Re: Here we go again...

[andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz)]

In article <CD05rw.BEz@news.iastate.edu>,
Ian Schmidt <irsman@iastate.edu> wrote:
>In article <26irp5$t5b@ionews.io.org> taob@io.org (Brian Tao) writes:
>>
>>    Tsk, tsk, Ian.  Is that why I don't get perfect sound at 9, 12 and 
>>12.5 MHz?  Listen to the sustained flute/pipe melody in MOD.Chinese. 
>>There is a definite flutter and some distortion during playback using
>>all four players.  This is not present in those other two players.
>>Amazingly though, the quadrascope plays the whole song without crashing,
>>which is pretty impressive.  ;-)
>
>0.9b4, which is not scheduled to be released due to the returning flood of
>negativity, fixes the quadrascope problem.  Allow me to decompose this
>argument into terms of 1 syllable or less whenever possible.
>
>MODZap 0.9 includes a revolutionary self-syncronized swapper, which means it
>plays all samples at perfect fidelity.  However, due to the structure of the
>DOC, and limitations of the source hardware (Amiga), looping samples tend to
>be a bit rough around the loopback point.  This manifests itself as either a
>click, a vibrato effect, or in extreme cases where the looping segment is <128
>bytes, a buzzing effect (Klisje Paa Klisje for example).  This is not a fault
>of the swapper itself, but more oriented in the preprocessor section, and the
>source hardware.  If you can find a non-looping (the icon is a straight arrow
>pointing to the right, not a circular arrow) instrument which plays badly at
>any speed from 0.5 Hz to 1.21 gHz, I'd certainly like to hear about it.  Note
>also that many looping samples aren't looped so hot to begin with (check out
>any AudioMonster tune on a real Amiga).

And in defense of Ian's player, there's the old adage that a higher-quality
player will often reveal distortions that "noiser" players will inherently
mask.  If you don't believe me, listen to the difference between an "oldie"
song played on a tape player and a CD player.  The tape will naturally hide
the static/pops/wow/flutter of the original recording whereas a CD will
reveal these defects quite clearly.  Now we just need Ian to write scrubbing
routines to clean up these digital defects :)