Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!ags
From: ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander George Morison Smith)
Subject: Re: keyboards
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.153845.27104@ccs.carleton.ca>
Summary: Describes what AMAS is like.
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Feb28.010755.29545@unvax.union.edu> <7_4-DQ=@rpi.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 15:38:45 GMT

In article <7_4-DQ=@rpi.edu> kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>I have a Golden Hawk MIDI interface which is solidly built, has a
>switchable passthru and 1 in/2 out/1out+thru.  I have no idea what
>configuration the AMAS comes in as far as MIDI goes (if someone has one,
>could you please post?) but I do know it includes an excellent sampler. 
>
>I also hear that it doesn't have a serial passthru, and that kinda
>makes it a lot less likely for me to buy (I bought the GH interface
>rather than AMAS for that very reason and thinking I would buy Perfect
>Sound III as a sampler, but now it seems PSIII is an incompatible
>piece of crap).  My serial port doesn't need that kind of wear....

I got AMAS a while ago (1989) so I know a bit about it, though I just
use it for sound sampling.  It records in stereo, with left and right
jacks for the usual line-level audio.  It also has a mono 1/8 inch
socket for plugging in a microphone.  Internally there are trim-pots for
adjusting the zero level of the left and right channels. 

There are three Midi connectors, in out and thru.  I've never used them. 

The software that comes with it looks slick but isn't all that useful
(sample limited to chip memory).  It does let you do things with Midi,
including playing Amiga sounds in response to Midi commands.  Other
sound sampler software works with it since it is a pretty standard
device. 

It plugs into both the parallel port and serial port, which can be
annoying (no pass-through connectors).

- Alex