Xref: utzoo rec.music.makers:15250 rec.audio:31983 comp.sys.mac.wanted:3921 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!atha!aunro!alberta!brazeau.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!xn.ll.mit.edu!xn!tonyb From: tonyb@titania.juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Tony Berke) Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,rec.audio,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Multitrack Digital Recording? Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 16:33:23 GMT References: <383@infopro.UUCP> Sender: usenet@xn.ll.mit.edu Organization: M.I.T. Lincoln Lab - Group 43 Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: david@infopro.UUCP's message of 30 May 91 22:52:39 GMT In article <383@infopro.UUCP> david@infopro.UUCP (David Fiedler) writes: Hi, does anyone know of any reasonably-priced (<$10,000) multitrack DAT or other digital recording devices, or a way of recording multiple channels digitally onto a Mac? Thanks in advance. -- As far as digital tape with > 4 tracks for < $10000, you're out of luck until this winter. The closest you can get for now is from Akai (or Aiwa, I always get them messed up), which will sell you a $10,000+ 12-track toy. This winter Alesis is promising to ship the ADAM (ADAT? I'm not doing too well this morning), an 8-track machine that uses VHS tape for storage. For another $2000 they'll sell you a remote controller with SMPTE and multi-deck synch capability (up to 16 decks for 128 tracks!) If they can really deliver the product, it is going to wind up in my studio right quick, unless I get hung up on direct-to-hard-disk recording before then and break my budget. Alesis has plenty of experience with digital audio, and VCR transports aren't too hard to come by, so I expect that it will really happen. I don't know too much about Mac's, but I know that 4 channels is about all anyone has managed to get working on an IBM-compatible system, due to bus-bandwidth limitations. "Tracks" can go a lot farther on a hard disk system than on tape, though, due to the entertaining editing that's possible with the former. Have fun (and let us know if you find out about any other 'inexpensive' tape formats!) Tony Berke