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The Line Audio Design Jam Sample Clock 44.1 and 48KHz for Atari Falcon 030: product information courtesy of Line Audio Designs
“Jam sample clock” for the DSP port clocks the Falcon to standard sample frequencies. It works with programs that use external clocks such as Cubase Audio and Audio Tracker. Both 44.1 and 48 KHz versions [...]

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The Line Audio FAD (Falcon Audio Digital) for Atari Falcon 030: product information courtesy of Line Audio Designs.
Feating the same high sound quality that made the Line Audio Jam products famous. Perfect for the home hobbyist or studio that does not require balanced inputs and outputs. Up to 2 inputs and 8 outputs in a [...]

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SoundPool Sync Box MIDI Time Code Synchronizer

The SoundPool Sync-Box and Sync-Box Pro: product information courtesy of SoundPool GmbH, Zaberfeld-Germany
Comparing the Sync-Box and Sync-Box Pro
The Sync-BoxPRO offers all functions that are required in typical recording situations. It offers basic functions like writing and reading SMPTE/EBU code as well as MIDI time code output. The additional MIDI [...]

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The SoundPool SRC Sample Rate Converter: product information courtesy of SoundPool GmbH, Zaberfeld-Germany
The SRC converts ALL sampling rates to the standard digital audio frequencies of 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 32 kHz. The SRC can serve as the Master Clock in a digital recording studio, enabling perfectly synchronized digital recordings. The SRC does away with [...]

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Now isn’t this sexy (in a geeky sort of way)? With this mod, you can swap SD cards between your Atari Falcon and PC extremely fast! I was inspired to perform this hardware modification by all those on Atari-Forum.com who replaced their noisy IDE drives with silent Compact Flash cards. The difference here is that [...]

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Most Atarians know that the Atari Falcon 030 can use Compact Flash (CF) and Secure Digital (SD) cards instead of the old, noisy 44-pin IDE hard drive. This mod job is discussed all over the internet, especially on Atari-Forum.com. I’ve seen a lot of ghastly Frankenstein mod jobs using electrical tape, twisted homemade brackets, and [...]

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The Atari ATW800 Transputer workstation was a high end, high powered system which combined the power of the ABAQ Transputer system with the front end power of the Atari Mega ST. Used together, they formed an amazingly powerful and versital computer. The Transputer system allowed the use of “Farm Cards” [...]

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Long before the Tramiels came along and created the Falcon030, Atari under Warner Communications had its own “Falcon”. Headed up by Steve Bristow, Project Falcon was Atari’s all new division in the making. According to Atari Press release brochures from the 1983 CES, after nearly 2 years of working [...]

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Atari’s design team, headed by Ira Valenski went to work on a new Falcon system called the Atari MicroBox. This new system would be contained in a small footprint “HP Workstation” looking case which was a very pleasant and welcomed change from Atari.

The unit would have a built in 3.5″ floppy disk [...]

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