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I used to record music with a friend whose now moved to the states. It was 20 years ago and we used a couple of tascam portastudio four track tape recorders.
We're planning on getting things going again and sharing files across the Internet. I currently have an old laptop and a zoom h4n portable recorder which works as an interface. I've tried recording using the h4n interface into cubase le on the laptop but there's loads of latency so I think I need to find another way.
The h4n has a four track function which works really well but is tricky to use due to the limited number of buttons etc.and is limited to four tracks.
im not a fan of computer recording so I'm thinking of buying a tascam DP24 SD digital portastudio. Can anyone tell me the file types these things produce? In an ideal world it will record .wav files which I can then upload to google drive and share with my mate in the states.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Pete

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A quick look here [url="http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/"]http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/[/url] seems to suggest that the kit will do what you ask .

seems a lot for what you need though , a simple interface like a scarlett 2i2 would interface to your laptop easily , it has a monitoring so that latency doesnt affect that much and although you will need some simple DAW skills , it is definately do-able

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A quick look here [url="http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/"]http://tascam.com/product/dp-24sd/[/url] seems to suggest that the kit will do what you ask .

seems a lot for what you need though , a simple interface like a scarlett 2i2 would interface to your laptop easily , it has a monitoring so that latency doesnt affect that much and although you will need some simple DAW skills , it is definately do-able
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I'm not sure how an interface would work with my laptop. My zoom h4n works as an interface with monitoring and I get latency and clicking in the files. I'm not sure the laptop is really up to it. Would a different interface make much difference?

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I used one on a laptop for a while , but yes the lappy was starting to run out of steam and did start clicking when i did build a number of tracks on a project , but the recording side the dedicated interface was a revelation , I originally used a zoom effects pedal which had a usb interface built in , but it was a real pain looking back, the proper interface just works properly , simple as that really.

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