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1996-07-23 12:36Martin Ayrton>Nope. The new wave of PC cards (AWE32, Tropez) are extremely cheap and >are more flexible

From:: Martin Ayrton <mayrton@cev.u-net.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:36:28 +0100
Subject:: (idm) AWE32 etc..

quoted 3 lines Nope. The new wave of PC cards (AWE32, Tropez) are extremely cheap and

>Nope. The new wave of PC cards (AWE32, Tropez) are extremely cheap and >are more flexible than any rack sampler. People make ENTIRE tracks that >would easily be worth release on a single piece of kit like this alone!

quoted 2 lines The AWE32 in particular has most of the inner workings of EMU's ESI-32,

>The AWE32 in particular has most of the inner workings of EMU's ESI-32, >and the specs are very similar, polyphony is 32 voice..

quoted 2 lines In about 5 years people are going to look back at old dinosaurs like the

>In about 5 years people are going to look back at old dinosaurs like the >Akais and wonder how anybody got anything done with them... ;)

Well if only that were true. The AWE32 is a wonderful piece of kit and I've heard some really good demo's from people. However although they are rated at 44.1khz they also have a massive problem with noise from the rest of the PC and are unusable for creating quality output. Ask yourself why people still get sound into a PC via a DAT machine and a Digital Input card. M:) [-A Cyborgs Eye View-------------------- http://www.u-net.com/~cev ] | home of.... ( t h e m o b e u s ) | | | [ Compilation CD featuring m o b e u s tracks JazzMag & Warrior, ] |*Distributed Shared Memory* on Mindspore - www.mindspore.com/dsm | [-------- released June 1996 - U.S. (UK & Europe - tba) ----------]

1996-07-23 15:09Kent WilliamsAs a Soundcard-as-Sampler user, I'd love to chat further with others, but I should remind

From:: Kent Williams <kent@inav.net>
To:: Martin Ayrton <mayrton@cev.u-net.com>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:09:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm) AWE32 etc..
Reply to:: (idm) AWE32 etc..

As a Soundcard-as-Sampler user, I'd love to chat further with others, but I should remind all there are mailing lists for this sort of thing, in particular electronica. to svbscribe send a message to majordomo@maths.ex.ac.uk with svbscribe electronica in the message body. Replacing the 'v's with 'u's of course. Since IDM is also managed by majordomo, you have to sneak around behind it's back. By the way, the AWE32 has a digital out available on a pin header, but you've got to wire up a connector your own self. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I read Keyboard, but it's like staring at a book with pictures of simple looking but expensive machines." -- Michael Lazarev NEW CD Comp Electronic Music Project http://soli.inav.net/~kent/emp.html Kent Williams kent@inav.net CADSI 2651 Crosspark Road Coralville IA 52241 (319) 338 6053 (home) (319) 626 6700 x 219 (work) (319) 626 3489 (fax)

(idm) AWE32 etc..