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I don't believe the 2488/2488 mkII has a drum machine, per se, built-in. It does have MIDI and looping capabilities, and effects for drums, but I don't think there's a drum machine. My DP-01 FX/CD is the same, no drum machine, but is has effects tailored for drums.

My 424 mkII arrived yesterday, and it's in mint condition. It came in the original box, with the owners manual. I tested it out last night by recording a band rehearsal. Wow, it sounds great! Very clear and clean, with a nice range of EQ options, thanks to the sweepable mids. I am very...

I have used Maxell for the entire time I've used Tascam Portastudios, nearly 20 years. They always sound great and are very reliable.

I have tried using non-data MiniDiscs with my 564. The message I received was "Disc Error". They would neither play nor record. Perhaps it was the discs themselves. Otherwise, I have had no issues with my 564, it's a champ!

As an owner of a Tascam 688, a Tascam 424 mkII, a Tascam 424 and a Tascam DP-O1FX/CD, I strongly recommend you get a Tascam 564. If you dig Portastudios, you will absolutely love the 564. And you can find them for not very much online. The 564 rocks!

Above is my circa 1997 Tascam 564 MD Portastudio 564 with my producer, Mouse. The 564 is still an incredible multi-tracker and a seriously capable machine. It sports excellent digital sound quality and operates in a manner much like a cassette-based Portastudio. In 1996, the 564 was Tascam's...

Clarification: the Tascam 564 is a full-blown 4 track MD Portastudio, but it will ONLY record onto 4 tracks with MD Data discs. Using other MD media will not work with the 564, you MUST user MD data discs, period. I know, I have tried. And the 564 is only a 4 track in name only. It is capable of...

This thread interests me, because I feel the same way about my Tascam 688. What I do presently is record with my 688 and then mixdown to my Power Mac G4 using Coaster. The finished tracks sound great. When I got the 688 in 1990, I mixed down to a two-track Teac cassette deck and made cassette...

I am still using my Tascam MD Portastudio 564 regularly:

"Singer/songwriter/guitarist, TG girl and proud owner of a Tascam DP-01FXCD, Tascam Digital Portastudio 564, Tascam Midistudio 688, Tascam 424 Mk I and nearly 40 Apple Macintosh computers."

Come on now, kiss and make up already. Don't hate!;)

My 424 mkII is on the way, I am really looking forward to it! More after I get it.

The mkI: http://fr.audiofanzine.com/img/produits/thumb2/2/1/21772.jpg vs. The mkII: http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/WNAMM99/Tascam/424mkII.jpg vs. The mkIII: https://homerecording.com/images/424mk3top.jpg For a review of the mkII (inc. comparisons to the mkI...

Yeah, I absolutely prefer using my cassette multitracks to these units, and I say this as a hige computer user. Like Dave, most of my recording background is in the analog realm, and menus are still a bit puzzling to me when it comes to recording. It's definitely a significantly different...

I just won an apparently mint condition 424 mkII on eBay for less than $100 shipped! I am really looking forward to getting it and working with it, I've heard a lot of great things about the mkIIs. I'll post a mini review after I get it and test it out.

At present, I live in a two bedroom apartment with 24 guitars, 5 amps (3 of them half stacks), a slew of effects, mics and outboard gear, four Tascam recorders: DP-01FX/CD, 688, 564 and 424 and nearly 40 (mostly Apple Macintosh) computers. To say it's a bit tight would be an understatement. My...

Well, the design of the 688 must have required enormous technical obstacles be overcome, to get all eight tracks on there with the space limitations AND still have the machine sound good as it does. I remember thinking it was truly a real feat of development at the time. Tascam took the cassette...

Bobby, I'll try to get something up soon and I'll post a link here.

I'll begin. As an owner of a DP-01FX/CD since August 2005 (I bought one the day they arrived in Austin) and a longtime Portastudio owner (688, 564, 424, PortaOne), I have enjoyed my DP-01FX/CD. It has some limitations, particularly the lack of inputs. I have solved that with a Behringer 1204...

I just downloaded and read the very same white paper on the head design myself. One thing that I find interesting is how advanced the design was for the time. It seems like a real feat of engineering, squeezing all those tracks onto a cassette! By 1989, when the 688 appeared, cassettes were...