Charlie,

As long as you're talking about strictly audio recording, I agree with you. But there is an area of music production standalone digital recorders have forgotten, MIDI.

As far as I know none of the recorders offered at this time have midi input or output capability. None can act as a master and send MIDI transport data to remotely control a midi equipped keyboard. None can accept midi data.

Why did I say forgotten? Because many digital recorders sold in the 2000's had that functionality including the Zoom MRS series, TASCAM 2488 and Boss BR series.


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