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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
- Date: 11 Mar 96 19:18:52 GMT
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- Salutations David for on the 11 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
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- DN> Unfortunately a DSP is not magic. 1 channel of 48Khz 16 bit sound is
- DN> 96K/s. Assuming your samples are spooled from hard disk, Zorro-II can
- DN> only transfer a max of 2.5 MB/s, which limits you to about 25 channels
- DN> and that is assuming that your drive have no seek time as they swap
- DN> between 25 mono AIFF files. Ie 16 will be your max. At 16
- DN> channel your bus will be close to saturated (that is why Sunrise was
- DN> only 8 channels).
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- Assuming you don't use some nifty more efficient method to store your
- samples of course...
-
- DN> That is the main reason the Audio card I have been working on is
- DN> Zorro-III. Bus saturation is a very important thing when you are
- DN> playing back 8MB/s video at the same time. The product is called
- DN> SoundStage by Applied Magic Inc. Currently all developement is focused
- DN> toward Video and Audio combined editing, although developer for stand
- DN> alone audio tools are welcome.
-
- Ah ha. Sounds interesting. Personally I think we need a CyberSFX RTA system
- and a relatively cheap multi channel sound card for the Amiga. Just this
- with Octamed Sound Studio support would make the Amiga a killer audio
- platform again.
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