Re: Ultima IV music - Mockigboard MP3?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Blake Patterson replied:

>In article <20030421042640.18862.00000652@mb-m05.aol.com>,
> mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
>> >To answer my own question...
>> >
>> >http://www.applevault.com/ultima/
>> >
>> >...seems a 1-mockingboard rig, as far as I can see.  Still...great!
>> 
>> Actually, it says that the music was "rendered" by a Phasor board,
>> which is the musical equivalent of two Mockingboards.
>> 
>> However, the page also points out that only Ultima V supported
>> more than one Mockingboard (six voices).
>> 
>> -michael
>
>
>You'd think I'd have read the small title paragraph in full now wouldn't 
>you.  :-)  ...but then it seems you didn't either...  A single 
>Mockingboard, as the page points out (and the Mockingboard spec sitting 
>way back in the dusty recesses of my mind tells me), a single 
>Mockingboard supports 6 voices (it has two Yamaha AY-3-8910 3-voice 
>sound chips on-board, the same chip but twice in number of that used in 
>the TI-99/4A, Atari ST, MSX machines, etc.)  Two Mockingboards, or a 
>Phasor (which has 4 of the AY-3-8910's), support 12 voices.  

Actually, I did read it all.  My reference to "six voices" is associated
with the "one Mockingboard", since one Mockingboard supports six
voices (not counting the two noise channels).

-michael

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