Company Solicits Feedback on Next-Gen Recorder

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com a multimedia device vendor has asked the open-source community to help define its next product, a Linux-based handheld portable media player/recorder (PMP/R) featuring audiophile-quality sound. The new product is a successor to the popular Neuros 442 PMP/R. Neuros has published the specs for a development board it calls the first prototype, and has asked hackers, open-source software authors, and others to review and weigh in on the design, which is expected to be finalized in the near future."

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Needs one or two things ..

[torpor]

{disclaimer: i work for a pro digital audio company.}

as a long-time linux hacker, musician, synthesist, and audio geek, this device screams out for one thing: MIDI.

yes, thats right, MIDI. give me a way to control it from a MIDI keyboard, give me a compiler onboard, stand back and watch the new softsynth plugin realm expand beyond that of VST et al..

course, i've got my own plans for such things too, but i'll save that for a future /. thread ..

Main requirement for the UK ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Main requirement for the UK is for this to be sold at a price that reflects the real dollar-pound exchange rate, instead of converting US$400 into 400 UK pounds like the blood-sucking middlemen typically do for gadgets.

Re:What I want

[Andy_R]

Since their previous device is colour, it would be insane for this one not to be. Almost as insane as putting the 4Gb drive from your wants list in to replace the 40Gb one the old device shipped with!