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From: huffman@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Bill Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about Sound Blaster
Keywords: Sound Blaster
Message-ID: <3489@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 21:09:23 GMT
References: <3414@sactoh0.UUCP> <13958@wpi.wpi.edu>
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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In article <13958@wpi.wpi.edu> dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu (Duane D Morin) writes:
>I would like to add what I consider a very important question to the list
>of CMS questions:  How dependent on RAM is the digitizing section of the
>board?  I have only a 640K machine, and I want to be able to sample at 
>least a few seconds of data for various sound effects.  Can I do this?  
>Do I need to keep my sounds in memory or do they get sent off to hard disk?
>Should I just scrap the deal and wait till I get a 2meg 286?

The sampling rates on the Sound Blaster you can choose from 
are 4000 to about 12000 per
second.  Each sample takes 1 byte.  At 8000/sec it has very good
quality.  6000 sounds almost as good.  You should be able to sample
over 30 seconds easy.  After recording you can compress the data and
write it out to disk.  There is a utility that will combine sound
files.  Another utility can be called by a batch control string (for
example) and "play" a sound file.

I don't think the program uses extended or expanded memory, so the
extra memory probably wouldn't help much.