![]() ![]() And by the time a decent digital interface and separate audio outputs had been factored in, the costs were beginning to escalate alarmingly. ![]() The newer operating systems place extremely heavy demands on the hardware they are designed to run on, to the point where the applications appear to play a very minor part in the scheme of things: "Well, sir, you really need Windows 95 to take advantage of the next generation of applications, so you'll be needing a 100MHz Pentium with at least 16Mb of RAM and a 1Gb hard drive."Īnd what of the Falcon? Well, I have to say that I remain unimpressed by the quality of the audio from the Falcon's own outputs. However, it quickly became clear that (leaving aside the hard disk recording side of things for the moment) the amount of money I would need to spend in order to achieve merely comparable results to my old ST seemed unreasonably high. I looked at the possibility of the PC, Macintosh and Falcon as my next potential studio workhorse, and carefully sifted my way through the information packs and multiple magazine reviews. My clunky old 1Mb STM machine with external floppy drive has served me well for the best part of a decade, but recently I too started to succumb to the allure of a newer, faster machine and the exciting prospect of integrated hard disk recording. There seems to be a great deal of doom and gloom surrounding the Atari ST these days. ![]() Paul Ward checked out all the alternatives when upgrading his computer, and decided to stick with the faithful ST. These days, you can pick up an Atari ST computer for under £100, and its once‑guaranteed studio ascendancy is seriously threatened by the Mac and PC. ![]()
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