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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pro Sound Designer
Message-ID: <1972@enea.se>
Date: 7 Aug 90 16:56:30 GMT
References: <2696@mindlink.UUCP> <1042@fornax.UUCP>
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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In article <1042@fornax.UUCP> laughlin@lccr.UUCP (Bob Laughlin) writes:
-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!
-[stuff deleted]
-
-    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.
-
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- Bob Laughlin  laughlin@cs.sfu.ca 

I also have Pro Sound Designer, which I bought almost exactly two years
ago. I have only had some of above mentioned problems, but the two main
drawbacks for me was that the beautiful overscanned screen did not work
with my A2090, and that PSD only could sample into chipmem. AM II would
had solved that if the hardware wasn't deliberately made not to work
with any other program (the software can handle the same hardware as
AudioMaster can).

I also wrote to EiderSoft and sent in my Registration Card, but got
no reply. They seem to have started with some professional quality
modular sampling "koncept", which never have been completed...

I have Never gotten Any reply from Any company I have sent registration
cards to, includin Newtek, EArts and others...