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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Audiolnk by Beta Unlimited
From: dwrinkle@vax1.umkc.edu (--DJ Revolution--)
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:22:07 CST
Organization: Groove Continuum Music
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

I have seen advertisements for The AudioLink 16-bit sampling system from
a company called Beta Unlimited in Brooklyn.  There have been ads for it
since 1990, and I have yet to see it on any mail-order lists, or reviewed
in any magazines.  The specs sound really impressive and I'd like more info
on this system.  Has anyone out there ever worked with one of these or 
at least seen one somewhere(*even at a WOC show or something*), and if so
can you give some specs and the suggested price.  I have tried calling
Beta Unlimited but the phone seems chronically busy...

Any info would be appreciated...
-- 

***********************************
* See Ya'                         *
* DJ Revolution [CONTINUUM MUSIC] *
* Believe Dat'                    *
***********************************

"Rap is ant art, you can't own no loops
 it's how you hook em up in the rhyme style troop!"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re:  Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies ST-Modules? Needed...
From: Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper)
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:50:21 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: TVNZ Graphic Animation Designer (Avlon)

In article <wunner.724969273@nova> (Guenter Wunner) writes:
>Sounds interesting. So, where can I ftp the MODs from?
As someone else correctly said, these are COMMERCIAL modules and so cannot
be place on FTP or ANY other electronic medium without the permission of
TSL DK.

--
 Amiga500 (DCTV, HP550C, 28mHz 68040, 2400bps, WB2.04, 7MB RAM, 105MB HD)
    running Windows 3.1+ as a BACKGROUND TASK faster than a 25mHz 486!
 (pinch of salt required)  ** QUOTE OF THE DAY ** (pinch of salt required)
Reporter: "Sir, how do you justify producing a FALSE multi-tasking windows
              environment and calling it TRUE multi-tasking?"
   Designer: "Well most PC users don't even know what multi-tasking is!"
From: m_krok@tron.gun.de (Matthias Krok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re^2:Binaries
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neuss, Germany
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:15:00 +0100

-> From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
-> Subject: Re:Binaries
-> Message-ID: <BqFawB2w165w@midiline.la.ca.us>
-> Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285

-> > Then use ftpmail !!!!!!!!!!!
->  
->  That'd be great, but my host's ftpmailer is a bit flaky at best.
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry I don`t understand this phare but I guess, your host`s ftpmailer doesn`t
work right, or something...

Don`t you know the ftp-tp-mail-service from DEC ? Send a mail with the
following contents to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com and you will get the described
file in 64K-pieces. one or two days later, of course... and maybe, the ftpsite
doesn`t allow an infinite value of anonymous users online, then the ftpmail
fails, and you have to try again... but with this methid you can get ANY file
available by ftp per mail !!!

Here`s the script.

connect [ftp-site]
binary
uuencode
chdir [directory]
get [filename]
quit

you can add more than one "get"-commands, but only one "chdir"-command.

Send a message containing "help" to the ftpmail-service, and you will get the
full helptext...



I hope that`s nothing you have been knowing already, but I think this method
has to work for any person...

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-- THE ANSWER V2.03
From: m_krok@tron.gun.de (Matthias Krok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re^2: Module review ? Here's mine !
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neuss, Germany
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:04:00 +0100


-> From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
-> Subject: Re: Module review ? Here's mine !
-> References: <1992Dec21.172150.5974@tdb.uu.se>
-> 
-> As far as I know, "T3" is not planned for the Amiga. Factor 5 won't do
-> it because there's too much piracy. The only machine T3 is going to
-> come out on is the Mega Drive/Genesis.

Right !

That`s exactly what they said to me and everyone else who asked on the CSS`92
a few month ago. But there`re planning to create a mix of T1+2+3 and call it
"Super Turrican" which would be realesed on the SuperNES only. That`s not a
100%-info but they seemed to be quite sure to do this (re)mix...

Maybe there will be a version of Super Turrican on Amiga ?

One of the factor5-members said to me, I should buy a MegaDrive or a SuperNES.
He did it only for playing T3, he said ;)

->         *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Did you visit the CSS`92 ??? Did you takled with factor5 ? Pretty nice guys,
aren`t they ?

;-)))

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-- THE ANSWER V2.03
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Digitizing from scripts..
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:59:02 GMT

In article <cP9DwB2w165w@amigans.gen.nz>
zoltar@amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms) writes:
 
>
>if you get this program goijg, I'd be interested in finding out more
>about it. An answering machine would be handy, but they are so damned
>expensive! Can you post some specs about this, as to how it works, what
>external hardware is used (Does it use a modem?) etc..
>
Right now, I can't seem to get the hardware side of it working, because
I'm obviously doing something wrong hooking it up (which escapes me on
how to fix. :(.
 
But to do it, I'm using a Perfect Sound 3, AGMS Record Sound, a modem,
NComm, and a simple phone line recorder.  (You can get them at Radio Shack)
 
 
I have it hooked up so that the plug for the PLR (phone line recorder)
is hooked into the output of the Amiga AND the input of the digitizer.
But currently, I get a loop..  Which makes sense.  Something I have to
do, but I can't think of what it is at the moment...
 
Oh well..  Anyway, yes, it'd be a real cheap answering machine if you
have everything except the recorder, which is $20.  There is a resister
and a switch..  (Boo)  I can tell you how to make one if you want to do
it.. :)
 
Seeya..
 
>Thanks,
>Grant
>
No problem.. :)
 
>`And Now...'
>--
>                 Grant Thoms - Wanganui, New Zealand
>   -=* ZOLTAR@GLASGOW.AMIGANS.GEN.NZ *OR* ZOLTAR@AMIGANS.GEN.NZ *=-
>            Radio DJ/Graphics Artist/Co SysOp of Local BBS
>  Profound Quote for the week: `Don't eva bush yer teef wif cwazy gew!'
>     (Rough Translation: Don't ever brush your teeth with crazy glue)
>                (Yes, Im afraid this is my new .SIG file)
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From: SI6935848@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG (Libra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Party Time
Date: 2 Jan 1993 01:35:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Could anyone tell me where is the above award winning TECHNO music
by GIN located????

Thanks!
From: d89-rbi@dront.nada.kth.se (Ron Birk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Archon (c-64 version) music ?
Date: 25 Dec 92 16:22:57 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <1he380INNq55@aludra.usc.edu> wdao@aludra.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes:

>   Has anybody ripped the music from Archon (the c-64 version, I dunno about 
>   the amiga version).
>   Either something for the SID emulator or a MOD conversion. 

We have the music from archon to PlaySID (our C64 music emulator).
--
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 Krogarvagen 11   Projects: PlaySID (Amiga), FanGog (Mac), MonkeyBase (Unix)
 14552 Norsborg   E-Mail: d89-rbi@nada.kth.se     - Please, be happy! -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: B&P programmers do me a favor please
From: <ADB103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:12:58 EST
Organization: Penn State University

Has anyone out there gotten into Bars & Pipes Pro Rules for Tools? I could
really use a tool that wouldn't be hard to make/hack. If you took a Keyboard
Split tool and changed the main parameter to velocity, you could use that tool
in a macro (like note filter but it would be a velocity filter) and send each
different velocity range to a different channel and different sound. This would
give any controller a highly configurable velocity pallette. Smashing idea, huh
I play MIDI guitar and I think this might compensate for certain tonal nuances
lost in not playing a velocity sampled tone module.   Anthony Beecher
From: Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Eric H Gieseke)
Subject: Re: Who made this mod?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27a beta (Nov 30 1992)
Date: 22 Dec 92 06:17:15 CST
Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas


I also got a MOD called BOesendorfer P.S.S.,by Romeo KNight...
I am in Shock....I still cant beleive w hat he did with my Amiga...
The quality of the SAmples rivals my keyboard...This Piano Piece should
be recorded profesionally if it  hasn't already IMHO...goood shoW!
Oh yea I didnt get it from any site,since im Fipless...but the guy that
I got it from got if from Amiga.phykik.....
Lates! SideWinder of MegaWatts 1993*** *///\\\*
   (((Stereo)))




*SideWinder the Camel Jockey Extrordinaire*
-- 
Eric_H_Gieseke@fcircus.sat.tx.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
Subject: Re: Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies ST-Modules? Needed...
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:10:13 GMT

Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz (Dale Cooper) writes:

>In article <wunner.724969273@nova> (Guenter Wunner) writes:
>>Sounds interesting. So, where can I ftp the MODs from?

>As someone else correctly said, these are COMMERCIAL modules and so cannot
>be place on FTP or ANY other electronic medium without the permission of
>TSL DK.

Don't worry. There are hundreds of MODs on ftp sites that are
commercial as far as I know. Just think of Xenon 2, Project X, Agony,
Leander, Awesome, etc. So why not upload these MODs? Also, I don't
think that the games companies (Renegade, Psygnosis, 21th Century)
will lose any money if people listen to their MODs. Quite the
opposite. If someone hears the MODs and they are good, he might just
run to his local software shop and buy the game just because of the
good music.
So, if anyone could upload these MODs (of Pinball Dreams & Fantasies),
I would be most grateful (and many other people, too!).
Many thanx in advance for any help!
	Lukas.

           *** "Fer sell cheep:  IBM spel chekker.  Wurks grate." ***
        *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
      *** lukas@trillian.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de / lukas@134.147.160.21 ***
From: pac1@st-andrews.ac.uk (Paul Andrew Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: GVP DSS
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:10:50 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

I have just bought the Digital Sound Studio

I found it to be a great litle sampler

The one thing i must say is you do need lots of memory

The program uses Chip Ram so the more memory the better.

I have at the moment 2 MB of free Ram & 1 Mb of chip ram

I can get about 1 min or so on to 1 disk

I think that it is good value for money


Paul.
From: m_krok@tron.gun.de (Matthias Krok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re^2: TFMX
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:02:00 +0100


-> From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
-> Subject: Re: TFMX
-> 
-> Is there any interest in me uploading Andromedas Turrican-musicdisc to a site ?
-> (ALL themes from Turrican I&II except the jingles played when one finishes a level)

Yes, of course !!!

Please upload it !

-- THE ANSWER V2.03
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead)
Subject: Re: Digitizing from scripts..
Originator: rbm2273@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:38:29 GMT

In article <168C78B8.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU> WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Dec24.005304.6603@cunews.carleton.ca>
>ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander G. M. Smith) writes:
> 
>>In article <168C6C9FB.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU> WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>>>Any little problems, I can work out on my own.  However, I can't get
>>>AGMSRecordSound (for Perfect Sound 3) to do this:
>>>
>>>Record at say, 12Khz for 30 seconds.  I can't get it to set a time limit.
>>>So I tried setting a size limit (~360K in this instance), and it still
>>>didn't work..  It just keeps recording forever.  (Well...  Until my
>>>drive fills up, or I get sick of it and reboot and crash the drive
>>>horribly and have to reformat it like LAST time I was working on this. :(
>>
>>Hmmm.  AGMSRecordSound will stop recording if you send it a Control-C
>>break signal.  Use the "break" command to do that.  You'll also need to
>>know the process number that AGMSRecordSound is running under (the 2.0
>>"status" command has a nice feature that finds the process number given
>>a program name).  Set up a second process (a script that is started by
>>"run execute myscript") that will wait a fixed amount of time and then
>>do the break.
>>
> 
>I can't think of a way to currently use break to stop AGMSRS because
>unless the system is the same way each time, the process number will
>be different.  And I can't think of a way to use the 2.0 Status to
>be able to "tell" break what number.  (IE:  Status->variable, then
>break $variable)
> 
>This, however, seems like a good idea, and I'll do testing and such
>using it until I can find a programme that will do it automatically.
> 

A friend of mine wrote me regarding this problem.  Here are his
comments:


Well, I did something like this under os1.3.  I needed to automatically
set task priorities of a task/process or two, on startup.

The following two scripts accomplished this.  Note: I modified them to
work under os2.04, which is what I'm using now.  There is a one line
change to revert back to os1.3 operation.  You should be able to do this
by looking at the script and a line (for 1.3) that I commented out.

Main script to call: "prior"
----------------------------
.key xnam,xpri

status >t:tmp_1
echo >t:tmp_2 "prior1 <xpri> " noline
search >>t:tmp_2 t:tmp_1 <xnam>
delete t:tmp_1 quiet

execute t:tmp_2
delete t:tmp_2 quiet
----------------------------

Secondary script used by prior: "prior1"
----------------------------------------
.key xpri,num1,tmp2,num3,tmp4,tmp5,tmp6,nam7

;echo  >t:tmp_3 "changetaskpri p=<xpri> t=" noline ;For os1.3
echo  >t:tmp_3 "changetaskpri <xpri> process " noline ;For os2.04
echo >>t:tmp_3 <num3> noline first 1 len 1
echo >>t:tmp_3 "  ; Name is <nam7>"

type t:tmp_3
execute t:tmp_3

delete t:tmp_3 quiet
----------------------------------------

This should be easily modifiable for use with "break".  Let me know
if you need any help.

<End of comment>

Regards ... rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu
From: jkrutz@burner.com (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Bars & Pipes Pro
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:01:12 MST
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

>From        : pochanay@cae. writes:

(problems with Bars & Pipes Pro deleted)

Since blue  ribbon s working on an upgrade, call them now to report any problems you might be having so if they are the result of a bug they can fix the problem for the new version.
 Later,
 -J

--- Via UCI v1.17 (C-Net Amiga)
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Xmas MODs
Keywords: xmas, mod
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:11:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.725159507
Organization: University of Washington

In <1992Dec21.132943.2047@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23vgs@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Victor Sperry) writes:


>In article <1992Dec20.183032.10520@news2.cis.umn.edu>,zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto) writes:

>> Yep.  Get xmasmix.lha from wuarchive, in the mods area.  I forget what the
>> exact path is, but it's there somewhere in the mods directory!
>> 

>/systems/amiga/incoming/mods/other

>-- 
>Vic Sperry      (317)451-0036    Domain: c23vgs@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
>Project Engineer                 UUCP:   deaes!c23vgs
>Delco Electronics Corporation
>GM: 8-322-0036    Mail: PL401    Insert pithy statement here.

Xmasmix turned out to be the same as XmasPuddingMix by U4ia.  Bummer to 
find out I had downloaded the same thing twice... :<

Crystal
  ;>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: wunner@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Guenter Wunner)
Subject: Re: TFMX
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:11:03 GMT

jbrown@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Justin William Brown) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.045538.13978@tdb.uu.se> m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg) writes:
>>
>>Is there any interest in me uploading Andromedas Turrican-musicdisc to a site ?
>>(ALL themes from Turrican I&II except the jingles played when one finishes a level)
>You bet!  Please do upload it :).  Thanks in advance!

Well, if you want to listen to all tunes, just load up Turrican II and
when the intro begins (the Turrican logo is shown), hit space to get
into a music menu. I think there's also a cheat included here. Hit 1
to get into the intro music menu, then (in that order) 1, 4 and ESC.
Start the game and you will have infinite lives and energy lines. I
think that's the correct combination, but I might have mixed up the
keys.
	Lukas.

           *** "Fer sell cheep:  IBM spel chekker.  Wurks grate." ***
        *** Lukas Wunner, Hustadtring 143, 4630 Bochum, West-Germany ***
      *** lukas@trillian.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de / lukas@134.147.160.21 ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies ST-Modules?  Needed...
From: batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 19:31:07 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

Could the person who wrote to me about having Pinball Dreams modules 
PLEASE write to Twin-Peaks@fbi.amigans.gen.nz as I lost your nodename and 
address.  PLEASE WRITE ASAP!

 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
Subject: Re: TFMX
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:51:40 GMT

In article 4793 Paul Trauth writes:

>All the Psygnosis games since KGS that i've seen have music by
>Tim & Lee Wright. (their music for Beast 2/3 is nice, but somehow it just
>doesn't have the same touch as Dave Whittaker's...)

That was one of the major disappointments about Beast II,
"Great ! More music by Whittaker" I thought when I heard that
they were working on a sequel, but -ha ha, all I got was some
stupid music over-emphasized on congo-drums. Great graphics,
but gameplay and music that stank (it still stinks :)

Hey, I'm still looking for the Shadow Of The Beast-music,
so if there's anyone out there lurking with a copy;
-feel free to  email me !


/Mattias

_____
Mattias Myrberg

m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se

'Hysterical Raisins' -that's fun..
From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:27:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing input filters for Amiga samplers
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio

ja51359@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (axelrod) writes:

>Do any of the current Amiga samplers contain anti-aliasing filters?
>Preferably adjustable ones of course, since your sampling rate is
>variable.  If not, does anyone know of a cheap way of either building
>some, or buying a cheap unit that is a variable frequency line-level 
>low-pass filter?  

I don't know anything of the commercially available samplers, but
it's easy to do a very respectable AAF in (almost) a single chip.
I'm using MAX293's (from Maxim) in a design that digitizes to 12 bits,
and they seem fine for that.  You clock them at 100x the desired
cutoff frequency; if you don't have that frequency, you could 
generate it with a phase locked loop.  This particular filter is
an elliptic design, appropriate for sampling at 2.5x the cutoff
frequency, but in the same series are a Butterworth and a sharper
elliptic filter, and variations that clock at 50x.  These are 
switched-capacitor filters, and as sampled systems, must themselves
be alias protected:  unless your input signal has very significant
high frequencies (up near the 100x clock), this is a non-problem.

Maxim also makes some continuous-time digitally-adjustable filters,
and Linear Technology also has some similar filters.  The MAX293's
cost on the order of $8 in singles, and come in 8 pin dip or 16 pin
SOIC packages...  Oh, they also include an op amp (though not a very
impressive one).  And National and TI also make some switched C filters
that are small, fairly cheap, and pretty accurate.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re:  Huge MODs
From: vanz@tragula.equinox.gen.nz (Martin Nieuwelaar)
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:28:54 +1200
Organization: Not an organisation

In article <jbickers.0lx0@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>Quoted from <8cy5VB1w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> by crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble):
>
>> and, occasionally, contain some "original" additions by me).  You can 
>> gripe all you want, but I enjoy what I have been doing.  However, you 
>
>    Well, that's the key thing. What I don't understand is why people
>    who like the samples don't just go and buy the original source. I
>    guess it's like the old question of why download GIFs if you can
>    buy the magazine...

Just my opinion...

You cannot buy it, without importing it.  Have you ever tried to
obtain "Jack to the sound of the Underground", or "Pump up the
volume" locally?  Such things don't seem to exist in New Zealand.
I guess this wouldn't be such a problem if we lived in Europe.
I don't like to buy something before I've had a good listen to it
generally, and importing is also expensive.

Secondly, I really enjoy remixes.  They have the same beat, which
is the 'catchy' part, but they each sound different, so you don't
tire as quickly.

BTW, has anybody heard of a module remix of "Move your feet" by Hithouse?