My live setup is often a pretty playback of of materials recorded to tape and digital. I enjoy having a mix between crusty tape sound and super clean digital.
Up until now I've just been using a few mp3 players patched into my mixer to take care of the digital side of things but it's becoming a pain in the arse. The batteries on the players are unreliable and cycling through my samples using a shitty ipod wheel takes longer than I'd like. Also, it'd be better if I could mix all my samples on a single multitrack device rather than have to use 2 or 3 different devices and channels on a mixer.
I wondered if anyone can recommend me some kind of device (probably a recorder I guess?) which might allow me to achieve this? The smaller the better; though I do want to be able to mix each track with a knob or fader. FX aren't important but I suppose I'd try and use them if they happened to be in there. Main thing is ease of use and good sound quality. Any suggestions?
