that's not my genre so I'm probably bad at describing that.
I think Toto-ish is a pretty good analogy. When young I was very influenced by stuff like much of motown and groups like journey, ambrosia, the cars, men at work, little river band, ac-dc, def leppard, the police and many others. Toto had some I liked too.
Greg Hamm of Men At work actually contacted me long ago based on some posting I had made. We traded mail for a while until he got too busy with touring. I think that was around '96-97. One of the songs on their "Brazil" album was completely recorded in his basement on an A3000 with 4 AD516 cards. I'll see if I can look up which it was exactly.
Recently I worked with another friend who's very in to Euro/Techno. Those samples would probably fit here better.
I almost went this route (but I would only have been able to afford one card.
I had similar trouble. I was looking to go PC, dat or sequencer too at that time because Amiga was fading and the hardware was expensive and hard to find. I eventually got lucky and found two cards at a nice price. Amiga was much more stabel as the early PC and DAT systems were crashing our tracks all the time.
I'm guessing that there was no easy way to back up your AD516 multitrack recording from the Amiga's hard drive
Actually there were ZIP drives. At about 1meg/minute/track/stereo, you could get all your tracks for maybe 3 songs on a 100meg ZIP. I backed stuff up to a second drive and to ZIP. ZIP made it pretty easy to move files from the Amiga to PC. I also used another util to transfer/backup files over parallel cable to the PC.
Later I took some of the Amiga tracks, moved them to PC, used cooledit (now known as adobe audition) to convert them to wav (if I recall) and then remixed them there. From there I could burn to CD, convert to mp3 or whatever.
I still have my A3000 recording machine, still works, all old files still intact. I can't say when or if may use it again. I've thought about selling but just can't bring myself to do it.
Well I hope I haven't dragged this thread too off course.
Plaz
