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dabluz:
just got this amazing little recorder. hope this is the right forum for this kind of thing. check it out at their website. it is amazingly simple and ultra high quality of recording. if you would like to know more or hear some samples email me off forum.

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Rivers:
Cool, loooks like the next generation has finally arrived. Planning to upgrade my half-broken minidisc soon. Please feel free to give us a review, weenies are always interested in portable recorders for workshops, scratchpads and so on.

uncle bud:
Interesting. More infor available here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack-main.html. They seem to run around $499?

Dabluz, feel free to post your thoughts about it as Rivers said. I'd be interested in the sound quality and I assume the memory card is upgradeable.

Slack:
Looks very cool.  Amazon sells them through a third party for $389 - which if the included mic is any good makes them competitive with Minidiscs.  amazon has one review -- but from a garage band perspective.

Amazon Link

Rivers:
According to that review it's bigger than I thought and weighs a whopping 26 lbs! Nahh.. can that be right? Wouldn't want to lug it around for very long. I want something I can carry in a shirt pocket. edit: The M-Audio site says it's the size & weight of a deck of cards so the dimensions and weight on the Amazon page must be wrong.

The concept is good, plugin flash cards, micro drives. I see you can control recording levels, the lack of which always annoyed me about my minidisc, esp. when trying to record with a splitter and two mics when one source is louder than the other.

Oooh, this getting better, 24 bit recording... yowzah. More goodies, recharges by plugging into a USB port. You'd need a laptop to make the most of it as a field recorder. Oh, I see it has a stand alone DC power adapter as well.

Looks great but that negative review on Amazon worries me. Forewarned is forearmed I guess. Edit: found this page on the latest updates to the software that seems to address the issues in the review, wow they sure had some most excellent bugs in the first release, looks like a rush to market:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers&product=196cc4c35a380d800a80448f139bcfe7&showbeta=1

Edit: downloaded the manual. Recording WAV files at the highest possible bit depth (24) and sample rate (96 KHz) to an 8 Gig drive gets you 4.5 hours recording time (dunno if that's stereo or mono) which makes it pretty much a dream machine as far as I'm concerned, all else being equal of course.

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