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- From: petsalo@lut.fi (Jyrki Petsalo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 16:15:49 +0200
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: dan@cts.com's message of 11 Mar 1996 01:50:46 GMT
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- In article <4i00tm$rm3@news3.cts.com> dan@cts.com (David Newman) writes:
- > : Zorro II card so you need A2000/3000/4000. Motorola 56002 40Mhz
- > : 16-bit 48khz. As many channes as you need (well, I don't know
- > : if the DSP can mix more than 100 or so :--))
-
- > Unfortunately a DSP is not magic. 1 channel of 48Khz 16 bit sound
- > is 96K/s. Assuming your samples are spooled from hard disk, Zorro-II
- > can only transfer a max of 2.5 MB/s, which limits you to about 25
- > channels and that is assuming that your drive have no seek time as they
- > swap between 25 mono AIFF files. Ie 16 will be your max. At 16
- > channel your bus will be close to saturated (that is why Sunrise was
- > only 8 channels).
-
- It's not that bad. You can use compression to reduce Zorro-II
- bandwidth, or use lower sample rates or partially 8-bit samples
- (the normal situation for a moduleplayer). With good memory buffering
- the HD seek time is not a great limit - although we have played
- 24 channels with 48kHz/16 bit each on Delfina DSP with no buffers
- on Amiga's memory (on A4000 with Warp 40MHz), direct from HD.
-
- > That is the main reason the Audio card I have been working on is
- > Zorro-III. Bus saturation is a very important thing when you are playing
- > back 8MB/s video at the same time. The product is called SoundStage
-
- At 8MB/s transfer speed even Zorro-III is pretty full. A dedicated
- disk on the video card is a better solution. With audio you can
- (in case of missing bandwidth) always premix to 2 channels, which
- even PCMCIA can handle.
-
- Zorro-III autosensing would be much better than Zorro-II, of course.
- Plain audio use doesn't need better than Zorro-II, but if you really
- want to play with DSP (possibly while playing audio), there is never
- enough bandwidth. That's why a future Delfina DSP will possibly be
- Zorro-II/III, while maintaining complete backwards compatibility.
-
- Programmers interested in developing for Delfina DSP, please contact.
-
- -JP
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