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From: drews@bmerh796.bnr.ca (Drew Stevens)
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.060414.11807@bmerh409.bnr.ca>
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References: <1151@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun25.153320.26371@bmerh409.bnr.ca> <1991Jun25.164859.12553@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun26.040339.4568@kessner.denver.co.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 06:04:14 GMT

In article <1991Jun26.040339.4568@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.164859.12553@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>  Ok then, how much does it cost and what are it's specs?
>
>Too damn expensive and not good enough.  In that order.

I paid $350 Canadian for my LAPC.  Soundblasters cost about $200 here.
Add the pseudo-midi adapter to the SB and their prices are not too far off.
What would YOU consider to be a reasonable price for the Roland board?

>the model numbers of these boxes.  The problem with these devices is that they
>are MIDI, true enough, but they lack the MIDI-implamentation-robustness, and

This is news to me.  Please elaborate.  

>the MT-32/LAPC sounds ho-hum, but sparkles when compared to the Amiga.
>From a professional musican standpoint, the MT-32/LAPC sounds noisy, and the

Noisy compared to what?  It sounds better than a Yamaha DX7.

>Yes, it has a DSP, but you might as well ignore it since you cannot program
>it.  The entire sound generating section is actually an embedded DSP within
>a custom ASIC.  

The boards' sounds are programmable, could you elaborate?

>The Roland LAPC board is a great idea, and it is much more musically useful
>than the Amiga's sound.  It even sounds better.  But I believe that it costs
>too much for a 'home' device, and it doesn't compare well with other 'pro'

The Roland boards are directly supported by many programs and provide by far 
the best sound I've heard from a computer.  'even better than Amiga' doesn't
begin to describe it.

>What I really wonder about is the crosstalk.  For instance, if I placed
>it into my computer the guts of it would be sandwitched between a disk
>controller and a RAM board stocked with eight meg of 80ns, 32-bit RAM.  This
>has GOT to create some noise!  (Comments?)

My LAPC generates no noticable noise on my stereo (it is negligable
compared to that generated by my amplifier anyway).

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