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This was mentioned in another thread, but so the story does not get buried:
The Tascam DP-32 SD has been discontinued at Musician’s Friend.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/tascam-dp-32sd-digital-32-track-portastudio
Also unavailable at Woodwind and Brasswind, who is under the same umbrella company as Musician’s Friend:
http://www.wwbw.com/Tascam-DP-32SD-Digital-32-Track-Portastudio-J06382.wwbw
Now, as far as I know, Musician’s Friend is the only Tascam dealer who has discontinued the DP-32SD. So, it could be nothing — or it could be a sign that Tascam is phasing out their top-of-the-line Portastudio.
Personally, every year, the number of Portastudio like products decreases and the price and features they have go down. Back in 2004, you could, with enough money, get a Korg D32XD: 32 tracks, 24/96 audio, insert effects on each channel, 4-band parametric EQ, four aux sends, 16 inputs, the works. Since then, Korg replaced the D32XD with the more inexpensive and lower featured D3200, before dropping out of the digital multitrack workstation market entirely.
Likewise, Tascam until recently made a 48-track hard disk based digital multitrack. No longer: The most tracks Tascam makes in a device that allows individual tracks to be armed or unarmed is the DP32-SD (someone correct me if, say, the Tascam DA-6400 allows for this).
When Tascam discontinued the DP-32, they replaced it with the more inexpensive DP-32SD, which got rid of the CD recorder and the MIDI connections.
If Tascam were to phase out the DP-32SD, market trends indicate that it’s unlikely that they would replace it with, say, a DP-48 with with 24 stereo tracks, 12 inputs, four AUX sends in the back, a MIDI interface, a SPDIF digital output, and a compressor and four band EQ for each channel. More likely, they would just make the DP-24SD their highest end Portastudio.
So, hopefully, Musician’s Friend no longer stocking the DP-32SD is just a weird quirk. Because, the way the market for digital multitrack workstations is evaporating reminds me how the market for analog synthesizers evaporated in the 1990s, a market which only fairly recently get resurrected.
The Tascam DP-32 SD has been discontinued at Musician’s Friend.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/tascam-dp-32sd-digital-32-track-portastudio
Also unavailable at Woodwind and Brasswind, who is under the same umbrella company as Musician’s Friend:
http://www.wwbw.com/Tascam-DP-32SD-Digital-32-Track-Portastudio-J06382.wwbw
Now, as far as I know, Musician’s Friend is the only Tascam dealer who has discontinued the DP-32SD. So, it could be nothing — or it could be a sign that Tascam is phasing out their top-of-the-line Portastudio.
Personally, every year, the number of Portastudio like products decreases and the price and features they have go down. Back in 2004, you could, with enough money, get a Korg D32XD: 32 tracks, 24/96 audio, insert effects on each channel, 4-band parametric EQ, four aux sends, 16 inputs, the works. Since then, Korg replaced the D32XD with the more inexpensive and lower featured D3200, before dropping out of the digital multitrack workstation market entirely.
Likewise, Tascam until recently made a 48-track hard disk based digital multitrack. No longer: The most tracks Tascam makes in a device that allows individual tracks to be armed or unarmed is the DP32-SD (someone correct me if, say, the Tascam DA-6400 allows for this).
When Tascam discontinued the DP-32, they replaced it with the more inexpensive DP-32SD, which got rid of the CD recorder and the MIDI connections.
If Tascam were to phase out the DP-32SD, market trends indicate that it’s unlikely that they would replace it with, say, a DP-48 with with 24 stereo tracks, 12 inputs, four AUX sends in the back, a MIDI interface, a SPDIF digital output, and a compressor and four band EQ for each channel. More likely, they would just make the DP-24SD their highest end Portastudio.
So, hopefully, Musician’s Friend no longer stocking the DP-32SD is just a weird quirk. Because, the way the market for digital multitrack workstations is evaporating reminds me how the market for analog synthesizers evaporated in the 1990s, a market which only fairly recently get resurrected.
