The FTR Touch is a stand-alone digital audio recording device for courtrooms and hearing rooms. Based on combination of touchscreen hardware and adapted FTR Gold software, FTR Touch leverages the stability and robustness of the FTR Gold platform while delivering an elegant and intuitive solution to accommodate the needs of variety of venues. It can also be deployed in mixed FTR environment alongside other systems running FTR recording and review applications. FTR Touch is available in two forms one that can record up to 8 channels and separate 2-channel-only recording version for smaller venues. It enables users to optionally enter QuickNotes via one-touch, user-definable soft keys displayed on the unit. It is also bundled with copy of FTR Log Notes, software annotation tool that enables users to take more comprehensive, automatically time-stamped notes on separate PC, completely independent of the FTR Touch recording unit. In addition to storing recordings on its own internal hard drive, it enables recordings to be archived to removable external USB drive or CD/DVD1 or network location.