Who else was enchanted with their A1200?

[Karlos]

I still have my MU100R module that replaced the DB50XG I mentioned earlier. It's 32-part timbral with two midi inputs. One MIDI input from the Amiga, a second one from a controller for live control.

It has AD inputs and that has allowed me to use Paula with filters and FX again but there was something special about the old filter I was using. You can get close to how it sounded or maybe it's nostalgia telling me that it's purely digital processing just wasn't the same.

[cookieninja]

Retrospectively, I was disappointed, but at the time I was loved it:

1. When I installed a hard disk, it was revolutionized my computing experience. The PCs at school had a hard disk, but were slower to boot and I software available rubbish

2. Getting an accelerator and more RAM, which only added to that.

Sure those were expansions, but both were more expensive and added to the overall footprint of the machine, and they went inside the A1200. It was the design and potential of the expansion options that left me hanging on in there with the A1200 as my primary computer until around 2001

Its a shame Commodore and add-on manufacturers didn't make more use of the PCMCIA slot, and give us drivers for a wider array devices. It was definitely a forward looking move for Commodore to include it

[Karlos]

I had a CD attached to the PCMCIA for some time, but swapping that for a network adapter was by far the best use I've made of it.

[minator]

Originally Posted by Karlos

That said, I have used Paula as a 4-oscillator wavetable synth routed through an external lowpass resonant filter, all controlled by MIDI. In this configuration, each Paula channel is playing a waveform and all of them are stacked into a monophonic patch. You would not believe how huge that can sound, especially with the external filter and effects.

Old synths that did that have a good, unique sound, e.g. PPG Wave, Prophet VS, early samplers etc. The more modern Modal 002 does something similar and puts them through a Moog style filter. Sounds awesome!

[Karlos]

Worth noting on the MU100, there are two A/D inputs so one of the things I could do there was to use Paula duophonically. The two left channels into one input, the two right channels into another. So you only get two oscillators per voice but sometimes that's more than enough.

One of the more interesting tricks here was to use OctaMED SS. You can make use of it's unusual synth sound editor to create a variety of interesting waves and then control the filter and volume on the A/D inputs over MIDI. It was pretty laborious to do but gave really interesting results.

[tolkien]

I really LOVE my a1200.
No care if i feel tired, I need to turn on my 1200 everyday.

Yes...that thread can kiss my ass too!