A single piece of equipment, which combines a small mixing, console with a dedicated multitrack tape recorder. When spelled with a capital M, the term is a registered trademark of Fostex. The term "Portastudio" is also widely used generically, however it is actually a trademark of the TEAC corporation (specifically TEAC's pro-audio division "TASCAM"). There does not appear to be a term, which generically describes a cassette-based multitracker other than these two terms.

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