amiga questions

[Henri Kovalainen]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, tomg wrote:
> > I have a couple questions for you synth diy folks,
> > Do you know where I can get info on amigas and programs for sampling and 
> > sample playback, I own an amiga 500 and a 2000 with toaster,
> > Also i want to find (or build) a 61 note simple midi controller, no gadgets, 
> > maybe a pitch knob thats all, you know where to get these?
> The last outpost of Amiga hardware is Software Hut 215-586-5701
> maybe they are still there.

 Excuse me, but what?

 I really don't know the current situation of the Amiga scene or
 development in the US, but here in Europe, I'd say we still have a nice
 market of new and old hardware. You really don't have Amiga shops 
 anymore? Well, even if we have some in Germany for example, I have to
 admit that the only real amiga store I have visited was in Tokyo.

 The Sunrize soundcards were made in USA, right? Don't you have any of
 these around anymore (the bigger model was multi channel?)? A new
 soundcard was released a while ago (germany, check http://www.act-net.com/),
 called Prelude. It's a ZII card so hardware wise it should run fine on an
 A2000. Also there's Delfina (finnish, http://www.sci.fi/~petsoff/) which
 is a ZII too. Both cards are generally much better than their pc rivals 
 (for example, Prelude can go up to 64khz and Delfina has mot dsp56002,
 24bit. Check the web pages for details). ACT also sells a port of
 Samplitude (yes, sek'd makes the pc port) for amigas. Though if you are
 planning to do any serious hdr work with your Amy, you should naturally
 have adequate hd's and processor etc. Both cards (any many of the old)
 support AHI so a load of other modern software will also work.

 My Amiga system is an A4000, with Cyberstorm mkI 060 with 36megs ram,
 Cybervision 3D gfx card, A2232 serial card, Ariadne Ethernet, 2.5G hd,
 4xCD and the usual heap of smaller Amys.  Yes, I do my hdr on a pc, but
 that's only because of SoundForge. I have actually though about getting a
 soundcard just to play samples over midi.

 Personally, it makes no difference even if AT never releases another
 version of AmigaOS (I only use it to run Bars&Pipes), because I prefer
 unixes (in this case, read linux) anyhow. The only reason why I haven't
 bought a PPC processor yet, is that Phase5 is just about to release a
 line of G3 and G4 cards, which will be much better than their old PPC
 models (check www.phase5.de for details of the current as well as the
 G3/G4 cards). All crucial linux software will be ported to PPCLinux,
 thanks to all the PPC Mac users in the states.

 If anyone has any questions about Amigas, I'd be happy to help. Then
 again, I'm just a lad who loves bizarre hardware =)
 (I have though about finally getting a SGI O2 this summer. Can't wait)

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