Hi Phil,
Thanks again for responding! I was indeed aware of both the "undo" and the "Track Erase" features, but I was a bit concerned about using them, in case I made a mistake -- I have certainly done that many times while trying to learn this machine. (it is definitely NOT "user friendly" and the manual truly sucks)
I have tried the "undo" functions many times but it never seems to undo what Ijust did. I may just not be using it right. But in this case, I wasn't ready to erase the tracks right after the bounce until I was sure that the balance, panning and such were exactly what I wanted in context with the rest of the recording. So I may have done some other tweakings to other tracks before I was ready to delete the bounced tracks. And, unless I wrote down each change I made and the order made in (I am not quite THAT anal-retentive) I can't just look at the uninformative "History" list and figure what needed to be undone.
And of course, as I have used a number of recorders in the past that had no "undo" function, I am an old dog that is slow to take on new tricks.
But I still don't see why I would get the Max Size error, as it literally had no effect on anything. I continued recording as usual without having to do anything at all. In fact, I added a large number of tracks (each one over 4 minutes long) AFTER I received that error message, and never saw the message again.
> keep an eye on the free space as shown in Menu
Are you referring to the "REMAIN" time at the top right corner? If so that brings us into an entirely new problem. When I first got the machine, I thought that was what the REMAIN time represented. But on the first card I received, with only one or two "demo" songs on it, it said I only had a few minutes left on the card. I put a few songs on it with total average length being over 4 minutes each and with many (MANY) tracks. The value of the REMAIN bounced up and down some but ultimately went back to a smaller number without ever running out of space. And, maybe even more importantly, the most common value was/is the unique number "04:08."
After I put in the new 32G SD card, I did see the REMAIN jump up to over 100:00:00, and that would seem to contradict what I just experienced with the other card (and confirm your statements). But it quickly dropped to around 50:00 after only a small part of a song was recorded. After finishing that and working on a couple other songs, it went into the bouncing up-and-down thing but ultimately ended up telling me (right now) that the REMAIN is "04:08." It has stayed at that value for a very long time while adding a humongous amount of tracks to a relatively long song.
For awhile I thought the REMAIN referred to the total length of time used for the current song, since most of my songs are around 4 minutes long. However, they are never exactly 4:08, and usually are between 4.5 and 5 minutes. And of course, if this were true, the title "REMAIN" would not make any sense.
Obviously, I still have a great deal of learning curve, even if it weren't for the puzzling error message and functions that don't seem to work the way one would expect them to.
Thanks,
Stephen