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From: laughlin@fornax.UUCP (Bob Laughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pro Sound Designer
Summary: sound digitizer---many problems---not recommended
Message-ID: <1042@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 18:58:21 GMT
References: <2696@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: laughlin@lccr.UUCP (Bob Laughlin)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Lines: 31

In article <2696@mindlink.UUCP> a774@mindlink.UUCP (Wayde Police) writes:
>
>    I have recently purchased this stereo sound digitizer (GOLD Edition)
>.......software is flakey, with random sprites being displayed on screen. The
>digitizer software also insists my overscanned workbench is a PAL machine and
>will only display a system alert saying NTSC ONLY!
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    I used Pro Sound designer a lot a year ago when my Perfect Sound
digitizer died.  The software has many problems besides the ones you
mentioned above.  The most serious is that it trashes disks when
writing out soundfiles.  This happened 5 or 6 times to me and
I never did figure out what I did to precipitate it.  If you use
it go slowly when mousing around in the file-save requester.  This 
seems to avoid the problem.  The trashed disks were unrecoverable with
DiskSalv.  Fortunately I was only saving to floppies.  In general the
software has a pretty look but is bug-ridden and seems to do everything
in a non-standard way.
   The hardware on the other hand produced good quality samples.
Unfortunately it only works with the Pro Sound software. It does
not work with AudioMaster II.  I have since upgraded my dead
Perfect Sound hardware to the most recent version.  Unfortunately
the new Perfect Sound software is buggy and poorly thought out.
Also the new Perfect Sound hardware does not work with AudioMaster II
(the old version did).  I hear AudioMaster II is being upgraded to
work with the new Perfect Sound hardware.  I don't know about Pro Sound.
I wrote the Pro Sound people about the buggy SW but never got a reply,
or an upgrade notice.

-- 
 Bob Laughlin  laughlin@cs.sfu.ca