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- From: dan@cts.com (David Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:28:31 GMT
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- To: etxdagr@tn.ericsson.se
- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
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- In article <4i3r74$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se> you wrote:
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- : >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).
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- : Ehh? What is wrong with having the samples stored in RAM? I think that
- : the purpose of this card is to work as a sampler for composing music,
- : not for recording 16 realtime HD tracks.
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- The main purpose of this board in not for composing music (that is only
- one application). It is designed for television and film production.
- A 1 hour TV production with voice, music and foley tracks HAS to spooled of
- hard disk. Only a certain number of tracks can fit at once thru a
- zorro-II bottle neck.
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- David Newman
- Applied Magic Inc
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