Akai's commitment to their DR Series of hard disk recording and editing systems is enhanced with the addition of both the DR8's and DR16's optional SuperView monitor interface capability. The DR8/DR16 are standalone eight and sixteen track hard disk recording systems but with the simple addition of a Super VGA monitor and computer keyboard you can perform microscopic edits with up to five clipboards for storage of audio clips for pasting. All cues can be named and all transport commands are available on the keyboard. Edit command names are identical to Microsoft Word commands.

Both DR8 and DR16 have on-board 16-channel mixers with both snapshot and dynamic automation supported through an external MIDI sequencer. All flavors of time code including MTC or MIDI Clock w/SPP or MIDI Machine Control will sync your DR to any other machines. The very flexible DR's also support both AES/EBU, S/PDIF and eight or sixteen channel ADAT "Light-Pipe" digital I/O's for archiving or importing digital audio files. Backup options include: DAT; ADAT; T-DIF; SCSI DAT; Exabyte or SCSI disk copy.