Replay Professional was a sound
sampling product for the
Atari ST. This was released in 1988.
It consisted of a cartridge which interfaced an
analog to digital converter (with 10, 12 and 14 bit variants) and software.
It included a suite of offline
DSP functions
Fast Fourier transform
A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm that computes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a sequence, or its inverse (IDFT). Fourier analysis converts a signal from its original domain (often time or space) to a representation in t ...
, a range of filters, so called fast (
IRR) and slow (
FIR
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) filters],
Music sequencer, MIDI sequencing and a
drum machine.
Compact disc
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s were a relatively new consumer product at that time, and the front cover used CD-like artwork, although no CD media was included and the programs themselves came on three 3.5 inch
floppy disk
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s.
External links
* {{webarchive , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309175822/http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/sound/avr/avr.txt , date=March 9, 2007 , title=AVR (Audio Visual Research) sound format - the file format used for the samples
Atari ST Replay 16: Atari Mania
Gallery
Image:Replay_cover_CIMG1210.JPG, Front cover
Image:Replay_back_cover_CIMG1210.JPG, Back cover
Image:Replay_discs_CIMG1210.JPG, Installation discs
Image:Replay_manuals_CIMG1210.JPG, Manuals
Atari ST software