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From: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Long Samples
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Date: 29 Dec 88 01:08:21 GMT
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Reply-To: rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers)
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In article <4732@homxc.UUCP> you write:
>I read here last week that one of the sampling programs (I forget
>the name) was able to digest several minutes worth of information.
>Is it worth dreaming of a system, then, which could sample a poor
>quality recording (say, a twenty year old radio performance), and
>use the abilities of the Amiga to clean it up? Or eliminate


     The main problem with this idea is that the Amiga is limited to around
30,000 Hertz 8 bit samples.  This is not exactly Hi-Fi.  I would describe
it as "micro-cassette" quality.  Basically we are talking about sound 
processing, as opposed to image processing.  You could do it on a theoretical 
level with an Amiga, but not on the professional level.  The NeXT would be a
good system to use.  It has stereo 16 bit sound output, and a high-speed 
signal processing chip.  

     DAK sells a device that removes clicks and pops from records.  I have
seen other boxes that remove hiss.  A system like the NeXT could be
programmed to do all of this and more.  That would be pretty neat.  As for
the Amiga, well, we will have to see if the 3000 will offer true compact-
disc-quality sound.

						--Rob.


Robert Silvers.                               rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu
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