jwabik@shamash.cdc.com (Jeff Wabik) (02/07/89)
I'm trying to find a "box" that will serially attach to a host machine
(be it a PC, or a Sun, or ..) that does digital sampling and playback.
E.G.:
Via a microphone, digitally record my voice, convert to some format
I can save to disk, then play back from the disk image at some later
time.
The box should have (obviously) a mic jack (or jacks for a similar type
of input), and an internal speaker or speaker jacks.
I've never seen anything like this, but it must exist. Any info would
be appreciated.
Thanks ..
-Jeff
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"Let's turn up the Air Conditioning and the Music for contestant #6!"trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) (02/07/89)
In article <11180@shamash.cdc.com> jwabik@shamash.cdc.com (Jeff Wabik) writes: >I'm trying to find a "box" that will serially attach to a host machine >(be it a PC, or a Sun, or ..) that does digital sampling and playback. > They have been available on the Atari ST, Mac, and Amiga for years now. All let you pull in sounds, view them, edit them and play them back. Edit features usually include ramping, adding reverb, reversing the sound, mapping the sound onto other waveforms, cut and paste, etc. If you have an Atari ST, there are sound demos you can download from the local BBS's. My ST actually says "All my circuits are fuctioning and I am completely operational" every time it boots up (in HAL's digitized voice from the movie 2010)...used to be "eeeeehhhhh....what's up, doc?", but bugs bunny can get tiring. The digitized sound files can get quite large. One of the animation demos on the ST has an incredibly detailed animation of the California Raisons dancing to a long segment of "Heard it on the Grapevine"...took most of a 360K disk for the demo. Figure on paying about $100 for a good digitizing box (mic inputs, sound usually from the computer...although an IBM PC would need sound generation on the box, since the computers' sound capabilities are pretty minimal). -Todd Burkey trb@stag.UUCP
erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) (02/07/89)
In article <11180@shamash.cdc.com>, jwabik@shamash.cdc.com (Jeff Wabik) writes: > I'm trying to find a "box" that will serially attach to a host machine > (be it a PC, or a Sun, or ..) that does digital sampling and playback. > > E.G.: > Via a microphone, digitally record my voice, convert to some format > I can save to disk, then play back from the disk image at some later > time. > > The box should have (obviously) a mic jack (or jacks for a similar type > of input), and an internal speaker or speaker jacks. > > I've never seen anything like this, but it must exist. Any info would > be appreciated. > This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but you may want to check out a product called MacRecorder from Farallon. As you guessed it, it runs on the Mac. MacRecorder comes with a hardware box (with a built-in mic), cables to record from a stereo (RCA jacks), a software recording program for HyperCard and a software application called SoundEdit. MacRecorder playback is done through the Mac's internal speaker (or with an external speaker hooked up to the Mac) -- the playback is all through the Mac, not the digitizer box. MacRecorder records on one channel (monophonic). Two MacRecorders can be used together to record in stereo on a Mac II. MacRecorder records at a number of sampling frequencies, including 22 kHz and 11 kHz (I hope I am correct on this, as the manual is at home). The SoundEdit application controls recording and playback, as well as editing the sounds recorded. Sounds may be saved to disk for later playback or editing. SoundEdit supports the standard Mac Cut/Copy/Paste paradigm to manipulate chunks of sound (you can cut out dead sound areas, copy parts of words for a Max Headroom effect, etc.). You can also apply a number of manipulations on chunks of the sound itself -- such as envelopes, echo effects -- you can even reverse the sound. All these manipulations can apply to the whole sound or any selected part. The HyperCard stack allows you to paste sounds into any HyperCard stack to add sound effects to your HyperCard works. The list price is ~$200 and the street price from ~$140 on up. I think it is a fun device. Note the MacRecorder hooks up to the Mac through a serial port, and I believe it digitizes continuously. You could ask in comp.sys.mac for info on hooking one up to a Sun or PC serial port (although you would not be able to run the nifty software then). The Mac and the Amiga worlds are probably the best bets for finding cheap digitizers. > Thanks .. > -Jeff > > -- > Jeff A. Wabik E/Mail: jwabik@shamash.cdc.com AT&T: +1 612 853 6811 > ____ ____ FAX: +1 612 853 4789 > / ___||___ \ > | |___ ___| | Control Data Corporation - Where men are men, and > \____||____/ vacuum tubes are scared. > > "Let's turn up the Air Conditioning and the Music for contestant #6!" Hope this helps, -Eric -- Eric F. Johnson | Phone +1 612-894-0313 | Are we Prime Automation,Inc | UUCP: bungia!pai!erc | having 12201 Wood Lake Drive | UUCP: sun!tundra!pai!erc | fun Burnsville, MN 55337 USA | DOMAIN: erc@pai.mn.org | yet?