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- From: gcmrot@mother.com (Greg Mclaughlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Any dates set for OctaMED S/S PC version
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 09:22:29
- Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
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- There is a sequencing program for the Amiga called Symphonie. It
- support up to 256 channels in an internal Amiga, which means obviously it does
- some sort of channel-mixing routine. You have the option of putting this
- sound out the Amiga in "14 bits" (an option that has become very popular
- lately), but you will still get the usual Amiga fuzz and hiss. So the
- programmer decided to use his same mixing routine, but instead of playing it
- out of Paula or an external sound card (which I should have mentioned the
- program also supports), I renders it directly to a WAV/IFF file on your hard
- drive. You can then take this huge sound sample and play it back over any
- quality sound card that supports WAV/IFF. The author refers to this process
- as "audio rendering", and I believe it's the first of its kind to be found on
- any sequencer. What's significant is that it no longer matters what machine
- you are MAKING the music on, but rather what machine you play back from, which
- can be anything if it's just a huge sound sample. Pick up a Zip drive or the
- like, and you are in business! I think Octamed (at least for the Amiga) could
- really benefit from this option.
-