21 Feb
2002
21 Feb
'02
10:32 a.m.
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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