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- Path: sparky!uunet!esri!tapas
- From: tapas@esri.com (Tapas Das)
- Subject: Re: Winter NAMM '93
- Message-ID: <C1H5qp.8sI@esri.com>
- Organization: Environmental Systems Research Institute
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:52:00 GMT
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- In Article <C1FM9u.FJ5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Furio Ercolessi writes:
- >
- >In article <C1FHLr.Gp6@esri.com>, tapas@esri.com (Tapas Das) writes:
- >|>Valhala, the mail-order only, sound company was looking for
- >|>dealers. Probably you would be able to check out their sound cards
- >|>at a local dealer soon, before you decide to buy them.
-
- >And hopefully you would get better support in case something
- >goes wrong :-/ (I received defective diskettes from them in
- >august 1991, and in 18 months l was not able to get in contact
- >with anything resembling a customer service).
- >
-
- Yes, I share your concerns too. I purchased the International Gold
- sound card B101 for a Korg M1 on a rom card from Valhala for $55.
- I found that when I transferred the entire bank from the card
- to the internal bank of the M1, most of the sounds will become silent.
- There was a definite problem. After a lot of calls to Valhala, I
- was able to contact a tech person. I walked him through how to
- recreate the problem. He verified it. He mentioned they would
- do something about it.
-
- I have waited for almost *2 years*
-
- Nothing has been done! Despite the fact that I was a regular customer.
- I had bought the M101, M102, M103, M104 and B102 cards from them earlier.
-
- Goodby Valhala. Buyers beware.
-
- In article <vb78210@zola.esd.sgi.com> Archer Sully writes:
-
- >*The Alesis rep demoed a few sounds on their synth. Sounded pretty good.
- >*You should definitely check out their 24 channel mixer board. Looks solid.
- >*Mackies' 16 channel best seller blew out the Alesis 1622 last year.
- >*Alesis may turn the tables this time.
- >*
-
- >Not likely. The Mackie 8-buss boards look to be more flexible. And if
- >past performance is any indication, they'll sound better, too.
-
- I would agree with you. The Mackie 8-bus board looked more sleeker
- and transportable. Besides their inclusion of the midi automation
- chip puts them ahead of the competition.
-
- Cheers!
-
- Tapas Das
- tdas@esri.com
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