Alesis Introduces NanoTracker 16 Channel MIDI Recorder at NAMM Show

January 29, 1998 -- Alesis Corporation announced the introduction of their new NanoTracker 16 Channel MIDI Recorder at the winter NAMM show, according to Jim Mack, Alesis VicePresident of Marketing. The NanoTracker will be available this spring, with a suggested retail price of $249 (US).

"For its size and price, the NanoTracker offers a lot to the MIDI composer and performer. In addition to being a great musical sketchpad for keyboardists, the NanoTracker is great for live performers who don't want to carry their computer-based sequencer around to gigs."

The NanoTracker is an inexpensive 16 channel linear MIDI recorder that provides an affordable sequencing solution for composers and live performers. It offers 512k of onboard Flash memory, buffered by 128k of SRAM, so users can record up to 50 sequences using built-in memory. Up to 50 more sequences can be accessed using a PCMCIA

Flash RAM card. Unlike floppy disks, RAM cards store up to 8MB of MIDI data, so even the longest, most detailed sequences can be accommodated. The NanoTracker's advanced one-millisecond timing resolution offers 500 pulses per quarter note at 120 bpm. The NanoTracker offers a main recording track and one overdub track that may be merged with the original track. An Undo function makes editing mistakes easy. Notes may be quantized on the

NanoTracker to thirty-second note resolution so that timing errors in performance can be automatically corrected. A click feature indicates tempo from 40 to 220 beats per minute. The click may routed to a rear panel audio output on the NanoTracker. Advanced users can implement the NanoTracker's 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 more information, visit their web site at www.alesis.com.