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So many nuts chip artists around atm that it's hard to make any calls!

But I've never seen Virt - and he would be amazing to see at Blip. And his singing dog :-)

I've been having heaps of problems with the Amiga mouse in the MSSIAH.  It works fine unless you accidently scroll too far "off" screen (eg. if you move the mouse to the edge of the screen).  It then locks up at the border of the screen and won't move.  Both my Commodore revisions, both Amiga mice.  Mouse adapter with an old PS2 mouse fixed the issue.  Maybe it's just my newer gen Amiga mice which were the problem - but either way - my advice is to get the adapter!!!

I still haven't got mine either. (ordered / requested 2 years ago)

edit: But I think it's one of those things you just have to keep looking until he says "some in stock!" then order straight away rather than be on the waiting list.

Solid event.  Is there going to be a stream? (I'll be workin' but would record it!)  One day I'll make it to one of these :-)

Maybe.  Sampling for Amiga is a mission.  This is how I generally approach things.

For long phrases I use 8363hz or 16726hz into a DSS sampler on the Amiga - sections like the "Horses" sample or the "Look Around You" section.  I just like the dirty sound.  Sampling from C64 works well like this too although I blew up a SID chip recently, so I'm back to using my PC and being VERY careful when sampling from the C64.  Don't use tube based pre-amps either - that was the other case when I lost a SID chip.

Sometimes I find it's better to actually cross convert from PC.  If I want to get samples sharp (like kit sounds or loops) I sample them at 48khz on a Lynx card with Aurora front end or my trusty old Edirol UA-5.  My DX7, DSI or MC202 are good to sample from for notes; although you gotta make things big so they don't suffer from quantisation distortion due to bit exhaustion.  I then use Cool Edit using certain plugs to EQ and compress them to an optimal fat waveform - but not too hard else they lose their punch.  To keep the "punch" I sometimes just use gain to push a sample over 0db and just clip spikes off.  For hifi samples I usually convert them to 26khz - 28khz which the Amiga handles fine - keep in mind that because the filters sound better OFF (in my opinion) even kick drums or bass notes will benefit from a high sample rate to get that waveform nice and rounded else they'll start ringing.  Sometimes you need to resample to a 5th higher and an octive higher so you have coverage for all the notes.  Loops often sound good at 16726 (aka middle C3) or somewhere around 21khz.  There is no one sample rate - sometimes you juse save 5 or 6 versions at different rates and compare them all on the Amiga side.  You'll need to tweak the samples pitch to get it to fit and obviously split drum loops into 4 or 8 parts.  One will jump out as fitting into place.  Somtimes I use parts of a loop at different sample rates just because a snare snap sound good at one rate but the first half lacks... you get some bonus texture in there too.

I move any samples I want on an Amiga into a MODPlug session (using the Amiga MOD 4 channel preset) with resampling set to lowest quality possible (in the settings) and do most of my programming and sequencing in there.  I usually take it over to the Amiga to finish, mix and add / replace some samples before saving master MOD files.

So, in answer to getting stuff from PC to Amiga, going from MODPlug, saving as a "compatible" MOD, then taking it to an Amiga is the easiest way.  On that note, the Compact Flash kit is great if floppies are starting to get annoying.  Although I never will get sick of pressing C= + E, MOUNT PC0:

Three rules I always am thinking about:

1) You can't play over A# up from where C sits at 16726hz.  B will be a little out of tune and have odd effects.

2) Samples should be under 32kb.  In Cool Edit or Audition set view mode as being samples (still work in 16bit at this point)

3) You can always use the Axx command to create an envelope, eg. A08 if you want to envelope a sample if it's over compressed or you want staccato notes.

have fun!

Amazing work 10k.  That Dennis-Karland guy should make some shirts too...

Oh hell.  That's mega-awesome!