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- From: petsalo@lut.fi (Jyrki Petsalo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Just wondering...
- Date: 04 Feb 1996 01:58:52 +0200
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: ared@sn.no's message of 1 Feb 1996 22:05:19 +0100
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- >>...if there exists any CD quality sound players for the Amiga, i.e. the
- >>output half of a soundcard. I don't want to make samples, I just want to be
- >>able to play them (preferably from a sequencer like OctaMed). The whole
- >>thing would basically be a 16 bit DAC and should cost very little (i.e. far
- >
- >I dont know but it shouldn't be to difficult to make your own DAC, but the
- >problem is to interface with both th Amiga *and* the software, sure you could
- >write it yourself but why bother? The 16bit cards existing is in fact cheap
- >enough...
-
- I can't understand, why Amiga owners gladly trade half of the precious
- CPU power to better sound. The beauty of Amiga is in that the basic
- graphics and sound leave almost all the processing power for the
- programs, not wasting it in sending bits to the DAC or something
- similarly clever.
-
- Why waste that elegance, just to save a few bucks on the soundcard?
- Why not have the soundcard do all the mixing for you, possibly
- with realtime effects, and with clever programming, additional
- computing power as well?
-
- If you are ready to make your own driver for a DAC (which can be
- quite complex), you should be able to program a 56k DSP.
-
- Delfina is still $400 plus VAT 22% inside EC. Programmers welcome.
- Who is the first to make a DSP demo on Amiga?
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