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From: afraser@ssibbs.UUCP (Alex Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: mindlight 7
Summary: does it sample too?
Keywords: review
Message-ID: <59@ssibbs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 88 21:41:09 GMT
References: <10393@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Sangho's Public Access Unix, Cambridge, MA
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In article <10393@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, cjhoward@lotus.waterloo.edu (Caleb J. Howard) writes:
> About a year ago, I read an article in one of my various
> computer magazines (p68 Amazing Computing Vol 3 #2)
> that described a device called the "Mindlight 7" which 
> picked up ambient sound, or took stereo input directly
> and analyzed it in real time, passing the description
> of the sound to the amiga.  The accompanying software
> then produced a dazzling visual display to the beat of
> the music reminiscent of the light organs of the seventies.
<review and ordering info deleted>

Does the software it comes with support using it as a sampler?
Does it go on the parallel port, have a dedicated card, or what?
Do they include complete info for writing your own code to use it?
(Or better yet give source code!)


This sounds like a lot of fun, particularly if it can do everything
that Perfect Sound can do, and is only @ $100 more.  (On second thought,
what can this thing do that Perfect Sound couldn't do with the right
graphic software?

How well does it multitask?  (Ie, do you think I could run Dr. T's
and then run my music right through it at the same time)?

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