hd recorders

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow Y'all.

At 11:03 AM 04/06/99 -0500, M  wrote:
>It looks like things may change with the newer intel chips (or so they
>say), but until then, any DigAud you are looking into should be %100 MMX
>for maximum efficiency. None MMX systems ten to be REAL buggy and have a
>tendency to poorer quality recordings and buffer over/under runs and what
>not. Ditto for your CD burning tools as well. Of course, corrections
>encouraged.

You've obviously never seen the Creamware's 3DAT. Let me put it this way.
If I was given a choice between a full blown Pro-tools and a TripleDAT the
Protools wouldn't get a second thought. They had managed, through a little
forethought, to devise a system that can do things on a Win3.11 system that
no other HD recorder can match. Not even with streaming support on Bill98.
It can sync to any sequencer of your choice running concurrently on the
same platform without any glitching what so ever. Even when swapping back
and forth between the two. It blows complete REDBOOK direct to CD as well
but you need win95 for that. It will also blow over 74 minutes. It can do
all this whilst simultaneously running Reverb, 4band EQ, compression and
noise gates using nothing more than a non-MMX P200. And! Can process
incoming audio in real-time.

I should mention the one big drawback of the Creamware stuff. It's all
pretty much proprietary. They do not and will not support direct-x
plug-ins. All the plug-ins they support are of their own format. Of course
this format precedes direct-x by a good few years but still...

As for soundscape. If Im not mistaken. Soundscape is just a brand of
Ensoniques. Certainly down here, Ensoniques market a range of PCI
soundcards and other HD recording gear under that brand name. We dont'
stock them because they're pretty ordinary in reality. Ensoniques demand
that any retailers wishing to stock them have to have a special room set up
with a PC and a complete Soundscape system set up in it. They are asking
nigh on 6 grand here for a basic system. You can get a complete 3DAT for
just over half that. Or a yamaha DSP factory for even less. For that kind
of money you could have a couple of creamware Pulsars. Or for a grand and a
half more, a full blown scope. Remember this is Australian prices. (about
62 US cents)

Hope this helps.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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