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From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: GS Sound
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Date: 15 Jan 91 17:01:14 GMT
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In article <8173@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes:
>
> Are you sure about that?  The GS registers and
>sound tools support 16 different channels ($0-F).
>All current stereo cards route to either left or
>right (odd/even, or even/odd...I don't remember :)
>but I do recall some people having built stereo
>cards that support all 16 channels (ie, they can
>hook up 16 speakers and have a digitized sound
>coming out of each!).  

The DOC and the sound tools support 16 channels, but there is no way to get at
the upper 8. The IIGS hardware reference definitely says that there are only
3 bits available to determine the channel number. So, there are only 8 usable
output channels.

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