johntennant Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Hi guys, I:ve been lurking and searching and haven:t got the beta I need so I figured I:d join the forum and ask you polite lot myself. Sorry if this has been covered! I:m interested in buying a minidisc recorder for field recordings, however I need to have a digital out on the unit. Is there such a machine? I:ve had no luck finding one at the local stores here in Asahikawa, Japan. Thanks for any help you can give. -John PS I don:t own a PC. I run a G4 in my studio. So NetMD won:t work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 NetMD does not allow transfers from the players to a computer in any case. Only HiMD does this, and that's with limitations [such as there not being any Mac software for it - though VPC for G5 is out now, that might change things for some people]. To find MD portables with digital outputs, check the equipment charts on www.minidisc.org . I would say MD is comparable to DAT in terms of general 1st-generation recording quality. HiMD does linear PCM recording, which is why I bought a HiMD recorder. It's important to keep in mind though that most MD equipment is consumer equipment. Feature set and quality are compromised in certain ways for the sakes of both portability and power consumption. Some pro equipment such as the MDP-500 by HHB offer full digital I/O as well as USB transfers in the clear with either Windows or Mac computers. Others [like one made by Marantz] have only AES-EBU XLR digital out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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