CompuServe Messages

Rick, Sure, go ahead and use my name and ID if you like. It might be my only chance at "immortailty". In any case, I bought a back issue of AC and read your review of the SoundScape sampler. What I didn`t notice suprised me. You never made mention of the quality of the sound. (I shouldn`t say things like never, I only read the article a few hours ago and might have missed something). To tell the truth, I expected better quality. I don`t have the equipment to measure, but my guess is that the signal to noise ratio is, what, about 35 db. It is really HISSY-and I`ve recorded at Major Distortion levels. The sampler built into my Casio SK-1 is consideralbly quieter. Is this normal, or have I run into another 500/2000 difference? I`ve built an extension cable so the sampler will plug into the 500s second mouse port but its only a few inches long and I wou ldn`t expect a short digital line to add noise. I wasn`t really expecting Fairlight quality but it could sound a lot better. Oh, one last thing, the sample that came as a demonst ration sounds consdierably better than what I have been able to do. Barry