Got one last week and its slowly becoming one of my favorites. Itā€™s so basic yet so useful and explorative! Best addition to my system yet :slight_smile:

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#1779

Anyone having issues with recordings and cues being completely forgotten after being powered down for a while? I seem to lose my last 2 or 3 recordings pretty much every time I jam with it. My unit is new too; I got it just a couple months ago, burned the new firmware, and burned the old one back after deciding Iā€™d rather wait for the full record time. Is it possible that burning the firmware twice would mess up the SD card?