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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca ( John Henders )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.axavFH9yo9I@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- Subject: Re: FALCON
- References: <27171@life.ai.mit.edu> <1604PB2w164w@cellar.org>
- <7170@charon.cwi.nl>
- Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:57:26 -0700
- Lines: 43
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- In <7170@charon.cwi.nl>, Jaap Henk Hoepman writes:
- >
- >[stuff deleted]
- >
- >b.t.w., i am considering to try and write a sampler program for the FALCON.
- >If you look at the specifications, it must be possible. I do not
- >expect, however, to obtain a large degree of polyphonism (I think I would be
- >quite happy to reach more that 10 `voices' simultaneously). To bad the
- >68030 doesn't run at 32MHz.
-
- I was talking to a friend doing programming for a local company
- doing direct to disk system with their own hardware. Their evaaluation
- of the 56001 was that it isn't quite fast enough to do 8 channels at
- 48k. They went with the 56002 instead.
-
- Just to put this pro/non-pro discussion in perspective, there's a
- thread in rec.audio.pro right now on digital recorders, cost and
- comparisons to high-end analogue machines.
-
- If I were going to design a professional quality direct to disk
- recording system around the falcon, I'd use outboard dac's, and use the
- dsp for manipulating the sound during editing. Most studios don't even
- use the dacs that come with most multitrack digital recorders. The
- better recorders even come with slots which can take custom dac's of
- the customer's choice. One of the more popular is the Apogee. It
- probably costs about as much as a Falcon.
-
- For a lower end system, using the Falcon to edit tracks recorderd to
- the Adat would probably be a fairly reasonable alternative th the Fostex
- analogue system, for around the same amount of money.
-
- Another interesting idea would be to use the 56001 to do various
- digital effects, allowing complete editing, mixing and production in
- the digital domain.
-
- Appearantly there's a version of gas that produces code for the
- 56001. Hopefully we'll see a port to the Falcon in the future.
-
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