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From: brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com (Brandon Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: IIsi and the MacRecorder
Message-ID: <1723@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 21:20:39 GMT
References: <47800@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <47800@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v132gcnx@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>I recently called Farallon to ask them some questions about the MacRecorder.
>I got some good news and some bad news.
>[ ... ]
>    The bad news is, the representative said that I would NOT be able to use
>the IIsi's input in conjunction with the MacRecorder for stereo sound.  I was
>tempted to ask why I would need SoundEdit 2.0.3, a IIsi, AND a MacRecorder, but
>I didn't, because I got worried they wouldn't send me the free upgrade  :)  It
>seems to me once you get the IIsi and SoundEdit 2.0.3, the MacRecorder would no
>longer be necessary.  Is this so?  Should I sell my MacRecorder with my Mac SE?

1.	The IIsi has stereo output, but mono input.

2.	The same software for the IIsi (or lC) sound input device will probably
	not work *entirely well* with the Farallon MacRecorder because of the
	MacRecorder's driver implements the StopRecording command poorly.  
	
	In essence, the MacRecorder will stop sampling with its internal buffer
	if issued a StopRecording command.  This means you'll have to restart
	everything the next time you need to record, and keep track with your
	own internal buffers.  The IIsi and LC setup avoids this problem
	entirely by continuing to sample after a StopRecording; it just doesn't
	keep or transfer the data.

	You have to have two software versions...one for Apple, and one for
	Farallon devices.

	Dumb.
	
	The Apple way is better.

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