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- From: zog@intacc.uucp (Scott Lepore)
- Subject: Re: SunRize boards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.011450.4621@intacc.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:14:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.222858.20299@nmt.edu> <yc6mdn-@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Aug14.200634.6083@nmt.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug14.200634.6083@nmt.edu> dcuddihy@nmt.edu (David Cuddihy) writes:
- >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 it is out of date = another multi thousand dollar investment every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
-
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- I could not have said it better myself. There is simply no comparison between
- dedicated MIDI samplers and computer-based samplers. I say it again - well
- said!
-
- Scott.
- No signatures. I have trouble reading hand-writing.
-