From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Will there be NoiseTrackers for the Falcon?
Date: 18 Aug 1992 16:48:57 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Aug18.183320.122315@rrz.uni-koeln.de> aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
>Hi folks,
>
>in that c't article about the Falcon (issue sept. '92) I've  read
>that  the  Falcon  was  capable  of  producing sound in stereo CD
>quality. The only serious limitation  they  talk  about  is  mass
>storage  capacity.

	I don't know what you mean by "serious limitation ... [of] mass
storage capacity" - it has a SCSI-2 interface - not only bu**-kicking fast
(upwards of 10MB/s - I'd _love_ to see a music-data-stream requiring a 
throughput greater than THAT!) but it can handle 7 of them.  If you are
referring to the limitations of the internal drive - now that is a different
story.  Yes, the internal IDE drive is limited to at most 2, and yes they
are generally slower/smaller than SCSI drives.  However, I was talking to 
friend who got a PC with local-bus IDE controller and she said it was faster
than the SCSI-2 controller they tried...so I dunno - and yes, they were
used on different (aproporiate) drives which were identical except for 
interface.  _THAT_ is the only limitation I am aware of in the Falcon's
mass-storage abilities. 

> However, that seems relevant only if one wants
>to record/play samples of considerable length at high  rates.  If
>it  comes  to  playing  NT  modules,  mass  storage  should be no
>problem.
>Therefore, it seems to me that it may  be  possible  to  play  NT
>modules  in  CD  quality  on  a  falcon if a NoiseTracker for the
>Falcon using its hardware  was  available.  Therefore,  I'm  very
>interested  in  informations/speculations if such a beast will be
>available sooner or later for the Falcon.

	I would be VERY surprised if there weren't one out before the 
Falcons are out :).  At least, it is supposed to be compatible with
STE/TT sound so available-now NT players should work....

>BTW, is  there  a  tracker  that  makes  use  of  the  new  sound
>capabilities  of  the  TT?  I  only  got hold of a program called
>"Jukebox", which had an option to play samples at high rates on a
>TT,  but  it was not too impressive. Also, I'd be interested in a
>tracker  with  some  enhanced  editing  operations,  e.g.  simple
>macros...

	Try NoizeTrakr, that should give you the editing capabilities you want.
As far as a player, Backtrack is nice (but I thought that Jukebox (1.3?)
was better).  I am hoping that the guys who did the dynamite demo will do
a NT player.  If you haven't see/heard it, you should give it a try.  I just
wish they would give you an "exit from demo" option.  As far as listening,
you should try NTcompiler-2 - it converts the NTs to segm, and to me it sounds
better (it definately uses less CPU cycles to play).  

>Greetinx, Jan
>
> +- Jan Kim -- X.400:    S=kim;OU=vax;O=mpiz-koeln;P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de -+
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-Mike



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