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From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Digital Workshop?
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.042509.13390@disk.uucp>
Date: 24 Jun 91 04:25:09 GMT
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
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I have been looking through some music magazines which describe digital work-
stations used for editing digital audio of everything from music to dialogue.

Are there any programs to do something similar to these workstations for
amiga? I know first of all that the workstations use 16 bit samples and amiga
cannot readily play these back or digitize without extra hardware.

But the idea I want is not the 16 bit quality, but rather a program that
can take say, a 600 meg hard drive, and sample any audio I want directly to
it or into large files, maybe even in tracks. Then, allow me to go through
the large file or disk and modify sections, playback sections, sample
over sections..etc...combine sections..etc.

Right now I have only seen simple MEMORY limited programs like this with
little capacity (since most amiga's are limited to 9 megs with hacks it
only accounts for about 7 minute samples with any decent sampling rate.
(also I remember samples being limited to chip ram also, I suppose a software
genius has already hacked a solution...IE Audio Master..) )

Also from what I understand you would require a high speed hard drive to do
any worthwhile editing. Wouldn't it be in commodores best interest to work
up some 16 bit sound station hardware and software to do what these rather
expensive workstations do? Thats what got them in the video spotlight..doing
for 1000's what normally costed 10's of thousands. 

I could see "packages" being sold already assembled for specific tasks...
"The Amiga Video Station" - which includes the amiga, a hard drive, a
video toaster, a tbc, a sampler, etc...
"The Amiga Audio Station" - boasting a 16 bit sampler/playback board, a
high speed large capacity hard drive, software to do the editing I described,
a midi interface, perhaps some form of software/hardware combined sound
board, etc...

Right now it looks like the "Next" computer will get the audio market as far
as digital disk editors goes...but thats not a very informed opinion.

Byron
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