Message 8/16
Date: 13-Dec-98 @ 06:30 PM -
RE: APS effects
Hi Dale and the rest of you.
I've read my name mentioned here as a good source of info on APS. Might be, but I think that there already has been said what I'd say.
Regarding compression of wav - never heard of it in assosiation with APS. To the best of my knowledge no compression is applied. That has been explained quite well by Astro. Subjectivly: it seems to me that a wav sounds just as good played from Soundforge wav-editor as from Vienna soundfont-editor as an intrument in a soundfont.
When it comes to effects I'll just have to confirm what has been said above. Yes - you can use all of the effects simultaniously. You have 4 effects which you can use globally on all the tracks. However only 2 of the 4 per track. In addition to that you can insert the rest of the 16 effects locally on each track. An effect used on one track can't be used again on onthers.
Since you are considering going from TerrorTec to APS you probably want to know about APS's weaknesess. Apparently there is a kHZ convertion going on when recording to audio. From 41 to 48 and then to 41 again. Some people claim that the sound quality gets worse from that. And I'm sure that it is but I haven't noticed it.
Another silly thing: There is only one wav strip on the mixer. According to E-MU (or so my salesman says) a fix for that will be comming out. That fix will also give better and additional effects.
Good luck folks. Lets keep in touch.
Rafael