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From: phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's Studio Session up to these days?
Message-ID: <7001@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jun 89 11:20:10 GMT
References: <5557@rpi.edu>
Organization: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University
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In article <5557@rpi.edu>, elliott@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jim Elliott) writes:
> 
> I remember being amazingly impressed with Studio Session, a sampled
> sound arranging and performing package that I saw running on a Mac
> Plus a few years ago--it somehow got six channels of eight-bit samples
> smoothly running even on that system, and was a lot of fun.
> 
> I'd like to know if there is a new version of the software that works
> on the newer hardware with the sound manager, stereo features, and the
> like, and is correspondingly even more amazing... If so, what does it
> do, where can I order it, and what does it cost?
> -----
> Jim Elliott				     "A more subtly incorrect theory"
> elliott@netserv2.its.rpi.edu
Well, I sent off for the upgrade to Studio Session - "Super Studio Session",
which has 8 (yes, count 'em, EIGHT!!) simultaneous "channels" and much more
volume.  The cassette player is no longer in the package (probably couldn't
get 8 VU meters on a Mac+/SE etc. display :-) ).  The stuff works on the
SE/30 and all the other Macs too I think.  There is no stereo, there is
a "jukebox" feature that allows you to select a set of songs to play.  
There is also the ability to save a digital recording of a song to disk,
but at 11KHz that's a lot of disk space for a song lasting a few minutes.
I like it a lot - though I must admit to not having had enough time to play
with it much.

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