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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: $2K worth of sampler could buy you...
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Date: 15 Jun 91 01:31:49 GMT
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In article <91164.132625U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> U28037@uicvm.uic.edu (Jason Kratz) writes:
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>audio or music go out and get a Mac.  The Amiga has got A LOT of catching up to
>do in the way of music software and sampling software.  As far as that $199
>dollar 16-bit thing for the IBM is concerned forget it.  I paid $135 for the
>AMAS 8-bit sampler.  16-bit audio will be that cheap when they come out with
>something better like 24 or 32-bit digital audio.  I'd like to know where you
>can get a DAT, two 16-bit stereo siganl processors, a mixer and the speakers
>for $2000.

<here I go again>

JVC home DAT deck : $599 (Fry's Electronics, Mountain View)
Bose powered bookshelf speakers (pair) $279 (above)
ART SGE 16-bit digital multi F/X unit : $550.00 apiece (K&K music, San Jose)

... works out to $1978.00. If you were to opt for less extravagant multi F/X
like a couple of ART Multiverbs or a single Yamaha SPX-90, you'd have $400-$700
left over; enough to buy the M-Sound unit and have $200-$500 left over to
buy yourself a mixer.

If you want to delude yourself and say "if it's not incredibly high-end I'm
not interested", then you bought the wrong computer. Dust off your gold card
and get yourself a Max IIfx to go along with your Porsche. Amiga users are
looking for a better price/performance ratio, or they wouldn't have bought
one in the first place.

I do agree that the Amiga has a lot of catching up to do in terms of sound
hardware. I also remember the original $1500 20MB Tecmar SASI drive for the
Amiga 1000; production was pulled on the drive before it even hit the
market; no one was willing to pay the price.
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