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- From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon's 8 channel audio out
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.193429.7354@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:34:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep8.193429.7354
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- In article <1992Sep6.124638.14928@access.digex.com> jhurwitz@access.digex.com (j. hurwitz) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep5.043349.20187@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
- >>
- >>No, it mixes down 8 channels into 2 channels out the audio output.
- >>Using the DSP port and an external device you can have 8 discrete
- >>channels. The limitation is that the Falcon only has 2 DAC's (or 1
- >>stereo DAC).
- >>
- >>Steve
- >
- >Will that be a 16 bit DAC or a 8 bit DAC?. I've heard that the Falcon will have
- >a * bit DAC and a microphone built into the CPU.
- >
- >Any word on Hard/Software application for the Falcon yet?.
-
- It's a 16-bit stereo DAC, but you can set it to an 8-bit mode if you
- want (for STE 8-bit stereo sound compatibility). It doesn't come with
- a microphone (at least as far as I know), but it has a stereo mic
- input. According to Bill Rehbock at Atari, they are planning to
- include some kind of sampling software with the Falcon. They showed
- a piece of software in Duesseldorf called "D2D" which was a
- direct-to-disk sampling application with sample editing features and
- Bill said that they want to include something like that (if NOT that)
- with the basic Falcon packaging. They also already have several
- 'designed for the Falcon' programs to bundle with the machine including
- a few classic games, a talking clock program, and an address/calendar
- program.
-
- Steve
-