Tascam has made another completely mad product: the SX-1 LE, a limited (hey, Digi, look what others call limited) version of the SX-1, their all-in-one DAW production engine.

Why mad? Look at the specs:

•  40-input, 32 x 8 digital mixer with 100mm touch-sensitive faders and dynamic automation of all parameters

•  48kHz, 24-bit, 16-channel hard disk recorder with built-in IDE drive

•  16 premium mic preamps with phantom power

•  Built-in CD-RW drive for creating Red Book audio CDs, data backup & archiving, and importing sounds from audio or data CDs

•  Highly integrated and intuitive waveform, MIDI, and automation data editing via an internal recording/editing engine

•  Onboard LCD screen displays editing and automation information including waveforms

•  XVGA output to optional monitor

•  Jog/shuttle wheel for scrubbing audio and MIDI data simultaneously

•  Complete surround mixing capabilities with the ability to record a full 5.1 mix to the internal HD in addition to the original 16 audio tracks

•  128-track MIDI sequencer with advanced editing modes available on the fly, with standard and step record modes and highly accurate timing derived from the internal sample clock. Each of the 64 MIDI outputs can be mapped to channel strips on the console

•  Extensive analog, digital, MIDI and computer interfacing: 16 balanced XLR inputs, 16 1/4" TRS line inputs, TRS inserts on each analog input, an onboard speaker switcher, eight channels of ADAT Optical digital interface, two stereo S/PDIF inputs (with sample rate conversion) and outputs, two MIDI inputs (for MIDI controllers and MIDI Time Code), four MIDI outputs, separate studio and control room monitoring and more

•  100 BaseT Ethernet port

•  MTC synchronization and LTC chase

•  Expansion slots for 24 more channels of digital I/O (including optional multichannel interfaces for AES/EBU, TDIF, ADAT Optical) or additional analog I/O

•  Compatible with the complete line of SX-1 I/O cards

•  Small footprint: Takes up just over 3 feet of studio space

And the price announced is US$3750 MSRP.

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