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In article <93005.065428U28709@uicvm.uic.edu> <U28709@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

   I have developed a PC-card that captures audio data comforming
   to the AES/EBU and S/PDIF format. This output is available
   from home and professional CD and DAT players. I am thinking
   about marketing this card (I call it DEar), but I am not sure
   there is enough interest to justify the effort.  If you are
   interested, please send me E-Mail with the following
   information:

I've been thinking of doing the same thing. Getting it manufactured and
distributed is the biggest problem.

   1) How would you use it?

a. Affordable basement digital recording/editing studio.
b. Affordable flexible sampler/audio processor.

   2) Software you already own you would like the card to work
   with, and why.

a. Windows.
b. SoundBlaster compatible (I know it would be like using a Lamborgini to 
   go to the grocery store, but wide compatibility (and the SB is the most
   supported) makes life easier). This is not critical.

   3) Hardware you already own you would like the card to work
   with, and why.

Run in a Gateway 486/33c without conflicting with a MusicQuest PC-MIDI board.

   4) Software you would like to accompany the card and why
   (include software you might have written)

a. Full-featured (whatever that means) stereo 16-bit sound editor.
b. CSound or something similar.
c. C/Assembler/Pascal routines.

   5) How would you use an optional digital output port?

a. Clean output to DAT
b. Output to Sony or Pioneer digital-input receiver (significantly lower noise
   than, say, PAS-16).
c. If you mean a _second_ digital out port, developing audio for surround-
   sound would be significantly easier (need to be able to play 4 channels
   at once).

   6) Which would be the best way to advertise and distribute
   this card?

a. Personal digital studio (PC, DAT, digital receiver, MIDI) advertised in
   _Keyboard_ or other reasonably popular music hardware mag.
b. rec.music.synth, comp.music, alt.emusic.
c. Mail order all the way.
d. Offer thru other mail order places (PC-connection, Bulldog computers, etc)

   7) How many people do you know you think would be interested
   in the same way you are?

Two or three. I don't know many musicians with a computer bent.

   Thanks for your time.  Any additional comments are welcomed.
   Andy Rosa.

Some company (see recent _Keyboard_ magazine ads) is about to release a 
relatively low-cost CD recorder, perhaps with some additional features.
See how this affects you (it might not, it might).

Need any help in development?

When can I be a test site? 

- Carl Donath
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