Finally, after three months of developing, Prelude1200 is now in production and will be available at your favourite Amiga dealer soon. Thomas Wenzel designed this new product for A.C.T., creating the new standard sound hardware for all Amiga1200, no matter whether with or without Zorro2 bus.

Prelude1200 is being mass-manufactured to guarantee high quality that cannot be achieved with manual assembly. Orders already pile up high, requiring this production way. It has become clear that Prelude1200 is the product the Amiga1200 world has been waiting for! Fitting completely into a standard desktop Amiga1200 without the customer having to do anything more difficult than opening the case, plugging the card in and closing everything again, being designed in high reliable surface mount technology (of course - due to mechanical reasons) and using the professionally approved high quality Codec by Crystal Semiconductors, that is used by the famous TerraTec Maestro cards as well as other big sellers we are sure to provide our customers with the quality in sound, design and support an Amiga user expects from new A.C.T. products.

Industrial production, the use of known to be working components, the 100% software compability to the reknowned Prelude Zorro system allows us to offer Prelude1200 at an unbeatable price including an impressive and complete bundle of software (see below).

Of course Prelude1200 supports the defacto standard AHI, but even more important: you can use all Prelude native tools like TAPEDECK, GMX and many others right from the start. So PPC support is already here and a line up of third party products support this hardware (Camouflage, Samplitude Opus, soon Fusion - more to come soon!). There is also a minimum Toccata emulation, allowing Prelude1200 to be used in some applications that offer Toccata support.

Like the Prelude Zorro version three stereo inputs can be sampled from, one additional input can be mixed (which is useful for Paula Audio). A CDRom drive can be internally connected.

There is no cable bunch needed to access the Prelude1200 from outside since its inputs and outputs are adressable through 3.5mm stereo plugs. All technical data that apply to the Prelude Zorro version also are correct for Prelude 1200 except for the hardware expansion capabilites (Prelude1200 being not expandable): 16Bit resolution ( 8 Bit, ADPCM, uLaw, ALaw also supported), 5kHz up to 64kHz(!) with correct frequency supply for 44.1kHz and 48kHz (no resampling, no jitter due to wrong Quartz components), low CPU usage thanks to FIFOs, easy to use native library, Full Duplex (Record/Playback simultaneously).

Prelude Z-II · Prelude 1200 · Rombler · MPEGit · Arpeggiator · Samplitude OPUS

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