Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!cca!inmet!rgh From: rgh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: synthsizer info requested Message-ID: <28600002@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 10:50:00 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.28600002 Posted: Wed Nov 20 10:50:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Nov-85 04:57:44 EST References: <1401@lumiere.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:lumiere:-140100:inmet:28600002:000:541 Nf-From: inmet!rgh Nov 20 10:50:00 1985 The current (Dec85) issue of Keyboard magazine has a survey article on sampling machines. The same issue reviews the Prophet 2000. Other recent reviews: Akai 612, Nov85; Ensoniq Mirage, Jun85. The same issue also contains an ad for the Mirage "Multi-sampler", a keyboardless rack-mountable version of the Mirage "Digital Sampling Keyboard", list price $1395. The aforementioned article says that the Mirage uses 8-bit floating point samples, for a dynamic range of 96 dB (equivalent to 16-bit linear). Randy Hudson {ihnp4,ima}!inmet!rgh