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.
--
Rich De Steno
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