| Now that sounds real nice. I have used SMPTE through Dolby
with no bad effects, so that feature doesn't sound too useful,
but controlling the beast through MIDI would add a lot of
convenience. Currently when changing tracks I have to push
nine buttons or switches, most of them on the mixer and tape
unit. If I could control all of that through MIDI I'd add
software to my sequencer to do all that automatically.
I'll start haunting the local music store; maybe I can get
a demo. Thanks for the reference.
John Sauter
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| My (modest) Tascam 244 has dbx noise reduction (nondefeatable on any
of the 4 tracks) and I have had no problems doing sync tracks from my
MSQ-100. The Roland stuff uses FSK for tape sync, and that kind of
encoding is resistant to any processing that doesn't change the frequencies
used. The only way I can imagine you could get into trouble would be
by overloading some component to generate spurious frequencies that would
interfere with tracking the sync signal. Noise reduction usually only
entails manipulations in the amplitude domain (often as a function of
frequency, but the frequencies themselves are unmodulated), so it ought
to work. I have done many many data saves from synths, sequencers and
drum machines with the dolby engaged on my cassette deck with no problems,
though the manufacturers usually recommend leaving it off - I always forget
to switch it off.
The studio 8 sounds pretty neat. I wasn't using 4 tracks for long before
I wanted 8. Once I get 8, am I going to want 16?
Is the studio 8 configured like the 244 (i.e., 8 input modules with
inputs switchable from tape to line)? Does it have lo Z mic inputs?
Where can the inout modules be routed (i.e., to any of the 8 tracks,
panned between any of 4 pairs of tracks, etc.)?
len.
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