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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Digitizer
Message-ID: <2739@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 16 Jan 90 14:04:30 GMT
References: <628@buster.irby.com> <10417@zodiac.ADS.COM> <sZgfnPi00Ug_M5bGRD@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
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In article <sZgfnPi00Ug_M5bGRD@andrew.cmu.edu> cc4b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Brian Cox) writes:

>44.1 kHz ~= 4,410,000 bits / sec. (1 start, 8 data,  1 stop bits) (ouch!)
>If you use the serial port.

C. B. Cox, Math - D

44.1 * 1,000 * (8+1+1) ~= 441,000 bits/sec. Still twice as much
as the serial port manages, though.

>How about somebody setting a new standard:
>	44.1 kHz sampling (mono or stereo)
>	SCSI buffered/intelligent transfer

How about buying a sampler and getting the sampler via MIDI ?

Or better, sample into a fairlight, and lift it over via SCSI ? :-)

h+
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