Re: SoundMeister

[glynnet@zero.cypher.com (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <C7tAqA.FCx@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
[deleted some text to get to point, if there ever was one!]

>>What filtering?  It connects (like many other sound cards) directly to the DOC
>
>The DOC, like all digital audio generation systems, requires anti-aliasing 
>filtering to reduce the digital alias noise and help make lower-quality
>samples such as those used in MODs sound better.  Check out some books on
>basic sampling theory.
>

Maybe true BUT we were talking input, not output!  So when has a MOD player
taken input?

>>by providing simple amplifier and isolation circuitry.  Now the Pro version
>>adds its own DOC and has ram for it so as to relieve the GS CPU to do other
>
>Are you joking?  This sounds vaguely like suicide, since it will be
>incompatible with a large library of no-longer-supported GS software (MCS,
>TMS, DiversiTune, SoundSmith, Instant Music, etc) not to mention games.
>It sounds to me like a ``unique fixer-upper opportunity'' indeed... gaak.
>

My error, got so use to using the word DOC I could not type A/D converter.

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