Tascam Unveils the 788 24-Bit Digital Portastudio at NAMMWaveform Display for Accurate Editing, Internal Effects Processors, CD Mastering Capabilities & 24-bit Recording Provide a Complete Digital Studio in the Size of a Laptop
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July 23, 2000
Tascam's Portastudio line is getting a digital makeover with the unveiling of the 788 24-bit Digital Portastudio at Summer NAMM (booth #403 in the hall and #5017 in the arena).
"For many of our customers, their first recording experiences were with a Tascam Portastudio," says Tascam general manager Gene Joly. "As those recordists and musicians have evolved, both technologically and artistically, their need for a recording platform that offers a familiar yet modern interface has resulted in the 788 Digital Portastudio."
Offering 24-bit non-compressed recording to an internal hard drive, the 788 ($1,149 MSRP) features six-track simultaneous recording and eight-track playback, with an eight-channel main mixer , six-channel sub mixer, and eight-channel cue mix. Also included are four mono balanced inputs with TRS phone jacks, and one stereo input with 2 TRS phone jacks, as well as stereo output, monitor output, stereo AUX output, and a coaxial digital output. The 788 has a 3-band EQ on each channel in the main mixer, high and low sweepable shelving bands, parametric mid, and AUX and EFFECT sends on each channel in the main mixer.
Two internal effect processors can be independently assigned as a stereo effect processor, channel dynamics across 8 channels, or stereo dynamics. It can also be assigned as a multi-effect processor for a direct guitar input. The available effects include compression, distortion, noise gate, flanging, reverb, delay, chorus, exciter pitch shifting, phasing, an EQ, and a de-esser.
Among the 788's user-friendly editing and recording features are:
- auto punch in/out recording with 99 multi-take function
- point search for last recording start
- dedicated locate and editing buttons with 999 locate points per song
- wave form display for intuitive, accurate editing
- low-speed playback function with original key (*50%, *65%, *85%)
- plays stereo pair
Up to 250 virtual tracks can be recorded on the unit per song and, using MTC, the 778 can be locked to other MTC-enabled devices. A CD recorder, like Teac's CD-R565 (Tascam models CD-R Deluxe and CD-R624), CD-R585 (Tascam model CDR Pro), and a forthcoming Teac CD-RW solution, can be connected to the 788 for data backup and/or CD mastering.
The 788 also features:
- 999 levels of undo/redo locate
- forward and reverse Jog scrubbing with real sound
- forward and reverse shuttle with real sound
- +/-6% pitch control
- MIDI IN and OUT port
- MIDI Machine Control
- MTC master and slave function
- MIDI tempo map and sync track for MIDI clock master
- CD-R backing-up and mastering functions
- recording to external hard drive via SCSI port
- up to 10 scenes memory per song (mixing, routing, effect)
- up to 128 routing memory
- title edit function for songs, locate points, virtual tracks, scene memory, routing memory and libraries
- built-in metronome function
- 3 effects libraries with 128 user-definable presets each
For more information, visit their web site at www.tascam.com. |
