Korg D1200MKII The new Korg D1200mkII Digital Recording Studio is a sophisticated, portable studio designed around the needs of the guitarist or songwriter. With cutting edge modeling effects and intuitive controls, the Korg D1200mkII will help you capture your creative moments and deliver a superb-sounding final mix burnt onto an audio CD. The upgraded CD-RW drive allows 16x writing and 10x re-writing. Ergonomically designed front panel Korg digital recording studios are known for their logical, easy-to-use controls, and the Korg D1200MKII is no exception. The controls are arranged to follow the recording process from start to finished CD. Even the angle of the backlit 240 x 64 pixel LCD display can be adjusted for comfortable viewing. All the right connections To ensure the highest audio quality, the Korg D1200MKII uses high-performance, balanced pre-amps on all analog inputs. 2 XLR inputs provide high-quality mic preamps and are equipped to deliver +48V phantom power. A dedicated guitar input jack is also provided. The S/PDIF digital input automatically converts incoming 48 kHz and 32 kHz data into 44.1 kHz for recording. Full-featured mixer section The Korg D1200MKII's 16-channel, 4-bus mixer section provides a separate 3-band EQ on each analog input and each playback channel; high and low shelving EQ; and a mid-range peaking EQ with adjustable center frequency. The fader, EQ, pan, and effect settings of the mixer section can be stored in one of 100 scene memories. High-performance recorder The Korg D1200MKII records and plays back either 16- or 24-bit 44.1 kHz audio data. It uses no data compression, so the sound you put in is exactly the sound you get back. A maximum of all 12 tracks can be played back simultaneously and up to 4 tracks can be recorded simultaneously. Each track contains 8 virtual tracks, giving you a total of 96 tracks per song. Abundant effects, including REMS Modeling The Korg D1200MKII provides 3 independent effect systems (44-bit internal processing). Up to 8 insert effects can be assigned to individual channels. 2 master effects provide polish to your mix, and the Final effect can add the best overall EQ, compression/limiting, etc. to the master L/R channels. Combinations using up to 5 of the 98 available effect algorithms provide 128 insert, 32 master, and 32 final effects. You can edit any of these 192 preset programs and save them to any of the 192 user program memories. For the guitarist, bassist, or singer/songwriter, the D1200CD simplifies the initial set-up process. Just turn on the Modeling mode and choose Guitar, Bass, or Mic. The D1200 will automatically route the effects to your input, assign the appropriate modeling effects to the 3 dedicated knobs, and will arm the first 2 tracks for recording. Sophisticated and flexible track editing The Korg D1200MKII is packed with powerful non-destructive editing tools. It's easy to move sections of your tracks or song around using the Copy, Insert, Swa