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#MIDI Software

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#114502From: Barry MassoniMar 19, 1988 3:52 AM
Dom, I have the Mimetics Digitizer and unlike soundscape it is nothing to brag about. I have never heard anything with so much noise in it but I'm told that none of the Amiga digitizers are worth their weight in dirt. I am using it, and I am getting decent sound, but with the adition of dbx II and a variable frequency noise reduction unit. Needless to say with all that processing the sound is a bit flat (or it could be the Amiga's 7K cutoff-but don't try not using the filter or you'd be in for some very nasty surprises). Like I said, with $400 of processing, decent, but without it, forget it! HEY HARDWARE DEVELOPERS, HOW ABOUT A DECENT DIGITIZER! WHAT DO YOU THINK **DIGITAL** SOUND IS ALL ABOUT!!!!!! Sorry Dom, had to get that off my chest, in any case I can recommend Pro Midi Studio, very nice. Barry
#114528From: Richard Rae/SYSOPMar 19, 1988 9:19 AM
That "decent digitizer" isn't going to do you one whit of good as long as you've got an output filter cornering at 4 KHz and a variable-frequency clock running all the way down to 14 KHz. It's going to have to be more of a system solution. Rick
#114731From: Barry MassoniMar 20, 1988 6:33 AM
Rick, Just becuase the house is on fire you don't need to throw on the dog. In other words, even if the frequency response isn't great thats no reason to build a digitizer with a 30 db S/N ratio. It's better to have nothing in the mid-high end than hiss! Barry
#114744From: Richard Rae/SYSOPMar 20, 1988 9:14 AM
Well THAT point I'll certainly concede you. 8) Rick
#114571From: Dominick J. FontanaMar 19, 1988 2:22 PM
Barry, From all I've heard and read Pro-MIDI Studio is a winner and the Sound Digitizer is a loser. I'll probably get Pro-MIDI and the ECE interface. Dom Fontana