![]() So I was more than a little excited by the announcement of Zoom's new R16, because it seems like a product designed with people like me in mind. ![]() What's more, like most laptops, they generate infuriating fan noise, and running them away from a mains power supply is rarely a realistic option. I have two laptop rigs, and both are technically 'portable' but actually porting them anywhere involves packing up and untangling a mare's nest of USB and Firewire cables, dongles, hubs, interfaces and external hard drives. Yet even to the hardcore PC user, there is undeniably something attractive about a portable, stand‑alone recording system. When it comes to expandability, flexibility and sheer processing power, there's really no contest. There are still plenty of them about today, but the inexorable rise of the Mac and PC as recording platforms has had a huge impact in this area. If you wanted an affordable way to record, mix, master and burn CDs in the home environment, devices such as Roland's VS‑series recorders were pretty much the only game in town. There was a time in the '90s when stand‑alone digital multitrackers dominated the market. Have computers made digital multitrackers obsolete? Zoom don't think so.
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