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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Digitizer
Message-ID: <10327@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 90 06:09:01 GMT
References: <628@buster.irby.com> <10417@zodiac.ADS.COM> <1700@acad.cut.oz>
Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1700@acad.cut.oz> CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz (Todd Hooper) writes:
>
>44.1 khz? So the glossies say. But has anybody seen anything - hardware,
>software - that can handle over 22 khz?? Even Farallon's excellent SoundEdit
>program only handles up to 22khz.
>
>BTW, I know about the expensive NuBus boards that do everything short of
>signing you up for a record contract. But in the long run it would be 
>cheaper to buy a Roland sampler than one of these boards plus a Mac II to 
>drive it.....

Yeah, except that the Roland would sound like utter crap, be severely crippled
in capabilities, and be an order of magnitude harder to work with unless you
also buy a Mac to go along with it.

You get what you pay for, but, then again, not everyone needs to record an
album at home.

Brian Willoughby
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