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mrx
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Kind of off topic, but I know there are a few of you out there who either owned, or considered, the Tascam PS5 before going with the MR-8. As you know, the PS5 suffered from early bugs that would destroy recordings, and contains some incredibly stupid design flaws. There have been raging debates on the Tascam site, with a small group of loyal users claiming that since the OS is upgradable, the PS5 will grow into this incredible platform.
Well - Tascam just announced version 2.0 of their OS (the first major release was 1.13 that fixed some of the nastier problems) and it offers basically nothing new. Clearly the PS5 was a brain-dead piece of gear with serious hardware limitations that was covered up with some "questionable" marketing hype.
On another front, they did listen to early PS5 complaints and are releasing a thing that's like a CD player with built-in guitar effects - they say it's for learning songs, but it looks like a cool solution for guitarists that play live with backing tracks.
Well - Tascam just announced version 2.0 of their OS (the first major release was 1.13 that fixed some of the nastier problems) and it offers basically nothing new. Clearly the PS5 was a brain-dead piece of gear with serious hardware limitations that was covered up with some "questionable" marketing hype.
On another front, they did listen to early PS5 complaints and are releasing a thing that's like a CD player with built-in guitar effects - they say it's for learning songs, but it looks like a cool solution for guitarists that play live with backing tracks.