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From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is NeXT's audio sampler only eight-bit?
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Date: 9 Jan 89 00:27:50 GMT
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In article <3244@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>I have heard that the Next's built-in audio sampler only samples at eight bits
>of resolution.  Can anyone verfiy this?  Eight bits is fine for voice mail,
>but it has long been unacceptable for pro and semipro audio.

We recently heard (at a campus-wide demo)that a third-party hardware
vendor has come out with an external A/D box, for $800 (!!).  Sorry, I
didn't get any other information (like the interface, sampling rates,
resolution).  Maybe somebody else has heard something.

Cheers,
Pat
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Patrick Flynn, Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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