Digital multitrack recording system from Alesis Corporation realeased 1993.
A form of digital audio tape developed by Alesis for its digital multi-track recorders. It uses eight tracks of 16 bit/44.1-KHz digital audio on consumer S-VHS tape.
is the abbreviation for Analog Digital Audio Tape. FPS or fps Frames Per Second. DV typically runs at 30 frames per second. In one second of time, 30 individual frames are viewed. Slower frame rates can have a perceived jerkiness to them. Tone Module is an instrument or device that provides sounds or tones. This can be a keyboard, synthesizer, drum machine, sampler, or module.
a multi-track digital recording machine
Digital Format invented by Alesis. It is an eight-channel format based on a conventional S-VHS cassette, allowing to record digital audio in 16-bit resolution or with the ADAT Type II Format in 20-bit resolution.
The Alesis ADAT Optical I/O interface is an 8-channel, 24-bit digital audio interface. It is important to distinguish between the ADAT Optical format, a 24-bit digital audio I/O protocol, and the ADAT tape decks themselves. SGI workstations support the ADAT Optical interface, in addition to AES digital I/O, either built in or via a low-cost option card.
Eight track digital multitrack recorder. Multiple units can easily be synchronised together.
Alesis Digital Audio Tape or ADAT, first introduced in 1991, was used for simultaneously recording eight tracks of digital audio at once, onto Super VHS magnetic tape - a tape format similar to that used by consumer VCRs. Greater numbers of audio tracks could be recorded by synchronizing several ADAT machines together. While this had been available in earlier machines, ADAT machines were the first to do so with sample-accurate timing - which in effect allowed a studio owner to purchase a 24-track tape machine eight tracks at a time.
