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NanoTracker™ 16 Channel MIDI Recorder

For MIDI composers and live performers, the Alesis NanoTracker 16 Channel MIDI Recorder provides an inexpensive solution for MIDI recording and simple sequencing. Using familiar, easy-to-understand controls, the NanoTracker is an excellent sketchpad for quickly capturing MIDI-based music. Recording on the NanoTracker is easy; just hook up two MIDI cables, press "Record" and start playing. If you make a mistake, an "Undo" function lets you start over again. Then, use the "Overdub" function to add more tracks. When you're satisfied with your performance, you can merge the new track with your original track and create more overdubs. And as a 16-channel MIDI recorder, the NanoTracker lets you record and overdub parts on all 16 MIDI channels. Each channel can be muted or deleted at any time. To help you keep time, a Click function indicating tempo from 40-220 beats per minute can be used with MIDI, or sent through a dedicated rear-panel jack directly into your audio system. Your parts can be quantized to up to thirty-second note resolution so that timing errors in performance can be easily and automatically corrected. For more advanced MIDI applications, the NanoTracker also provides features for sending and syncing to MIDI Clock so that other devices can be slaved to the NanoTracker's tempo, or to store and recall sysex data. For Alesis synthesizer users, the NanoTracker can be used along with our SoundBridge sequence/sample management software.

The NanoTracker provides a generous helping of Flash RAM onboard...512k of internal memory, buffered by 128k of SRAM. This allows you to record up to 50 sequences using its built-in memory alone. For storage and transfer of sequences, the NanoTracker offers an innovative PCMCIA Flash RAM card slot, allowing you to record another 50 sequences. Unlike floppy disks, RAM cards can store up to 8MB of MIDI data, so even the longest, most detailed sequences or complex sysex data files can be accommodated. Also, the NanoTracker uses Alesis' exclusive high-resolution one-millisecond timing engine, allowing timing resolution of 500 pulses per quarter note at 120 bpm. Live performers will love the NanoTracker's nearly instantaneous load time...no more waiting for a disk-based system to load in the song you need.

NanoTracker™ Specifications

Sound Generation Method:
16 Bit Linear 48kHz Sample ROM

Synthesis:
QS Composite Synthesis ™

Voices:
64, each with sweepable lowpass filter, 3 envelope generators, 3 LFOs, programmable effects send and QS Modulation Matrix, dynamic voice allocation

Available Waveform Memory:
4 MB

Program Memory:
256 Preset

MIDI Connections:
MIDI In, MIDI Out/Thru

Audio Outputs:
Stereo L and R outputs

Power:
9VAC External Transformer, UL and CSA Approved

Dimensions:
(WxHxD) 5.5" x 1.75" x 4.5" (140mm x 39mm x 115 mm)

Weight:
1.25 lbs. (0.6kg)