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From: tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Ensoniq
Keywords: Apple sound
Message-ID: <1981@polari.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 90 13:51:56 GMT
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Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>In article <11669@netcom.UUCP> lyle@netcom.UUCP (Lyle Fong) writes:
>>The sound on the IIgs is among the BEST in the PC industry, capable of
>playing
>>15 sounds simultaneously with Orchestraic quality.  It is better than most
>>stock Macs, and better than IBM's even with AdLib sound cards on them.
>        Well, you have underestimated it! As far as I've read/been told,
>the GS's sound chip is capable of 31 channels simultaneously, yet through
>"legal" means, 15 is how many you get... As we've all seen though, trickery
>gets you much more than going through the legal means.

I thought everyone and their dog knew this - where have you been for five
years?

The Ensoniq DOC has 32 oscillators. If monophonic sound is bearable then you
can assign all 32 oscillators to a single channel and run 32 tones. Apple
recomments that programmers write for a stereo machine and so only 16
simultaneous tones are possible (2 DACs per tone, one for each channel).
Apple reserves the last pair of oscillators for system usage, so 15 pairs are
usable under GS/OS.

You're posting this information as though it were "t0p-sekrit insider news" or
something. I hate to tell you this, but the "Apple //gs Hardware Reference
Manual" (which contains this information) has been available at Tower Books and
B. Daltons for the past five years. Why don't you buy one?

Speaking of comp.sys.apple2.tech: On the comp.sys.amigas everyone seems to
cross-post to all three newsgroups because of the loose classifications. For
example, every amiga hardware question seems to be cross-posted to
comp.sys.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.tech and comp.sys.amiga.hardware. Why not make
the separation a little more obvious and name it comp.sys.apple2.programming?
I'm sure we have enough Apple II/Apple //gs programmers to make the split
useful.


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