multi-track or keyboard

[dirtyp]

whats the advantages of using a digital track?
are the plug ins,eq,pres good?
Theres alot of features im not sure how many are useful.
It seems simalar to a syth/keyboard.
Would I be better off with a keyboard?

I rap and make beats mostly with reason I have a old alesis sr16.
Im using mxl 990,pre-mobile, bunch of software and plugins. Im looking to beef up my chain. I would like a keyboard/drum machine for beats, And a mixer. I was thinking a digital track might take care of that. Plus some have compressors and other goodies.

[ssscientist]

Define 'digital track'.

[dirtyp]

im talking about the multi track recorders.
its like a all in one studio, not the old tape ones





cheap one


nice one

[ssscientist]

The two you linked --- and most other modern 'digital track' machines --- are all about equal in sound quality. What's different about them is number of inputs, quality of facilities, etc.

You'd need to move upmarket a little to get a quality mixer, compressors and EQ's. Here's a LINK to one I can vouch for firsthand. It has sample pads, a CD drive and a USB interface so you can dump your Reason tracks onto the hard drive.


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[dirtyp]

Thats a bad ass piece of equipment.
I cant afford it, was just wondering since there all in one if the quality was good.

Ill most likely just get piece by piece, mixer,controler,upgrade mics and interface.

But it would be simplier to have just one piece of equipment.
My friend had a triton keyboard and he could do everything on it.
Its tiring updating vsts and software, and I remeber the the old analog 4 tracks sounding good. So im trying to get more hardware.

The keyboards are expensive too, do you think the controlers are any good?