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2 minutes ago, Glen Deakin said:

Im curious what reason would you need to use that feature?

I suppose if you're used to mixing with your right hand, although the faders operate upside down.  SQN mixers have the screen on the left.  Can also see it being useful if the bag's buried in a car footwell or something and it's easier to access it the other way around. 

1 minute ago, RadoStefanov said:

might not be available in the US version.

Only for Southern Hemisphere customers (sorry)

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10 hours ago, Glen Deakin said:

Im curious what reason would you need to use that feature?

I'm the guy who asked for the "screen-flip" feature.

As I'm left-handed, I usually boom with my left arm and have the bag hanging on my right side. As my right arm covers the screen when adjusting the faders, I've always preferred mixers and recorders which have the meters and/or LCD screen on the left-hand side. With the screen flip, you may put the R4+ upside-down in your bag, flip the plastic caps of the faders and use the machine with the screen on the left-hand side, which is a huge plus in my book! :-)

Then I assign fader 4 to the boom and faders 3, 2 and 1 to wireless mics.

10 hours ago, Richard Thomas said:

Only for Southern Hemisphere customers (sorry)

The built-in GPS module will detect when you cross the equator and disable the "screen flip" feature ;-)

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1 hour ago, jlempen said:

I'm the guy who asked for the "screen-flip" feature.

As I'm left-handed, I usually boom with my left arm and have the bag hanging on my right side. As my right arm covers the screen when adjusting the faders, I've always preferred mixers and recorders which have the meters and/or LCD screen on the left-hand side. With the screen flip, you may put the R4+ upside-down in your bag, flip the plastic caps of the faders and use the machine with the screen on the left-hand side, which is a huge plus in my book! :-)

Then I assign fader 4 to the boom and faders 3, 2 and 1 to wireless mics.

The built-in GPS module will detect when you cross the equator and disable the "screen flip" feature ;-)

Changing the caps on the knobs is clever!

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Firmware 2.1 is available
www.sonosax.ch

Fixed playback channels swap
Fixed playback time code (want displayed)
Fixed time code accuracy
Fixed 176.4/192k operation
Fixed record start: under some rare condition, record start could be ignored
Fixed power failure file tag: was identical to previous take
Fixed ambient light sensor calibration and auto dim mode
Added User Settings menu
Added time code date in user bits
Added system time zone
Added fader operation mode
Added SD2 Mix Only recording
Added 24bits WAV file recording/playback
Added note field in Tag Last Take menu
Added track coloring
Added meter range user selection
Added sound report file generation
Improved monitor/mix menu: presets are now independent from each others
Improved audio performance and behavior
Improved various menus (Inputs, Monitoring/Mixing, File tag, push buttons, file tag, date/time, split Record Tracks menu into Rec Tracks and Mix menus)
Improved HTML5 web remote application
Minor bug fixes and interface adjustments

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Hey all!

A nice online menu overview for firmware v2.1 is now available on the website:

http://www.sonosax.ch/downloads/sx-r4p/v2.1/doc/menus_overview.htm

You can click on most screenshots to view detailed information on the selected menu page and submenus.

The manual has been updated as well:

http://www.sonosax.ch/downloads/sx-r4p/v2.1/doc/SX-R4+_User_Interface_v2.1.pdf

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1 hour ago, jlempen said:

Hey all!

A nice online menu overview for firmware v2.1 is now available on the website:

http://www.sonosax.ch/downloads/sx-r4p/v2.1/doc/menus_overview.htm

You can click on most screenshots to view detailed information on the selected menu page and submenus.

The manual has been updated as well:

http://www.sonosax.ch/downloads/sx-r4p/v2.1/doc/SX-R4+_User_Interface_v2.1.pdf

Nicely done.

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On 31/03/2016 at 11:03 PM, Miles Anderson said:

does anyone know if they're going to look into making a unislot receiver mount, like an sl-6?

I'm sure many would be interested to see something along those lines.

It does have 2 UART serial connections on the accessory port, and I've been told that Jacques was "interested in superslot", so could definitely see it as a possibility. On the other hand they've still got the preamp unit and control surface(s?) to make...

Looks like here's your answer:

 

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the RC8+ is really great add-on ,I hope they can make a bigger size fader control panel, the one they announced before is too tiny at least for me,the recorder self can be as small as possible but why make that fader control panel so small ? The system is almost there if they can release a bigger 12 faders control panel. 

 

 

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Cloud Wang said:
 

the RC8+ is really great add-on ,I hope they can make a bigger size fader control panel, the one they announced before is too tiny at least for me,the recorder self can be as small as possible but why make that fader control panel so small ? The system is almost there if they can release a bigger 12 faders control panel. 

 

 

 

 

 

The RC8+ looks great, and totally fits what I'm after. It also has a built in hirose power distro, slate mic and AES breakout to TA3. I'd be interested to know whether any existing inputs are used by the slate mic. I hope they're putting together something bigger for the fader panel, again I've fed back that the initial one was too small

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2 minutes ago, JAX said:

Nice assembly, I don't think we have to make a SUPERSLOT frame.

Thanks Jacques!

I did think about getting the serial connections in place for superslot, but would have required different cable that Stuart (who made it) didn't have in.  For running more receivers, would a serial mutiplexer be required?

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