Sonar & Tascam turnkey recording solution

Someone mentioned the other day that 3 years with Gibson and there hadn't been any cooperative projects bringing products to market.


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2017 NAMM Show Tidbits – Day 2
by mikeriversaudio
From the introduction of the cassette-based Portastudio, TASCAM has maintained a strong product line of integrated recording and mixing systems. This show they introduced Track Factory, which could be the next generation after the digital Portastudios. a complete system-engineered and turnkey computer-based music production system. The package includes a TASCAM US-2x2 interface, along with an Intel NUC (Next Unit Computing) tiny computer , plus a TASCAM TM-80 mic and TH-02 headphones. The computer, with a 2.7 GHz i5 CPU with 4 GM of RAM and a 256 GB solid state disk drive. Cakewalk’s Sonar Professional is pre-installed and the operating system is optimized for audio by PC Audio Labs, a well respected supplier of turnkey music computers. It includes a keyboard and mouse, but you’ll need monitor speakers and a video monitor in order to complete the system. Target price is $1300, which, when adding up street prices of all the pieces, means that you’re paying about $250 for the integration and packaging, but for that you don’t just get a ready-to-play recording system, but one that’s expandable as your needs grow.


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Mack
A video link...looks like a nice setup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz9gUBES9yQ

indeed it does!

Wow, great system! I know what to recommend to newbs now.

The concept is good, especially for those who wants "Sonar compatible" system. If that really works well, that can be a solution for several thread like "I have just made a gaming pc and now Sonar crash all the time, also in all my records I hear several helicopters"
 
But as Bapu foreseen:
A bit childish advertisement... if that man can not mechanically connect M-Audio Fast Track Pro to desktop's USB, how he is going to connect US 2x2  to this tiny box ?
 

lol, the advertisement is reminiscent of the slap-chop infomercial. So, does this come with all the wires plugged in? It looks really hard to plug in things based on the ad, so I hope this is already plugged in.

Seriously though, regardless of the actual specs of the machine and whatnot, I personally find this kind of 'hey here's a product for you DOOFUS!' type of advertising pretty insulting.

Brian Walton
Orange Amps already went to market with a computer/interface/DAW box years ago. Just Google it.

As for the package in this thread. 4 gigs of RAM doesn't seem like the place they should have skimped out on for a recording PC. Look at how much the OS takes even without running any real programs and it should be obvious the leftovers are insufficient for even fairly basic recording and effects

The review in the OP mention 4GB, Tascam site 8GB: http://www.tascam.com/news/display/12606/
 
I use 4GB myself... 1-2 modern synth tracks and "game is over". Without swap (obviously jitter generator when on), more that one is always looking for "Out of memory" trouble.

I totally understand that. I guess my point is that doesn't make you a bumbling fool. I'm not really trying to bash the product more the advertising technique. This certainly isn't the only company or product using it though, by all means. I also assume that most of us already have computers and interfaces. By no means do I mean to dissuade anyone from checking this out.

this looks really cool