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- From: djs@jet.uk (David J Stevenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: FALCON
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.143218.4567@jet.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:32:18 GMT
- References: <y191PB2w164w@cellar.org> <27171@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug25.185043.13226@u.washington.edu> <1992Aug25.223110.141473@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Organization: Joint European Torus
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- In <1992Aug25.223110.141473@rrz.uni-koeln.de> aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
-
- >In <1992Aug25.185043.13226@u.washington.edu> mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park) writes:
-
- >[stuff deleted]
-
- >>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...)
-
- >There definitely is a microphone jack at the back of the Falcon.
- >It's in the Falcon sheet that was available at the Atari Messe
- >and I saw it myself too. An Atari representative explained to me
- >that all you need to digitize sound was a microphone to plug into
- >that jack and some software. Unfortunately, I didn't ask about
- >technical details, but from what I heard I conclude there must be
- >an A/D converter of some sort already built in.
-
- Yes, there is apparently a stereo microphone input. But earlier in this
- thread we were talking about Pro standard multitrace direct-to-disk, requiring
- a) More than two channels of ADC
- b) Ability to cope with a wider source range than just microphones
- c) Higher quality converters than are likely to be fitted by Atari, taking
- into account price of the machine and their past history.
- d) A greater selection of sampling rates than the four used on the STE; we
- definately need 44.1 and 48kHz. Does anyone know if the Falcon allow
- such rates?
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- - Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not
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