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From: niesemc@econ.vu.nl (Marco Niese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ECS: Enhanced Graphics, but what about sound?
Keywords: ECS, Sound
Message-ID: <277@vuecon.econ.vu.nl>
Date: 4 Aug 89 08:33:58 GMT
Organization: VU Economics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lines: 33

OK, the new ECS offers new graphics modes, better blitter, etc.

BUT: the four sound channels need some attention too. If you use them as
real stereo, you only have two. The Archimedes and Atari ST-E (is that
spelled ok?) will have eight. 

In Europe, (70% sales), sound is very imporant attribute. People like
demos with good music, and also some composing/converting on their own.
This last one is sometimes the problem. If I have some synthesizers/
keyboards I can make a nice loop and digitize that, but if you don't have
them you need standard instruments, and run out of channels very fast.

Eight channels for the Amiga too! 

Maybe, these can be stereo too by assigning some value (-127 left, 0 both
127 right and all integers in between).

Shields ON!
I am not an electronics expert. I do not know about reserved bytes is the
amiga audio.device, I do not know sound chip internals.
Shields OFF!

Greetings,

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