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Make the
Pocketstudio
5
your own private
backup band
Number of tracks:
4 plus up to 16
“virtual” tracks
Number of mixer
channels: 2 inputs,
4 faders
Recording medium:
Compact Flash
memory cards
Mixdown to: MP3 fi les
(internal), external
cassette, CD-R
(via computer)
Extras: 3 effect processors,
MIDI arranger, 16-voice
General MIDI tone
generator with MIDI IN
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have ideas for your own
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songs, harmonies, or arrangements,
but don’t know how to get them out
of your head and onto a recording?
You could wait until you’ve learned
how to write and play every instru-
ment in a band before you get
started. Or, you could get a
Pocket-
studio
5
: TASCAM’s stand-alone
music workstation for people who
want to express musical ideas, but
can’t do everything themselves.
The Pocketstudio
5
is a perfect
“step up” for musicians who started
out playing along with CDs or sing-
ing to karaoke machines and are
ready to advance to the next level of
musical understanding. It lets you
be musical in a fun framework that’s
fl exible enough to start writing your
own songs. To call it an “entry-level”
product doesn’t do it justice, because
there is a lot of potential built into
this little under-$500 device.
From the outside, it looks some-
what like a small 4-track recorder,
POCKETSTUDIO
5
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4-track digital
Pocketstudio
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Up to 9 songs per card
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Mac OS 10.1 and higher support
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Record four digital audio tracks on
Compact Flash media
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Internal synthesizer module for playback
of MIDI sequence files
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Over 100 built-in high-quality effects for
vocals, guitars and other instruments
Ô
Audio/MIDI editing: copy/paste to exact
bars/beats, bounce tracks, automate
punch-in/out
Ô
USB port for interfacing your music with
Mac® and Windows® computers
Ô
Mix down to MP3 format for putting
your music on web sites and emailing to
friends
Ô
Playback MP3 audio files
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Includes 100 song styles that can be
re-arranged to create original music
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Built-in condenser mic included
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Headset mic included
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AC power supply included
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32MB Compact Flash card included
up to 256k cards optional)
but it also contains a “band-in-a-
box” or auto-accompaniment device.
This means that the Pocketstudio
has electronic instruments (such as
keyboards, bass, and drums) built
right in. These internal instruments
can be played by the internal MIDI
Arranger, giving you backing tracks
in a variety of styles without hav-
ing to know anything about “MIDI”
or “sequencers” (but it will expand
your knowledge and let you grow
in that direction). That gives the