JoeCo Announces Latest Blackbox Recorder Software Update

Cambridge, UK, 18th October 2011 - JoeCo Limited has announced a major  

software update for its award-winning BlackBox Recorder series. 

Version 2.2 contains a number of features designed to give the user 

greater working efficiency and includes many benefits inherited from 

the development of the BlackBox BBR64-MADI and Dante Recorders. These 

include enhancements to the underlying bespoke operating system 

alongside improved methods of displaying critical information to the 

user whilst maintaining the conceptual simplicity of the user interface.

Simple interface changes, from clarifying clock sources to flashing 

the transport controls while an operation is pending, provide a much 

slicker user experience, imparting more information to the user with 

greater speed and clarity. The Pre Fade Listen system, introduced in 

the BBR64-MADI development, now allows more rapid sweep through the 

channels with a quick return to "mix" output.

It's also faster to enter record and to finalize the Broadcast WAV 

files thus created; timecode reading is quicker and more accurate; 

master/slave performance has been enhanced and further support has 

been added for particular drive types. Additionally, the software now 

runs background checks on the drive to create a more accurate map of 

free space to further speed entering record.

The Player software add-on has taken advantage of improvements to 

triggering and now also supports v0 BWF files, which some older DAWs 

still produce. These and more enhancements are encapsulated in an 

upgraded field update manager.

"With reliability and speed key to the BlackBox, we are constantly 

working to ensure that our users can achieve maximum working 

efficiency from their recorder" said Joe Bull, JoeCo's Managing 

Director. "Having worked hard to develop the new BBR64-MADI and Dante 

systems, we like to share the benefits of these developments with our 

existing customers wherever possible."

The new Version 2.2 software update can be downloaded free of charge 

from the End User area of the JoeCo website: www.joeco.co.uk.

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