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- From: turkstra@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Screwtape)
- Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.212342.1919@cs.hope.edu>
- Sender: turkstra@cs.hope.edu (Screwtape)
- Organization: Hope College Dept of CS
- References: <BzB5EA.Bo@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:23:42 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- >>Definitely the GUS has 32 independently pannable voices but just
- >>because they are independently pannable doesn't make them stereo, at
- >>least IMO.
- >>
- >
- > If the GUS has 32 independently pannable voices , which now seems to be
- > the case, then we can place 32 voices anywhere between right and left.
- > I think that qualifies for 32 voice stereo.
- >
- > Phat.
-
- I hate to disagree but we must define stereo here. Stereophonic sound
- is the "use of two or more channels to carry and reproduce the sounds
- from the directions in which they were recorded." (Websters) *SO* 1
- stereo channel is actually 2 channels reproduced simultaneously.
- *THEREFORE* The GUS is only capable of 11 stereo voices. As fas as
- what SBOS does, I won't touch that, I haven't listened hard enough. But
- if gravis says that it supports SBpro stereo, I'd believe it. I'm
- not flaming (at all!!) but this is a dictionary (and functional)
- definiton of stereo.
-
- --
-
- Chris Turkstra
- Turkstra@cs.hope.edu
- Traveling the Internet with a load not properly tied down.
-