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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960107210113.184318A-100000@hopper.acs.ryerson.ca> Adrian Onsen - ASNG/F94 <aonsen@acs.ryerson.ca> writes:
- > On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Ace Miles wrote:
- >
- > > At 09:59 AM 1/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
- > > > I've had my par for about a year now, and it works beautifull
- > > >with Lightwave, byr now, I want to also be able to start audio segments
- > > >when my animation starts. The only thing I want syncronized, is when I
- > > >press the "play" button, in the PAR software, I want some audio package
- > > >to play a digitized soundtrack. I guess it's important to mention that I
- > > >have an Amiga 4000... Can I omehow ue Arexx or something? Has anyone
- > > >tried this before? Succefully?
- > >
- > > Actually Studio16 with either the AD516 or AD1012 is fantastic for this.
- > >
- > > -Ace
- >
- > Ooops.... I know you can use AD516 or AD1012 with the par... The
- > thing I forgot to mention, is how can I do what I described above,
- > WITHOUT the Studio 16 products..... With just the Audio capabilities of
- > the stock Amiga (with a DSS8 sampler for sampling)
-
- With just the Amiga audio? Poorly.
-
- With the AD516 you've got 16 bit stereo audio, up to 8 simultanious tracks
- out of 100 timeline tracks, automated mixing, nondestructive timeline editing,
- automatic crossfading, etc. It locks frame accurately with the PAR using
- the internal SMPTE time code of Studio 16, and also locks flawlessly to
- a video deck or anything else with LTC time code which is handy for
- creating sound tracks for videos or re-editing soundtrack changes to a
- master tape.
-
- Bars & Pipes Pro will also sync simultaneously to give you MIDI, digital
- audio and video all running together in lock step.
-
- You can use this setup for serious production.
-
- With the Amiga's internal sound you've got 8 bit audio. You could whip up
- a CanDo program to play a sound and trigger the PAR via ARexx (I think
- it has ARexx) or via the GPI port (by hacking some hardware from an
- Amiga port), but I don't know how accurately you could get it to sync. This
- would be OK for CDROM production (where they're going to use 8 bit
- sound anyway) or for fooling around. Rather iffy for video or film production
- use.
-
- > I don't want to spend a few MORE hundread bucks, if I can do it
- > someway without the extra boards!
-
- I hear you, but if you are going to be doing a lot of audio work it's well
- worth the money. You can only buy them used, now, since it seems
- SunRize is no more. Look on comp.sys.amiga.marketplace.
-
- OTOH if you find a way to use the internal sounds, let us know. For
- some things, as noted above, it could be useful.
-
- Someday I'd like to see some sort of capability within LW for syncing
- sounds to animations.
-
- Regards,
- -Jamie
-
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