The MD-301 is designed for radio broadcast, live theater, concert halls, project studios or any application where instant play and random access are required. The unit has RCA-type unbalanced input and output audio jacks, on-board sample rate converter (that automatically converts, via the digital ports, 48kHz or 32kHz DAT sample rates to 44.1kHz) and both optical and coaxial digital inputs and outputs. The MD-301 editing functions possible with the RC-3 wireless remote controller are: repeat play, shuffle play and program play. There is also a Timer Record/Play function for unattended operation.