make sample CD's

[Andrew Schrock]

On Thu, 6 May 1999, KA4HJH wrote:
> I bought a Plextor 4/12 SCSI for under $300 and it's very sweet. It has the
> caddy that acts like a tray. The only problem with that is that you can
> scratch the shit out of a disc if you push it in incorrectly! Fortunately I
> didn't loose anything irreplaceable but talk about panic--scrape scrape
> scrape...
> 
> Blank discs are cheaper than decent cassettes...

This is a really good point... I had a batch of tapes made up last
November which ran me around $180 with full-color inserts and jewel
boxes. For the price of cassettes you can go for cds! There's (almost) no
excuse for getting tapes done anymore, unless you just don't have a
computer. 

Also, RE: Barrys reply.. I'm not sure what type of sounds we're talking
here, whether they'd be scaled or not. A good quality set of scaled
samples can be _very_ large, say for acoustic instruments.. but if we'd
just be doing percussion or 'weird' sounds, that's not really necessary. I
personally use a lot of very fast (100ms - 500ms) blips, squirts, and
bleeps for my music, and I remember I could fit more than 5 octaves of
samples onto my old akai s900 at low quality recording settings. 

later
Andrew

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