| I recently was in the market for a small handheld digital recorder. I read the information linked to above, and also anything else I could find out about the Korg recorders. They seem like very appealing devices, but I went with another product for a simple reason: external computer software is required in order to get the 1bit data in the Korg into a format usable by any current DAW or digital device.
What's the problem with that? Well, I know from experience that Korg will drop support for poor selling products fairly quickly, and that includes support/updates of any related software. I do not want to have to depend on "included Mac/PC software" to be able to use this device and have it communicate with the rest of the world.
So ultimately, all the white papers in the world couldn't convince me to buy hardware that makes recordings that are incompatible with 99.9% of the recording world. Build the 1bit to 24/44 conversion into the unit. |