Re: Playing around with the ensoniq

[toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

shaner@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Shane Richards) writes:

> I did try setting it up so that the 
>oscillator played to channel 1 instead of channel 0, but it always plays 
>to both left and right (i.e. mono).

If you're getting this from the headphone jack, it will always give you that
kind of output. The IIgs internal audio output circuits don't do stereo at
all :(

>	Secondly, from the simple coding I have done so far it seems
>to me that you could actually get the GS to produce 30 simultaneous sounds,
>by getting each oscillator to play a different one simultaneously. Is this
>correct? If not, why not.

That's right, you _could_ get 32 simultaneous sounds, however most of them
would sound pretty thin. Pairing oscillators is a common practice because it
tends to sound better (plus it is a natural organization for exploiting the
ensoniq swapping and looping features).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu