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- From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Criti!
- Date: 19 Dec 92 18:06:35 GMT
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Message-ID: <OAHVENLA.92Dec19200635@lk-hp-4.hut.fi>
- References: <Paul_Trauth.197y@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> <10299@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
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- In-reply-to: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com's message of 15 Dec 92 13:36:42 GMT
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- In article <10299@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
-
- >In article <Paul_Trauth.197y@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
- >>
- >>This is how the Amiga's samples are done. Didn't you ever hear horrid 1-bit
- >>samples on the Apple? Or cheesy 4-bit samples on the C64? The main
- >>difference is that the Amiga has DMA-driven sample-oriented hardware.
-
- >It's WAVEFORM oriented. Please do not call this generally "sample".
- >I definitely think you mess up terms here.
-
- >>And this is samples as opposed to hardware-level synth: you CAN do
- >>synthesized sounds on the Amiga, but you have to essentially create a
- >>sample mathematically and play it.
-
- >And don't forget: You can digitize it from a real-world sound, like a
- >guitar. And *this* is then a true sample.
-
- >>Always remember, though, at the lowest level, they're playing
- >>samples. (And eating up a good chunk of CPU generating them on the fly...)
-
- >Waveforms :-).
-
- Uhhoh... Do I really have to repeat how the English language word sample is
- defined, or do people get it the first time? 'Sample' says NOTHING about the
- origin. It doesn't even have to be sound. Sample is anything representing
- something.
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