OFFICIAL FAQ
6.8) What sound digitizers/samplers were produced for the Atari?
This section started by Andreas Koch.
- Talk is Cheap project by Ed Stewart, Antic Volume 2 Number 4, July 1983,
pages 64-66; hardware schematics only (a test/demo program is
mentioned in the text, but not printed in the magazine!);
- Parrot (2-Bit) by Alpha Systems, Anthony Ramos;
- Plugs into joystick port 2, includes mini-plug jack
- Parrot-2 (2-Bit or 4-Bit?) by Alpha Systems, Anthony Ramos;
- Replay cartridge (4-Bit) by 2 Bit Systems
- Related software by 2 Bit Systems: Digidrum, Digisynth
- Replay Sound Sampling System, by Gralin International
- Same as Replay cartridge by 2 Bit Systems
- Supplied with DigiDrum and DigiSynth
- Sample resolution
- Record- 8 bit
- Playback- 4 bit (via POKEY) - 8 bit via Percussion Master
- Sound N'Sampler (2-Bit) by Ralf David;
- Sound Digitiser (2-Bit) by Ralf David;
- Sound-Meister (2-Bit) by Irata;
- Sound-Digitizer (2-Bit) by Irata;
- Digitales Mikrofon (2-Bit) by Compy-Shop;
- Voice Master Speech and Music Processor, by Covox (1985) (2-Bit)
- Plugs into Joystick port 2
- Shipped with headset that plugs into unit's Mike and Ear mini-phone jacks
- Draws its power from the Atari
- Software included:
Demo program, Bargraph, Calculator, Clock, Blackjack, Composer, Calibrate
- Software sold separately by Covox:
- Speech Construction Set
- Talking Disk
- Voice Master Junior, by Covox (1988?)
- Plugs into Joystick port
- Built-in microphone
- Draws its power from the Atari
- Software included:
Demo program, Bargraph, Calculator, Clock, Blackjack, Composer, Calibrate
- Software sold separately by Covox:
- Speech Construction Set
- Talking Disk
- Analog-Sample-Processor (2-Bit) by Steven Lashower (ANALOG Magazine);
- Atari-Sound-Sampler (4-Bit) by Andreas Binner and Harald Schoenfeld of PPP
(German Atari magazin 1/1989, pages 44-49, complete with schematics,
documentation, sample-program and assembler-source);
- Also 5/1989
- Alphasys Sample Cartridge (8-Bit) by ANG/Mirage;
Accompanied software, made by Solarsystems, only used the upper 4 bits;
Cartridge also has a "Replay Cartridge compatibility mode" so people could
use it with the software by 2 Bit Systems.

