Re: problems with soundsmith

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <C5Jv9o.MEz@well.sf.ca.us> joko@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Kohn) writes:

>I know that there is a 64K instrument limit. Does that mean that each
>instrument file needs to be smaller than 64K, or that all the different
>instruments combined need to be 64K or less.

All instruments combined must be less than 64k, and in practice a lot less.
Each instrument's size for purposes of playing is rounded up to one of the 
following:

256 (all sizes in bytes).
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768

Once the rounding-up is done, each instrument may only be placed on a boundry
that's an even multiple of its size (1k instruments only fit on 1k boundries).
This is due in part to the Ensoniq's use of drop-sample tuning instead of VCOs
such as on the Amiga.




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        Ian Schmidt - Two Meg Software: irsman@{iastate.edu | aol.com}
"I will choose a path that's     | Author of AudioZap, MODZap, and more.
 clear: I will choose free will" | Co-author of SoundConvert and DeskTracker.
 - N. Peart, 1980                | Coder and Musician for the GS<>IRC.