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- From: tfa652@cks1.rz.uni-rostock.de (Henryk Richter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: how many notes can an amiga play at once?
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 13:49:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Rostock (Germany)
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- karl suhr (ksuhr@unlinfo.unl.edu) wrote:
- >
- > Like the subject line says. is it two per channel equaling eight?
- > or just four, one per channel? or something else entirely? Thanks,
- The standard Amiga Audio DMA can read 4 notes practically at one time,
- all players offering more than 4 voices are doing it's task by mixing all
- notes together and then write the data into chipram where the (4) DMA channels
- read and play that stuff.
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- Henryk "Buggs" Richter
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