Roland just announced this at Summer NAMM. It's a four track digital recorder, records to SD card, built in drums and effects. Nothing very special, no phantom power, but... SHINY!
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
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any ideas on a price yet? other than "low", as it says on that site?
I really like the looks of it. I usually hate silvery things but this one looks so good. Oh and the screen. How could i hate a blue fluorescent screen???
there are loads of synths and drum machines,but i dont understand why nobody has written a simple multitrack recorder for my mda vario windows mobile phone. no effects, nothing, just four tracks of sketch pad... aaaahh...
Roland told me that the street price would be about $250! Ouch. It is a very cool device however. I saw it at NAMM. Note that the USB is for data transfer only. It does not wok as an audio input.
i bet they will have v-tracks. so 4 tracks virtualized to who knows how many. 16? I just bought a used zoom palm recorder and thought 'man, someone is going to make this better and easier', no sooner said than done.
It looks great, but how good is the stereo line/mic input? If you can use an external stereo mic with it for live recordings( with good fidelity), this is a replacement for my minidisc, zoom ps04 and tascam cd trainer all in one...
I got hold of one of these and am making notes of various things I find, which may answer some of the questions here - blog.colartz.com. NB: For a 16 track mixer for MDA or smartphone, you could always try www.minimixa.com...