So, we had no option other than making it possible. Editing with direct cutting of the tape was impossible with the devices from other manufactures at that point, but there was no way to find a place in recording studios unless both analog- and multi-track recorders could be used in the same way. But then, what was being pointed out was that “It couldn’t be used in actual recording unless it had a function to handle direct tape splice editing.” It had to have a clean sound, even after the knife-spliced tapes were connected back together. “Around 1979, Sony had developed the first PCM-3324 digital multi-track recorder, and we tried to bring them to recording studios.
