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- From: dcuddihy@nmt.edu (David Cuddihy)
- Subject: Re: SunRize boards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.200634.6083@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- References: <1992Aug03.034758.18166@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu> <1992Aug5.222858.20299@nmt.edu> <yc6mdn-@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:06:34 GMT
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- I'm not really into the synth scene at all...I couldn't care about convincing
- strings. I want a nice(multi-track preferably, but not neccesarily) digital
- /analog link with 16-bit/44.1+KHz interface for a computer platform(and since
- I've bought into Amiga, it'd be nice for it to be on THAT platform!) for many
- applications that a MIDI synth module would have nothing to do with:
-
- 1) Having a 16-bit stereo sampler, which unlike the sampling keyboards and
- rack-mount modules, would be the utmost in versatile(I could write
- my own software!! How much more versatile can you get). Don't get
- me wrong! I'm certainly not knocking the S1000 or the Emax, but they
- grow obsolete...The hardware is pretty swell, but what you can do with
- it is out of date = another multi thousand dollar investment every
- so often. With a micro-computer at the helm, this probably partially
- disappears.
- 2) With enough speed(CPU and disk access) you have hard-drive recording. This
- is no small thing if you are recording in a CD-quality fashion for
- not only do you suddenly have amazing editing capabilities, but you
- (with the help of conversion software) have the ability to produce the
- master files required to master CDs(I dunno if you've ever shopped
- around CD pressing places but just that conversion fee can run you
- many hundreds of dollars coming up off a DAT!)
- 3) After stoaking your machine with enough CPU crunching power/speed you
- can have a studio in a box -- Sampler, Synth(yes! A software synth!
- I find that very exciting for the same reason a Software samplker can
- excel over a hardware one!), Drums, Sequencing, Digital Effects,
- Multi-track recording -- All in the digital realm! That's several
- hundred dollars an hour in a decent studio...
-
- Support for video-game authors is all well and good but the part of amiga.audio
- that interests me is using this platform to go to the cutting edge of studio
- recording, which is where I'd imagine the Sunrize people are aiming. All I
- want to see is more than one vendor on the block to stimulate competiton hence
- better products and possibly a more friendly price-tag!
-
-
- Have fun,
- -Dave
-