Sony's New Handheld

New At Summer Namm - Sony is showing the latest addition to their line of portable professional audio recorders.

The PCM-M10 is designed to be the perfect musician’s tool for composing music or recording practice sessions and performances—and you can even for use as a personal music player. The palm-sized PCM-M10 recorder joins Sony’s PCM-D1 and PCM-D50 models to form a comprehensive family of flexible and rugged portable field recorders for every professional sound application, with other uses including broadcast journalism, live sound, house of worship, and theatrical.

The new recorder is 96 kHz/24-bit capable with electret condenser stereo microphones, 4 GB of internal flash memory and a microSD/Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) Slot.

Key features of the PCM-M10 recorder include a built-in speaker, cross-memory recording, digital pitch control, digital limiter, low-cut filter, track mark functions, a 5-second pre-recording buffer and A-B repeat capability. The PCM-M10 comes supplied with Sound Forge Audio Studio Recorder Edition software.

The new recorder includes a USB high-speed port for simple uploading and downloading of native .WAV or .MP3 format recorded files to and from Windows® PC or Macintosh® computers. The M10 offers durable metal construction and long battery life using conventional AA alkaline batteries.

The PCM-M10 portable recorder is planned to be available in October, at a suggested list price of $399.