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From: bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: PerfectSound3.0 vs AudioMaster II ?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 10:39:24 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bty00298    Feb 27 13:07:00 1990


Perfect Sound 3.0 offers many new features:

	1) software controlled gain
	2) software controlled sampling rates
	3) better noise characteristics

It is a smaller package with stereo inputs and a mic input.  Due to the
first two points Audiomaster II does not work with it - I know because 
I tried it.  A note that comes with PS 3.0 notes the problem and says
that Oxxi (now the owner of Audiomaster) has promised an upgrade.

This is unfortunate because the Audiomaster software is more familiar to me
and it offers a higher sampling rate in stereo 22kHz.  The new Perfect Sound
software is a lot better and could possibly replace Audiomaster in features,
but it cannot play samples at 44kHz although it can record them.  Audiomaster
is able to play the samples at 44kHz, although the PS manual states that
the Amiga can only playback at a maximum rate of 28kHz.

I hope that this has been of some help.

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Brian Yamanaka
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
bty00298@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu