Christopher Smith wrote:
> Here's an odd one. Hypothetically, if I have a keyboard, with no
> internal sampler (a hypothetical Ensoniq ZR-76, say... for which
> I could probably never hope to find the sampler upgrade board ;),
> and would like to use an Atari ST to do some sampling (and play
> back of samples, too -- triggered by the keyboard), is there a
> way to do it?
No, the ST has no builtin way of sampling or playback of digital sound
files. It just does not have a DSP (the Falcon has one), only one of those
Yamaha sound chips.
> I'm not familiar with Atari ST software, but I just happen to
> have an ST520 setting around not doing much, and wonder whether
> it could be used for this purpose. ISTR that STs had decent
> MIDI capabilities for the time.
The decent MIDI capability about Atari ST's is that they have an integrated
MIDI interface. No magic here, either.
> Otherwise, what sort of MIDI-ish stuff can be done with this
> machine?
>
> It might make a good secondary sequencer, patch editor, etc,
> anyway...
You say it. Most people do exactly this with an ST. You can get patch
editors for several synths (mostly the DX-7 I guess...). There are also
some free seqencers around.
Keep me informed of what you do, I have two Atari ST 1024 here that I plan
on integrating into my setup.
Thomas
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Received on Thu Feb 21 2002 - 15:32:18 GMT