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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 12bit, 14bit, 16bit!
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- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 00:24:14
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- :
- : >Or are you assuming that people will automatically use twice as many samples
- : >in each module, just because there are more channels to play with?
- :
- : That's not completely off. Of course some channels could be used for polyphone
- : instruments. Of course there are instruments that are missing just in some
- : situations because you ran out of channels. But IMHO there are even more cases
- : where a complete instrument track is missing.
-
- Okay, but _twice_ as many samples? You can only add so much to a tune before
- it starts sounding messy...
-
- : >than would be necessary on a playback system with more channels - chords,
- : >drum sequences etc. have to be pre-mixed, which increases the size of the
- : >modules substantially.
- :
- : That's just the lack of a sophisticated player that generates the mixed
- : sequences on the fly.
-
- Which is equivalent to providing more channels. Whichever way you do it,
- sample data requirements are reduced.
-
- -- Mat.
-