Fun Factory: Yamaha MD 4 Track  Reprinted from The Mix Magazine,
September 1996 by Bob Dormon  So MiniDisc multi-tracks are the
season's forthcoming attraction? At first all you hear is a
murmur and then you discover that everyone's making them... well
almost. Bob Dormon goes to Milton Keynes to check out the Yamaha
MD4  Technology moves so fast these days that a designer's
vision is swiftly turned into the reality that we eventually
take for granted. Most of us now have access to a stereo digital
recorder, but a digital multi-track? Well that's another story.
No doubt there are those more well-heeled folk out there who
can't imagine life without their ADAT, DA-88 or hard disk
recording system. But what about the muso in embryo, aspiring to
greater things than taping ditties onto a ghetto blaster?  The
first step into home recording usually involves the purchase of
a cassette-based multi-track, typically having a built-in mixer
and four tracks of recording. It's an ideal way to begin and
hopefully progress in