| Card Manager
September 13 2001 at 5:58 AM | record
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| I downloaded Card Manager through IE5 into Windows. I click on the first command to back-up a card and the text box flickers and says the card in my reader is not a PS-02. Oh really! So, the card manager does not work for me. Has this happened to anyone else? BTW, i was able to save individual files into Windows which would only be good if i dragged them into a software multitrack which i currently do not have.
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| | Author | Reply | Shamus
| | Copy the files | September 13 2001, 7:11 PM |
Just create a data folder and copy the files from the Smartmedia into the new data folder just using explorer. Use this data folder as the source for the operations, or destination if you want to copy new data to it. When you're finished just copy the files back to your smartmedia.
Personally I find the card manager (for Windows at least) a waste of space. The only remotely useful function is the ability to create wav's from each recorded track, and then as you rightly say this is only useful if you intend to import them into a software app. All other tasks are easily managed by Explorer.
As has been said in previous threads, Card manager is left seriously lacking to be of any real use.
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| Oscar Wilhelmsson
| | Put some pressure on Zoom? | September 14 2001, 3:51 AM |
I wonder what it would take for Zoom to realize that if they just improved the cardmanager program so that we could create and trade our own drum and bass patterns etc. the PS-02 would be an even more superior product. In these days a living community of users is a real business-advantage.
So what should we do? Should we flood the Zoom support office with e-mails telling them what we really want? Or should we try to reverse-engineer the PS-02 format and build our own software?
The current drum and bass pattern are just too boring.
Of course I could record a real bass but first of all it takes up space and second it would be much cheaper to edit the bassline on my computer than to go out and by a bass. The bass-simulation patches found on the BOSS products would also be nice to have.
/Oscar
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| Murray
| | A couple things | September 14 2001, 11:42 PM |
First, about the card manager problems. I had and have the same problems, I almost took my card reader back, but I talked to my computer guru, and he said that the early USB ports (my computer is about 2 years old) were not very stable, and this would be a typical problem. Better than when I use a USB flight simulater joy-stick, crash, crash, crash........not the plane, the computer.
It's a pain, but if you reboot every time you get these errors, your reader will function at least a couple times. That has been my experience.
Second, I'm guessing that someone from Zoom is reading this site, they would be crazy not to.
Yes, the tracks can be boring, however I don't feel I have hit that wall yet. I look at it like this....It makes it easy for me to get ideas down, if I really like them, I can record over the drums later, but more than likely I will redo the whole song on a better system. Why spend all the time if the sound quality is not top notch.
I record my own bass on my tracks, and personally I think it is worth the investment, not to mention all the other things a person can learn about music by playing bass once in a while.
As another idea, find a bass playing PS-02 user and send him your songs, he can load them up and add a bass part for you. If you have trouble emailing the large files, try the ICQ network as this makes it possible to send large files.
I really like the idea of programming our own software, anyone out there know how to do this?
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