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From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS Sound
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Date: 11 Jan 91 23:29:09 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Jan 91 19:18:06 GMT Shawn W Platkus said:
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>I'm not sure what you are talking about.  If the GS only has eight output
>chanels, then it would seen to me that it could only play eight different
>sounds at a time.  So how can I digitize fifteen different sound and play
>them all back simultaneously if there are only eight output channels.
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>???

You must be confusing CHANNEL with VOICE.  A VOICE is a SOUND.  A CHANNEL is
more or less like a wire coming out of the computer to a speaker.  If you
have no external speakers and are using only your internal (1) speaker, you
still have 15 voices, but effectively, only ONE channel.  In other words,
all eight channels are connected to the ONE speaker which is playing all
15 voices.  You can play as many sounds as you want, but you can have ONLY
eight output channels.  In other words, if you were to utilize all eight
channels, you would have eight speakers with a different sound coming out
of each one but you could have no more than 15 sounds playing at any one time.
If you were to use all 15 sounds AND channels, some of the speakers would have
to be playing more than one sound, but no other speaker you had connected
would be playing those same sounds.

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  Michael J. Quinn
  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  BITNET--   mquinn@utcvm
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