ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) (10/27/90)
I was wondering if someone could let me know about the means available for inputing sounds into my ST...either via a tape recorder or directly through some sort of microphone. You see, I'm interested in speech or other non-music sounds. Post to the net or email me directly. Thanks very much. --Gerry PS. Marshall...any ideas?
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) (10/27/90)
Our newsreader is doing strange things to my messages...so I wanted to include my addresses for those who are willing to respond to my message about inputing sound on the ST. ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu maxg@suvm (bitnet) Thanks again. --Gerry
jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) (10/28/90)
In article <1990Oct27.132116.21356@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes: > I was wondering if someone could let me know about the means > available for inputing sounds into my ST...either via a tape > recorder or directly through some sort of microphone. You > see, I'm interested in speech or other non-music sounds. > > Post to the net or email me directly. Thanks very much. > --Gerry > PS. Marshall...any ideas? > I know of at least one company that will be making a sound digitizer for older Macs that will plug into the serial port to get the digitizing capabilities of the newer Mac models. Should work, since the ST's serial port is compatible with the Macs (all you need to do is make/buy an adapter cable for the Mac's stupid proprietary serial port connector.) The company is "Articulate Systems, Inc." and the product name is _DesktopMikeVL_. I got this from MacWeek of 10.16.90. ---jb
mrose@csws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) (10/28/90)
In article <1990Oct27.190453.20137@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) writes: >In article <1990Oct27.132116.21356@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes: >> I was wondering if someone could let me know about the means >> available for inputing sounds into my ST...either via a tape >> recorder or directly through some sort of microphone. You >> see, I'm interested in speech or other non-music sounds. >> >> Post to the net or email me directly. Thanks very much. >> --Gerry >> PS. Marshall...any ideas? >> > >I know of at least one company that will be making a sound digitizer for older >Macs that will plug into the serial port to get the digitizing capabilities of >the newer Mac models. Should work, since the ST's serial port is compatible >with the Macs (all you need to do is make/buy an adapter cable for the Mac's >stupid proprietary serial port connector.) The company is "Articulate Systems, >Inc." and the product name is _DesktopMikeVL_. I got this from MacWeek of >10.16.90. > >---jb This seems rather crazy to me. He would have to right his own software to make use of the sampler. There are several ST specific Audio digitizers available and even a few kits, such has the one that was published in STart magazine a month or two ago. Why bother with a Mac digitizer when there are so many ST versions available? Unless you want to use it under Spectre..? (Can you?) I own the ST Replay system by Microdeal. It samples up to 50khz and the software included allows simple sound editing capabilities, such as cut and past. There is a new version called Replay Professional which includes an updated editor and is a higher quality sampler then the orignal replay cartidge. There is also a music program called Quartet that will play back four samples at once and pitch shift the samples to different frequencies to play music. You can down load a song demo of Quartet from the atari.archive. There are also many sample files there and a few sample play back programs, some of which will replace the bell sound of the computer, key click of different keys, and errors beeps with different sound samples. If you have replay, you could record your voice and use it as an error beep, for example, when the alert box appears and tells you that it can't read Drive A because there is no disk there, you could have the computer say in your own voice "Put a disk into drive A" or whatever you want. It is also fairly simple to playback the samples in your own programs. I hope this helps. Take care! Sincerely, Michael Rose -- ============================================================================
kawakami@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) (10/29/90)
In article <1990Oct28.024511.5748@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrose@csws9.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Rose) writes: >In article <1990Oct27.190453.20137@rodan.acs.syr.edu> jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) writes: >>In article <1990Oct27.132116.21356@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes: >>I know of at least one company that will be making a sound digitizer for older >>Macs that will plug into the serial port to get the digitizing capabilities of >>the newer Mac models. Should work, since the ST's serial port is compatible >>with the Macs (all you need to do is make/buy an adapter cable for the Mac's >>stupid proprietary serial port connector.) The company is "Articulate Systems, >>Inc." and the product name is _DesktopMikeVL_. I got this from MacWeek of >>10.16.90. >> >>---jb > > This seems rather crazy to me. He would have to right his >own software to make use of the sampler. [Why bother with a Mac >thing when there are so many ST ones available?] That is true unless he is going to use the SpectreGCR. In that case, if it works, then it's definitely a better product than the very cool-groovy Replay 4. Why? Well, Mac software will soon support sound embedded into data: data bases, word processors, hypercard/hypertext, mail, and so forth. In addition, as you say, if he can write his own program (and get info on the hardware) then he might be able to use it in ST mode. But what about quality? Well, you can have the best fishing pole on earth but if you can fish only at the local pond, what's the point. I'll bet that the Mac device will not be that great performance wise, but so what. The ability to use your data in many ways is worth a lot. John Kawakami kawakami@ocf.berkeley.edu ucbvax!ocf.berkeley.edu!kawakami Amateur crank! My Atari Macks!