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From: cook@iris.ucdavis.edu (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: SPARCSTATION1 has D/A & A/D
Keywords: Sun samples fun
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Date: 26 Oct 89 18:26:29 GMT
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In article <4797@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> cocteau@vax1.acs.udel.EDU 
	(Daniel J Pirone) writes:
>Howdy,
>	Any of you privillaged/lucky enough to have access to 
>	a Sun Sparcstation.  It seems that that have sampling 
>	capability, but the manuals are week as far as specs
>	go.  Any details, comments, references would be great.

Yes,
	The SPARCstations do have A/D and D/A built in. However,
note that this is 8-bit D/A. It's really only "voice-quality,"
clearly not good enough for a music application, but still fun to play
around with. I can't point you at any docs, but there is a 
sample audio program, including source, that comes with SunOS.
It's rather limited, but it will sample and playback, showing the
waveforms in real time.  You might want to check it out. Look in 
the directory /usr/demo/sound.

	-Doug

Doug Cook				dmc@sun.com
XView Group				cook@gandalf.ucdavis.edu
Sun Microsystems, Inc.