Conference 7.286::atarist

I read something last week and a newspaper related to music stuff.

When the Steinberg engineers saw the FALCON for the first time, they said 
they were so impressed that they would adapt all their product to it.

In the last french ST Mag. they said Cubase is actually running on FALCON, 
and the Cubase audio was announced at the music show in Paris using the 
Direct_to_disk capability of the Falcon.

Sequencing Midi synth's + playing back sampled songs, isn't it great ?

I'm waiting for an 8 tracks recorder on it !!!

Patrick

    
    
     Salut Patrick,
    
    Any ideas about the prices , any echoes ?
    
    Will it be the Actual CUBASE who will run on the FALCON,or will
    
    the new FALCON users ,will have to sell their actual CUBASE first ?
    
    
    I've seen the FALCON speech on ATARI MAGAZINE ,but could not find
    
    the new October one who changed of name.
    
    It should now be called STart Micro Magazine ,and this one should give
    some more informations about the FALCON .
    
    
    Any Ideas.
    
    Patrick

The politic of Steinberg regarding upgrades was when you want to change the 
CPU, you have to send back the key of your actual version and then you got 
the new key with the new software, sure you have to pay an "upgrade" price.
Will it be the same for the FALCON upgrade ??? Don't know, what I am sure 
is that I'll get two package to have it on my STE and on my future 
FALCON..!

I think that to take the FALCON advantage, we must change the software, 
the actual one may work but...

No, I don't have any info about the price.

�-ciao-bonsoir Patrick

    
    	I understand from a review article in the current edition of the
    U.K. magazine "Sound On Sound" that the present version of Cubase, V3,
    will run "as-is" on the Falcon.
    	There is a discussion in the COMMUSIC notesfile (4306::COMMUSIC),
    topic number 32, CUBASE, which may also be of interest.
    
    Brian
    

From: [email protected] (Richard Parr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Cubase on the Falcon (UK)
Date: 25 Mar 93 11:13:30 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London
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If you're running, or thinking of running, Cubase on a Falcon, I thought
you may like to know what I found out last week.  I was trying to run 
Cuabse 3.01 on a 4/65 Falcon on an Atari Mono Monitor.  This, it seems, was
a *bad idea*.  The screen does not update properly, and jumps into "inverse
video" after a few minutes running.  I 'phoned Harman Audio (UK distributers
and support for Steinberg) and here's what I was told:

    1) Version 3.01 is only "90%" Falcon-compatible, most of that other 10%
       being Mono Monitor problems, I guess, 'cos the guy was surprised I could
       get it to run at all on my set-up.

    2) Version 3.02 (received at Harman last Thurs.) is "99%" Falcon-compatible
       (whatever that may mean).

    3) Get a VGA Monitor.

I sent Harman a disk, and received, by return post, a copy of v3.02.  It seemed
fine to begin with on the Mono Monitor, but still had the "inverse video" prob
I mentioned above.  Works fine on a VGA monitor in 640x480 with any number of
colours, although 2 colour is probably best as it's faster notes can appear
in various colours on the Key Editor page.  The disk also contained a coulple
of .MODules that were not on my 3.01 disks; a Style module and a Chord module.
These produce two more track types (Style and Chord) but I haven't really
had a chance to play with them so I can't say what they do.  A Style track
doesn't seem to have Parts, but there's a "StyleTrax" dialog that looks
interesting, even if some of the pop-up menus seem to pop up in the wrong
place.

While I was on the 'phone to Harman I took the opportunity to enquire about
Cubase Audio on the Falcon.  No release date yet, but it gave "no problems"
at the Frankfurt Music Messe a couple of weeks ago when it was seen to do
8 tracks (count 'em) of 16 bit hard-disk recording seamlessly integrated
into the standard Cubase sequencer.  Let's see you do THAT on a Mac that costs
the same as a Falcon :-)  Come to think of it, let's see you do it on ANY Mac
without spending more on the DigiDesign boards you'd need than the price of
a Falcon...



-- 
Richard Parr ([email protected])
Department of Computer Science, QMW, University of London

-- 
Zayed Hanna  [email protected]

    
     I read in the current issue of "Atari Explorer Online" that Steinberg
    are to premier Cubase Audio on the Falcon at the Audio Engineers
    Society show in New York 14-16 October.
     Cubase Audio apparently does 4 individual tracks of digital hard
    disk recording with 4 simultaneous tracks of RAM based sampling and
    64 tracks of midi sequencing. I think the full complement of 14MB
    is required to take advantage of the sampling.
     
    Brian
    (excited and saving hard for a Falcon ;-)
    

    
    Some news from the current issue of 'Basique', the Club Cubase UK
    magazine, which may be of interest.
    
    'Cubase Audio' (Atari Falcon) is now available with 16 tracks of audio,
    which is achieved by using an 'on-the-fly' data compression/
    decompression algorithmn; audio quality in 16 track mode is reported
    to be comparable with DCC/Sony minidisk. Normal 8 track audio with
    reverb, chorus, flanger and graphic equalizer may still be selected,
    but the effects are not available in 16 track mode.
    
    Best Regards,
    Brian