ADAT is dead, long live the ADAT XT. Paul White reports on the rebirth of a classic. When Alesis first introduced ADAT to a sceptical world, nobody was quite sure whether an 8‑track recorder …

Oct 7, 2023 · ADAT stands for Alesis Digital Audio Tape, which means that the technology was developed by Keith Barr of Alesis and launched on January 18, 1991, at NAMM. At the time, …

Paul White finds his Holy Grail in a 3U rackmount package — Alesis' revolutionary ADAT, the first digital multitrack tape recorder to compete in the same price bracket as affordable analogue …

The Alesis ADAT recorder when it arrived in 1992, literally changed the world overnight for studios and home musicians alike, by bringing digital recording to an affordable level for small studios …

ADAT uses 16-bit linear analog-to-digital conversion, the professional standard 48 kHz sampling rate (variable from 40.4kHz to 50.85kHz), and 64 times oversampling for better-than-CD …

HD24 is the world's first 24-track hard disk recorder designed to fit into any ADAT environment and match ADAT's legendary performance and affordability. HD24 is built exclusively for the …

Apr 1, 2020 · The original ADAT (later called the Blackface) was a solid rackmount unit with balanced and unbalanced analogue audio connections and a new digital, fibre-optic protocol …

At the 1991 Winter NAMM Show, Alesis introduced the ADAT digital tape recorder. Alesis created the File Streaming Technology (FST) proprietary disk file system for their ADAT HD24 …

Jul 4, 2022 · The Alesis ADAT was groundbreaking when it first hit the market, giving affordable digital recording, but even those of us who owned them had a love/hate relationship with them, …