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From: alves@aludra.usc.edu (William Alves)
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Subject: Re: Some multi-media hardware questions
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Date: 10 Oct 89 16:42:21 GMT
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In article <8910082247.AA28634@arisia.Xerox.COM> venkat@ARISIA.XEROX.COM (Venkat Rangan) writes:
>(5) Are there audio digitizers  (with less than 4K price tag)that plug into 
>the VME bus of  a Sun Workstation?

I did some research to find a music quality A/D D/A for the VMEbus of the Sun
some time ago. The only one I found is made by MicroTechnology Unlimited of
North Carolina called the DigiSound-16. Unfortunately, it does not fit your
price requirement, because of the difficulty of the VMEbus interface, I'm told.
All together it comes to about $7K. But it does do stereo, 44.1Khz, 16 bit
recording and playing back, and can be used in conjunction with any number of
UNIX computer music software packages. If you are interested, send mail and
I will look up the address (also, I posted it not too long ago in comp.music
and rec.audio).

Burr-Brown makes a variety of digitizers, but they are designed for scientific
applications. That is, they generally have many more channels, but a smaller
bandwidth and probably no audio-frequency filters. It is possible, however,
that one of these may work for you, and they tend to be less expensive.

Bill Alves
USC School of Music / Center for Scholarly Technology