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From: kawakami@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Inputing sound on the ST
Keywords: sound, ST, Mac, digitizing
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.012605.18267@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 01:26:05 GMT
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In article <1990Oct28.024511.5748@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@csws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes:
>In article <1990Oct27.190453.20137@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct27.132116.21356@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
>>I know of at least one company that will be making a sound digitizer for older
>>Macs that will plug into the serial port to get the digitizing capabilities of
>>the newer Mac models.  Should work, since the ST's serial port is compatible
>>with the Macs (all you need to do is make/buy an adapter cable for the Mac's
>>stupid proprietary serial port connector.) The company is "Articulate Systems,
>>Inc." and the product name is _DesktopMikeVL_. I got this from MacWeek of
>>10.16.90.
>>
>>---jb
>
>	This seems rather crazy to me.  He would have to right his
>own software to make use of the sampler.  [Why bother with a Mac
>thing when there are so many ST ones available?]

That is true unless he is going to use the SpectreGCR.  In that case, if it
works, then it's definitely a better product than the very cool-groovy Replay
4.  Why?  Well, Mac software will soon support sound embedded into data: data
bases, word processors, hypercard/hypertext, mail, and so forth.  In addition,
as you say, if he can write his own program (and get info on the hardware)
then he might be able to use it in ST mode.

But what about quality?  Well, you can have the best fishing pole on earth
but if you can fish only at the local pond, what's the point.  I'll bet that
the Mac device will not be that great performance wise, but so what.  The
ability to use your data in many ways is worth a lot.


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