ABSTRACT
This chapter describes digital audio recording systems and the principles of digital audio editing.
There are still a number of dedicated digital tape recording formats in existence, although they are being superseded by computer-based products that use removable disks or other mass storage media. Tape has a relatively slow access time, because it is a linear storage medium. However, a dedicated tape format can easily be interchanged between recorders, provided that another machine operating to the same standard can be found. Disks, on the other hand, come in a very wide variety of sizes and formats, and even if the disk fits a particular drive it may not be possible to access the audio files thereon, owing to the multiplicity of levels at which compatibility must exist between systems before interchange can take place.
