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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Apple IIGS
- #19: Multichannel Output with the Apple IIGS Note Synthesizer
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- Revised by: Jim Mensch November 1988
- Written by: John Worthington & Jim Merritt June 1987
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- This Technical Note discusses multichannel sound with the IIGS Note
- Synthesizer.
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- It is possible to play multichannel sound using the IIGS Note Synthesizer Tool
- Set. The Ensoniq Digital Oscillator Chip (DOC) supports 16 independent output
- channels. Since only the low three bits of the output channel number are
- available through the IIGS sound expansion connector, multichannel circuitry
- may only decode eight output channels (zero through seven). Output channel
- eight maps onto channel zero, channel nine onto channel one, etc., and this
- mapping continues through all 16 channels.
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- The setting of the high nibble of the DOCMode byte in a waveform of the
- waveList portion of the instrument definition determines the routing of output
- from a Note Synthesizer instrument to a particular channel (the actual DOCMode
- information is in the low nibble of the DOCMode byte). You may assign each
- separate element in a waveList to a different output channel to create
- multisampled instruments in which some samples play on the left speaker and
- others on the right.
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- Apple standards require stereo expansion cards to map all even output channels
- to the right and odd channels to the left. To be compatible with cards that
- decode more than two of the chip's output channels, software should use
- channel zero for right and channel one for left. This convention ensures that
- output is always positioned properly in the stereo space with channel zero
- information going to the right front and channel one information going to the
- left front.
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- Further Reference
- o Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference, Volume 2
- o Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference Update
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