Re: Second Sight....

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
> 	Now that the "G" is back, perhaps someone could considering 
> polishing up the "S" along with it! :) The wavetable sound of the 
> Ensoniq DOC 5503 is still leaps and bounds above most other systems,
> yet the one thing that fuels that sound, DOC-RAM, is quite lacking!
> We only have a mere 64K to load in instrument patches, even though
> the chip can fully address 128k of DOC-RAM. However something more
> in the area of 512k to 1MB DOC-RAM would be nice, this is the amount
> found in current-day wavetable cards for the PC, sometimes even more.
> 	And of course 16-bit sound resolution would make those patches
> sound even better (we're currently limited to 8-bit sound with the 
> Ensoniq 5503). This is just a pipe dream, but what would to take to
> clean things up in this area...some sort of new stereo card that could
> patch-in and enhance the current built-in sound chip, or would you have 
> to abandon it and basically add an Ensoniq 5505 w/ 1MB DOC-RAM on a slot 
> card? 

Mitch, you took the words right out of my mouth.  At the risk of sounding 
like one of those "I want everything" GS users, I must say... So, how 
about it, Jawaid?  :)

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