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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: More about the Falcon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.001042.139@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: sampling rate DSP digital audio
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- References: <1gs8orEINN4tj@uni-erlangen.de> <BzL1r7.JMq@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Dec21.011708.7093@convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:10:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.011708.7093@convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosenkranz) writes:
- >In article <BzL1r7.JMq@unix.amherst.edu> hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:
- >>Are you impling that the Falcon cant sample at 48 Khz? Or at standard CD
- >>rate (44.7 I think)? That's bad. What if you want to edit DAT tapes at
- >>48Khz and dump them back to DAT? It better have those sample rates. Please
- >>clarify this for me.
-
- Neither of those rates are available with any of the onboard clocks. You need
- to feed in an external clock signal thru the DSP port to get 44.1 or 48khz.
- >
- >CD sampling rate is 44.1 KHz. close.
- >
- >there are several "popular" sampling rates (in Hz):
- >
- > 44100 audio CD, some DAT recording
- > 48000 DAT (domestic)
- > 8000 telephony, with u-LAW or A-LAW (CCITT?)
- > 22050 Mac or 1/2 CD rate
- > 16000 G.722 standard
- > 18900 CD-ROM/XA standard
- > 37800 CD-ROM/XA standard for higher quality
- > 44056 some pro audio gear
- > 32000 digital radio, HDTV, long-play DAT, etc
- >
- >will the falcon support these (i believe i have read "up to 50 KHz sampling
- >rates" implying this is variable)? i think the most common are/will be:
- >
- > 8000 8-bit u-LAW mono (voice mail)
- > 22050 8-bit linear mono/stereo (Mac compatibility)
- > 44100 16-bit linear mono/stereo (audio CD)
-
- The standard rates supported by the built-in CODEC are
- 49170, 32780, 24585, 19668, 16390, 12292, 9834, and 8195 hz.
-
- These are achieved by dividing an internal 25 MHz clock. If no A/D-D/A
- conversion is required, the 32 MHz clock is also available for use (the CODEC
- cannot be connected to the internal 32 MHz clock, dunno why. You can feed in
- up to 32 MHz thru the external port, tho.) Using just the digital subsystem,
- bypassing the CODEC, using the 32 MHz clock, you get
- 62500, 41666, 31250, 25000, 20833, 17857, 15625, 13888, 12500,
- 11363, and 10416 hz.
-
- (Oh, using the 25 MHz clock, bypassing the CODEC, you also get 14049,
- 10927, and 8940 hz.)
-
- Since the clock timers are prescaled by 256, you would need an external
- clock frequency of 22,579,200 hz (22.58 MHz) to achieve a maximum sample rate
- of 44.1 khz, and 24.576 MHz for a maximum rate of 48 khz.
- >
- >what about atari/third party 8 channel adapter? will this be 8 stereo channels
- >or 8 channels or 4 stereo channels? what sampling rates?
-
- The operating system supports 4 stereo channels, not 8 independent channels.
- Sampling rates are up to the hardware provider, but I would expect them to
- max out at 62.5 khz.
- >
- >how will the falcon be for realtime recording (like a multitrack recorder)?
- >how well would an $800 falcon compete with a $3000 ADAT (Alesis)? other than
- >the Alesis now exists, why would i want it over the falcon (assuming i could
- >and would write all my own software)?
-
- I think the Falcon would work very well in this role; haven't used anything
- like an Alesis so I can't compare.
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
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