Sound Digitizer
Bruce:
The Amiga doesn't, to my knowledge, use sound sampling "boards". Most of
the current sound sampling hardware is external, and hooks onto the
parallel port. Prices range from about $60 to three times that, depending
on features, etc.
Amiga native sound is 8 bit, and is pretty good. But it is not CD quality.
That would require 12 or 16 bit. There has been some disucssion of
creating a 12 or 16 bit board and/or external sampler for the Amiga, but I
don't know of any actually out there. It would require both input and
output capabilities, of course, since the synth chips inside the Amiga can
only handle up to 4 channels of 8 bit sound, in stereo (two channels on
each side).
BTW — there are 16 bit sound manipulation packages out for the Amiga, but
they are for editing sound samples from external sampling units — like
sampling keyboards, etc., which are then used on that external device.
?|^] Ray Lewis