clp@home.HarvardSq.COM (Charles L. Perkins) (03/17/91)
In article <17498@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) writes: > I am not sure if the Digital Ears are working with 68040 2.0 NeXT's, > however, my Ariel Microphone still works on my upgraded 68040 2.0 > NeXTcube. The line inputs are reasonable -- I imagine that they > are fairly equivalent to the digital ears; the microphone, however, > is incredibly lame: its frequency response curve closely resembles > San Francisco. I've spent hours attempting to make filters that > counteract the microphone coloration -- I came to the conclusion that I > prefer a bullhorn. Still, if the Digital Ears are not working, and > Singular Solutions will only deliver you a 64 times oversampling coffin, > then I would buy the Ariel Microphone. It's $200 less than the > digital ears, and the line inputs are satisfactory for this (me) computer > music hoax unit. I don't know why I have to say this again, but in case anyone missed Pascal's article, I have been using Digital Ears for more than a year, it works flawlessly in 2.0 on both a 68030 and a 68040, I've run it on all combos, and am quite happy with the product. I've heard (unconfirmed rumor) that the Ariel in "about the same" quality on the line-ins as the RCA-line-in of the Digital Ears, though the latter's connectors are better for hooking straight to a stereo. Don't forget, with Digital Ears you get SoundWorks free, which is a really cool sound effects, editor, zoomer, reverb, echo, pitch/amplitude adjust, arbitrary EQ, special effects processor. (so there! :-) Anyway, I like it, and don't work for MetaR. Charles