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- From: mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
- Subject: Re: FALCON
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.185043.13226@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:50:43 GMT
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- In article <27171@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
- ...
- >All I'm saying is that whatever the Falcon has in it, the machine was
- >not designed with a high-end audio system in it. At the price they're
- >giving, and with the cheesy ST-style construction, it's just not
- >possible to equal high-end samplers, quality wise. Hence my conclusion
- >that the Falcon's digital audio capabilities, while extremely useful
- >for a front-end, are inappropriate for use as a professional
- >direct-to-disk recording system.
- ...
- >The original claim I responded to was (essentially) "the Falcon will
- >revolutionize the music business because it will allow anyone to do
- >professional direct-to-disk recording for very little money." The
- >Falcon may be a nice machine, but it's not *that* nice.
- >
-
- Strictly speaking, direct-to-disk recording doesn't even require D/A
- conversion, so this whole discussion is kinda pointless :^)
- Seriously, though, in addition to a big disk, you'll need a good
- (==expensive?) sound digitizer (I don't recall reading that the
- Falcon has 16-bit A/D on board...)
-
- >Dave Baggett
- >--
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- Ciao-abunga! +-------------------------------------+
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- mpark@u.washington.edu +-------------------------------------+
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