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- From: endres@ism.isys.net (Martin Endres)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
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- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:25:47 GMT
- References: <4i00tm$rm3@news3.cts.com> <4i3r74$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se>
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- In article <4i3r74$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se>, Dan Green writes:
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- > In article <4i00tm$rm3@news3.cts.com>, dan@cts.com (David Newman) writes:
- > >Pauli Porkka (pporkka@walli.uwasa.fi) wrote:
- > >: 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).
- >
- > 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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- And don't forget, that a fast CPU can MIX the tracks, too.
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