Programming the Secure Digital FLASH Card
SD/SD-HC Flash Card Requirements
The
Compact FLASH IV Digital Audio System
was designed to use only Secure Digital FLASH Cards
(SD or SD/HC Cards) that support the Serial Peripheral Interface mode at 3.3 volt operation. SD-HC cards up
to 32GB may be used. Tested cards include SanDisk, Samsung, Dane-Elec, Memorex and Hitachi. The
SanDisk card was tested, since they manufacture 90% of the retail cards on the market. Secure Digital
FLASH Cards are available in many local electronics or camera stores or can be ordered directly from ACS.
The Secure Digital FLASH Card is programmed by inserting it into a SD Card FLASH adapter
connected to your computer’s USB port. Sound files are copied to the SD FLASH Card just as if it were a
disk drive. The files used are the standard “*.WAV” files typically employed by Windows and DOS audio
applications for years.
When a new SD FLASH Card is first installed into your computer, Windows (95 or later) should
recognize the device and install the software necessary to access the card. After the software installation is
complete, the SD FLASH Card appears as a disk drive icon under My Computer. You may then use
Windows Explorer to drag and drop the sound files from your computer’s hard disk directly to the SD
FLASH Card drive icon. It really is just that easy.
Please take care not to use audio tracks that are copyrighted. If you wish to avoid this issue, you will find
that many computer software outlets have CD’s with non-copyrighted music and audio sound effects that you
may use without limitation. They are commonly found in the multimedia section.
Please be advised that you as the user are solely responsible for audio that you record and
play from the Compact FLASH IV Digital Audio System.
Installing and Removing the Secure Digital FLASH Card
Care should be taken when installing or removing the SD FLASH Card. Please be certain to insert the
card with a straight and level motion. Please do not force the card to insert. Otherwise the SD card socket
may become damaged and the card and/or
Compact FLASH IV Digital Audio System
may become
unusable.
Before REMOVING the SD FLASH Card from your PC under Windows 95 or later, Microsoft
recommends that you double click on the Removable Drive icon at the bottom of your computer screen. This
will bring up the Removable Drive properties window. Click on the card you wish to remove by clicking on
it. Finally, click on the stop button. Windows will then tell you that the SD card can be safely removed.
Under Windows XP and later OSs you may also right-click on the folder and select Eject.
Failure to stop the card reader and/or eject the SD card after writing to it may result
in incorrect or incomplete data on the card.
On the
Compact FLASH IV Digital Audio System
this will all happen automatically simply by
removing the card.
Audio Rates Supported
The Compact FLASH IV Digital Audio System supports 8 or 16-bit mono or stereo Windows
PCM format (.WAV) sound files at sampling rates of 8KHz, 11.025KHz, 16KHz, 22.050KHz,
32KHz and 44.1KHz only. The file must be recorded in the PCM WAV format – simply
renaming a MP3 file will not work.
