From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: PAS-16 vs. AMIGA AUDIO (was Re: AMIGA vs. IBM AUDIO???)
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:09:34 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Jul21.223439.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, avogel@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> In article <14id8oINNndj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>> avogel@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>> 
>>>I have a question.  I know of someone that is buying a 16 bit audio board
>>>for his IBM 386.  It is PAS (power audio systems or something like that)
>> 
>> Actually it's the Pro Audio Spectrum 16.  The price sounds about right.
>> 
>>>Anyway he is getting it mail order for about $219.
>>>Now this is a 16 bit audio board.  For the AMIGA 16 bit just came out
>>>like Sunrize Industry's Studio 16.  I am an AMIGA user and I always thought 
>>>that the AMIGA had the edge in this area - what is the whole story here?
>> 
>> The story is that the Amiga is slowly being caught up in areas where it
>> previously held a commanding lead over the competitors (let's hope that
>> last sentence parses).
>> 
>>>Can this IBM board sample?  How do they compare?
>> 
>> The PAS-16 sure can sample, 2 channel 16-bit stereo sampling at 44.1 KHz.
>> It also has a nice FM chip for 20 synthesized voices.  To compare quality
>> you'll have to listen to each of them
> 
> No I know a bit about the SunRize product Studio 16 (I had the oportunity to
> play around with one) and I am curious if you know how the PAS 16 compares in
> some of the following features.  After all the Studio 16 goes for about $600
> while the PAS 16 goes for $219, I am hoping that Studio-16 owners are paying
> for something.
> 
> 	Ok, I know that you can take the audio off lets say a video tape -
> digitize it and then be able to edit it but synched with the video like when
> you playback the audio you see the counter for the video so you can do perfect
> synching of your audio to your video (a usually hard and laborious task).
> 	You can also fade, cross fade, and eliminate sections of audio.  You
> can trigger just about as many sounds as you want as Studio 16 works off the
> hard drive.

You can do this with the PAS-16.  I don't know about the video stuff though.

> 	It has 4 tracks gthat can be mixed and metered with no generation
> loss.  You can sample at up to 80,000 samples per second (future versions will

The PAS-16 will sample stereo 16bit 44.1 kHz / sec which I guess is
88,200 samples per second.

> be more) and you can synch SMPTE at 24, 25, 29.97 and 30 fps.
> 	You can cut copy paste, reverse, zoom, scale audio.  And an ad I have
> says that offers CD fequency response and 70db signal to noise ratio.
> 	How does PAS-16 compare?

You can do all of this with software included with the PAS-16, or with 
Windows 3.1.  It has a 90dB signal to noise ratio for PCM sound and
an 85dB s to n ratio for synthesized and mixed audio.

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