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In article <BzL1r7.JMq@unix.amherst.edu> hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:
>Are you impling that the Falcon cant sample at 48 Khz? Or at standard CD
>rate (44.7 I think)?  That's bad. What if you want to edit DAT tapes at
>48Khz and dump them back to DAT? It better have those sample rates. Please
>clarify this for me.

CD sampling rate is 44.1 KHz. close.

there are several "popular" sampling rates (in Hz):

	44100	audio CD, some DAT recording
	48000	DAT (domestic)
	 8000	telephony, with u-LAW or A-LAW (CCITT?)
	22050	Mac or 1/2 CD rate
	16000	G.722 standard
	18900	CD-ROM/XA standard
	37800	CD-ROM/XA standard for higher quality
	44056	some pro audio gear
	32000	digital radio, HDTV, long-play DAT, etc

will the falcon support these (i believe i have read "up to 50 KHz sampling
rates" implying this is variable)? i think the most common are/will be:

	 8000	8-bit u-LAW mono (voice mail)
	22050	8-bit linear mono/stereo (Mac compatibility)
	44100	16-bit linear mono/stereo (audio CD)

what about atari/third party 8 channel adapter? will this be 8 stereo channels
or 8 channels or 4 stereo channels? what sampling rates?

how will the falcon be for realtime recording (like a multitrack recorder)?
how well would an $800 falcon compete with a $3000 ADAT (Alesis)? other than
the Alesis now exists, why would i want it over the falcon (assuming i could
and would write all my own software)?

thanx

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com

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