Re: SoundMestier Card

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Bill Scheffler (schefflr@news.msus.edu) wrote:
> Hello again,
>    I was wondering if anyone else out there has a SoundMeister card from 
> Alltech Electronics?  I've been trying to record long sounds (and short 
> high quality ones) with little success.  Granted I have a ROM 1 for 4 
> Megs of RAM.  But I remember Digital Session's Ad as stating that it 
> doesn't matter how much RAM you have, as it can record any sound up to 
> the capacity of your hard drive...seeing as how I have 300 Megs free on 
> my 540, this shouldn't be a problem.  However the option doesn't seem to 
> work.  Don't tell me I have to find a Mac to record high quality sound 
> and then move the files over...yuck!  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

Hi Bill!  Actually, the direct-to-disk recording was never developed, 
since it was supposed to be part of the Soundmeister PRO card, which was 
canned.  I followed this for quite awhile, since I was very excited about 
somebody doing hard-disk recording with a GS.  High quality recording?  
Unfortunately, I've only found it once, and that was using a Futuresound 
board.  They have been long since discontinued, and getting them to work 
under GS/OS nowadays is an adventure.  I've been through MANY soundcards 
on the GS, and eventually gave up on quality recording, since it just 
wasn't there.  These days, I use my main workstation for sampling, 
converting to 8-bit res, and just dump it to the GS.  I still have my 
soundmeister and Sonic Blaster, but I traded my Futuresound to Petar 
Puskarich for a sweet deal on a CD drive.  :) 

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