![]() They just seem to have lost the plot when designing these new ones. It's the cost and risk of shipping that runs up the prices, I think. and just deliver decent preamps and eq, maybe built in HW input limiting, and a mixer with some hardware sends and returns, that records to standard wav files on cheap removable media and doesn't require menu diving to operate.Īnyways, tape machines are still easy to find and pretty cheap for what you get, particularly if you don't insist on something top of the line. ![]() What is practical - can someone make a new digital portastudio thing that isn't clunky and fragile? Skip the shitty effects, built in drum machines etc. I wish this wasn't the case I'd love to see an updated version of the Tascam 388, but that's even less likely than a new cassette multitrack. No one makes cassette machines anymore, so getting an actual production line going for a niche product would be too expensive. Knights Who Say Neve wrote:Startup costs, I'm guessing. I really doubt you'd get that sheen from a Boss Br. Now listen to this made on a 4-track Vesta Fire in the 80s, and tell me this doesn't sound great. I really wish this marked gets a second wind cause I'm really starting to detest all these apps claming this and that and proving to be mostly just good looks and fiddly sub-menus. No youtube or Facebook to be checked, just you and your music. There is something good and focused with a dedicated unit. these are annoying stuff to use for laying down some tracks and load up to shit-cloud somewhere! It's not more hands on than 80s style 4-track recording! It's just more sidetracking BS involved when you just wanna capture your ideas and finish a demo. I don't care if there are hundreds of apps to iPad etc. Yamaha nothing, Fostex - nada, Marantz etc.there are very few hardware scetchpas units around that creates enthusiasm. plasticy things that no one really love.īoth Roland and Tascam seem to leave this marked, as there have been no new devices for years now. Tascam do make digital Portastudios with alot of features, but are utterly clunky to use and have shit EQ and preamps. ![]() It may sound like a stupid question in this day and age, and an industry "dead format", but I've been scoping this marked of hardware multitrackers and it is truly depressing. ![]() There is so much love (nostalgia) for tape sound. Ok, general hipstery aside and speaking from purely hands-on approach to getting down a multitracked demo: WHY doesn't any of the former makers of cassette-recorders do a remake.? CLEARLY the marked is there, with silly prices on old worn out units. ![]()
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