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Original Message 1/9 17-Jul-01 @ 03:02 AM - Atari's worth getting...

8life8

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so is it in the year 2001 ?.. it most likely is, just for the tight timeing (I'd use it strightly as a sequencer but my only issue is reability, I read a interveiw with basment jax once where they said it crashed on them every hour, .. non the less I'm still pickig up some T-shirts... any thoughts?

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Message 2/9 21-Jul-01 @ 09:04 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

fiddleface

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I used mine for years, I think it crashed twice. Jerry

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Message 3/9 23-Jul-01 @ 08:40 AM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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are you asking if ataris crash?

I had a 1040 AND a falcon. bout 2 years between em and maybe...3 or 4 freezups? not bad Id say

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Message 4/9 24-Jul-01 @ 05:12 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

8life8

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yep u got it .. basicly what I'm asking... so I guess they r pretty reliable thx for the feedback.. but too late now, I just picked up a lappy, (well it's on it's way .. anyway off topic I was/am listening to your spinner remix ... and man what a WICKED track ... oohh how sweeeeat that bassline is .. and the beats.. oohh the stabs, man it's brillant!.. I'd like to c the vocal "spin" more .. like; throw it in the air w little loops and add a sweep on it w a pitch envelope ect but that�s just me being very very picky �it�s a brilliant track .. I�m listening to it again .. u should b on labes my man ..

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Message 5/9 25-Jul-01 @ 09:49 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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thanks...

thing is..the vocal does move around. hehe..i guess it could move more, but you ARE listening in mono remember

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Message 6/9 25-Jul-01 @ 09:53 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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oh, and just so you know, there is an atari laptop...its called a STacy

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Message 7/9 31-Jul-01 @ 01:08 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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If you are only interested in sequencing the Atari is by far the best bet. Rock solid timing and completely reliable. They seem to be a bit susceptible to mains interference. Mine used to crash a whenever the fridge turned on or off until I put in a mains filter. Now I can't remember the last time it crashed. It's so reliable we regularly do a four or five hour session without saving the file till the end. Stupid I know but you just get used to not needing to be constantly saving. I don't think you'd get away with that on a PC or a Mac! Plus you can pick them up for next to nothing. My advice would be - keep the lappy for word processing and get an Atari for sequencing.

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Message 8/9 10-Aug-01 @ 05:31 AM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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well basement jaxx must have used a really bad crack then ,... heh heh - they are VERY robust - and have enuff grunt for up to quite large compositions..... if you do REALLY big compositions then get a 4mb upgrade fitted, or get a 'Mega-ST' (4mb ram standard), or a Falcon (4mb standard up to 14mb with 10mb upgrade) most Falcons in the Free-ad's have 14mb fitted.

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Message 9/9 15-Aug-01 @ 10:42 PM - RE: Atari's worth getting...

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A follow up on the forum of atari is that there are very few user groups, but there are loads of musicians using them. The Falcon atari offers digital audio -via optics and a 14mb ram memory for everything from sampling(midi) to harddisk recording audio. The midi is tightightight and it crashed on me about 10 times always when I was pushing it with everything from sync,audio,midi sample and writing at the same time. I got the hang of it and now it's polite. NT

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