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- From: marsh@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
- Subject: Can Falcon do that?
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- Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:25:22 GMT
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- Hi netters,
- I have been reading this group for I while now and followed the
- discussion on the Falcon. I am wondering if the following idea could
- be realized on the Falcon:
- I heard that some of the new CD-ROM players, in addition to the higher
- transfer speed due to SCSI-II and photo CD support, will also be able
- to read normal audio CDs and send the digital audio data through the
- SCSI-II port towards the computer. Than one could let the DSP to operate
- on the incoming audio data in real time and than send it to the built in
- DA converter, or an external one through the DSP interface, than to the
- HiFi amp. Or, alternatively, one could send the data still in the digital
- domain to a DAT recorder interfaced to the DSP port. To my knowledge there
- should be no quality loss since the DSP can be sync-ed to an external
- oscillator (if my understanding on its connector is right) like that of
- a DAT.
- I see no reason why this should not work. And if it does than the Falcon
- will really revolutionize the music industry. The question is wether there
- is good software available before others wake up. The idea of having DSP,
- SCSI-II, DA/AD combined with multitasking and ST compattibility is as an
- important milestone as the built-in MIDI was.
- Possibilities include realtime multiband filtering/equalization. Or I
- can imagine a software which inputs the frequency response curve of your
- HiFi loudspeakers and corrects for that, still in the digital domain and
- in realtime, making the final response as flat as possible. This is the
- principle how the new Philips DSS digital speakers work (for above $5000).
- Or one can make various spatial simulations. I think anyone could
- continue. To start you only need, in addition to the computer, a modern
- CD-ROM player and later if someone is going into that direction you can
- gradually build up a fully digital sound editing mastering system by
- adding a digital DAT/DSP interface, 1 or 2 DATs (with high quality AD/DA
- converters, sync option, and copy protection control options), and
- data storage devices of course. And all this is to be combined with the
- existing MIDI arsenal. I beleive this will be reality.
- But, Atari please get cracken beacuse Apple is also working on a machine
- with DSP/SCSI-II/DA/AD capabilities (rumored as Cyclon) and probably C= is
- also trying to follow this neat idea.
- I will change location very soon and I don't know when I have access to
- the net again. So please forgive me if I can't reply to the replies of this
- message within the usual and acceptable period of time. I will try to join
- to this group as soon as possible.
-
- Tibor.
-
- P.S. Has anyone ever compared Cubase ST and Cubase Windows? I have the
- impression that Cubase Windows on 33MHz 386 PC with SVGA is much much
- less capable than Cubase ST on my good old 8Mhz 1040STFM concerning
- especially realtime related functions.
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