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Title: 19" emagic AMT8 (1999) - SERIAL -
Post by: chrisNova777 on July 19, 2016, 10:25:13 PM

duplicate page here: http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php?topic=1313.0
(http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2853.0;attach=11582;image)
emagic AMT8
https://web.archive.org/web/20150409171422/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan00/articles/emagicamt8.htm
(http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/pix_equipment/emagic_amt8_01.jpg)
(http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/pix_equipment/emagic_amt8_02.jpg)
http://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/htm/emagic_amt8.php

Title: Re: emagic AMT8 (1999) - SERIAL -
Post by: chrisNova777 on January 18, 2022, 12:04:58 AM

 :-*

Title: Re: emagic AMT8 (1999) - SERIAL -
Post by: foksadure on August 30, 2022, 06:11:18 PM

Interesting teardown of the AMT8 at http://studiorepair.com/gallery/EES_Emagic/AMT8/index.html (pictures also from deepsonic.ch)

You can see that the AMT8/Unitor8 do share the same PCB, bar the missing components and firmware:

https://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/htm/emagic_amt8.php
https://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/htm/emagic_unitor8.php

Design by EES Technik für Musik, a now defunct german company that used to make MIDI retrofit kits, MIDI devices and OEM design/production (software protection dongles, MIDI gear) for other manufacturers from 1983 to 2008:
http://www.ees-musik.de/html_gb/main_gb.html

All metal case AMT8/Unitor8 were very seriously built compared to the very lightweight, cheap feeling Midex8. Both share a very similar electronic design though, the magic of AMT/LTB being in the coupling with their respective software companion, to offload timing sensitive processing to the hardware MIDI patchbay 8051 compatible MCU.