Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uoft02.utoledo.edu!desire!cse0507 From: cse0507@desire.wright.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A low blow from Apple Message-ID: <1349.2708bc87@desire.wright.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 21:12:55 GMT References: <9009240703.AA21897@apple.com> Lines: 22 In article <9009240703.AA21897@apple.com>, MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: > Not hardly. The Amiga supports 4 voice sound (that's pretty good!), has built > in stereo, and from what an IBM exec. told me, it not only has stereo, but 4 > channel stereo... suround sound. This IBM exec told me this while he was > doing some routine Apple bashing, so I take that last part with a grain of > salt. I've also listened to the sound the Amiga puts out and, to say the > least, it's impressive! I don't know if I would call 4 voices good. Other than maybe game sound effects or a simple sound track you really can't accomplish much with only four sound channels. With the supported 15 channel sound you can really do some amazing sound on the GS, and if you use the 32 oscillators separatly (as Diversi Tune does) you can produce your own small orchestra. One of the hardest instruments to reproduce is a piano because with the sustain pedal you can have quite a few notes going simutaneously. While you could do a good sounding piano on an Amiga, four notes would not really do it justice. This was my main problem with the Casio CZ series in that they sounded good, but only had four voices. To say that the Amiga sound is impressive is really uninformative. To be persuasive you should have said what you were comparing it to. Compared to the AM radio in my brothers Olds, the Amiga really impresed me! Compared to my GS, the Amiga was a glorified Nintendo. Actually, I find that the GS sound is one of the most redeeming factors about the machine.