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- From: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: One Stop Music Shop
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:52:54 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: hardware, audio, synthesizer, sampler, board, commercial
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- PRODUCT NAME
-
- One Stop Music Shop
-
-
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
-
- The One Stop Music Shop by Blue Ribbon Soundworks is an E-mu Proteus
- on a Zorro II card.
-
- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: The Proteus is a popular synthesizer and digital
- sample playback instrument made by E-Mu, Incorporated. It is
- normally sold as a 19" rackmount unit which communicates by MIDI.
- - Dan]
-
-
- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
-
- Name: Blue Ribbon Soundworks
- Address: 1293 Briardale Lane NE
- Atlanta, GA 30306
- USA
-
- Telephone: (404) 377-1514
- E-mail: blue_ribbon_soundworks@cup.portal.com
-
-
- PRICE INFORMATION
-
- The price for One Stop Music Shop (The E-Mu Proteus on a card) is
- $649 List. I can't remember if that's US or Canadian. I'd assume US.
-
- I've personally seen the Emu Proteus for $649 street price for one
- of their models (I don't believe the External Proteus comes in a General MIDI
- configuration, though.)
-
- The models I've seen so far are the 1, 1+ 1/XR, 1+/XR, and another one
- too. (Some of them come with 8 megabytes of ROM rather than 4.)
-
-
- MINI-REVIEW
-
- The One Stop Music Shop by Blue Ribbon Soundworks is an E-mu Proteus
- on a card. You cannot create or use your own samples with it. It has 4
- megabytes of ROM on board, and the sounds come from that. It is 16 bit
- stereo, with 32 voices. There are no built in effects.
-
- I think it is 16-part multi-timbral, though when I used it with Bars
- and Pipes Pro (version 1.0e), I only got channels 1-10 active (10 being the
- General MIDI drum part).
-
- This is the easiest card to use. You install it (Zorro II card) and
- that's it. To use it with Bars&Pipes Pro, you install a 10K tool, and done
- deal. You have your serial port free, since this comes with its own MIDI
- port built in (In and Out), so theoretically, you can have triple play plus
- (Blue Ribbons' 3 independently controlled outs on one MIDI interface), and
- this board for 64 outgoing channels, and 16 internal ones for a total of
- 80! You can mix and match ports in B&P Pro. The design of the sequencer
- makes this tremendously easy.
-
- It comes with software to edit the patches, and a way to play it
- without using B&P Pro, but I didn't have a chance to use either. The sound
- is very clean (no hum like that produced from the Amiga outputs; this board
- has its own outputs). I did play General MIDI files through it, and they
- basically worked. All the patches were correct, but there were sonic
- differences from the box I made the MIDI file with (Roland's CM-300).
- That's fine since General MIDI specifies patches, not actual waveforms.
-
- FYI: This card co-exists peacefully with the AD1012 card! You can
- run them both at the same time. In fact, using Blue Ribbon's SyncPro (SMPTE
- Generator), both the AD1012 and B&P Pro will lock to SMPTE, independently
- (quite a pleasant surprise on the wonderful multi-tasking Amiga). Note: you
- can control the AD1012 from the B&P Pro screen if you want.
-
- -Brian :)
-
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