spohrer-james@yale.UUCP (11/27/87)
From: James Spohrer <spohrer-james> While at MacFair in New York last weekend, Amy Lewis of FARALLON COMPUTING (415) 849-2331 demo-ed an audio input product her company had developed. A small box (6''x4''x1''(?)) plugged into the back of a Mac, had a small microphone attached to the box, and sampled audio input at 22K/Sec. (I am not sure how many bits per sample). The product was very well integrated with Hypercard, and you could edit the waveform display of the audio sample, or play it back. I tried it out an the sound quality was OK. The best part is it was relatively cheap: $199.00 I believe FARALLON COMPUTING sells Phone-Net. Their address is: 2150 Kittredge Street, Berkeley CA 94704. It would be nice if the next generation Mac had a built-in audio sampling system. -Jim Spohrer SPOHRER@YALE (203) 432-1227 -------
mike@artsvax.UUCP (11/28/87)
In article <409@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes: >Has anybody out there had any experience with audio digitizers for the >Mac that handle 16 bit samples? (actually anything with greater than 8 >bit precision would be nice to know about) > >I remember seeing some company was marketing a stereo digitizer with 16 >bit resolution and high (CD rate) sampling rates that connected to the >SCSI port. Anyone seen or worked with one of these? > Again, the machine's name is Dyaxis, marketed by Integrated Media Systems. We purchased one for about $3000, and there are settings in the software for recording in stereo at 44.1 kH. Ours does not currently work and we have sent it back to the factory to get the PAL chip updated. Ours did not come with a manual or instructions, but you can hope.... Oh yes, the software does not follow the usual Macintosh conventions; not a deadly sin, but darn inconvenient. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael S. Czeiszperger | Disclaimer: "Sorry, I'm all out of pith" Systems Programmer I | Smail: Room 406 Baker (614) College of the Arts | 1971 Neil Avenue 292- Computer Lab | Columbus, OH 43210 0895 The Ohio State University | UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!osupyr!artsvax!mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (11/30/87)
In article <19554@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spohrer-james@yale.UUCP writes: <discussion of Farallon's audio digitizer> >The best part is it was relatively cheap: $199.00 Impulse (formerly MacNifty) has been selling their audio digitizer since 1985 or so. It's been the source of many of the "SoundCap" files that have been discussed and posted to the nets here. (SoundCap was the name of the original digitizing program). The packages have recently been updated with a new extensible digitizing program, SoundWave, and some new hardware (I believe that they may have some interesting hardware for the Mac II - stereo?). I've seen the digitizer/SoundWave package for less than $150 mail order, don't know about the list price. Your best bet is to write/call Impulse. I don't have the exact address/phone # handy, but they're based out of Minneapolis, MN. I have no affiliation with Impulse except as a user of their hardware/software. >-Jim Spohrer >SPOHRER@YALE >(203) 432-1227 >------- ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications, Inc. hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104
jlc@atux01.UUCP (12/08/87)
The phone number for Impulse is: 1-800-328-0184 Jim Collymore