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From: kudla@nuge107.its.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Subject: Re: Perfectsound
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Date: 14 May 91 13:48:14 GMT
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othomas@athena.mit.edu (Oliver J. Thomas) writes:

>>	   1.) My friend has a bass guitar. I was wondering if I could
>>   "digitize" him with a direct rca to amiga hook up. Is it possibe to hook
>>   him up in such a way as to have him play a note, have it digitized, and
>>   put as direct output in "real time"???
>Yep, you can do that. Check out a program called "SuperEcho" on FishDisk
>It will do what you want and more, like special effects (hence, the Echo in
>the name...)

Normally I wouldn't mention this, but since the subject is "Perfectsound"...
WARNING!!  Virtually *no* freely redistributable utilities such as SuperEcho
work with PerfectSound III!  PS3 has software gain control and rather than
defaulting to a reasonable level, it simply doesn't work with software not
specifically coded to use the gain control feature!

On the bright side, there are several audio programs that do lots of neat
things including realtime EQ and effects with PS3, but they're commercial:
AudioMaster III does it, I think, and whoever makes PerfectSound has a really
nice one as well.  They generally go for $80 or so and are probably a better
idea if you're serious about using the Amiga as an 8-bit sampler.  If you're
just messing around though, I'd recommend going for one of the other samplers
(the Audiomaster people - Oxxi is it? - are making one now I think) and a
PD program like SuperEcho.

Good luck....
-- 
Robert Jude Kudla <kudla@rpi.edu>
                                   
No more bars!  No more cages!  Just rollerskating, disco music, and
the occasional light show....
