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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Sample/Playback machines?
Keywords: Who, what, where, howmuch?
Message-ID: <3096@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 15 Feb 89 12:05:44 GMT
References: <11180@shamash.cdc.com> <5425@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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If you're playing with sound sampling, I would recommend you pick up an Amiga.
The cheaper audio digitizers for this beast are on the order of $50, and the
sound playback is damned good for an 8-bit DAC. The format for sound files
on the machine is standardised, and you can take your 8SVX (8-bit Sampled
Voice) files and use them in the many synthesizer and sequencer programs
available. Or, if you're weird enough to want to try, changing the sound
effects in many games is as easy as copying a new file in.

It's not IBM-compatible, of course. It's more like a baby NeXT.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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