asidari
05-27-2002, 09:03 PM
Firstly, a big thanks to Australis (the Australian importers of AkaiPro) who loaned me the DPS24 for a week when it first arrived in Oz for me to find out if it would suit my needs in the world of music for television. It did.
I have owned my Akai DPS24 for two months now and I can report the following...
I was able to plug it in, patch in my gear and track and mix a 24 track recording before I needed to look in the manual to learn how to burn to the internal CDR.If you have used any kind of multitrack recorder and mixer in the past ,you will be able to run this machine straight out of the box! The layout is so simple and logical that once you start recording you will easily find the things you are looking for.Adjustments and fine tunings are made quickly and easily.
The headroom was immediately noticeable with great depth and shimmering top end. It just sounds great.The EQ is very useful and responsive despite being digital and any adjustments made sweetened the given track accordingly.
The FX are more than useful and the variety on offer will only pose a problem of over-production if you try use them all too soon!
The feel of the faders and rotary controllers is fantastic and ultimately very professional. This machine is a tactile experience only matched by expensive pro level gear and is an absolute joy to operate. It honestly makes me smile when I use it and also inspires greater detail and focus when I record AND mix.
The automation is a doddle and file management a breeze. The thing that I love is not having to save manually and when I want to leave the studio. I simply turn it off and walk away.When I return it resumes where I left off when turned back on. Very cool.
The DPS24 is so simple to navigate and use that at times I feel like I should being doing more. But I soon realise that I am so used to battling with arcane operating systems to do the simplest things in other recorders that I can relax now. Using the DPS24 is very much like analog multitrack recording...easy.
With three expansion slots and future VST plug in support via AkSys and USB, I know this machine will grow along with technology in the future rather than become increasingly obsolete since the day I bought it.
Akai have upgraded the OS three times since its release taking care of a few sync issues , adding 96/24 and MMC control fixes. This machine just gets better and better with every upgrade... and it was amazing to begin with.
In this era of digital audio the quality of the sound from machine to machine can be indistinguishable, but the operation can be as different as chalk and cheese and it is in this way that the Akai DPS24 emulates the simplicity of analog multitrack recording in a complex digital world.
That makes it a stand out winner for me.
I have owned my Akai DPS24 for two months now and I can report the following...
I was able to plug it in, patch in my gear and track and mix a 24 track recording before I needed to look in the manual to learn how to burn to the internal CDR.If you have used any kind of multitrack recorder and mixer in the past ,you will be able to run this machine straight out of the box! The layout is so simple and logical that once you start recording you will easily find the things you are looking for.Adjustments and fine tunings are made quickly and easily.
The headroom was immediately noticeable with great depth and shimmering top end. It just sounds great.The EQ is very useful and responsive despite being digital and any adjustments made sweetened the given track accordingly.
The FX are more than useful and the variety on offer will only pose a problem of over-production if you try use them all too soon!
The feel of the faders and rotary controllers is fantastic and ultimately very professional. This machine is a tactile experience only matched by expensive pro level gear and is an absolute joy to operate. It honestly makes me smile when I use it and also inspires greater detail and focus when I record AND mix.
The automation is a doddle and file management a breeze. The thing that I love is not having to save manually and when I want to leave the studio. I simply turn it off and walk away.When I return it resumes where I left off when turned back on. Very cool.
The DPS24 is so simple to navigate and use that at times I feel like I should being doing more. But I soon realise that I am so used to battling with arcane operating systems to do the simplest things in other recorders that I can relax now. Using the DPS24 is very much like analog multitrack recording...easy.
With three expansion slots and future VST plug in support via AkSys and USB, I know this machine will grow along with technology in the future rather than become increasingly obsolete since the day I bought it.
Akai have upgraded the OS three times since its release taking care of a few sync issues , adding 96/24 and MMC control fixes. This machine just gets better and better with every upgrade... and it was amazing to begin with.
In this era of digital audio the quality of the sound from machine to machine can be indistinguishable, but the operation can be as different as chalk and cheese and it is in this way that the Akai DPS24 emulates the simplicity of analog multitrack recording in a complex digital world.
That makes it a stand out winner for me.