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Just to make it ultra-realistic, make it cost $25,000. |
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I'm sure you could emulate one on a Pocket PC. It only needs 16-bit 20 kHz resolution, 8 voices of polyphony and 20Kb per sample. |
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Unfortunately the Nintendo DS doesn't really cut it as a huge chunk of geek-chic stage dressing on Top of the Pops. Still gets my pastry though. |
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It also needs a huge floppy drive. |
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A Roland TR-808 simulator would probably have more street cred in today's hip-hop dominated world (though I always thought Fairlight was a cool name for a synth/sampler). |
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Native Instruments make some of the most innovative software tools for making music I have ever seen but I doubt even they could do scaled down versions for the DS, it just doesn't have the audio hardware. Something like the PS2 might work, it can handle audio fairly well and has a USB port that you could stick a keyboard into - the problem is that games consoles are mainly geared towards graphics. |
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Nintendo hasn't made light pens for a coon's age, though. |
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The CMI III (the decent one) didn't use a light pen by then. However, by then also, the Synclavier and soon to follow, the Emu Emulator would eclipse much of what the CMI could offer at the price, apart from the composition facilities of the fairly nifty sequencer. Saying that, though, some quite usable off-board stand-alone sequencers were by then available from Roland, which solved that problem. The CMI basically priced itself out of a market that was heading the other way. Now, the Emu technology is absorbed into Creative (eg, a Soundblaster Live! almost completely outclasses the entire audio capabilities of any of the CMI series). |
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Ironically, the much cheaper and quite potentially novel Fairlight CVI (video instrument, but not necessarily digital) didn't see much further development as it was at this juncture that Fairlight went under. Art of Noise used some CVI in their video experimentation (and some other 80s music videos see CVI usage). |
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I don't know what the Emu Emulator was, but I think I would prefer to not look it up and to stick with what I'd like to believe. |
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I do, but I wish I'd thought of your interpretation first. |
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Does the nintendo DS have hydropneumatic suspension? |
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