The Aura is actually very good. I use one pretty often on my A1200 for sampling things like drums, bass and percussion. (I use my 1200 more or less as a drum machine these days). Sampling in 16 bit, and converting to 8 bit for Paula playback works surprisingly well as long as the signal is clean when I sample it. It connects to the PCMCIA port, and has "through" connectors for Paula (standard RCA type).
I've actually gotten comments like "Is that a CD with drumtracks on it?" and "you did that with 8 bit sound? B*llsh*t!". And I enjoyed that...
The software isn't very good, and takes getting used to, but it works.
I would think that this is the easiest solution? I heard of another sampler a while back that connected to both the PCMCIA port and the parallel port which gave true 16 bit sound, but it wouldn't allow you to use anything else on the Parallel port. I think.
