Fostex Presents D1624 & D824 Digital Multitrack Recorders at NAMM
 

Norwalk, Calif., July 28, 2000 -- Fostex has made new additions to their range of stand-alone professional digital multitrack recorders and now present the new 24bit / 96kHz compatible D1624 and D824. These high specification machines record uncompressed digital audio at up to 24bit / 96kHz to caddy-held standard E-IDE hard drives by way of state-of-the-art 128x oversampling delta-sigma 24bit AD/DAs - all under the full control of FDMS-3 Fostex’s Disk Management System. FDMS-3 offers more efficient disk usage, (up to 1,880 track minutes recording on a 10Gb drive with 16bit/44.1kHz), and also allows for fast editing operations.

In addition to the 24bit / 96kHz capability, both machines also offer 4 other recording formats, additional ghost tracks, sophisticated non-destructive audio editing with multiple UNDOs, copy/paste editing across song programs, .WAV file support and RS-422 connectors supporting the P2 protocol.

Ease of use has been enhanced too with the addition of the ‘All Input’ and ‘All Ready’ functions which allow a user to check all input signals and make all tracks ready with single button pushes. Expansion options have also been improved and now run to plug-in cards to add timecode, AES/EBU and balanced I/O functions.

Main features include:

  • 16 track (D1624) or 8 track (D824) digital multitracks with no compression
  • 24bit 96kHz (8 tracks) plus 4 other recording formats (16bit/44.1kHz, 16bit/48kHz, 24bit/44.1kHz, and 24bit/48kHz)
  • 128 times oversampling delta-sigma 24bit AD/DA
  • 8 (D1624) or 16 (D824) further 'ghost tracks'
  • Save & load song files in .WAV format
  • Level envelope display aids easy copy, paste, move & erase editing with undo & redo
  • Copy/Paste editing across programs (songs)
  • Virtual timecode track function
  • Unlimited chronological editing UNDOs (dependent on free hard disc space available)
  • 6 point edit memory & 99 locate point memory
  • MMC & FEX implemented for external MIDI control
  • Multiple tempo and signature changes per song
  • Midi clock with song position pointer
  • S/P DIF & ADAT™ Optical Digital Interfaces
  • Remote connector complying with RS-422
  • High speed backup to an external SCSI device in addition to regular backup to ADAT or DAT.
  • Optional timecode, AES/EBU and balanced I/O cards

Source: Fostex
Web: www.fostex.co.jp