CompuServe Messages

First, Personal Animation Recorder records anims DIRECTLY to a DIRECTLY ATTACHED ** IDE ** drive, I believe. Second, Sunrize's nice AD516 board (which we have a couple of in house) can in theory play back up to 8 individual channels of 48KHz audio at once (out of one stereo out, mind you). Let's look at that data rate… That's 48000 * 16 bits * 8 channels = 768000 bytes per second (750K). Doesn't exactly require the 10 or 20 *megabytes* per second that SCSI II FAST or SCSI II WIDE & FAST does it? Non-linear editing is another story, but there are no real solutions for the Amiga yet, although obviously there is likely to be down the road. The DPS stuff is nice, but as I said, this uses a direct IDE interface and is seriously compressed (JPEG'ed) data. Not criticizing mind you, it's a very nice product. Regards, Paul.