a decent Amiga sound sampler

[mjnurney]

which was a good sound sampler?

i have failed completely and with stunning results to convert any music format to 8svx and so ... if i can get a minute or so out of a sampler that would do.

later it will be used for actually sampling sound in other projects.

i have a techno Sound sampler and its junk , the software doesn't work and it crashes if you look at it. i don't think is AGA friendly to be honest

mike.

 

[Exilent]

i had the same program, but never any crashes.

you can try the AMAS, but there so many versions.

 

[salaxi54]

Mike, you've plenty of Amiga gear there, you could always try it on something simpler (say, an A500) to see how it behaves there.
The only one that won't do without a gender-changer is your A1000.

 

[moijk]

i have a techno Sound sampler and its junk , the software doesn't work and it crashes if you look at it. i don't think is AGA friendly to be honest

mike.

I used a home made sampler and whatever software was available. shouldn't any sampler be compatible with anything that samples?

today i would create it on a pc and transfer it.

 

[mjnurney]

the reason i use the AGA machine at the min is that its the only one with a hard drive - i may try it on a 3000 later but I'm unimpressed with the sound quality also..

i may be expecting too much from the Amiga...

Yes i used to have an home made sampler too years ago

 

[cosmicfrog]

to be honest back when I found sound sampleing Hardware pretty much the same even the audio eginer hardware performed similar to my datel sampler, what makes the difference is the software, used audio eginer a great deal also some other stuff but like u say seem to remeber techno Sound sampler being a bit pants, the other sampler was DSS so u could try that, I never had a problem using any software with any sampler, just get the right sampling rate for what u are sampleing and run out of memory real quick ahh the joys of 2Mb of chip

so to get 60 sec you looking at a low sampling rate, I got jefferson airplane - white rabbit complete once but I had to go mono to do it to sound anyway near decent

 

[Wolfy]

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when white rabbit bites it`s own head off I want you to throw the tape recorder into the bath
...

 

[Exilent]

If you think the AGA is the problem, boot up in OCS/ECS!

 

[MZ3540]

today i would create it on a pc and transfer it.

That would work fine if using your octamed ss and working entirely with 16 bit sounds.

Converting wav or whatever into 8svx almost always sucks.
It's not just the conversion from 16bit to 8bit that gives you a loss of sound quality.

8svx uses different sample rates than what we work with on the pc. That's why your samples sound epically out of tune when you load them into a tracker.

Soundbox here can do all the conversions you need to make samples you can actually work with but I still say the sound quality sucks.
http://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/SoundBox

It might be worth simplifying the process by getting a good sampler and transferring the sounds via analog.


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[MZ3540]

I've just spent some time playing with my gsoft audio imager on mu a1200.

I just had my phone plugged into it playing mp3s and used audio engineer to record a few files at a variety of rates.
The quality seems good and it was a simple process.

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[Jumping Anaconda]

I can not remember if any version of Technosound supported direct to disk recording, but if you go for Megalosound it supports direct to disk recording. There will be a sound quality advantage if you do that on a machine equipped with a SCSI drive, as IDE drives cause a conflcit with DMA access which causes audible faults.

Why do you want to go to 8svx? Are you planning to use it on an application that needs it on the Amiga?

It should be possible to export from a PC application to at least 8 bit raw, but you might need to be careful with the way it signs the samples and the byte order. I would recommend going this way sound quality is important to you as anything sampled through the Amiga will pick up a lot of noise, bias and hum, and in 8 bit there is little headroom to fix these issues.

 

[mjnurney]

i wanted to include sound effects and music in various gaming projects (just one of many issues that slow me down)

any direct conversion on a pc to 8svx cause the sample to play at a slow speed. and as you say any sample done on the Amiga is usually of very low quality with hiss. The techno sound software had various issues, most of which i have forgotten. saving the sample was a problem i think as it only allows DF0.Some icons didn't work and the program crashed very often. even the last updated version was the same - well not quite as bad. my goal was to find in a round about may mp3 to 8svx conversion on the Amiga. i have done it but its very poor. slow sample rate and low quality.
I've even bought an all in one sound conversion software that directly supports anything to anything conversion (seemingly) raw,aiff,8svx,wav, etc etc but again the result was a slow playing sample . i.e they are always in slow motion.

i have tried every combination in that software package for conversion and failed. i think the conversion 'hidden' tool was LAME and thats freeware anyway.

i spent hours on lame - and got the same result. slow play back. even on a 68060

i can play mp3 at full speed!

:-(

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is the GVP DSS 8 bit sound sampler a better bit of kit?

 

[roy_bates]

im pretty sure you are able to speed the samples up mike.

 

[woodycool]

The sampler I have is OK, not sure what one it is, will have to dig it out.
It plugs in to the Amiga's parallel port, was designed to work with an A500, and has a 3.5mm jack plug on it. I've not used it for a while now (well, about 3 months at least)