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From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song)
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Subject: Re: A low blow from Apple
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Date: 6 Oct 90 08:24:25 GMT
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|MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET scribbles...
|>
|>>As for the sound not being as good, that is an understatement.
|>
|>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!
|>
|
|The GS has the ability to do 4 channel sound if someone would ever bother to
|add $10 of hardware to the existing stereo cards.  The sound output jack
|inside the GS has four multiplexed channels of output, so all that would need
|to be done is to double the stuff on a standard stereo card, and write the
|software. I hope someone will, as it could be really nice.
|
|        -The Silver Dragon
|        -AKA Garth Minette

Amiga has 4 voice, that's true.  BUT it two voice per channel.  It's NOT
Surround Sound.  You need FOUR (4) channels to get surround sound.  The GS
sound chip (Ensoniq) has 15-vioces.  Not surprising, since the Ensoniq chip is
used in professional quality synthesizer.  "Mirage" is one that comes to mind.
GS kicks ass on ANY computer with the exception of the NeXT (which has a 16-bit
sound using Motorola DSP chip) or expensive add on cards costing well over
$500.  It's possible on the GS to have upto 8 channels.  More than enough for
Surround Sound, although I'd just use a Stereo and hook it up to a Surround
sound processor.

Don't take a grain of salt, take a whole barrel.  The IBMer you talk to don't
jack about the GS sound capablity.