I think just the opposite. Because of the SoC (system on a chip), technologies, Raspberry Pi's etc. Its just more cost effective manufacture dedicate hardware for everything. If you look at the totality of Tascam's, and Zoom's new multitrack recording offerings, you'll see what I mean. For grins, go to Amazon and do a search on multi-track recorders there isg. a lot more (new stuff) out there than you might think
Roland has something really interestin
As far as
limited effects on the Tascam. That's another very
interesting area. Small dedicated hardware effects processors are more
plentiful and diverse and affordable than any time in the past.
So with the portastudio you can simply buy the "real hardware effects processors" and just use Send Effects 2 and you can chain as many effects as you want (or can afford). And you won't have to worry about compatibility, or drivers, or licenses, or dongles, or bogging down the cpu, etc,etc. As you know all those VSTs out there are software renditions of real devices. But these days some of the real things are very affordable.
External hardware effects these days can be found in all shapes, sizes and forms. Its actually daunting to see how much is out there. And if we use external effects with the Portastudio we are we no longer have any limitations. I have a bazillion effects on my Yamaha QY100 and I've used them in conjunction with the Portastudio send effect 2 external capability. It works like a charm.
Not only are external hardware effects processors affordable these days, they are also, a lot smaller and more reliable. So they don't take up nearly the space they use to. A lot of the old analog equipment now have digital hardware counterparts that are smaller, more reliable, more capable and dramatically more affordable.
For the same reasons that the Tascam Dp 24/32 portastudios are attractive for recording., the new modern digital external effects are attractive in comparison to their VST versions. There are just so many possibilities these days .
As you know, using the Send Effects 2 on our Tascam we can extend its capabilities in every area, effects, compression, limiting, noise suppression, and it will all take up about the same space that a computer, a 24 inch monitor, a keyboard and mouse would take up.
The old arguments against real recording hardware, effects, etc, are just no longer valid. To the contrary, A hardware rig based around a Portastudio, will likely cost less, take up less room, be more reliable and easier to use than its computer based counter part
I think the future is very bright for the dedicated hardware based recording studio environment
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I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything specific about the Tascam Portastudio
