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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Ensoniq
Keywords: Apple sound
Message-ID: <12800@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 May 90 18:50:49 GMT
References: <1981@polari.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <1981@polari.UUCP> tm@polari.UUCP (Toshi Morita) writes:
-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.

I didn't think stereo had anything at all to do with the oscillator
pairing.  There is one pair per channel, and stereo cards typically
route even-numbered channels to one side and odd-numbered channels
to the other.