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- From: gerace@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Jerry Gerace)
- Subject: Re: Ultrasound Answers from Gravis
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.051035.4989@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Aug15.163548.14486@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Aug17.152858.20174@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:10:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.152858.20174@news.eng.convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug15.163548.14486@news2.cis.umn.edu> aestens@epx.cis.umn.edu writes:
- >>Question (4): You can mix the songs, so yes you could theorectically
- >>listen to both at the same time if mixed together on the master reel.
- >>You can also play and record simultaneously.
- >
- >This is a non-answer. He is talking about adding the digital values
- >together (mixing) before playing. This is not the same thing as
- >playing two different tracks at the same time. A single channel of
- >any digital sound card can do the same thing. Anyone can sum all of
- >the waveforms in pre-processing and run the sum through a single channel.
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- You are correct sir, that's how MODs play on PCs...but ya know, that's
- software. I would understand that the Gravis Ultrasound would perform
- that in hardware, eliminating all that software goo. And since MODs
- need a fast PC to work good, an Ultrasound could play 32 channel MOD type files
- on an XT...yow.
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- 4 channel mods can bog down my 386-16...
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