Hi, We at CDP had stereo in and out of an Atari in 1986 via the SoundStreamer interface and a modified Sony PCM701 (thus allowing for direct digital recording as well). As the 701/601/501 became increasingly difficult to obtain, we designed and built a replacement for the Sony units called the DatDac. This had both an SPDIF connection (hence the "Dat" because it could connect to a Dat machine) and stereo (later 4 channel) Dac's based on the wonderful (for its era) Phillips oversampling dac set. These all ran at 44k and 16 bits. Production ceased in the early 90's. IIRC, well over a hundred SoundStreamers were sold (if anyone's interested, I could maybe dig out the production records to see for sure), some as part of the CDP systems and some as part of Audio Design's "SoundMaestro" stereo DAW. I was the designer for all of these (but not the production engineer). </start boast mode> I also designed the low level driver routines that enabled us to link multiple small SCSI hard disks (though we thought they were huge at the time) to appear like one huge disk (we actually made a FOUR gigabyte system for one of Audio Design's customers) to Martin Atkins Soundfiling System. It wasn't till a year or two ago that I realised that this was, in essence, a RAID 0 system - and that this was before David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley, defined the term in 1987! </end boast mode>. Ah, takes me back...
Dave On 26 January 2013 14:10, Justin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 Jan 2013, at 18:00, [email protected] wrote: > >> I would be curious to know of even older high quality sound cards. >> >> best, >> Miguel > > > Hi Miguel, > > how about the lowest number of channels ;-) > > my performance group BMB con. still uses an atari 1040ST with a > ADAP sound card - a huge rackmount box with stereo in and out. > 16 bit, but it sounds very good. I think there was commercial recording > and editing software for it, but we use it for real-time processing written > in assembler and Forth (!) - from 1988 maybe? > > there was also the ACN device for the Atari stereo in/out but that was > 8 bits so was used more like a distortion pedal than anything else. > I still have one. Not the sort of thing to do WFS with !! > > best, Justin > > > Justin Bennett > [email protected] > http://www.justinbennett.nl > > NEW RELEASES AND FREE DOWNLOADS FROM http://spore.soundscaper.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -- As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University, so this disclaimer is redundant.... These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer Dave Malham Ex-Music Research Centre Department of Music The University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
