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Original Message 1/6 13-Aug-00 @ 07:31 AM - Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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...are the A4000/5000 better than the A3000? I'm new to all this. Its just that I'm thinking of buying one, but wherever I look the price of a new 3000 is significantly higher than that of the 4000. Is this because they've stopped making the 3000 or something?
Can someone help me out here? What do you suggest I buy (I think the 5000 is out of my price range).

Cheers,
Bob

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Message 2/6 14-Aug-00 @ 05:19 PM - RE: Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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better at what?...

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Message 3/6 15-Aug-00 @ 09:28 AM - RE: Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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There is not a lot of difference between them. It looks on the surface like an A3000 + better display. Certainly the polyphony, timbrality and the number of FX blocks are the same. You get CD burning driver support. I think you might get more FX types.

I'm not sure where you are getting your pricing info, or whether you juse made a typo but the A3000 is cheaper everywhere than the A4000.

In the UK you can pick one up for c.�500 whereas the cheapest A4000 I saw was �780.

That �280 difference is just about enough to get another 64MB of RAM and a ZIP 250 drive, both of which are pretty essential.

The downside to the A3000 is the lack of graphical display. Trying to find a loop point by ear/numbers is a bit tedious. You can do it on your PC but you'd need to invest in a cheapo SCSI card first. The you can use things like Wavelab which has amazing editing and looping facilities.

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Message 4/6 16-Aug-00 @ 06:05 AM - RE: Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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there is a real quick way to find the start point of samples..
switch the zero seek on
detune the sample by about -32
search by about 100 at a time while pressing audition until you hear no gap before the sample playing.. when you have it close set the tuning back again..
you might be about 30 samples out.

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Message 5/6 16-Aug-00 @ 08:25 AM - RE: Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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So how big is a sample?

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Message 6/6 17-Aug-00 @ 09:33 AM - RE: Possibly a very stupid question, but...

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erm, ok not very well put.

in fact, completely wrong now I think about it. if a sample has a frequency of 44khz, then it has 44,000 snapshots of the sound in a second.

what I meant was the sample might have a small gap at the start using this method, if you loaded it into an editor like soundforge you might see a gap at the start of around 30 pixels which would be say 30 words (words as in double bytes).

Sorry, I'm finding this hard to explain.

anyone?

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