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THE I C E8.99 Y LEISURE C SUIT LARRY II L E16,99 E S DEJA E8.99 VU CARRIER COMMAND £7.99 BARBARIAN DUNGEON • MASTER 1M I I _ C 9 9 9 BALANCE CORPORATION 16.50 OF POWER E9.99 TIME MACHINE • 16.50 BATTLE MASTER 16,75 MURDER 1 6 . 7 5 BLOOD MONEY E7.99 BACK TO THE FUTURE II 16,75 THEIR FINEST HOUR 18,99 FLOOD 1 6 , 5 0 HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER E9.99 SIM CITY 1 8 . 9 9 POWERMONGER 16.99 FALCON E9.99 F19 STEALTH 1 8 . 9 9 MIDWINTER 1 8 . 9 9 INTER, CHAMP WRESTLING E8_99 DAMOCLES 1 5 . 5 0 SHADOW WARRIORS 14.99 2 E6.99 SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE E7.99 MIDNIGHT RESISTANCE 14.99 METE° 1 6 , 9 9 DYNAMITE E7.99 DUX 1 DAYS OF THUNDER 16.99 OFF ROAD RACER 16.99 - -- ALTERED BATTLE COMMAND 16.99 BEAST E7.99 NEW YORK WARRIORS 13.99 RICK DANGEROUS II 16.99 MILLENIUM 2-2 E4.99 OPERATION STEALTH 16.99 APPRENTICE 1 3 . 9 9 3D POOL E8.99 SONIC BOOM E6.99 SIMULCRA 1 6 . 9 9 CADAVER 1 6 . 9 9 COMMANDO MR DO RUN RUN 10,99 E7.99 SPELLBOUND 1 6 . 9 9 R-TYPE. E7.99 LAST 7 NINJA 2 E7.99 TORVAK THE WARRIOR SHADOW OF THE BEAST II 24.99 AFTERBURNER 7.99 EDITION 1 UMS II 18.99 19.99 E7.99 TRACK SUIT MANAGER £6.99 NIGHT BREED (ARCADE) LOOM 13,99 18.99 ARKANOID 2 TITLE/ITEM TOTAL COST E: FOR AL L ORDERS UNDER E7 PL EASE ADD 75 PENCE PT PRICE COME TO THE PROFESSIONALS!!!! NOW TAKEN AMIGA SPECIALS AMIGA SPECIALS AMIGA SPECIALS AMIGA SPECIALS PIONEER PLAGUE E1.99 HONDA RVF 1 £8.99 STUNT CAR RACER E8.99 FLIGHT PATH 737 E4.99 CHRONO THEME PARK , QUEST 2 E9.99 I MYSTERY E8.99 SHADOW OF BEAST E9.99 MR HELJ E9.99 GRAVITY F - E8 99 E 9 . 9 9 C L A B A UNTOUCHABLES E9.99 XENON 2 £9.99 £9.99 [ DELUXE PAINT 2 TOWER OF BABEL E7.99 JUMP JET £4.99 13100DWYCH E9.99 FLYING SHARK E6.99 MERV TALE £7.99 ADVENTURE] NINA TURTLES 16.99 GREMLINS 2 16.99 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 16,99 ROGUE TROOPER 16.99 ROBOCOP 2 16.99 WINGS (1 MEG) 19.9999 BACK TO THE FUTURE II........16.99 PIRATES 16.99 POOLS OF RADIANCE 19.99 CODE NAME ICEMAN 27.95 14.99 WELLTRIS 14.99 NIGHTBREED (MOVIE) 13.99 INTERNATIONAL 3D TENNIS .16.99 TERRORPODS 2,99 THUNDERBIRDS 4,99 SECONDS OUT 4.99 THEME PARK BOMBER BOB 14.99 VIRUS £4.99 IK+ E3.99 • SUPER HANG ON £7.99 FAST BREAK BLASTEROIDS 1 £4.99 £ 1 . 9 9 Name Address Tel No: 2 William Clowes Street Burslem Stoke on Trent ST6 3AP Tel: 0782 575043 575673 ULIWATE DARTS 7,99 TERRY'S BIG ADVENTURE4.99 LEATHER GODDESS 6.99 INFESTATION 8.99 WEIRD DREAMS 8.99 KENNY DALGLISH MATCH8.99 PHANTOM FIGHTER 4.99 STAR WARS 4,99 NEW ZEALAND STORY 8.99 NEVERMIND 4.99 RETURN TO ATLANTIS 4.99 PACLAND 4.99 MURDER IN VENICE 5.99 GOLDRUNNER 2 1.99 CONFLICT EUROPE 4.99 STARFLIGHT 16.99 PLEASE NOTE: ALL GAMES ARE NEW AND ORIGINAL, AND MANY ARE LIMITED QUANTITIES PLEASE BE QUICKI AMC NOV Proprietors S.A and RA Beech 1)P - A .1 usi sel an an rec mr in' str
eel ilern rent 3AP 043 673 16.99 16.99 16,99 16,99 16.99 19.99 16.99 16,99 19.99 27 95 14 99 14.99 13.99 16,99 .2.99 .4.99 A.99 199 .4.9g .6.99 .8.99 .8.99 .8.99 .4.99 .4,99 .8 99 ,4.99 ,4,99 .5.99 199 .4.99 699 —J V "to A.M.A.S itself connects to the Amiga using two fly leads: One goes to the serial the other to the parallel port. To obtain the correct audio input levels, the A.M.A.S software includes an oscilloscope display for both left and right channels either side of the record and playback panel on the main screen. These jump to the incoming signal. if the signal is too strong the peeks of the signals will I. Techno sound U into sampling and intend to do it Nfor practical applications, I suggest you L spend your money on a budget E item instead of spending over E50 on S something that might turn out to be a five minute wonder. At 3D quid, you can't S go far wrong with this well thought y out product. o The hardware consists of a small box u which plugs directly into the parallel ' port of the Amiga. Audio rinput to Techno Sound is via two RCA e type Phono sockets on the opposite end to the 25-way D type computer connector. r Unlike Mastersound, Techno e Sound is a stereo sampler which a makes it a very attractive lpurchase. l The software is the most colourful of y the lot and looks very nice. But it s matters not how nice it looks, what about its quality. Thankfully, for the most e part, Techno Sound uses buttons that r say what they do rather than iusing symbols which must be orecognised. Apart from that, the buttons u that do have symbols upon them s are large enough to make the ldiagrams easy to see. Samples can be recorded at between y Mastersound M budget samplers trend last year A when it first appeared. Although Sit's not a stereo sampler, it's Tmanufacturers claim that it's probably the E best selling Amiga sampler in the UK R today. It's pretty easy to see why as well. S OThe hardware is nothing special at U N D flatten. A nice touch is the spectrum analyser display which displays the signal in it's frequency form from just 10Hz to 5.5kHz. The MIDI functions allow A.M.A.S to be connected to a MIDI keyboard so that it may control the software. The software can hold up to 10 samples in memory (providing you've got enough) each of which can be triggered by a certain key on the MIDI synth. The samples can also be triggered from the Amiga's keyboard 5 and 35kHz and a feature unique to Techno Sound allows sound to be recorded in either 8 or 4-bit resolution. The default is 8-bit but 4bit recording will half the length of samples but also reduce the sound quality. Samples can be made in stereo, mono or simulated stereo which sound inferior to real stereo but saves memory. Samples sound very good. with little only slight hiss. Files can be stored in IFT or binary format for easy file transfer between software. An interesting function named RAMscan will scan memory for any sample data that may have been left there by programs previously in memory. Techno Sound is also the only sample in this selection that has any kind of effects menu. Effects can be added in real-time to the incoming audio or to the sample in memory. Effects like echos and reverberations can make Bros sound quite pleasant. The hall effect adds a reverberation to make your sound appear as though it's in a large room or concert hall. Room adds a shorter reverb to the sound to make it appear to be recorded in a smaller enclosure. In real-time mode a H40 1 1=111=11 001 Rial NM MON MI MI EMI 0 1 11:11 K M Or • SIM SRU IDE Flo 121; ME= 101 E r=mcorm + EE3 Rip ILNE= • all. • In fact it's very limited. The only audio input connector is a mono 3,5mrn jack plug. Mastersound connects to the • C O Vand up to two stereo or four mono Esamples can be played simultaneously. R A.M.A.S is a very good product. It's Scomprehensive array of features Tcombine to provide a really good sound. Samples are saved using the Ostandard IFF Amiga file format so that Rthey may be loaded and further Y manipulated with other music software. However, no source code is supplied so that you may includes your samples in your own programs. I r . 777Mo, • . • A . • 1 1 _r I - , ' ' . - ' . " ' [ ! . . , . V „ AI • El I • ••• '7 ESC= • Pd OS711 .;''' - CEO .4 e p o i o u r I t a w torommo 1 t r i t n o t t a m final effect is available. Phaser sweeps through the sound changing tonal values vamping the sound quite dramatically. The manual supplied with Techno Sound sports just 10 pages and only describes the functions of the software and doesn't really give any ideas on it's use. However, (another first here) the manufacturers have seen fit to include an audio tutorial cassette tape. This contains a good walk through of the software and hardware. I won't say that the recording technique is good, but the guy speaking on the tape is far too close to the microphone and if your going to listen to it through your hill, turn the bass down! Techno Sound provides good quality reproduction of the original sound and offers features which are not available on any of the other samplers. The sound quality, to my oars anyway, is certainly equal to that of Pro Sound Designer and Mastersound. Amiga in the same way as virtually every other sampler: Via the printer port. It's small plastic case is colour coordinated with the A500 and is finished with a sticker displaying its logo. The reason why Mastersound so popular is its versatile software. Besides all of the usual obligatory features like record, playback and listen, Mastersound possesses something which no other sampler has: A built-in sequencer. This allows AMIGA COMPUTING November 1990 73
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