The BIG Problem with Portastudios

[@earlsfield]

God no. Little pretext. I started in 90s. Used porta studio for demos, etc. When we started producing music for living, tape/analog gear was still around, but in a few years digital came in strong. Even back then, having Atari running Cubase and sequencing various devices was a big deal. Now we got digital mixers remembering each mix, DAWs with endless tracks, so no comping anymore, and so much more. Somewhere between tape and computer we worked with Alesis digital multichannel recorder but that was also porta studio just digital. I would maybe deal with one in case I am to write demo quickly, but really, nothing i cant do with a DAW and the rest of my gear.

[@nilsakesson1346]

Only reason I would keep my old broken Tascam/Teac 244 porta studio. Would be (IMHO) the great semi-parametric eq. It somehow was easy to dial in just the right spot. In terms of connectivity, the 244 had insanely many options. i mean, show me a 4 ch +master bus mixer with inserts option, pretty rad! Never used it myself. BUT the eq I miss, I loved the sound of the dbX NR too. But I'd never go back. I find my trusty DIGI002 has a plethora of connectivity options. I mean In my rack, I have 18 I/O, pretty common I guess. But certainly enough for an entire band at once! And with all other I/Os it beats any porta any day. AND just the DIGI002 and a laptop, is just as portable. And right there yougot 8 ch. And you've got a totally clean signal, you can fuck up as you go. So no going back

[@MrPaultheguitar]

Truth is DAW are unpredictable you have to keep updating to the Next version which is expensive take the free version of Sonar it was a free then they suddenly they pulled it Logic for iPad you have to pay for the thing eternally this situation is getting out of hand this I feel is the reason why people are returning to portastudios digital and analogue DAW are fantastic but people won't stand for being taken advantage of my self I use both to keep my opinions open