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- From: ertzi@sci.fi (Erno Helen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: how many notes can an amiga play at once?
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:48:25 GMT
- Organization: The Helen Residence
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- > Like the subject line says. is it two per channel equaling eight?
- >or just four, one per channel? or something else entirely? Thanks,
-
- A funny question... ...take a synth, put all your fingers on
- its keys, and press. Sample the result, and play the sample on all
- 8 channels in OctaMED. That's 80 notes, isn't it? :-)
-
- Back to reality. You surely meant to ask, how many samples can an
- Amiga play at once? On the hardware, it can do 4. Nearly every
- good moduleplayer can mix in software, and play 32 samples at
- once. That will, of course, require the Amiga's CPU come and
- push. Even an Amiga 500 can play 32 channels, though. Or that's
- what they tell me. My basic A1200 played very high quality 16-
- channel music with 14-bit output while still having enough
- horsepower to run Wordworth 3.1SE at the same speed as my
- Pentium-75 runs MS Word 6.0 without anything else on. :-) No,
- really.
-
- Some new trackers can do a max. of 256 channels at once,
- if you have the horsepower.
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- Amigas do it better. Trust me.
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