Fostex D-90 – You have decided to ‘go digital’. You knew you had to – it was only a matter of time. Now you’ve got to choose the right digital multitrack.
First, a couple of ‘must-haves’. Non-compressed CD quality audio with 18/20bit converters, simultaneous 8 track recording and non-linear copy / move paste and erase editing are obviously essential.
Vari-pitch, removable expandable recording media, analogue and digital I/O plus a versatile chase mode would be cool. And a preview function enabling you to repeatedly listen to data one second before and after any locate point would be handy. You get all this with the updated Fostex D-90. And then some.
The Fostex D-90 features ±6% vari-pitch enabling precise pitch changes without any loss in audio quality and enhanced synchronisation to the outside world by chasing to incoming MTC for sequencers and computers, with or without external word clock (via S/P-DIF), and with near instantaneous lock-up times.
ADAT Digital Interface or ‘Lightpipe’ is fitted allowing real-time transfer of ADAT format recordings to be loaded into the D-90 for non-linear editing and of course the easy interfacing with the latest digital mixers. The optional Model 8338 SCSI-2 interface card provides for fast backup and restore to a large range of SCSI-2 removable cartridge devices such as MO, PD, Jaz, SyQuest, etc.
Finally, there’s the option of adding balanced I/Os at +4dBu with the Model 5040 card to complement the standard -10dBV connections on RCA connectors. Flexible, expandable, easy to interface and loaded with the features you want. The newly updated Fostex D-90.
Features
- 8 track simultaneous recording & playback
- Recording to ‘caddy’ held hard drives
- Removable front panel remote
- ADAT interface
- Optional SCSI & balanced I/O cards
- 8 track digital multitrack with no compression
- 8 track simultaneous recording / playback
- 44.1 or 48kHz (selectable)
- Easy to use copy, paste, move & erase editing with undo & redo
- ADAT Digital Interface (simultaneous 8 channel)
- +/- 6% pitch control with no loss in audio quality
- MMC & Fostex Exclusive Message for controlling transport from external MIDI device, e.g. sequencer
- Approximately 160 mins (x 8 tracks) recording to a 6.4GB drive @ 44.1KHz
- 9 ‘Virtual reels’
- Versatile chase mode
- Tempo mapping – create up to 64 tempo & signature changes per song
- Midi clock with song position pointer
- Analogue & Digital I/0 (S/P-DIF & ADAT interface)
- SCSI-2 interface option for fast backup of sessions (to Jaz, MO, Syquest etc.)
- Balanced I/O option, (Model 5040)
