Path: menudo.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!usenet 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 Lines: 83 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1h7rmmINNl8l@menudo.uh.edu> Reply-To: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek) NNTP-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu Keywords: hardware, audio, synthesizer, sampler, board, commercial 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 :) --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu General discussion: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu