From what I can tell, although I have not used it, the Tascam software is pretty limited.
It allows you to work on one file at a time and does not allow a full album file to be treated as an album. There is no tagging of album, artist, composer, track name, etc. To output tracks from an album, you need to select an area then write it out, typing in the track name if you want to use that as the file name. You repeat that for each track. That is a pretty laborious task compared to something like Vinyl Studio which looks up albums on the Internet and provides track timing and track names. The software does not appear to have a facility to find track breaks.
The software does not have any correction capability nor any normalization function.
It does not have support for file formats other than wav, dsf and dsdiff so, for example, flac is not available.
It does seem to convert PCM to DSD and vice versa. And, it appears to convert between different DSD sample rates. I cannot figure out from the documentation if it does so by converting to PCM or not. Perhaps someone of the PS Audio forum knows if DSD to DSD conversion goes through PCM. If not, that would be a nice addition to know about.
If it converts between dsd formats without using pcm as an intermediate, that would be very useful. Other than that, VS is much more versatile.
Can you check on whether dsd conversions go through pcm?
It allows you to work on one file at a time and does not allow a full album file to be treated as an album. There is no tagging of album, artist, composer, track name, etc. To output tracks from an album, you need to select an area then write it out, typing in the track name if you want to use that as the file name. You repeat that for each track. That is a pretty laborious task compared to something like Vinyl Studio which looks up albums on the Internet and provides track timing and track names. The software does not appear to have a facility to find track breaks.
The software does not have any correction capability nor any normalization function.
It does not have support for file formats other than wav, dsf and dsdiff so, for example, flac is not available.
It does seem to convert PCM to DSD and vice versa. And, it appears to convert between different DSD sample rates. I cannot figure out from the documentation if it does so by converting to PCM or not. Perhaps someone of the PS Audio forum knows if DSD to DSD conversion goes through PCM. If not, that would be a nice addition to know about.
If it converts between dsd formats without using pcm as an intermediate, that would be very useful. Other than that, VS is much more versatile.
Can you check on whether dsd conversions go through pcm?