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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 16 Jun 1991 00:48:57 CDT
From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <91167.004857U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: $2K worth of sampler could buy you...
References:  <762@cronos.metaphor.com>

Are all Amiga users looking for a better price/performance ratio?  I thought
that a lot of Amiga users bought the Amiga because of it's graphics.  The price
/performance ratio doesn't hold true in terms of business or sound
applications.  Nothing on the Amiga can touch the IBM in terms of business
software or the Mac in terms of music/audio software.  It's also true that
graphics on those two computers can't touch the Amiga.  I guess it all boils
down to what you want to do with the computer.  If all you want to do is play
16-bit samples on your Amiga than $2000 is a lot to pay.  If you want to do
pro  direct-to-disk digital recording while also laying down SMPTE time code
and have the option of total digital I/O then $2000 isn't a lot to pay. Don't
forget that you also need a superfast and large hard drive to do that kind of
recording.  The Sunrize board wasn't supposed to be for the average Amiga user.
It was designed to do pro work.  Now if we only had good software to go along
with it.......

Jason Kratz - U28037@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU