Re: Gear plug: Tascam 564

[Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>]

At 04:59 PM 7/22/97 -0000, you wrote:

>Purchased a Tascam 564 Minidisc recorder last week (like a cassette 

how much are these things anyway? Is it worth it over just buying a big 
disk
drive and going the hard disk route?


>¥ the ability to "bounce forward" to a later section of the MD, which
allows you to do sub-mixes while retaining all the original tracks.  The
sub-mixes do not occur in the digital realm, but are routed through the
analog mixer, so you can eq, add effects, etc.  You can do this up to four
times (only five "song" files per disc, 37 minutes of audio).
>


could you do it digitally? Seems like going through the compression
algorithm multiple times would do a number on the audio. Have you tried 
that
yet?


kim
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