Zoom HD8 and HD16 are digital multitrack recording devices manufactured by Zoom Corporation. HD8 and HD16 were presented at the Winter NAMM Show in 2007 as the successor of MRS-1608.[1] The HD8 and HD16 models have been discontinued in December 2009.
HD8 and HD16 have similar technical characteristics. The main differences between the models are:
HD8/16 stores digital audio as monaural Waveform Audio File Format files. Stereo tracks are recorded as two monaural files.
Digital audio can be imported into HD8/16 in Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) or Waveform Audio File Format (WAV).
MIDI files can be imported as Format 0 Standard MIDI File (SMF), then the unit can play the file with internal instruments or drive an external MIDI unit.