Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ulysses!allegra!fox From: fox@allegra.att.com (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: AUDIO SAMPLERS: SUMMARY (so far) Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 12:38:48 GMT Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Distribution: comp Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 58 I wrote: A friend asks me to find out about low cost audio samplers for the amiga 2000. Any opinions would be much appreciated, also any general advice about the Amiga audio scene. Please mail responses and I will summarize (really, I promise!), --------------------------------- I have been doing a bit of research (that is looking up various magazine reviews) and have found that the best available audio-sampler is the AMAS midi interface/audio sampler. You can purchase it through various mail-order companies. Futuresound and Perfectsound are cheap, but do not give the best results. I suspect that this is because users dont high-pass filter their input signals before they digitize. As a result, digitizing results in the "folding-in" of noticeable noise from the frequency spectrum at frequencies above the sampling frequency. The company that produces the AMAS sampler have recently put another package, which doesn't give any MIDI interface. I haven't seen any review, but I suspect that it would be a good buy. Regards Rick Yuan Adelaide --------------------------------- I own a Mimetic Sound Sampler which is a mouseport "Stereo" sound sampler, and I am somewhat displeased by it. It is "Stereo" by virtue of having two RCA line level inputs which are combined into a single audio source (the device isn't touted as stereo on the packaging probably because they couldn't get away with it, but the device has "Stereo Sound Sampler" written on it). Hence it is a mediocre quality MONO sound sampler. For what it is it isn't that bad, however I have two peeves about it: o It picks up LOADS of noise from Monitors, modems, disk drives, phones, jukeboxes, cats, and just about anything since there is a constand 60hz hum which accompanies the sampling. o It has all the vital chips' numbers/descriptions SCRATCHED OUT so if a person (me) wants to figure out how to sheild/ ground the thing, it is a pain in the boot. _______________ (TOTAL) $ __.25 Andrew Walenstein --------------------------------- There was an article in Amazing Computing on how to build one yourself. It was in an issue within the last year. I don't know it right now, but if you are still interested, leave me mail. Walter Boese walterb@sequoia.cray.com