Korg MR‐2 is a high resolution, ultra compact digital portable recorder. Korg MR-2 supports a wealth of audio formats including ultra‐high quality DSD, MP3 and MP2. With high quality variable position microphones MR-2 makes the ideal handheld recorder. Korg MR2 also comes with a wealth of features, including USB 2 backup and even an onboard chromatic tuner!
To deliver pristine audio recordings, Korg MR2 uses DSD, or Direct Stream Digital technology. DSD is the highest quality audio format available today and delivers faithfully reproductions of the original sound. Today, DSD is used by recording and mastering studios around the world as the preferred audio format for recording and mastering. With the Korg MR-2 you can experience DSD audio and join the elite.
When recording DSD audio, the signal is recorded without further conversion, and can then be played back in its original format, ensuring that every sparkling nuance of the sound is reproduced. This means that a DSD recording is able to preserve the sound in a form that is closest to the original sound, making it suitable as an archive that can support changes in formats through the years. Top engineers and mastering experts proclaim that DSD offers the closest representation of analog warmth and the presence of the original recording than any other format.
Squeezed into the Korg MR-2's handy size are an analog limiter, a low‐cut filter, and a bass EQ. To ensure that the benefits of the MR‐2's high‐quality DSD recording are unimpaired, this high‐performance analog circuitry is under accurate digital control, just as in the sophisticated consoles used in professional recording studios. This thoughtful design elevates recordings on the MR‐2 to an even higher level of quality.
Korg MR-2 is bundled with Korg's own AudioGate audio format conversion software. In addition to converting files from 1‐ bit DSD to multi‐bit PCM (or vice versa) this software is an ideal way to edit the recorded material or to manage your archival masters. By using AudioGate, you can take advantage of "MR style" recording in which you record the material in DSD format, and then convert the file as appropriate for the desired output media. This method assures you will be preserving the highest audio quality at all times. AudioGateV2.0 supports reading and writing of numerous audio formats including DSD, WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3. Audio CDs - and even DSD discs - can be read and written.
AudioGateV2.0 can use the computational power of your computer to apply painstaking optimization to your data. For example during conversion, you can use the "Normalize" function to automatically export the data at the optimized level, and even choose from two different types of dither processing: "TPDF Dither" which improves the quality of the exported product, or KORG's newly developed "Noise Shaped Dither (KORG AQUA)" which matches the perceptual response of human hearing. This means with the Korg MR-2 you'll be able to easily create high‐quality audio CDs that are a step above what could be created by a hardware CD writer.