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- From: marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl (Marco Nelissen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 12bit, 14bit, 16bit!
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- Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:07:36 GMT
- Organization: XS4ALL Internet
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- Bert Dorhout (dorhout@swi.psy.uva.nl) wrote:
- : With a trick, Paula can generate 12/14 bit sound, using the
- : volume. HOWEVER, in this process, we seem to loose three not
- : unimportant things, which I never hear people about (perhaps
- : because I'm wrong??):
- : Volume control, DMA playing by a custom chip, and rounding
- : artifacts from playing at fixed sample rates!!
- [snip!]
- : Comments, anyone??
-
- Playing 14 bit samples does not require you to forsake DMA mode.
- You only need to split a 14/16 bit sample into two seperate waveforms
- (this can be done in advance), and then play them via DMA on
- two separate channels.
- The only time you get fixed samplerates is when you mix channels,
- but even that doesn't require abandoning DMA mode.
-
- : Think about this with a Mary like chip:
- : 8 channel MODs in high quality.
-
- Sure, and while you're at it, make that 8 16 bit channels.
- Module sizes will quadruple. Would you like to download
- some 2-meg modules from aminet, let alone keep a few hundred of
- those on your hardisk?
-
- Marco
-