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- From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca (Yuri Lee)
- Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec13.010623.9510@ac.dal.ca> <78212@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Dec13.084443.12959@sfu.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:27:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.084443.12959@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
- >Well, I don't know about this SB PRO stereo sham thing but I
- >do know that sbos will give me stereo on some programs which
- >only support SB. Falcon 3 's music is in stereo. Music
- >clips, a midi demo for the SB played the midi files in
- >stereo. Incidentally, Falcon 3 uses mid files so maybe that's
- >why that program gives stereo.
-
- Well, what I heard is each of 32 voice channels on GUS is independently
- pannable. And SBOS is based on small chunks of sampled wave forms and I *THINK*
- they intentionally put different pan positions for each samples and this give
- quite effective ( in some occasions ) stereo effect. It can't be just because
- those music files are MIDI files because you cannot play MIDI files in stereo
- on SB and Falcon 3.0 is not aware of GUS' stereo capability.
-
- >
- >Another thing about Gus's 32 voices. These voices are
- >pannable left or right but to play the same sound with equal
- >volume on both sides you need two of these voices. This is
- >similar to the way SB PRO gets it's stereo. Two mono voices
- >cuts SB PRO's 22 voices down to 11 in stereo.
- >
-
- Well, again, it's very confusiong whether GUS has 32 stereo voices or not.
- I'd expect it does although the box say 16 stereo because PLAYMIDI uses 20
- stereo channels, I believe.
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