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The Mackie HDR 24/96 is an excellent hard disk recorder. In it's day (the late 1990's) it was used in many professional studios as a transitional step from analog tape to more modern digital audio workstations. The sound is clean, clear digital that is warm - NOT harsh, brittle, abrasive or cold. The unit has a built-in GUI with good editing tools. There's a punch-in capability and the unit can be synchronized to external devices through a number of interfaces including MTC and simple external clocks. The HDR is basically a three-slot I/O card set driven by an application on top of a Celeron-based PC platform running some form of Windows. The last release of the application software is almost bug-free thanks to lots of hard work by the Mackie engineers. In addition to the well-written owner's manual you should consider getting Mike Rivers 'The Mackie Hard Disk Recorder Manual', which has lots of great support information. For upgrades and mainetenance you will be 'on your own' as Mackie dropped support for the HDR long ago. Inside, however, you will find an older PC hardware platform that you may be able to maintain without much assistance. At the time of this writing there are four different cards that can be inserted into the three I/O card slots; AIO, DIO, PDI and OPT. AIO has 8 channels of analog input and 8 channels of analog output. DIO has 8 channels of ADAT and TDIF with a separate BNC connector for the clock. PDI has 8 channels of AES/EBU. OPT has 8 channels of ADAT in and out. Remote controls are available for 24 tracks or to gang two units into 48 tracks. In general the device is easy to use and the GUI is intuitive. You can export and inport files from your DAW in WAV format using FTP over Ethernet. In general, this is a good value for autio engineers that want a fast 24-track recorder that doesn't have a huge price tag or suffer from some of the limitations of today's DAW's. The down side is that you have to perform your own maintenance.Read full review
excellent and easy to use, esp. if you have the remote and put in a large drive.
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Although this particular unit has been modified, it still functions like new and matches my Mackie mixing console.
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