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- From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
- Message-ID: <markus.318.724285485@clement.info.umoncton.ca>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 22:24:45 GMT
- References: <78212@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Dec13.084443.12959@sfu.ca> <Bz7C5v.51G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Dec13.192134.19886@sfu.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec13.192134.19886@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
- >From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
- >Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
- >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:21:34 GMT
-
- >> 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*
- >
- >Definitely the GUS has 32 independently pannable voices but just
- >because they are independently pannable doesn't make them stereo, at
- >least IMO.
-
- >> 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.
- >
- >Yes, I realize MIDI files on the SB do not play in stereo. Your
- >proposal sounds correct but for the GUS I think it's true that when
- >playing MIDI files for SoundBlaster using SBOS you get what sounds
- >like stereo. I haven't notice this on any other file type but it may
- >be I haven't looked hard enough.
-
-
- According to Gravis, the 32 mono voices can be either right or
- left. This is not stereo. But the 16 stereo voices can be panned right or
- left in _15_ different positions. That's what they told me.
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