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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.misc,mn.general
Subject: Re: Digital Sample/Playback machines?
Keywords: Who, what, where, howmuch?
Message-ID: <717@stag.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 14:58:46 GMT
References: <11180@shamash.cdc.com>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <11180@shamash.cdc.com> jwabik@shamash.cdc.com (Jeff Wabik) writes:
>I'm trying to find a "box" that will serially attach to a host machine
>(be it a PC, or a Sun, or ..) that does digital sampling and playback.
>

They have been available on the Atari ST, Mac, and Amiga for years
now. All let you pull in sounds, view them, edit them and play them
back. Edit features usually include ramping, adding reverb, reversing
the sound, mapping the sound onto other waveforms, cut and paste, etc.
If you have an Atari ST, there are sound demos you can download from
the local BBS's. My ST actually says "All my circuits are fuctioning
and I am completely operational" every time it boots up (in HAL's
digitized voice from the movie 2010)...used to be
"eeeeehhhhh....what's up, doc?", but bugs bunny can get tiring. The
digitized sound files can get quite large. One of the animation demos
on the ST has an incredibly detailed animation of the California
Raisons dancing to a long segment of "Heard it on the
Grapevine"...took most of a 360K disk for the demo.

Figure on paying about $100 for a good digitizing box (mic inputs,
sound usually from the computer...although an IBM PC would need
sound generation on the box, since the computers' sound capabilities
are pretty minimal).

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP