thierryd

and fresh in the mailbox today: Latest Firmware: MixPre Series v4.01 with among other things: Changed Removed Real Time Clock Battery check. Unpublished (applies to all models) I can imagine this could solve "timecode generator" issues... Cheers, Thierry

I've seen this firmware update issue in the past, although it has been a while (now on 3.03). The "timecode generator was reset" message has bitten me quite a few times. I always got it to work in the end, but have lost quite some time with it and it didn't give much confidence. My conclusion after months of wondering, was that it probably had something to do with the recorder not on external power upon startup. Our MixPre10T is always running via Hirose on NP1 batteries. There are Eneloop AA batteries in the sled, just for backup and to keep it running while changing a NP1. However sometimes a NP1 might be sitting not well in its sled without me noticing, when powering up the recorder. It would then power up on AA batteries and I noticed this definitely was a reason for the "timecode generator was reset" message appearing. However I've also seen it even with the NP1 connected. Powering up a second time then mostly solved it. I never found anything about this on the interenet, until I stumbled upon this thread now. Dave you might be on to something with the charging. I mentioned the issue to my dealer, but he hadn't heard of it before. Did you ever get in touch with Sounddevices about this? Unfortunately I didn't have time to go talk to them at IBC last week.