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Minidisks? [message #13913]

Wed, 11 April 2007 08:13

Ricardo
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Do you think that the minidisk format is still strongly supported?

I don't use it now, but I do own a Yamaha 8 Track recorder on the minidisk format. I have several disks and I like the machine.

Is anybody else still using them?

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Re: Minidisks? [message #13914 is a reply to message #13913]

Fri, 13 April 2007 14:08

randle
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Ok so when you say minidisks,do you mean literally a disk? like the disk that you use to save things on your computer. Because I seen my producer use a minidisk to save his tracks but he did say that most people aren't really using it anymore.

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Re: Minidisks? [message #13918 is a reply to message #13914]

Sun, 15 April 2007 10:36

Ricardo
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Yes, they're smaller than the old floppies, and I think they were widely used for computer data storage. I still have a handful of them, but I don't use them unless I want to record something out of the house. Then the Yamaha recorder would be much more portable.

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Re: Minidisks? [message #13922 is a reply to message #13918]

Tue, 17 April 2007 22:54

britjojo
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No, but then I don't think that they were EVER well supported. In the UK where I did most of my work, it was hard to find them anywhere. There was just one gig that I regularly did that had a keyboard that took them, but other than that it was just my own equipment. I sold it on as soon as I could.

Maybe that was just my hick town though.

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Re: Minidisks? [message #13923 is a reply to message #13922]

Wed, 18 April 2007 07:55

Ricardo
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In my case, I'll keep the unit because I could only sell it for a fraction of what I paid, plus aside from the Minidisk recorder, it is a pretty good mixer with sweepable EQ.

I haven't given up on ever using it again as a recorder, though.

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Re: Minidisks? [message #13924 is a reply to message #13913]

Wed, 18 April 2007 21:11

shinningstar
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I like the look of last year's Minidisc-based digital 4-track machines, but need more tracks, look no further. I heard about Yamaha MD8 manages 8-track recording and playback but I'm not sure if it's still priced at just under a thousand pounds.

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