| Feature | MD4 | MD8 |
|---|
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| Price
| ~ $990
| ~ $1300
|
| One MD: | > $20 (140MB, allows up to 18min
8track or 37min 4track recording) |
| Recordable tracks
| 4
| 8
|
| Display dimmer
| NO
| YES, (5 steps)
|
| VU meter
| More segments (-39, -27, -18,-15,-12,-9,-6, -3, 0 dB)
| Less segments ( -36, -24,-18, -12, -6, -3, 0 dB)
Peak hold on/off
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|
Display for song title (the song name scrolls through the display)
| 12 characters wide
| 11 characters wide
|
| Auto punch I/O
| Single take
| Up to 99 takes (depends on free space on disc). After you recorded
several takes, you can decide which one to keep.
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|
Free space on disc (if you delete a song which is not the last song on disc,
you get a free block which is discontiguous with the blank top)
| New recordings go to the largest free block automatically.
You don't see how many free blocks are there.
| New recordings go in whichever free block you want. Songs can be moved
to get one large (contiguous) free block. Disc info function
lets you know where your songs are physically located on the disc
and where the free blocks are.
|
| Renumber songs
| NO
| YES (if you move songs to get one larger free block, they keep
their initial song numbers. With "renumber" they get new numbers
according to their new physical location on disc)
|
| Song markers
| 8 Markers per song
| 10 markers per song
|
| Add/Remove tracks to/from an existing song
| NO
| YES, you can convert an Ntrack song to an Mtrack song where
M and N are either 1, 2, 4 or 8. If M<N you have to decide
which tracks to copy. You can convert an MD4 song to an 8track
song for the MD8. (I actually had troubles converting an MD4
song into an 8track song. One track always became corrupt and
disgusting to listen to. Finally I succeded with a trick. I had
no problems converting a 4t song which was initially recorded on
the MD8 though)
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| Part copy (copy a segment of one track to another point in the song)
| NO
| YES. You can copy eg. from elapse 1:05-1:23 track 1
to elapse 2:13-2:26 track 7.
Source and destination must not overlap.
|
| Groups
| Four. Directed to tracks one to four.
| Four with a group master gain control each. Can be directed to tracks
1,5 (grp1) 2,6 (grp2) 3,7 (grp3) 4,8 (grp4).
When recording you can decide for each track separately IF it
receives the corresponding group signal (eg. grp3 for tr7)
OR the corresponding input channel (eg. ch7 for tr7).
|
| Aux Sends
| One aux send, one (stereo) aux return.
| Two aux sends, two (stereo) aux returns.
|
| Insert I/O
| NO
| YES (channels one and two only)
|
| ATRAC Version
| 2
| 3.5
|
| Cue/Review speed
| 2x, 4x (Buttons)
| 0.5x(fwd only), 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (Jog/Dial)
At half speed fwd the signal is heard at half pitch
|
| Pitch control
| +- 6.15%
| +- 12.05%
|
| MIDI
| Out
| In/out/thru
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| EQ
| High(12kHz), mid(1kHz), low(80Hz) +- 12dB
| High(12kHz), sweepable-mid(250Hz-5kHz), low(80Hz) +- 15dB
|
| Cue
| Gain for each track
| Gain, pan for each track, Flip switches
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| Connectors
| - On the top surface. I like this (very handy)
- MIC/LINE IN, x4 phone jack
- STEREO SUB IN, RCA
- AUX RETURN stereo, Phone
- AUX SEND, Phone jack
- STEREO OUT, RCA
- MONITOR OUT stereo, RCA
- PHONES OUT stereo, phone jack
- TRACK DIRECT OUT, x4 RCA
- FOOT SWITCH, phone jack
- MIDI out
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- On the back (because there is less space on the top surface).
I like this also
- MIC/LINE IN (CH 1&2) Balanced XLR(phantom on/off switchable)
- MIC/LINE INPUT, x8 (CH 1-8) Balanced phone jack
- LINE INPUT stereo x2, Phone jack x4 (this is the 2x aux stereo return)
- 2TR IN stereo, 2x RCA
- TRACK DIRECT OUT, x8 RCA
- STEREO OUT, RCA
- MONITOR OUT stereo, RCA
- PHONES OUT stereo, phone jack
- AUX SEND, x2 Phone jack
- FOOT SWITCH, phone jack
- MIDI in/out/through
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