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- From: pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre)
- Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
- In-Reply-To: edhall@rand.org's message of 30 Dec 92 00:55:33 GMT
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:04:04 GMT
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- In article <4123@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
- Um, unless someone changed the definition of "channel", the GUS has only
- two, through which it can play up to 32 digital samples simultaneously,
-
- OK, should have used "polyphony". 32 (16) voice polyphonic stereo
- operation.
-
-
- Of course, you can argue that "channel" can mean anything Gravis wants
- it to mean. But the meaning I'm using here has been in use more than
- half a century in the world of electronic sound.
-
- Like "wavetable synthesis", which has been around for a long time. It
- is called sample playback.
-
-
- BTW. Did anyone get my point, which was that stereo operation as
- described in the original posting looks like you can either:
-
- a) pan mono samples in arbitrary positions and get 32 voice polyphony
-
- b) use true stereo samples and get 16 voice polyphony (GUS does this,
- doesn't it?)
-
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