Professional, Portable, Live MP3 Encoding

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Developed by DIALOG4/ORBAN the unit is called the Sountainer, a fliptop portable about the dimensions of a cell phone. Emphasized as an audio field recorder, the unit was designed for broadcasters, journalists, and artists who wish to record a live feed of their performance off the mixing board."

Comments

low bit rate

[NotLad]

an mp3 recorder that maxes out with a 128kbps bit rate should not be called "professional"

I don't think proffessionals will like this much

[Uttles]

Here is an interesting new digital music player. Actually it's a player/recorder targeted to professionals or anyone else who wants to record voice and music on the fly digitally.

I can see this being a cool little device for the every day person, but as an MP3 format recorder at a max of 128 kps, with only 256MB memory (will increase soon), I just don't see professionals switching from traditional media to this recorder any time soon, not even for their live performances. I think until a higher end format is used, such as Ogg Vorbis, these people will continue using analog recording media and if they need to transmit it digitally, they'll just use an encoder of some type back at the studio. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a cool little gadget for the average user, I'd like to play with one.