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From: gdunlap@csuchico.edu (Gregory L. Dunlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PerfectSound3.0 vs AudioMaster II ?
Message-ID: <1990Mar07.201057.5272@csuchico.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 20:10:57 GMT
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     I greatly prefer the Audiomaster software over the software that comes
with PSound 3.0; A friend of mine bought the new PSound and the software is
buggier than a hornet's nest!  It locked up the machine more times than we
could count. When we tried to sample at over ~32Khz it would only grab 
TWO BYTES, then return to the editor; we've never been able to get it any
higher. I REALLY wish Audiomaster worked (and I'm talking about the OLD
version of Audiomaster; I don't have Audiomaster II).
     I think the worst thing about the new PSound is the software-controlled
gain control.  I hate having to wait for the software to autoset the gain, and
setting it with the arrow keys sucks because the only feedback you get from
the program is that slow graph of the waveform. If you go too high, it "wraps-
around" back to the bottom! Argh! 
     I have the older version of PSound and like it MUCH better. Even though
it doesn't sample as fast, we havent been able to get anything that sounded
any better out of the new one anyway. And I LIKE the manual gain control. I've
never had any problem with reaching over and turning the knob, and once I get
a good setting I can leave it there and don't have to worry about it again.
     I never cared much for the PSound software I got with my digitizer, but
at least it didn't crash all the time. I LOVED the fact that it came with the
source code, allowing you to write your own programs to play with the digitizer.
You can't do that with the current version; no source, and it's a mystery to me
how you control the thing. I wish they had just upgraded the old software and
got rid of all the extra software control. Hopefully the new Audiomaster will
be out soon. 
    Well, thanks for listening to my ranting. If ANYBODY knows how to read
samples off the new PSound could you please send me some EMail? Thanks.

              Greg Dunlap, CSUChico