Audio Recording

When setting up your digital audio studio, you want to use the right equipment to get the job done. Let's face it there are plenty of options to choose from as to what the best equipment for you might be. One piece of equipment that you might think about is the Akai DPS24 MKII Digital Personal Studio. This personal digital audio recording studio has everything that you need to help get you started.

Let's talk about some of the features that the Akai digital audio studio DPS24 MKII has to offer. It has on board editing. With tape -like audio scrubbing and a waveform display with sample accurate scrolling, you can sample edit easily. Cut, erase, copy, move, paste, repeat and insert with non destructive editing. It has a multi-level undo/redo feature. Perform such tasks as Pitch shift, Varispeed, Resample, BPM Match, Time stretch, Normalize and reverse with the DPS offline features.

Having 4 56bit stereo simultaneous FX lets you use Reverb, Flange, Delay, Chorus, Wah, Pitch shift/correction, Phaser and has an FX library with automation snap shots. Routing allows you to process in real time by using digital plug-ins hosts and outboard equipment.

The digital mixer has 46 channels. These channels contain 1 stereo aux input, 4 stereo FX returns, 12 mono inputs and 24 mono track returns. A ready sound mixing feature for quad, LCRS and 5.1. Every mono channel including returns and tracks have dynamics processors and digital EQ with onboard libraries. The digital mixer also has parameter control in real time with the use of 18 encoders.

Onboard mastering has disk-at-once and track-at-once cd burning, bit depth dithering and sample rate conversion. Other features include 24 track select keys, true 24 track hard disk recording, 24 channels of ADAT digital inputs and outputs with ADAT sync., 24track simultaneous recording.

Now these are just some of the features included with the Akai DPS24 MKII Personal Digital Sound Studio. This lets you imagine what else you can do with this wonderful digital audio studio. Don't forget that this isn't the only piece of equipment needed for digital audio production. You may also need better sound system such as speakers to hear your creations and samples before you commit to burning those tracks.

The average cost of the Akai DPS24 MKII Digital Personal Studio is over $2000. But by comparative shopping and doing a little searching this price range can vary.

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