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Are you willing to spend more than $100,000 on a digital audio workstation? In the mid-1980s, if you wanted to cut sound effects for major film releases you had to consider taking a second mortgage on your house, because the New England Digital Synclavier was the tool of choice, and that's what this DAW cost. You did get a lot of power for your investment. For one thing, the unit sampled at rates as high as 100MHz. Even by today's standards, that's capturing a lot of upper frequency material. True, the Synclavier topped out at 16bits (and still ...

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