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Subject: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
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Original Message 1/9 27-Jul-98 @ 12:46 AM - Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
Message 2/9 27-Jul-98 @ 12:54 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
£140.
I've never seen it crash once and although he is extremely limited kit wise, he knows how to use it and all his time is spent trying to get some nice sounds out of the D10 and more importantly having fun & laying down tracks - some of which have been quite impressive considering.
Completely out of date and even laughable that he'd even try and create dance tracks with this setup, but at least ALL of his time is spent creating rather than configuring.
How many people at this site could make such a claim?
Message 3/9 27-Jul-98 @ 01:16 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
Message 4/9 27-Jul-98 @ 03:23 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
My mates setup that I described was meant to point out two things - Ataris are reliable and having too much
software/hardware can sometimes just get in the way, too much time spent fucking about and not enough time
spent on learning how to use them properly (of which I am very guilty). But an Atari's only as good as the
hardware that you have and I get way more out of my PC setup for the money than I would buying an Atari and
sampler/keyboard etc...I just wish my Pc would be that little bit more friendly at times!
As far as software is concerned, I work in the video game industry and music software could be compared to the
current state of PC games. The spec of PC needed to run the newest games (smoothly) is bordering on the
ridiculous. These new titles are just not worth buying unless you have the newest, fastest, accelerated PC to
run them. With music s/w I think it's worth finding what works best with your setup and current shitty OS and
wait for higher machine specs to become more affordable and microsoft to catch up with the advances of VST and
the likes.
I took note of your comments on Cakewalk 5.0 a while back and have ditched VST & power hungry plug ins (for the
moment) in favour of Cakewalk. I've been using this along with soundforge, making waves, stomper, hammerhead,
Vaz, ReBirth etc....and haven't looked back since. If anything, I think I'm learning more by working on audio
non-realtime rather than relying on plugins.
I started a thread 'how to make tracks on a pc' a couple of days ago as I was interested in what programs people
were using to get round the problems faced with up to date s/w. A few people seem to be pissed off with the current
state of affairs. Maybe it's time for someone to write a music based operating system......anyone up for it?
Message 5/9 27-Jul-98 @ 03:45 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
Message 6/9 29-Jul-98 @ 03:53 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
PC with full duplex soundcard and sample CD - better and
you do not need talent to create good sounding music.
Stick with the Atari if you want to keep the creative juices flowing.
Message 7/9 30-Jul-98 @ 09:17 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
A friend of mine got the original BeBox (the machine that was custom build to run BeOS) when it was being sold to developers (it never made it to the stores), and it comes (or maybe came) standard with 4 midi interfaces fitted. He said he's gotten a bunch of audio soft for it lately. I think I should go and check it out.
Message 8/9 31-Jul-98 @ 06:33 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
Dr.T and have a D 10 as well. I lock the Atari to my
ADAT with the Phantom smpte deal and it works great!
I've also got a sampler and a Korg module but the D 10
sounds great when you use the soft editor on it. If it
works, then use it eh?
Message 9/9 31-Jul-98 @ 11:48 PM - RE: Sigho - back to the trusty Atari
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