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From: piaw@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon Piaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music on Amiga is not the same
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Date: 20 Nov 89 03:05:29 GMT
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In article <4468@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>The sad truth is that Sonix scores get really old unless you have a source of
>new and exciting digitally sampled instruments or a digitizer yourself.  But
>opinions do vary; I was really looking for a more positive response (which is
>all I have gotten in the few mail replies I have received).

Well, I've got a digitizer (AMAS --- anyone remember my posting requesting
for help?  No one answered :-(), and I've done some sounds in it..
(Including a 4 minute song broken up into 7 files) Unfortunately, they're
all too big (800K/file for about 50 seconds of stereo sound digitized at
12kHz), and I don't think there are enough people with that much RAM so it
doesn't have lots of mass appeal.

In fact, it's so big it won't even fit into CHIP ram, and I've got to use a
special sound program (called "sound") that reads it into FAST ram and then
moves it chunk by chunk into CHIP ram.  Unfortunately, it GURUs often...
Anyone got a better alternative?  (I want to digitize samples in as big as
possible)

Oh yeah, if you want the sounds, mail me for them, and I'll uuencode them
and send them to you.  Beware, though, these are HUGE files.  (Up to 1MB,
could take forever to download on 2400 baud --- I transfered them using a
tape cartridge...)

Oh yeah, they're all Japanese music soundtracks from animation.  (I'm an
anime fan.. So sue me.. :-) ) Some of them have hissing and cross-talk, but
most of it sound pretty good.  (The 4 minute song I did sounds the best)

># Baird McIntosh  "...Can you hear me running; can you hear me calling you?" #
># INTERNET: c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> BITNET: c503719@umcvmb.bitnet #

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