Fostex zip drive

Thanks for looking. Up for bids is one vintage Emu Emax-ll. This is model Which is the rack mounted version of the classic Emu Emax. It samples and plays back in stereo. This sampler has 2 mb of ram, but can be expanded to 8.

It is in good cosmetic condition and works great. Included with the Emax-ll. Is one Iomega Zip drive with two mb Zip disks containing the first two volumes of the Emu Emax sound library.

Also included is one floppy disk which contains version 2. It is all in good working condition. Please view the photos with care. This MPC is in very good condition and fully functional. The screen backlight is slightly dim. And there are a few very minor cosmetic blemishes, as pictured.

Comes with original power cable. This will allow you drag sound files directly from your computer to a Zip Disk. Very helpful and efficient. Also included are 5 MB Zip Disks- some have sounds and samples stored on them.

Others are empty. All can be reformatted and used. Please feel free to email with any questions or for more pictures. Screen has no lines! Everything in proper working order!

Average cosmetic wear. Comes with coordinating Iomega Zip drive and 4 new Zip disks! Have a couple other units and need to make a move for a vinyl collection. Short auction. Get your bid on.

This mpc is in excellent condition. Some minor scratches here and there but nothing major. It comes with the 8 outs expansion. An eb fx card, 32 mb ram not installed but brand new an iomega mb Zip drive, an scsi cable, 16 mb Zip disks, 1 os 1.

The only flaw with this mpc is that the screen is a little blurry. If you hold down shift and 8 which takes you to the"other" menu, you can hold down shift and scroll to adjust the brightness which makes the screen a little more clear.

I posted 1 pic without changing the brightness and a few pics after the brightness is adjusted. I've been using this mpc for a while and the screen never bothered me, you can still see fine.

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Particularly vexing is the way in which some multitrackers with two aux sends have both sends sharing a single pot! Turn left for aux send 1 and right for aux send 2: you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that you'll only be treating your mix channels to one effect each.

In the case of some machines the ones with digital mixers , be aware that EQ often shares processing resources with other functions, so EQ sophistication can vary depending on what else the machine is being asked to do.

Most of the mixer sections, however, are analogue, meaning that bouncing down audio involvessending digitally recorded material through analogue circuitry, which is a shame. One way to ensure that a digital multitracker has enough flexibility to grow with you is to choose one which has direct track outputs.

The Roland VS range started out offering an effects board as an option, but this was so popular that Roland soon decided to sell their first machine, the VS, only with the effects board included. They now include effects as standard on all their new machines, with the option to add more in the case of the VS, which has one dual stereo effects board fitted and room for another to be installed. We're discussing a digital recording medium here, and it's understandable to wish to interface other digital equipment with a digital multitracker, and certainly to master straight to DAT or other digital mastering medium.

Though the computer world seems to be moving to new, faster standards of data transfer, for now SCSI is the interface which will be familiar to most. The interface can be used to connect a main recording drive, or additional drives for more recording time or backup.

Mix automation is a great facility to have and can make very sophisticated recordings much easier to accomplish. Only those units with digital mixers offer automation, and the type varies. The Korg D8 automates in a more basic way but doesn't need an external sequencer , using internal 'scenes' or snapshots of mixer status which can be changed automatically during a song. A couple, however, only transmit at or sync to a fixed rate of 30fps, so watch out if this is important to you if you work to picture, for example.

The exception to this rule is the Yamaha MD4. When it comes to digital recording, backing up is essential — it's said that no digital data exists until it's in at least two places! Digital media haven't been around long enough for us to assess their reliability in the really long term, and often when digital data does become corrupt it's not even partially retrievable.

Contrast this with analogue tape, which can usually be played even if it's getting on a bit and suffering from dropouts and so on. However you do it, backing up is an issue from day one, and in the case of machines that record to hard drive, will be much easier with the benefit of a SCSI interface.

This should allow the connection of external drives, whether fixed or removable, for backup purposes. This would seem to be a very good option. Hard disk is certainly more flexible than Minidisc, but Minidisc has simplicity and convenience on its side, plus playlist editing.

Now could be the time to go get a test drive of your chosen machine and go digital! Several units in this guide offer, or use exclusively, some form of data reduction often called compression to increase recording time. Low levels of reduction — such as the reduction offered by Roland's VS series' Multitrack 1 mode — are barely noticeable, and even the typically reduction used by Minidisc is found acceptable by most people. All times are in track minutes. Data Compression Several units in this guide offer, or use exclusively, some form of data reduction often called compression to increase recording time.

If you want to build up a song out of loops and short audio segments you need a computer and appropriate software.

Nevertheless, the FD4's editing functions are very useful in the right context. Marking out a section to be cut, for example, involves setting start and end points. Start points can be found approximately by hitting the Hold or Store key on the fly.

It's partially recessed — thus difficult to get a firm grip on — and it doesn't 'scrub' like other hard disk recorders do, emulating the old method of manually moving analogue tape against the recorder's heads. When it's implemented well, this method provides a quick and easy method of finding an edit point, and all the pro machines have it. The FD4, on the other hand, repeatedly plays a very short segment of audio — around ms, I would estimate — which slides backwards and forwards in time as you turn the wheel.

It's usable, but far from ideal, and it sounds pretty unpleasant too. This you can trim in real time as it loops around. Once you've found your edit points, you can copy a segment from any number of adjacent tracks and paste it elsewhere, or move the segment, leaving silence behind. If there's something on the disk you don't like, you can simply erase it.

What the FD4 lacks is a delete function that will close up the gap, so that you can get rid of a whole section of a song and butt the remaining portions together. You can achieve much the same thing using the copy function, but it's not as straightforward a process as it could be. The editing functions also include track exchange, where data can be swapped among playback tracks, and also to and from the two Additional tracks in Mastering 1 mode.

And there are bonus tricks that only a disk can do, such as editing without cutting tape, and the provision of those two 'virtual tracks' in Mastering 1 mode. It's definitely far better than cassette, and it's attractively priced even with a Zip or EZFlyer drive taken into account compared to similarly featured MiniDisc units. Overall, I'm confident that the FD4 is capable of excellent results, and I would be happy to recommend it.

Since the FD4 has only four tracks, inevitably the recording process will include bouncing, so that a more complex arrangement can be made. On a cassette multitrack you can bounce three tracks onto the remaining one, releasing those three tracks for further use but sacrificing the individual recordings they contain.

The additional tracks can be swapped for playback tracks whenever necessary. Although there is no dedicated 'bounce forward' feature, where mixing takes place to a point further along the timeline, this can be achieved through the editing functions and the original four tracks can be retained. Since in Normal mode the FD4 operates at a 32kHz sampling rate, and in both of the Mastering modes at There is no provision for 48kHz recording, or for mixing or converting sampling rates.